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Future rich person and ace programmer. CEO Browserling Inc – a cross browser testing company.
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pkrumins··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
Browserling | Remote | Full-time | https://www.browserling.com

We're a small team working on projects targeting web browsers and native platforms, looking for an experienced versatile programmer with strong knowledge of low-level systems programming and experience with building networking programs, with focus on simplicity and performance. Great if you're familiar with low-latency real-time streaming, virtualization and reverse engineering. We use C, WebAssembly and Node.JS.

Send a resume to jobs@browserling.com if interested.

pkrumins··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
Browserling | Remote | Full-time | https://www.browserling.com

We're a small team working on projects targeting web browsers and native platforms, looking for an experienced versatile programmer with strong knowledge of low-level systems programming and experience with building networking programs, with focus on simplicity and performance. Great if you're familiar with low-latency real-time streaming, virtualization and reverse engineering. We use C, WebAssembly and Node.JS.

Send a resume to jobs@browserling.com if interested.

pkrumins··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)
Browserling | Remote | Full-time | https://www.browserling.com

We're a small team working on projects targeting web browsers and native platforms, looking for an experienced versatile programmer with strong knowledge of low-level systems programming and experience with building networking programs, with focus on simplicity and performance. Great if you're familiar with low-latency real-time streaming, virtualization and reverse engineering. We use C, WebAssembly and Node.JS.

Send a resume to jobs@browserling.com if interested.

pkrumins··on Is There Too Much CSS Now?
If anyone likes CSS2, then I’m hiring. We use vanilla CSS2 (and vanilla HTML4 and vanilla JavaScript via <script> tag — no node modules or bundlers) as it simply works. Message me if interested.
pkrumins··on Crows found to be smarter than we think
I once saw a crow open a
pkrumins··on We will see the return of capital investment on a massive scale
Inb4 global hypermegainflation
pkrumins··on Systems Engineering, or "why james gets paid"
I identify as a UNIX system.
pkrumins··on An AWS account just for getting into other AWS accounts
I have 1 AWS account for everything and th
pkrumins··on Dozens of malicious PyPI packages discovered targeting developers
Totally agree. There should be a 30 day pe
pkrumins··on Saudi Aramco reports $42B quarterly profit
Give 1 to me please :)
pkrumins··on Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when you saw it?
SQLite’s codebase - the test to code ratio is something like 1 to 20000. It’s the most tested codebase in existence.
pkrumins··on Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares
How does Protonmail compare to Gmail? Has anyone switched to Protonmail from Gmail?
pkrumins··on Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2022
TLDR: Only buy HGST.
pkrumins··on Tcl is faster than Python for database benchmarking
TCL is such a neat language. I haven’t written that many blog post about it but it’s about as expressive as Perl. A true GTD language.
pkrumins··on Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter
I’d definitely use blockchain. Basically every tweet would go on the blockchain and if a tweet reaches 100 likes you could sell it to someone as an NFT.
pkrumins··on Ask HN: Is there a “jump back” feature in browsers after doing Ctrl-F?
F3 jumps to the next search match and Shift+F3 jumps back.
pkrumins··on D-Wave Launches in AWS Marketplace
You can find the prime factors of the number 15.
pkrumins··on Ask HN: How do you maintain your daily log?
I work on everything randomly and don’t maintain any log.
pkrumins··on Ask HN: Is there a “jump back” feature in browsers after doing Ctrl-F?
Shift+F3
pkrumins··on Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things
^5
pkrumins··on Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?
Lulz
pkrumins··on Fallback Font Generator
The latest trick in web development is using the system font stack - this way there is no need for fallback fonts. We are moving all our products to system font stack and it looks perfect.
pkrumins··on BearSSL: A smaller SSL/TLS library
We’re trying this in production right now for our tunneling feature. So far looks very promising!
pkrumins··on The Perfect Commit
My definition of a perfect commit is any commit that goes to production because only shipping matters.
pkrumins··on Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?
Time spent reading books is time not spent deploying. The only thing that matters is deploying.
pkrumins··on Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?
I didn’t read a single book. I deployed to production nearly 2000 times instead.
pkrumins··on Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Got it! Didn’t know.
pkrumins··on Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Isn’t it Q3? Q4 just started (Oct 1 - Dec 31).
pkrumins··on Column Vectors vs. Row Vectors
Can anyone explain why in physics you use a 3x3 matrix for rotation but in computer graphics you have a 4x4 with “1” in the lower right corner of the matrix.
pkrumins··on reMarkable 2
It’s missing infinite canvas and infinite zoom mode.
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