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maratumbaon Is this a supply-chain attack attempt?

I was looking into the issues in this -probably- abandoned library and noticed this account helpfully offering to take over the project. The account has no other activity than this post after it's been created 5.5 months before. Seems like it could be a supply chain attack (or maybe just some LLM agent raising github stars).

Does github have a mechanism for flagging suspicious accounts? Reporting doesn't seem like the right idea without any actual wrong-doing.

maratumbaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (Django, FastAPI), Typescript (NestJs, Angular, Vue), C# (Asp.Net), Terraform (AWS, Azure), Postgres (PostGIS, Timescale), Dart (Flutter)

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10xFKmRFgv0J0lUv1QB6Fjcge...

Email: See resume

Former geophysicist with a PhD. After 10+ years of full-stack engineering experience, I'm looking for something where I can combine it with my scientific expertise. I have academic/industrial experience with energy systems and EVs, GHG emission calculations, time-series and geospatial data handling and analysis.

Looking for opportunities to make positive impact on the environment and society.

maratumbaon Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

I don't know if it's related but this morning I realized that I'd been logged out of my Whatsapp account. When I tried to log back in, I couldn't get Whatsapp to confirm my phone number. I didn't get the SMS they sent for the recovery code. Thankfully "call me" option worked for receiving the recovery code. But then I was asked a 2fa PIN which I (unfortunately) never had set up. "Forgot my PIN" also didn't send an email to my account (which I'm pretty sure I also hadn't set up anyway).

Currently I'm waiting to hear from Whatsapp support and/or the 7 day waiting time to be over to reset my account. It is bizarre that I am not able to recover my account when I still own my phone number (I can still receive SMS on it).

I would consider myself very cautious about clicking suspicious links, of course one can never be 100% sure. This was very disconcerting.

As a reminder for all Whatsapp users, please set up your 2FA PINs and recovery emails.

maratumbaon Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

Gives the term "remote code execution" a new meaning.

maratumbaon Ask HN: I will become a father tomorrow, what advice could you share with me?

Sleep when the baby sleeps. Do not use that time to catch up on things.

maratumbaon Error 404 (Not Found)

Do you mean DEFCON 1 or 5? Trying to get a feel of the situation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON

maratumbaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2021)

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not at this moment

Tech: Python, C, C++, Matlab, R, Django, FastAPI, Docker, Jenkins, GCP, AWS, Tensorflow, Vue, Angular, PostGres (+PostGIS), Arduino+Raspi stuff

github: https://github.com/maratumba/

homepage: https://gulyamani.com/

CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2pa1b8zqszd21xl/Yaman%20Ozakin%20-...

Email: dandik & gmail.com

PhD Scientist/Fullstack Developer. 3 years in the industry after 8 years of PhD and PostDoc in Geophysics/Physics. Strong mathematical and analytical background, proficient in ML methods. Self-motivated problem solver and a fast learner. Used to remote work w/ Agile methods.

Developed and maintained/maintaining many projects written mainly in Vue, Angular, Django and hosted on DO, Netlify, AWS, GCP. My strongest skill is to understand the basics and apply them as code, like creating a performant magnetic lasso tool based on Dijkstra's algorithm in TypeScript.

I am especially interested in helping environmental/climate causes but anything that requires strong problem solving skills interests me. Feel free to send an email even just to chat.

maratumbaon Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

Response from NSO: https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/response-from-n...

maratumbaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2021)

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not at this moment

Tech: Python, C, C++, Matlab, R, Django, FastAPI, Docker, Jenkins, GCP, AWS, Tensorflow, Vue, Angular, PostGres (+PostGIS), Arduino+Raspi stuff

github: https://github.com/maratumba/

homepage: https://gulyamani.com/

CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2pa1b8zqszd21xl/Yaman%20Ozakin%20-...

Email: dandik & gmail.com

I am especially interested in helping environmental/climate causes but anything that requires strong problem solving skills interests me. Feel free to send an email even just to chat.

maratumbaon We need young programmers; We need old programmers

That's a better way of putting it.

maratumbaon We need young programmers; We need old programmers

Treating people differently based on the class they belong in, in this case age, is the definition of discrimination.

maratumbaon We need young programmers; We need old programmers

There is an assumption that "old" means "experienced" which is not necessarily true. There are people who transition to programming from other fields and are "old". Their value shouldn't depend on whether or not they fit the stereotype of "old timer hacker geeks". They should be judged by their skills, the same way the young ones are being judged.

maratumbaon Nodes – JavaScript-based 2D canvas for computational thinking

How about "knodes"?

maratumbaon ‘No girls born’ for past three months in area of India covering 132 villages

Haven't actually read the study but not sure I understand your comment. Even if every village has only one birth, the probability of having no girls at random is 1/(2700) which seems practically impossible. Perhaps there is something else that made you response critically of their methods?

maratumbaon California Earthquakes Disrupted HF Propagation on West Coast

Seismologist here. So far, no reliable predictor of main shocks (largest earthquake in a sequence) has been found. People have been looking for them ever since the invention of the modern seismometer networks in the 60s.

Most of the EM based earthquake prediction is based on really loose reasoning. In summary, it goes like this: "earthquakes can generate EM fields through piezo-electric effect, therefore small movements before big earthquakes should generate small EM fields we can measure". But there is almost never no such thing as "small movements before big earthquakes", which is why reliably predicting them has been impossible so far.

Most likely, this will turn out to be an example of confirmation bias. In the unlikely event that it is not, people will be all over this.

maratumbaon California Earthquakes Disrupted HF Propagation on West Coast

> There are reports of animals being able to predict earthquakes before they occur, and even records of other kinds of electromagnetic activity before quakes.

There have been all kinds of tests with animals but so far, all animal behaviour that looks like predicting earthquakes is only their sensitivity to low amplitude-high speed P (pressure) waves, which humans usually don't feel.

maratumbaon Things to use in Python 3

Been enjoying the Make Medium Readable Again (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-medium-readab...) plugin. Removes all the clutter from the page, you won't even know you are on Medium!