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Re:Designing a Permanent Personal Identity – Urbit on Friday November 29, 2019 @02:11AM (#21662670)
Got an invite? Hard spending money on an UrbitID when I cant access a demo or anything. Logging in with MetaMask does nothing.
What does this have to do with anything related to HackerNews? Go fuck yourself.
Re:Show HN: Spy Codes: free booklet for kids (2018) on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @03:06AM (#20102130)
I did also. I would check out the same three code-making/spy club books from my elementary school library.

Now that I have kids I will see how it fares with them.

Thanks for sharing!

I read "smbc" as "xkcd" and immediately aggreed with your comment.
Re:Retro: A Modern, Pragmatic Forth on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:42AM (#19999337)
I just wanted to say "Thank You!" For jonesforth. I don't know how many times i've read it. It's probably what made everything "click" for me, so "thanx"
Re:How many ways are there to sort GUIDs? on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @02:26AM (#19785590)
Or try KSUID [0]. K-Sortable Unique IDs. I'm not affiliated, just easy to code from scratch and sortable.

[0] - https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid

Re:Who Killed Lard? (2012) on Friday April 26, 2019 @04:57AM (#19755772)
After skimming the comments i was upset it was not about the band Lard.
Re:Ask HN: What is the black bar on the top of HN? on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @03:52PM (#18232625)
Not a true statement. Where are you searching? I can find nothing to explain this other than the comment below about someone dying, but that doesn't explain anything either.
I think they failed to mention other sites. Here in Springfield Missouri we have an AT&T building which seems highly fortified like what is described in the article.
Re:50 Worst U.S. Cities to Live In on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:22PM (#17306165)
Woohoo! Where I live is ranked #8!
Re:Ask HN: Why is nature so brutal on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:50PM (#16935039)
Being empathetic does not put food in my gut. It might get you a date and a plate, but does not provide a career.
Re:Order of the Shadow Wolf Cyberzine 5 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @12:27AM (#16013054)
I agree. I'm using Firefox mobile and can't find a way to make this actually monospaced.
Re:Show HN: A Brutalist-Design Chat Web App on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:47AM (#15841982)
I tried it on android and when you press space it makes you wait to type again
Re:Russian Peasant Multiplication on Friday November 10, 2017 @04:14AM (#15668793)
I completely suck at calculus, but have a great need for kernels. I am an intermediate programmer/musician and I use them for audio convolution[0].

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_reverb

Re:Password Algorithms on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:07PM (#15553145)
Give each user a random salt. Hash each subsection of the password with their salt and store that. No need for plaintext.
Re:Ask HN: 15 lines of code to represent yourself on Thursday August 03, 2017 @12:22AM (#14916937)
Never done before, but this is roughly what is currently in my clipboard:

function digest(s) --return crc32(s)..adler32(s) --return hmac_sha1(pass,s) return sha1(s) end

function phe_encode(s) t = {} for i = 1, #s do t[i] = digest(s:sub(1,i)) end return t end

Yes! I have been looking for something like this! If it works good I would even pay for that service.
Re:Tell HN: ProtonVPN is awful on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:08AM (#14693484)
I've been using it on my android phone with no problems, and without paying a dime. Not sure why all the negativity.
Re:Ask HN: What was your best manager like? Your worst? on Sunday June 25, 2017 @04:47AM (#14629203)
I met my wife-to-be when she was my manager.
Re:SQRL – Secure Quick Reliable Login on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:41AM (#14468434)
I have a backup of my SQRL keys for when this goes mainstream. I really like the idea, but am not hopeful it will become widely adopted.
Re:Show HN: Convert HTML to markdown with python on Sunday May 28, 2017 @08:04PM (#14436666)
I completely agree. I had made something similar in lua and it was very fun and I found many md to html converters, but not the other way around. HTML parsing is what made me 'pause' development on that tool.
This is too kool! It looks like a timestamp counting down followed by aphex twin jumbled.
Re:How would you beam an AI to mars? on Sunday May 21, 2017 @11:53PM (#14390892)
Use the InterPlanetary File System. https://ipfs.io/

I think it's 'physical usefulness' would already be shipped via rocket or some other sling-shot.

Re:Ask HN: Where do you live? on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @06:14PM (#14260695)
SGF: Springfield, Missouri, USA
Re:Ask HN: What keeps you going? on Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:43PM (#13661910)
Good question. Noone that I know gives a shit about programming or hacking and the music I record is pretty much misunderstood, so I'm not sure really what gets me out of bed. Just hard headed I guess.
That's sounds friggin awesome fun! FORTH on a '6502' may be nightmarish to some but not to me. So many new 'words' to make.
Re:#ANONYMOUS #CHRISTMAS #PRESENT on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:42AM (#13243103)
I cant even access this because of the bad ssl used by the site. What is this?

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