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Re:Unsettling capital letters on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:25AM (#26862474)

I can't scroll on mobile without tapping to download an app. Ugh, when did Tumblr become such trash.

Re:Unsettling capital letters on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:24AM (#26862466)

Get the app

Re:UCF researchers develop new rocket-propulsion system on Saturday May 02, 2020 @11:39AM (#23052345)

The advertising on this page is particularly aggressive.

OpenBazaar – Truly Free Trade Through Crypto

Posted by LForLambda on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:01PM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/11/openbazaar-truly-free-trade-through.html

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ZeroCash: Bitcoin with Zero Knowledge Proofs

Posted by LForLambda on Saturday October 29, 2016 @03:58PM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/10/zerocash-bitcoin-with-privacy.html

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How BitTorrent Works

Posted by LForLambda on Saturday October 22, 2016 @12:04PM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/10/how-bittorrent-really-works.html

( Read More... | 8 comments | 165 points | on HN )

How the Textsecure Protocol Works

Posted by LForLambda on Saturday October 15, 2016 @03:17PM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/10/how-textsecure-protocol-signal-whatsapp.html

( Read More... | 76 comments | 153 points | on HN )

Unhackable Application Back Ends for an Internet Without Trust

Posted by LForLambda on Sunday October 09, 2016 @03:28PM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/10/golem-generic-trustless-stateful-p2p.html

( Read More... | 2 comments | 10 points | on HN )

Peercoin: Bitcoin Without the Energy Bill

Posted by LForLambda on Saturday October 01, 2016 @11:23PM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/10/peercoin-bitcoin-without-energy-bill.html

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Golem: Trustless, Distributed P2P Hosting

Posted by LForLambda on Saturday September 24, 2016 @05:52PM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/09/golem-auditable-distributed-p2p-hosting.html

( Read More... | no comments | 14 points | on HN )

Bitcoin as a Sequence of Proofs

Posted by LForLambda on Sunday September 18, 2016 @10:30PM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/09/bitcoin-sequence-of-proofs.html

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How I2P Works

Posted by LForLambda on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:25PM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/09/how-invisible-internet-project-i2p-works.html

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How Tor Works

Posted by LForLambda on Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:56PM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/09/how-tor-works.html

( Read More... | 31 comments | 171 points | on HN )

Consensus without Trust: Cryptographic Enforcement of Distributed Protocols

Posted by LForLambda on Thursday August 25, 2016 @04:43PM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/08/consensus-without-trust-cryptographic.html

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Re:Build your own Jarvis on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:20AM (#10835166)

This is cute, and definitely a good educational resource about mature foss HCI applications, but this will not give the degree of quality that many have come to expect from assistants as simple as even Amazon's Alexa. Sirius is much closer to what you want.

http://sirius.clarity-lab.org/sirius-suite/

Re:VISC: Virtual Instruction Set Computing on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @09:05PM (#10667263)

Apple already requires submission of llvm bitcode, if Microsoft adopts this then it may become a thing.

Oh god no.

Re:Designing for evil on Monday November 30, 2015 @11:24PM (#10653621)

Aaaaaand downtime

A Possible Path to a Compassionate General AI

Posted by LForLambda on Monday November 30, 2015 @01:48PM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2015/11/the-path-to-general-ai.html

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Re:Reasoning About LLVM Code Using CodeWalker on Saturday November 21, 2015 @02:27AM (#10606061)

Is the code for this available anywhere?

Mutability and Persistent Data Structures: Retroactivity

Posted by LForLambda on Thursday November 12, 2015 @11:50AM
from the alexkyte.me dept.

http://www.alexkyte.me/2015/08/mutability-and-persistent-data.html

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Re:Tracing JITs and Modern CPUs: Part 2 on Saturday July 25, 2015 @11:07PM (#9950000)

Is it a thing to blog with github issues now?