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Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:42PM (#50295599)
As someone who grew up without a father, Patrick Stewart as Picard served as my father figure and shapes my personality and standards. it's hard to live up to those high bars of integrity, honor, and principles communication but I've found that just trying leads to positive outcomes. I owe a lot to this great man and will miss him dearly.
We are working on this better model in the Ethereum ecosystem via technologies like Zero Knowledge Proofs and private attestations. The Ethereum Attestation Service has been using the example of proving to the bartender that you are over 21 without disclosing your birth date. https://docs.attest.org/docs/core--concepts/privacy

This is all new and rapidly evolving technology but giving apps / agents / others just the information they need to know while having a credibly neutral, private, and trustless database mediating is a true cypherpunk vision of how the internet should work and it's being built by people with the right ethos and principles to be as reliable, well engineered, and long lasting as the internet itself.

Re:Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:22AM (#49327116)
https://ratspeak.org/ seems like a modern fork of Reticulum built in Rust and with a fairly active community
Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) on Sunday August 02, 2026 @03:34PM (#49147559)
Are you talking about uploaded music? All of mine is still available and a lot of it definitely isn't on YouTube. Did you try looking for the uploaded music tab? It can be hard to find
This is called a Sybil attack and Sybil resistance is a known and highly discussed aspect of Quadratic Funding. There's lots of projects tackling this like https://passport.human.tech/
The outrage isn't about the rule. It's about the sudden decision to choose bureaucracy over common sense.
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @01:13PM (#47866403)
Is this available for Codex subscription users of Open Claw without needing a separate API key?
Satoshi took many steps to conceal his identity and very much values anonymity. Why is this step one too far?
Re:OpenClaw privilege-escalation bug on Friday April 03, 2026 @03:29PM (#47631043)
>set up a bot that does this

But he already did this. With a bonus of it will continue to work in the future if something breaks or changes. Human time is more precious than computing resources nowadays.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) on Monday February 02, 2026 @04:38PM (#46861983)
Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, C#, Docker, React/Lit, Azure, Prometheus/Grafana, Solidity, CI/CD Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FOGdgpknT7vBivnHPca5TgaR... Email: [email protected]

I am a Full-Stack Engineer with 10+ years of experience and a heavy lean into DevOps. I enjoy building applications end-to-end—from the front-end components down to the server infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

Currently, I am developing the Ethereum File System (EFS), an open-source project where I wear both hats:

As a Developer: I architected a decentralized application using EAS, Solidity, TypeScript and Web Components, solving complex state management issues in a resource constrained environment.

As an Ops Engineer: I help run the underlying Ethereum network, using Prometheus and Grafana for observability and practicing chaos engineering to ensure node reliability.

Previously, I spent a decade at Epic Systems working on enterprise healthcare software. My work there involved modernizing legacy web platforms (C#/.NET) and managing large-scale server integrations, ensuring federated code worked reliably across varied and rigid enterprise environments.

I’m looking for a role where I can be useful across the stack, whether that means shipping features, improving build tools, or stabilizing infrastructure.

Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native on Saturday January 31, 2026 @09:19AM (#46836914)
You have to create small companies in order to build big ones
Re:De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:50PM (#46696134)
You do not need to report a $0 capital gain when using stablecoins. Sure crypto can seem like the wild West with CPAs having different opinions on what little official guidance is out there but that one is simply absurd.
Re:I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret on Monday December 29, 2025 @01:53PM (#46423988)
>being able to just show up in a country, download an app

This seems like a "draw the rest of the owl" situation. If I arrive in a new country with no phone data (which is why I need a sim in the first place) then how do I download an app? Being able to walk up to a guy at the airport and within seconds slide in a SIM solves that data problem.

Testing the theory of whether psychedelics are just inside our heads or whether our consciousness travels somewhere objectively really is why this Tales From The Trip video is my favorite videos. Both men see the same blue woman which is very interesting! https://youtu.be/P_34oNWmNsc?si=_k2CG5b-TVuDaFvM
all that needs to happen is for countries to destroy their nuclear weapons

all that needs to happen is for governments to stop burning fossil fuels

all that needs to happen is for researchers to publish boring papers replicating others results

all that needs to happen is for fishermen to stop overfishing

Coordination problems seem easy but never really are. The chance of all the miners just suddenly agreeing to do something all at once is pretty low to impossible.

Banks didn't support TOTP long before we were able to easily sync them across devices. It's likely more along the lines of banks generally have bad IT departments and outdated digital security policies.
the Ethereum Name Service already exists and services this role just fine. Also the only bottleneck for Blockchain is writing to them. Reading them is free and easily available as everyone can have their own copy of the chain and there's already lots of RPC providers like Infura and Alchemy.
Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:16AM (#43530931)
>I find it remarkable that Americans are ok with rule by executive order instead of rule by congressional law.

Can you cite a poll for this? Most Americans have never been asked and likely aren't okay with it but we don't really have a choice in the matter.

When it comes down to it the decision on how executive orders work is based on what a few dozen people think and most of them aren't elected. The general public has no say in the matter.

Re:Claude can now search the web on Thursday March 20, 2025 @02:59PM (#43427488)
Any AI tool I make will ignore robots.txt on principle. Artificial humans should have equal rights as real humans.
Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @09:59AM (#43343332)
Silicon Valley TV show
Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? on Thursday February 20, 2025 @03:24PM (#43119700)
What makes you reasonably confident? Cooking leading to better nutrient absorption and our IQ growth is mainstream science so making a wild contradiction like that without something to back it up isn't very helpful. Helping with food-based illness is an interesting thought though.
>if Apple kept Google as the default search engine because it’s the best on the market and Apple doesn’t want to provide an inferior option to its users

Apple did exactly this in the past with Apple Maps replacing Google Maps, so I don't see why this would bother them much.

Re:Google releases smart watch for kids on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @08:08PM (#40518652)
It won't let me stick a SIM card in it and instead makes me buy some proprietary overpriced LTE plan? That's pretty sickening. WTF Google?
This is the same argument they used in the 90s to ban Mortal Kombat and other violent games. It wasn't a good argument then and it isn't a good argument today.
>Carbs are necessary macronutrient for everybody.

This is a wild claim to make and doesn't seem to hold true scientifically. Humans require fat, protein, and various vitamins usually received from vegetables. There is no requirement that comes from carbohydrates as they effectively are just empty calories.

Re:Russia leaves planes without GPS in northern Europe on Friday May 03, 2024 @10:57AM (#40248417)
It's sad that pilots can no longer fly without GPS assistance. They really are the equivalent of fancy bus drivers.
Duke Nukem Forever isn't vaporware though. I guess both of us are old and remember when it was the posterchild for vaporware for decades but it was released and now nobody refers to it as vaporware.
This is how web3 operates. A post cost a bit of gas (usually a penny or less) and that pays for the infrastructure (data processed and stored in the smart contract. Each user paying for their own actions prevents the need for advertisers.
You must be terrified of taking the subway
Re:Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky on Friday February 23, 2024 @11:27PM (#39489111)
I wish table headers did this automatically. If devs do the extra work to use <th> tags then this is likely the behavior they already want.

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