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Show HN: Vending machine uses words, not money

Posted by avibagla1 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:49PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://cultivatedcorpora.com/

I created a type to pay vending machine that has people pay for food with writing, and then I created a company that sells that same language at a 1000x markup to AI companies with an ethical cultivation guarantee.The vending machine is currently up until Tuesday in the Lexington and 51st 6 Station, in the Data Vandals newsstand.

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Re:The Bluesky Dictionary on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @11:41PM (#44820359)
DB is currently 58mb (damn lol)

Ingress is actually pretty manageable, ~900kbps

Re:The Bluesky Dictionary on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @11:33PM (#44820311)
https://github.com/words/an-array-of-english-words

using this, a combo of "covered enough" for the bit and easy to use

also, since i'm tracking every word (technically a better name for this project would be The Bluesky Corpus) all inflected forms are different words, which aligns with my thinking

Re:The Bluesky Dictionary on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:41PM (#44818699)
one, thank you for checking my website. two, that is the joke, 100% - at the time people kept talking about how "left leaning" bsky was and that idea came to mind
Re:The Bluesky Dictionary on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:39PM (#44818683)
yes it does!
Re:The Bluesky Dictionary on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:39PM (#44818679)
Hey! this is my site - it's not all that complex, i'm just using a sqlite db with two tables - one for stats, the other for all the words that's just word | count | first use | last use | post.

I... did not expect this to be so popular