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Re:Make your PDF look scanned on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:11AM (#50241506)
“Please print this PDF, scan it, and email us the PDF.”

European bureaucracy occasionally insists that a digital document experience life as a tree again.

I built paperfeel.ing to skip that step. It gives PDFs a realistic scanned finish without the printer-and-scanner round trip.

The goal is to make this as agentic as possible, as I think agents will continue to bridge the digital and physical/bureaucratic worlds.

Re:Solidity vulnerability findings open dataset on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @02:44PM (#48039972)
Data covers 55k+ individual vulnerability findings from 4k+ reports.
Re:DAO governance forum open dataset on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @02:43PM (#48039955)
Dataset covers the periods September 2015 through September 2025, across 42 projects/DAOs/communities, and includes 40k+ forum topics, 14k+ authors, 155k+ forum posts, 400k+ extracted links, and other related data.
Re:Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code on Thursday February 12, 2026 @03:27AM (#46986203)
Love this but i'm a Codex user, so forked and created the equivalent here: https://github.com/mrdavey/codex-peon
Re:YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @01:35PM (#23326830)
Before I got my pitchfork ready, I decided to test with a comment on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufrR98sR7XY&lc=UgyRmEKscwt_U... (scroll down to highlighted comment).

9 hours later it is still there... ️

Re:MakerDAO gets stress tested as ETH price plummets on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:33AM (#22574554)
> There's no way to instantly convert the stablecoin back into the collateral asset, you have to find someone with a CDP who is willing to buy the stablecoin from you.

This is incorrect and actually doesn't make sense. An important part of DeFi are DEXes (decentralised exchanges) such as Uniswap and Kyber. There is a liquidity pool where you can instantly buy/sell assets. There is no 'waiting' to find someone (i.e. no problems with coincidence of wants). You definitely do not need to find someone with a CDP. You can hold DAI without opening a CDP. Contracts can hold DAI (as DEXes do).

> Similarly, there's no way to unlock your collateralized asset, you have to find someone who is willing to sell you the stablecoin in order to open up your vault and get your eth out.

Also incorrect. You need to pay back the debt of your CDP with DAI. You can do this easily by buying DAI on a DEX, paying back the debt, then releasing your collateral. Some services exist to do this in 1 transaction, so you don't need to actually 'buy' any other asset. You just send the transaction to a contract and they take care of the details.

The DeFi, specifically the Ethereum space, has moved very quickly in a short amount of time, so there are a lot of new concepts and instruments out there. I think a more traditional finance person will have trouble understanding it all as in some cases, there are no analogies to the traditional finance system (e.g. flashloans).

Re:Show HN: REST-Like API for Ethereum Smart Contracts on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @01:16AM (#15025101)
Open source sounds great! Please post back here when its available as I really like your service.
Re:Show HN: REST-Like API for Ethereum Smart Contracts on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @02:58PM (#15021229)
This is great and potentially solves a challenge i'm having right now working with geth. However, I'm not comfortable sending private keys to your API end point. Do you guys have a solution to solve this concern? I'm sure others would probably feel the same...
There's also a long history of tall poppy syndrome and cutting down innovative ideas to keep the status quo.

Things that were first done/discovered in SA: - military tank - sunscreen - hills hoist - early version of wifi (controversially)

References: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2014/07/23/4051703.htm http://insidesouthaustralia.com.au/5-amazing-south-australia...

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