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Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:56PM (#50296706)
So, what's the most likely outcome here? Maybe Circle/Tether/etc freeze some or most of it, but say the hacker gets a billion dollars. Are they able to launder it thoroughly enough that they can eventually turn it into fiat and live like a king?
Would you share your EIN? I'd like to donate through my employer to receive a match, but I can't find Tanzania Education Project Inc documented anywhere besides your website.
Re:The Book Prize Index on Friday July 24, 2026 @10:48AM (#49036517)
I have vague memories of iPod Linux (or Rockbox, I can’t remember) having a feature where you could record voice notes using your regular headphones using the same technique
Got a discount code for the HN family? ;-)

Congrats on shipping. I'm living in the EU working California hours (4pm-1am) and will definitely be buying one.

Re:Ask HN: Is noprocrast still working for you? on Monday June 30, 2025 @09:51PM (#44429828)
sounds good, thanks for the response!
Re:Ask HN: Is noprocrast still working for you? on Monday June 30, 2025 @06:27PM (#44428609)
I’ve noticed the same thing. Horrible for my productivity. Paging @dang
Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:02PM (#42939566)
It doesn't sound like GP is saying we have to do away with audio, just that it's absurd to stick to _just_ audio. Great to have a screen that shows "Clear for option 25R etc etc". I think I saw the latest Cirrus planes have something like that, doing live transcription of tower/ATC calls.

EDIT: I will add I get that adding something like that to a general aviation cockpit is much easier than putting it on a commercial 787, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

I attended Northeastern from 2010-2013. Fundies (the freshman-level functional programming courses) was fundamental (ha) to my growth as a software developer. It taught me how to reason about data and how to design programs (the literal name of the textbook).

I know a lot of students hated it—frankly those were mostly the students that it seemed were only doing computer science programs because they’d heard they could make a lot of money in the field. The “real nerds” all seemed to love it, and now nearly 15 years later those are the engineers in my network who have built the most impressive systems and products.

I guess I’ll have to update my default instructions for recruiters from “automatically interview anyone with a degree from Northeastern” to add “if they graduated before 2025”

Re:My Kidney Donation on Sunday November 17, 2024 @06:18AM (#42163486)
I’m scheduled to donate one of mine to a stranger in a few weeks. Similar story here—saw Scott Alexander’s story, did some research, decided it was something i had to do.

I’m donating through the national kidney registry, which means that I (and five close family members) will pop to the top of the transplant list if I ever need one.

off topic: do you have a name or a link for the paper referenced? My company just moved to a new office that's "coincidentally" closer to the CEO's house, and I'd love to send it to him.
Re:How random are TOTP codes? on Friday July 05, 2024 @10:57AM (#40883357)
I have long considered building a code generator that only serves "nice" codes.

The standard implementation would use a hard coded set of patterns. The enhanced version would pair automatic random code generation with a public site where members of the public can decide in real time whether a given code is "nice" before it's sent along to the intended recipient.

(note @tptacek if you're reading this, I swear it's (mostly) a joke)

Re:Kagi and Wolfram on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @04:30PM (#39609384)
The two are unrelated, but they do reference the shareware platform in their FAQ.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#are-you-affiliated-w...

Re:Open Source Carta Alternative – Cap.octolane.com on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:32AM (#38968376)
ah i think it's a feature for YC founders to identify each other, might not be on for everyone
Re:Open Source Carta Alternative – Cap.octolane.com on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:23AM (#38968246)
HN highlights your username in orange to indicate that you're a YC founder, and shows that you're a founder of Octolane on your profile. Disingenuous comments like this on a forum like HN are strongly discouraged.
Re:HN's HTML Is Invalid on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:48AM (#37175569)
(if it wasn't clear, this is submitted in jest)
Re:ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @04:14PM (#36143651)
Basically what WorldMaker said. We updated our tsconfig and package.json, updated all our imports to include ".js", and fixed/upgraded things as necessary. The only real hiccup was that `require.main === module` no longer works, so we had to write some workaround code to determine whether a script was being run directly.
Re:ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @12:50PM (#36140502)
If anybody has tried ES modules in the past five years and had to turn back due to incompatibility / lack of library support / javascript is a minefield, I'd urge you to try again. I managed to migrate our Typescript/Node codebase over to ESM about a month ago, with only a few hiccups. It's nice to be able to use the latest versions of all of sindresorhus's packages again.
I was annoyed by having to reach for a remote or my phone when watching stuff on my Apple TV, so I made a MacOS Apple TV remote[0] that lives in the menu bar. Saves me literally seconds every day.

[0]: https://github.com/dickfickling/honeycrisp

Reddit comes to mind as an alternative (to Digg) that succeeded (by at least some definitions of the word). A massive amount of Reddit's early user growth came from a poorly-received redesign to Digg's home page. There are a lot of parallels to draw to the changes Musk has in mind for Twitter.
have you worked on Typescript projects using ES modules? What you’ve described is the status quo for CommonJS modules, but doesn’t work when you switch to ESM (afaik, at least)
when gp comment was written, the HN title didn’t include the phrase “in market value”
asking for a friend: what's the safe and effective way to pirate things in 2022?
I've been doing the same (also for about 10 years). A quick scan of my spam folder from the last few days shows drizly@, eventbrite@, homechef@, and sunany@ were all leaked at some point.

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