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Re:Why HN is a decade behind on crypto on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @10:15AM (#47048371)
Shameless plug, I've actually spent the last 2 years working on a HN alternative for crypto people because I got similarly frustrated with the HN community. It's still online and we're kinda trying to get an influx of people who'd like to use such a product. I'm not going to disclose the product name here because I feel like I'd be risking getting moderated. That said, if you wanna check this out please message me in private and I'm happy to send the link to you. My bio should have info
Re:The Leftist Tactic of Labeling Opponents as Nazis or Fascists on Thursday December 11, 2025 @10:52AM (#46232901)
I always cringe when I hear the word "Nazism." Because the first time I heard it, it was when Putin said it in a speech after invading Ukraine. And indeed, if you check Google Trends, you'll see that the term had its peak around that time and has had an increased usage ever since. Nazism is not a word known in German either. We purposefully call it national socialism. And to be honest, I think it makes sense to be national socialism. Because it is nationally socialist. Meaning it is social towards the nation. Which is also a reason why there is the "Internationale." Because to me socialism that is constraint to a nation is inevitably nationalist, I mean how else could it not be?
Re:Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself on Thursday October 30, 2025 @09:24AM (#45759784)
Hey CupricTea,

I'm working on building a social media site that wants to improve on moderation and I've found the case of the Grokipedia curious. So I'd love to get in touch with your but didn't find any details in your bio. Please reach out to me and let's do a user interview (can be via email too). My contacts are in my bio

Hey clanky!

I'm building a social media product myself and I saw your comment here. So I wanted to reach out and ask if you'd be up to talk about how moderation could be improved online. My contact data is in my bio!

Hey, if anyone thinks this article was wrongfully flagged, please contact me via my email in the description and lets talk. I'm building a startup related to moderation on social media so I'd like to user interview you
Hey I'm working on a product related to flagged content. Would you be willing to talk to me?

Ask HN: Looking for tech city without hayfever risk in May/June

Hi,I'm allergic to grass pollen, and it has its season in May and June in Europe. So this year I want to try to escape Europe and to not get exposed to pollen. For this reason, I've been looking for places that:- Have a nice tech scene- No pollen in the air in May and June- Affordable- Safe- the closer to Europe, the betterThe best I could find for now was:- Iceland (bit cold lol)- Capetown (do...

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Re:Anonymous crypto wallets now illegal in the EU on Saturday March 23, 2024 @10:50AM (#39800345)
Weird because this guy said that hosted wallets are now banned so what now?

https://twitter.com/echo_pbreyer/status/1770853123633877233

Edit: I think this guy, which mind you is a member of parliament, just confused hosted with self-hosted. We're so fucked

This framing is a concession to people who are terrorists. Many people who are optimistically working towards a better future (and here I mean broadly almost anyone) are not arguing for "infinite growth in closed systems." Everyone is and has been trying to optimize things as well as it is in their capability to improve the situation.
Re:Reddit S1 on Sunday March 03, 2024 @03:28PM (#39584234)
I'm building an HN clone, and underpinning is a set reconciliation protocol. https://kiwinews.xyz
yeah, precisely as I laid out in my post too. But Brian Armstrong took the "build what I want" option when it came to a "decision that could be life changing to thousands of people"
Re:Traveled to Milan and now ChatGPT isn't working on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:05AM (#35739397)
Yes, you are right. I'm blending the issues here. But see, I'm a EU citizen living in Berlin and naturally I've come to Milan for work and vacation, expecting to use ChatGPT. And frankly, I find it unacceptable that the Italian Garante took the initiative here and outright banned it.

POLITICO reports:

> The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations.

> The national data protection authority said it will immediately block and investigate OpenAI, the U.S. company behind the popular artificial intelligence tool, from processing the data of Italian users. The order is temporary until the company respects the EU's landmark privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-privacy-regulator-ba...

Re:Traveled to Milan and now ChatGPT isn't working on Friday April 28, 2023 @05:23AM (#35739164)
Ah yes? How do Milan and Berlin differ from Brussels?
Re:My Deleted Response to Pirate Wires' Nuclear Disasters on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:59AM (#35615789)
yeah I found that pretty funny and it was the reason I re-uploaded my answer. Bit surprised that he'd "delete" my response because I'm not a subscriber. For the record, he left another free subscriber's answer online

- https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1648292545040982020

- https://twitter.com/timdaub/status/1648297715703373824

Re:My Deleted Response to Pirate Wires' Nuclear Disasters on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:57AM (#35615750)
Btw. I don't have a book in Nuclear/renewables. Not sure if my friend Mike can say the same.
Re:My Deleted Response to Pirate Wires' Nuclear Disasters on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:56AM (#35615745)
Diversity is where it's at! Heatwaves can also drain the rivers that cool nuclear plants! We need a more resilient grid and diversity of production is probably the answer here, isn't it?
Re:My Deleted Response to Pirate Wires' Nuclear Disasters on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:55AM (#35615731)
You're right. I just thought the nuclear debate in the last few days was so heavily in favor of "nuclear is silver bullet for climate change" that I felt like publishing my thoughts too. It's not all gold that shines.
Re:My Deleted Response to Pirate Wires' Nuclear Disasters on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:33AM (#35615390)
> OP handwaves away issue of nuclear safety, incorrectly labelling it a straw man, and with it, the very real possibility of nuclear accidents. If there was a Chernobyl-scale nuclear accident in Germany, it would drastically shorten the lives of tens of millions of people, and it would make half the country uninhabitable.

IMO Solana's article is a maximalist position and I trust that no "nuclear-unsafe" argument would ever get through to him. It'd just be "agree to disagree.' Besides, there are great arguments that make the "nuclear is a silver bullet" argument of his bad if one exposes all of the nuances that went into the German decison - and that was my idea with the response.

Re:My Deleted Response to Pirate Wires' Nuclear Disasters on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:30AM (#35615330)
you are so mean
oh damn
you can run a node, build a frontend and knock yourself out with moderating. The frontend is like a VIEW table in a database. It rearranges the data but doesn‘t alter the underlying tables. So e.g. you can have a kiwi HN with HN-like moderation
yes, among other things rampant crypto hate here is another one

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