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Every cryptocurrency have had their vulnerabilities at some time in the history, I don't see how this is relevant to the topic. Also he claims have been debunked by the IOTA team - https://blog.iota.org/curl-disclosure-beyond-the-headline-18....
They should be more worried about other companies using this abbreviation (e.g. hellyhansen.com)...

Ask HN: What is happening with Apply HN?

The deadline for Apply HN submissions was April 27 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627), looks like new applications are not coming in, but the voting and commenting is still live. The main link https://news.ycombinator.com/applyhn is showing random list on every visit and not a ranked list.Given the small overall numbers on votes and comments – is this YC experiment in this...

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Re:Marvin Minsky – Web of Stories on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @03:23AM (#10972413)
You can see the zero bandwidth video phone at Nicholas Negroponte TED talk "A 30-year history of the future" - https://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_a_30_year_hist...

Ask HN: What to put first by creating a new app – performance or privacy?

Hi HN!I have currently a dilemma - to sacrifice my new web based application's performance or user's privacy. Both are harmed in a minor manner, but still.The situation is following - I have to choose either to apply my tool on my user personal web pages so that I don't break the page loading style, order and time, but brake users privacy - anyone can see in what ways my app is used in the...

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? on Monday August 17, 2015 @06:22AM (#10072169)
Why are ads addressed as browser related? If the question would be about "the perfect internet as medium" then yes, I would love to see an internet without ads. Built-in ad blocker would just create a challenge for marketers to create a new solution and I doubt that they would come up with something that we would like to see.