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Re:GitHub Is Down on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:45AM (#46947460)
1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.
Re:Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows on Monday January 19, 2026 @03:39PM (#46684189)
Who cares. From one walled garden to the next. Renting identities on permissioned networks is so tiresome.
Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:51AM (#46276954)
I argue there is a more fundamental problem with the money: Debasement.

Debasement is an invisible tax and its effects far outweigh individuals bypassing taxes.

  It's a massive flaw in how Azure works and why it's 10x more complicated than AWS or GCP.
Wait until you try OCI.
Re:Show HN: ChartDB Agent – Cursor for DB schema design on Friday October 03, 2025 @01:07AM (#45459203)
Nice thanks, I was finally able to design the schema for my dog turd tracker. The foreign key to the smells table was a great suggestion!
Re:macOS Tahoe on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @01:33AM (#45258383)
You’re not the only one.
Re:macOS Tahoe on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @01:32AM (#45258379)
Who is macOS designed for? I assume a non negligible customer base are software professionals and this iOSification of the desktop is borderline hostile. I don’t get it.
In addition to self hosting, anonymous access to hosted inference is another interesting path.

There’s a “A Decentralised LLM Routing Marketplace” being built out on nostr that leverages ecash.

https://www.routstr.com/

Re:Genie 3: A new frontier for world models on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:51PM (#44803383)
The Simulation Theory presents the following trilemma, one of which must be true:

1. Almost all human-level civilizations go extinct before reaching a technologically mature “posthuman” stage capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations.

2. Almost no posthuman civilizations are interested in running simulations of their evolutionary history or beings like their ancestors.

3. We are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

Re:Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @10:38AM (#44377875)
KYC only hurts law abiding citizens.

Criminals just use stolen identities (from breaches of KYC data).

The analogy works in the visibility sense and I see why you might assume there’s a blockchain involved in Nostr. But to clarify, there is not.

It’s worth highlighting as there are many affinity scammers spinning up tokens/blockchains called “Nostr”.

Re:Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app on Saturday June 21, 2025 @09:42PM (#44342451)
Nostr doesn’t have a blockchain or token.

Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays.

It’s just signed json messages distributed by [websocket] relays.

Re:Show HN: Qrkey – Offline private key backup on paper on Saturday June 14, 2025 @01:17AM (#44274354)
superbacked, now free and open source, does exactly this.

https://superbacked.com/

Re:Block to roll out Bitcoin payments on Square on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @10:48PM (#44112353)
Lightning is a layer two protocol on Bitcoin. It supports any Lightning wallet including CashApp.
Re:Mistral OCR on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:46PM (#43286178)
Take a look at MCP, Model Context Protocol.
Re:Mistral OCR on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:31PM (#43283465)
We’ll just stick LLM Gateway LLM in front of all the specialized LLMs. MicroLLMs Architecture.
Re:No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard on Sunday January 26, 2025 @01:15PM (#42832309)
The rare, correct Bitcoin take on HN.
Re:Apple introduces M4 chip on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @10:14AM (#40298351)
Apple is UX-first, not privacy-first.
Albiet a KYC mixer whose database will inevitably be leaked.

But I digress.

> No, but it's reasonably suspicious

So you agree there may be valid, legal, usecases for this technology for Americans?

The fact of the matter is Americans used to have a degree of financial privacy and the state is in the late stages of revoking it. Far more crime is done with USD than Bitcoin.

Have you ever considered there may be legitimate use cases for such technology? Like normal Americans maintaining financial privacy?

Cash was a private, p2p currency before it was basically replaced with corporate, permissioned and surveilled credit.

Bitcoin is pseudonymous p2p money but the ledger is public. Obfuscating bitcoin to prevent 3rd parties from seeing your balance is not money laundering.

Why elect a king when you already have a private group of bankers running the show
Digital information wants to be free.
Re:Why the 2% Inflation Target? (2023) on Friday March 22, 2024 @09:49PM (#39796737)
This guy gets it. Bitcoin fixes this.
Re:Bluesky and the at Protocol on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @01:06AM (#39285074)
Bluesky is not decentralized. It requires a phone number to sign up and has a CEO. The only thing remotely decentralized about it is the ambition of federation.

If you want a decentralized social network, checkout nostr or mastadon. And of those two, only nostr is censorship resistant.

Re:I don't want anything your AI generates on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @05:56PM (#39210599)
This will age well.
Re:Bitcoin is dead, but it was a good try on Saturday January 27, 2024 @06:09PM (#39160807)
The same phenomenon occurs when he talks about securities like TSLA or Dogcoin.

Your entire comment lacks substance.

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