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What's with the "is dead at"? I'm not a native speaker but it seems a bit disrespectful.

I work in this area and to me, the tech is still super interesting. In particular, things like zero knowledge proof and related scaling/privacy solutions are at the forefront of cr…

Who's laughing now Hetzner? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607728

I want to make this random off-topic comment: For years I've been collecting various audio clips, where "environmental" sound (voice, noise, etc.) transitions into music, or vise v…

I had learned a saying recently "cars for the poor, watches for the rich". The idea is that cars have higher utilities so even though cars are higher price in general, watchers sho…

Correct. Here I'm assuming USDC is "stable". If USDC drops (or if USDT rises, for that matter), you might get liquidated.

Depends on market conditions and the lender you use. Currently around 4% on AAVE. If demand rises this can go up obviously. Note you do get interest on your deposit so that helps o…

Not financial advice. Numbers are just examples. 0: Buy 10000 USDC with $10000 1: Deposit 10000 USDC on AAVE 2: Borrow 5000 USDT 3: Sell 5000 USDT for 5000 USDC 4: Wait for USDT to…

If crypto didn't exist, these people would either go to wallstreet, or play poker.

I admit I did panic and tried to withdraw my funds yesterday. They just processed it today. A bit delayed but still processing.

I don't see a problem. Of course banks want KYC, but that doesn't stop you from selling the crypto on e.g. Coinbase (also KYC'ed) and sending to your bank.

Pardon my ignorance: what does IRS have to do with money laundering?

I built a very simple website [0] for playing poker. The idea was that people can play poker in person without chips or a deck of cards. I had also planned for more features like h…

Not much right now, but see https://etheroes.io/roadmap

Sure! I'm using a network very similar to StyleGAN. After generating a batch, I review the images and weed out maybe 10% of the really bad ones. I was actually surprised at how wel…

You are probably right. I'm familiar with how Lightning network works in bitcoin, but not super familiar with L2 in ethereum. Do you have some pointers that I can read? I'm also in…

Hi HN: This is a fun project I've been working on recently. The idea of the cards started when I saw how an AI could generate realistic portraits of people. I tried to apply simila…

For anyone who's put off by the visual quality of the pdf, I made a nicer copy of it: https://nerfsoftware.com/reflections.html

So much this. Not to mention that even within the same language, the implementation can differ (e.g. Firefox vs Chrome). I recently had to parse a bunch of dates in python, writing…

I made 2 things: I made a website for friends and family to play poker online. https://playcards.live . No cards or chips required. Works on any devices. I parsed en.wikipedia usin…

Wikipedia was a text gold mine waiting to be mined. They even publish data dumps themselves that anyone can download. I doubt they had any problem with people "stealing" their data…

Thanks! Yup I need to spend more time on it. I had a hard time finding an intuitive calendar UI that works on both desktop and mobile, and finally settled on just relying on search…

Thanks! Mind sharing what kind of project?