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After sharing my story, I realized how widespread this has become. Almost every friend I know has at least one relative who has been a victim. These are not one or two isolated cas…

Thank you, @tomhow. The quick response and the welcoming attitude from the moderators are something I personally appreciate a lot. As I mentioned before, HN is a technology communi…

Thanks everyone for your kind words and advice. It really means a lot to me right now. I hope someday I can get over this and turn it into a lesson, and I will share what I learned…

Your last story is deeply moving. It captures the human cost behind these crimes in a way that statistics never can. Her quiet strength, expressed in just a few words, is a powerfu…

My main background is in mathematics, and after 15 years working in big data, I am now focusing on machine learning and AI. Not flashy technologies, but practical ones that can do …

It is almost impossible. Unlike in developed countries, where banks can offer some level of protection to customers, in third-world countries, banks mainly protect themselves. All …

It is much easier than you might imagine. Hundreds of thousands of people live together almost like a city, scamming their own people, speaking the same language as their victims. …

Thank you very much for your kind words. What I am thinking about most right now is, first, encouraging my mother and helping her through this difficult situation. Beyond my respon…

I know about corruption; anyone who lives in a third-world country understands it. However, as an engineer who built the technical solution, I feel hopeless. Even though my team ha…

Thanks for your kind words.

Today is the worst day of my life. We live in a country near Cambodia, and as you know, it is kind of a dream land for scammers. Today, it happened to my family. My mother received…

Thanks for your kind words! Most math textbooks are packed with formulas and abstract stuff, so I tried to do something different, make it fun while still getting the ideas across.…

Crafting Interpreters https://craftinginterpreters.com is a super friendly, step-by-step guide to building your own language and VM, looking forward to seeing what kind of language…

We’ve been building Mochi, a small statically typed language for querying structured data like JSON, CSV, and in-memory lists. In the latest release (v0.10.5), you can write SQL/LI…

This thread was the final push I needed to add logic programming to Mochi https://github.com/mochilang/mochi — a small statically typed scripting language I’m building for agents a…