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I'm a big fan of RISC-V but HiFive completely ruined the whole point. I was excited for a _proper_ open ISA because it would open up super low cost hardware development. But lookin…

It's not. The "author" simply stole towel.blinkenlights and wrapped it in golang. I bet he updated himself to senior go engineer on linkedin after this. None of the "cool" stuff in…

I call censorship and unrestricted control over my funds a form a fraud :)

oh god what a totally new and revolutionary idea that definitely has a place on hackernews: you can automate things with a computer!

Elliptic curves are even more vulnerable to known quantum algorithms

radare2 - https://github.com/radare/radare2/ More GNU than actual GNU sources, more UNIX than the linux kernel. Huge codebase but extremely easy to get involved with, orthogonal de…

this is like....the harder half of a whole blockchain project :D super interesting

"Why would you eat an orange when you could drink a coffee instead?" Yes there are heavy mathematics behind the structure of both types of network, and it's true that without centr…

you call this cryptanalysis?

Great to hear that you kill ME but I'll still stick with puri.sm or alpha.store because systen76 machines are just too freakin overpriced. They talk about freedom and FOSS yet thei…

you can interpret this as a problem and as a solution too. Yes, ztransactions will could dye your money so no exchange will accept it because you are a terrorist and the US can ban…

accusing a chaumian crypto violating the satoshi vision is like ranting about windows not being POSIX enough

What exceptionally new technique that we totally didn't know from like.... the '80s. Welcome to shellcoding kiddo. -.-

how are these for advanced users and hackers? A REAL advanced/hacker entry setup would be: Internet: -Lynx -w3m Office, text editors, TODO list, note keeping: -Vim -Emacs Dev tools…

This one stinks. Top 2 drug market disappear and a new search engine with fairy tale like timing shows up, with google analytics included, SSL by GlobalSign? Nope nope nope

sigh another one p2p e2e crypted messenger of the week released

I did freelancing at age 16, sometimes had to lie a little but elance (now upwork) is a good way.

An opensource, non-licensed, low-cost embedded processor -> sifive sells it for 600.000$ minimum.

okay, why does it hold any news relavance?

gratz you now have a closed-source CHIP with less features

Well it is indeed a point that it is yet to be reviewed by an acknowledged security company, and toxcore's last commit was in 2015. I'll search for one of these threads though

The encryption is both super-fast and well-tested, stream ciphers are more suitable in the era of internet voice and video calls, where you don't always know the length of the data…