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New comment by HNArg024 in "Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process"

HNArg024 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:50:51 +0000

Great game! The rewind time "skill" it's like playing an Edge of Tomorrow game

New comment by HNArg024 in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

HNArg024 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:54:22 +0000

Yeah, in Argentina the main digital wallet is MercadoPago. Many merchants have their terminal to accept payments with credit cards/QR, and since this past summer you have the option to accept payments with Pix too. Also it goes both ways, everyone going on vacation to Brazil can pay with MercadoPago without having to install Pix.

New comment by HNArg024 in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

HNArg024 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:49:26 +0000

Looks nice! Will give it a try, so I can ditch Insomnia

New comment by HNArg024 in "Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]"

HNArg024 — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 23:24:01 +0000

I was so hooked to his videos a couple years ago... he was making real progress to what was his 2nd iteration of the marble machine, then he suddenly decided he had to start from scratch and got into some crypto/web3.0 thing.

That was the last video I watched.

New comment by HNArg024 in "Show HN: Python-Type-Challenges, master Python typing with online exercises"

HNArg024 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:32:12 +0000

Very cool OP! Just a suggestion. I would like to always have the option to see the solution link, or at least, once I pass print what was your expected solution.

Like, for the optional challenge I wrote foo(x: Optional[int] = None) and it passed but your solution was simpler with x: int|None = 0

New comment by HNArg024 in "Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as the National Currency"

HNArg024 — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:37:40 +0000

Our currency is already super devaluated and everything has been artificially frozen for three months now, because the main rival was our current ministry of economy and he burned all ships to try win the election. So expect at least one if not two huge devaluations (40-60% each) before the year ends.

At the beginning of next year you will be able to exchange every peso in existence for about 40 billion USD or so, a lot a money, but not really...

New comment by HNArg024 in "Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as the National Currency"

HNArg024 — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:31:36 +0000

We want to be stuck with whatever the Fed does. You might think that's stupid because the Fed is not great, but what we have right now is way worse.

One of Javier's main goals is to remove to the Argentine politician the capacity to emit more useless currency. I don't know if he's going to go ahead with that proposal or if it's going to sleep forever "soon to come", but we are just tired of our politicians, at the point that we prefer to depend on politicians of another country to dictate our monetary policy...

New comment by HNArg024 in "Switchblade: $170k Flying Car Has Taken Its First Flight"

HNArg024 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:52:59 +0000

Is it me, or isn't this what we call just a "plane"? A very light-weight (maybe even cheap) plane.

There's another company trying to do these "flying cars" which approach seemed better. The one with several small fans, capable of vertical take-off. Can't recall their name. But unless I'm missing something... that's way closer to a "flying car" than this one.

New comment by HNArg024 in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

HNArg024 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:51:12 +0000

I almost never comment here on HN (or anywhere actually), but I feel the need to express how happy I am that I found (lost in a comment a few days ago) this service.

For the past three or so years I have tried half a dozen times to leave Google Search. Tried DDG, Brave Search and some others I can't remember now. But the "poor" quality of results had me going to Google for half of my searches, and after a while, just Google again, for convenience.

Now, I'm at 44/100 trial searches and I already know I'm going to pay for this. It's like using Google on 2008 plus without ads. It just work wonders, and I haven't even started to play with the filter to raise/lower certain domains, which I think it's a fantastic tool to have.

Great work Kagi Team!

New comment by HNArg024 in "Binance says banking partner will stop processing SWIFT transfers under $100K"

HNArg024 — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 01:18:01 +0000

We exchange crypto por Pesos in "black markets" and use the pesos to buy the everyday stuff. Larger transactions are almost always in USD (a car, a property), but it's harder to justify the funds. Most people getting paid in crypto aren't declaring any taxes. Even if you do, the limit for the most common method is 1k USD/month

New comment by HNArg024 in "Binance says banking partner will stop processing SWIFT transfers under $100K"

HNArg024 — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 01:13:28 +0000

Yep, pretty much the same here in Argentina. People are only now getting used to digital money (I don't mean cripto, I mean thinks like PayPal). Except for some places in Buenos Aires or online shops that sell contraband tech, you don't see widespread use of crypto. For us it's just a proxy for USD. Our currency is a joke (95% anual inflation) and we can only buy legally 200 USD month, so crypto is our way out.