Hacker News: Sargos

New comment by Sargos in "Quadratic funding democratizes allocation by rewarding projects w/ broad support"

Sargos — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:47:28 +0000

This is called a Sybil attack and Sybil resistance is a known and highly discussed aspect of Quadratic Funding. There's lots of projects tackling this like https://passport.human.tech/

New comment by Sargos in "Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software"

Sargos — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:34:38 +0000

The outrage isn't about the rule. It's about the sudden decision to choose bureaucracy over common sense.

New comment by Sargos in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

Sargos — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:13:59 +0000

Is this available for Codex subscription users of Open Claw without needing a separate API key?

New comment by Sargos in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

Sargos — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:32:52 +0000

Satoshi took many steps to conceal his identity and very much values anonymity. Why is this step one too far?

New comment by Sargos in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

Sargos — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:29:06 +0000

>set up a bot that does this

But he already did this. With a bonus of it will continue to work in the future if something breaks or changes. Human time is more precious than computing resources nowadays.

New comment by Sargos in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

Sargos — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:38:52 +0000

Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, C#, Docker, React/Lit, Azure, Prometheus/Grafana, Solidity, CI/CD Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FOGdgpknT7vBivnHPca5TgaR... Email: JamesCarnley@gmail.com

I am a Full-Stack Engineer with 10+ years of experience and a heavy lean into DevOps. I enjoy building applications end-to-end—from the front-end components down to the server infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

Currently, I am developing the Ethereum File System (EFS), an open-source project where I wear both hats:

As a Developer: I architected a decentralized application using EAS, Solidity, TypeScript and Web Components, solving complex state management issues in a resource constrained environment.

As an Ops Engineer: I help run the underlying Ethereum network, using Prometheus and Grafana for observability and practicing chaos engineering to ensure node reliability.

Previously, I spent a decade at Epic Systems working on enterprise healthcare software. My work there involved modernizing legacy web platforms (C#/.NET) and managing large-scale server integrations, ensuring federated code worked reliably across varied and rigid enterprise environments.

I’m looking for a role where I can be useful across the stack, whether that means shipping features, improving build tools, or stabilizing infrastructure.

New comment by Sargos in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

Sargos — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:19:11 +0000

You have to create small companies in order to build big ones

New comment by Sargos in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

Sargos — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:50:37 +0000

You do not need to report a $0 capital gain when using stablecoins. Sure crypto can seem like the wild West with CPAs having different opinions on what little official guidance is out there but that one is simply absurd.

New comment by Sargos in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

Sargos — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:53:59 +0000

>being able to just show up in a country, download an app

This seems like a "draw the rest of the owl" situation. If I arrive in a new country with no phone data (which is why I need a sim in the first place) then how do I download an app? Being able to walk up to a guy at the airport and within seconds slide in a SIM solves that data problem.

New comment by Sargos in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

Sargos — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 05:12:33 +0000

Testing the theory of whether psychedelics are just inside our heads or whether our consciousness travels somewhere objectively really is why this Tales From The Trip video is my favorite videos. Both men see the same blue woman which is very interesting! https://youtu.be/P_34oNWmNsc?si=_k2CG5b-TVuDaFvM

New comment by Sargos in "I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure"

Sargos — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 23:23:07 +0000

all that needs to happen is for countries to destroy their nuclear weapons

all that needs to happen is for governments to stop burning fossil fuels

all that needs to happen is for researchers to publish boring papers replicating others results

all that needs to happen is for fishermen to stop overfishing

Coordination problems seem easy but never really are. The chance of all the miners just suddenly agreeing to do something all at once is pretty low to impossible.

New comment by Sargos in "SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people"

Sargos — Wed, 14 May 2025 16:25:43 +0000

Banks didn't support TOTP long before we were able to easily sync them across devices. It's likely more along the lines of banks generally have bad IT departments and outdated digital security policies.

New comment by Sargos in "DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently"

Sargos — Mon, 12 May 2025 04:13:46 +0000

the Ethereum Name Service already exists and services this role just fine. Also the only bottleneck for Blockchain is writing to them. Reading them is free and easily available as everyone can have their own copy of the chain and there's already lots of RPC providers like Infura and Alchemy.

New comment by Sargos in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

Sargos — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:16:27 +0000

>I find it remarkable that Americans are ok with rule by executive order instead of rule by congressional law.

Can you cite a poll for this? Most Americans have never been asked and likely aren't okay with it but we don't really have a choice in the matter.

When it comes down to it the decision on how executive orders work is based on what a few dozen people think and most of them aren't elected. The general public has no say in the matter.

New comment by Sargos in "Claude can now search the web"

Sargos — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:59:47 +0000

Any AI tool I make will ignore robots.txt on principle. Artificial humans should have equal rights as real humans.

New comment by Sargos in "Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser"

Sargos — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:59:28 +0000

Silicon Valley TV show

New comment by Sargos in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

Sargos — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:24:17 +0000

What makes you reasonably confident? Cooking leading to better nutrient absorption and our IQ growth is mainstream science so making a wild contradiction like that without something to back it up isn't very helpful. Helping with food-based illness is an interesting thought though.

New comment by Sargos in "Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf]"

Sargos — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:04:38 +0000

>if Apple kept Google as the default search engine because it’s the best on the market and Apple doesn’t want to provide an inferior option to its users

Apple did exactly this in the past with Apple Maps replacing Google Maps, so I don't see why this would bother them much.

New comment by Sargos in "Google releases smart watch for kids"

Sargos — Thu, 30 May 2024 00:08:57 +0000

It won't let me stick a SIM card in it and instead makes me buy some proprietary overpriced LTE plan? That's pretty sickening. WTF Google?

New comment by Sargos in "DOJ: Man sentenced to 14 years for posession of deepfake CSAM"

Sargos — Sat, 18 May 2024 12:53:29 +0000

This is the same argument they used in the 90s to ban Mortal Kombat and other violent games. It wasn't a good argument then and it isn't a good argument today.