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New comment by andirk in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

andirk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:20:01 +0000

Someone tell Pearl Jam's Eddy Vedder his work to fight Ticketmaster some 30 years ago finally came to a head today.

> Ticketmaster sells about 10 times as many tickets as its closest rival, AEG.

Yeah, that's called a monopoly, even if it wasn't Ticketmaster's intention, which of course it was.

New comment by andirk in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

andirk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:17:54 +0000

I find the best use of chatbots re: software engineering is more of an office hours with the professor than it is a fellow colleague; Use it for specifics. Throwing things over the fence to it often causes a reach into the bag of garbage spaghetti code that is half the internet content.

New comment by andirk in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

andirk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:14:54 +0000

Haha. My favorite shillings will always be NFTs and the "let's do email job pointless meetings in Second Life and call it Metaverse". Although the former is/was pure shilling, and the latter is/was a horrible pipe dream shilled as useful.

New comment by andirk in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

andirk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:13:11 +0000

A Machine Learning + Large Language model is one popular technology. Decentralized blockchain tokens is another popular technology. Besides hype, there's not much in common with those technologies.

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

andirk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:12:06 +0000

His abrupt silence mid-conversation with a handful of people via email and on the main Bitcoin forum also leads me to believe he's no longer with us. Code is often written like speech where one can decipher different voices in its writing, and I have heard some suggest the beginning code did look like more than one person's writing. There's likely a few people who know/knew him personally and know what happened, but I'm fine with the desired anonymity to continue.

New comment by andirk in "Show HN: SatsAPI – Bitcoin data API, pay per call in sats via Lightning L402"

andirk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:39:12 +0000

> "It enables micropayments directly in the HTTP layer"

VERY cool! This is the perfect use of micropayments that far exceeds that of traditional fiat and credit vehicles.

New comment by andirk in "Show HN: Tanstaafl – Pay-to-inbox email on Bitcoin Lightning"

andirk — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:07:20 +0000

Credit cards aren't big on tiny transactions, but I'm sure any payment method could work.

New comment by andirk in "HN: I built a Bitcoin meme site with 21-episode fake Satoshi interviews"

andirk — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:43:06 +0000

Bitcoin bro here. Very cool! I'm working on something pushing the bare minimum too. Even minimaler if you could smash all the Javascript into the `onkeydown` and other "content attributes"[0] so there's not even a `