Hacker News: andirk

New comment by andirk in "Don't Be Fooled by this Summer of AI Hype"

andirk — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:53:59 +0000

The ethical angles of AI are debatable, but how a company frames their own product as so superior that it went rogue and successfully attacked all the things should be critiqued and not believed until otherwise proven.

It's a race, and a speculative one, so flexing _constantly_ to stay seemingly ahead is expected.

New comment by andirk in "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock"

andirk — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:47:37 +0000

You are correct about the negative aspect of deflationary, but if you believed in your view, then why did you not grab a bag?

New comment by andirk in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

andirk — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:10:07 +0000

Very cool! Need the Android app. Do you need any help building/porting it? React Native?

As others have mentioned, it reminds me of Foursquare of years ago that a lot of us miss.

New comment by andirk in "Infillion acquires location data company Foursquare"

andirk — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:01:24 +0000

It's opt-in. Big difference between opt-in and a surveillance state that does whatever it wants carte blanche. The latter will still, of course, use and abuse the former. All my check-ins are belong to "Illifion"! Or wtf named ad company.

New comment by andirk in "Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023"

andirk — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:20:37 +0000

Compare to stonks or precious metals and it's a similar, mostly unknowing situation.

New comment by andirk in "Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023"

andirk — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:19:18 +0000

I moved some BTC from Coinbase today, which is a pricier option, and they took a house rake of 1.8%. Other moves cost way way less, especially if not in a hurry and the network isn't busy.

My situation compares to a remittances transfer like Western Union https://www.westernunion.com/content/dam/wu/EU/EN/210439812_... which charge about 4%+.

Cash-to-cash is free, but it loses value while it sits under your mattress.

New comment by andirk in "Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023"

andirk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:31:35 +0000

> but ran companies that were just casinos and actually could have simpler operations without the crypto parts

Creating a product for the sake of using a technology is a flawed order of operations. However, the glitz and glamour of a new money for a new internet is enticing with a lot of promise. I'm a crypto bro, but my crypto confidence has waned recently. My confidence in the USD has also waned.

New comment by andirk in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

andirk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:08:12 +0000

What is a proprietary crop?

New comment by andirk in "Ireland Moves $38M in Bitcoin Tied to Drug Dealer's Lost Fishing Rod"

andirk — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:04:42 +0000

TLDR it wasn't tied to the fishing rod like a lure. That's what I was hoping.

New comment by andirk in "Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency"

andirk — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:03:42 +0000

Or that people commonly make their purchases via corporations. "Issued" can mean a lot of things.

New comment by andirk in "Bitcoin: I'm retarded. ASM client/server project in the works"

andirk — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:28:42 +0000

You already stated what is wrong with you. Should be interesting to see the final mastication.

New comment by andirk in "U.S. sanctions Iranian firms for Bitcoin maritime insurance operation in Hormuz"

andirk — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:57:47 +0000

"Developed by Iran’s Ministry of Economy, it accepts payment in Bitcoin and other digital assets as part of the regime’s attempts to bypass Western sanctions."

The one mention of bitcoin.

New comment by andirk in "Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week"

andirk — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:35:01 +0000

HN is very, very bitter about being there at the beginning of an interesting, fun, and promising technology that could have easily enriched them. Bitcoin and crypto is very on topic, but pricing not so much.

New comment by andirk in "We Uncovered a Hidden Wealth Transfer in the SpaceX IPO. You're Holding the Bag [video]"

andirk — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:31:30 +0000

My understanding: As rstuart4133 mentioned, the rules were changed to 1) allow a partial IPO, 2) forego proving several positive quarters beforehand, 3) allow weird as hell lockout rules such as pre-IPOers to exit after 1 day.

Maybe it's all innocent, or it's an intentional transfer of wealth.

New comment by andirk in "MSTR sells Bitcoin for 1st time since 2022 as quantum risks emerge"

andirk — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:59:16 +0000

I think they're selling because they're raising money for dividends and such. The word "quantum" isn't even mentioned in the article, nor has anything to do with MSTR selling btc.

New comment by andirk in "Billionaire Mark Cuban says bye-bye Bitcoin: Why he is 'disappointed' by crypto"

andirk — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:45:23 +0000

There is no singular mind to bitcoin. Watch CNBC for 1 week and you will see stonks trade a 40x their worth and rise and fall for no reason anyone knows. It's not that much different than assets that are traded on speculation far more than any factual tangible worth.

New comment by andirk in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

andirk — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:35:17 +0000

Being "a" player in a multi-billion $ industry is also pretty good. For example, Bing gets some small % of the search engine market, but that's still a ton of market and $. And Foursquare/Swarm is used by like 0.01% of the population, but they can still map the exact floor plan of Macy's and that Chipotle will lose 30% of their share value from people shiitting blood (both were extremely accurate).

And then Bing gets a pretty big upgrade: ChatGPT. And here we are.

New comment by andirk in "AI helps man recover $400k in Bitcoin 11 years after"

andirk — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:46:19 +0000

The BTC was worth some 500 large quid when it got tossed. Claude will tell him to be more careful of all of his belongings. I personally have every hard drive I've ever owned, but this guy insisted on throwing that one in the "tip".

New comment by andirk in "A 3D explorer of the Bitcoin blockchain"

andirk — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:24:37 +0000

Ver cool! Except FYI that it started crashing my browser before I had to run away.

My specs:

- Brave browser

- Tons of tabs open

- Macbook Pro Intel chip

New comment by andirk in "Two Paradoxes Blocking Bitcoin"

andirk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:00:50 +0000

Currency is the most useful when it changes hands constantly. I have mattresses. You have cookies. He has milk. I buy cookies and milk. You buy milk and mattresses. He buys mattresses and cookies. That's better than all of us in a standoff because we don't want to use our currency. Horrible analogy.