Hacker News: asymptotically3

New comment by asymptotically3 in "Preventing Crypto Mining Abuse on Gitlab.com SaaS"

asymptotically3 — Tue, 18 May 2021 09:30:55 +0000

https://github.com/tevador/randomx-sniffer

New comment by asymptotically3 in "SUBLEQ and DawnOS (2017)"

asymptotically3 — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 06:16:38 +0000

For what it's worth, the author got banned from the OSDev forums in record time.

New comment by asymptotically3 in "Hedy – A Gradual Programming Language"

asymptotically3 — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 06:23:17 +0000

Congratulations on the release!

It would nice to be able to see some examples on the homepage.

New comment by asymptotically3 in "What is an NFT from an artist’s perspective?"

asymptotically3 — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 20:17:53 +0000

Bitcoin is my favourite non-fungible token.

New comment by asymptotically3 in "Implementing the Elo Rating System (2020)"

asymptotically3 — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:28:13 +0000

If it's BSD licensed, how do they limit it to non-commercial use?

New comment by asymptotically3 in "Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review"

asymptotically3 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:39:33 +0000

Just reported them via ico.org.uk - probably best not to flood them with complaints though, I'm sure they have enough to deal with already.

New comment by asymptotically3 in "Jetbrains reply to the story from The New York Times regarding Solarwinds breach"

asymptotically3 — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:05:19 +0000

The NYT article reminds me of that terrible Bloomberg article on Supermicro hardware being backdoored. Nice to see that Jetbrains have a response out quickly :)

New comment by asymptotically3 in "Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices"

asymptotically3 — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 20:08:36 +0000

> I've read about random number algorithms that mix the results of many randomness sources so that one compromised source cannot compromise the result.

You might like djb's article "Entropy Attacks!": https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html

New comment by asymptotically3 in "Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached"

asymptotically3 — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:32:22 +0000

You could have 99% of the Bitcoin hashrate and start mining blocks that give you double the reward, but every other miner and node on the network would just ignore you because you aren't following the rules.

New comment by asymptotically3 in "Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?"

asymptotically3 — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:51:02 +0000

An alt-right cesspit filled with ads, spam, and scams.

New comment by asymptotically3 in "Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?"

asymptotically3 — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:40:22 +0000

>I can do that a little bit with DO. What are my options with OVH?

OVH have datacentres in multiple countries just like DO.

New comment by asymptotically3 in "Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in co-op with the NSA"

asymptotically3 — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:27:43 +0000

ZCash is barely used, the shielded transactions even less so. Monero is the way forward.

New comment by asymptotically3 in "Ask HN: What are real-life useful use-cases for blockchain (not currencies)?"

asymptotically3 — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 23:32:28 +0000

Blockchains are totally useless without a token as an incentive to mint new blocks.

New comment by asymptotically3 in "How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer"

asymptotically3 — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 13:08:39 +0000

You can just clear your cookies for Medium (or just always block them).

New comment by asymptotically3 in "Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account"

asymptotically3 — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:40:49 +0000

If you get banned from the Steam community for spamming/harassing/being awful your game library is still there. Even if you get banned for cheating in a game, you only lose access to that game and not the rest of your library.

New comment by asymptotically3 in "We scaled Nginx and saved the world 54 years every day"

asymptotically3 — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:57:39 +0000

Alternate title: We scaled Nginx and saved the world by MitMing a bunch of websites with the world's biggest honeypot.