Hacker News: auston

New comment by auston in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

auston — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:10:16 +0000

New comment by auston in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

auston — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:32:36 +0000

https://www.accessgrid.com/ - The best way to issue and manage secure NFC credentials for Apple and Google Wallet via API.

No app required!

We took all of the complexity of issuing MIFARE DESFire enabled NFC credentials and made it extremely developer friendly. SDKs in most major languages (python, ruby, csharp, js, etc), developer console with request logs, and more.

New comment by auston in "Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today"

auston — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:40:02 +0000

Lets gooooooo!! Congrats man!

New comment by auston in "Bench to be acquired after abruptly shutting down"

auston — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:11:27 +0000

Your free BOI filing (even if you don't want to use Pilot) is why I use Pilot.

New comment by auston in "Coercing a Magic MIFARE credential into being an iPhone-compatible NFC tag"

auston — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 02:40:01 +0000

Here you go: https://github.com/kormax/apple-vas

If you can send/receive APDUs you're good to go.

New comment by auston in "Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location"

auston — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 18:08:18 +0000

I'd say that crypto is not exactly gray area. But I am biased.

Ethereum’s energy use expected to reduce by more than 99 percent after “merge”

auston — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:19:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/technology/crypto-ethereum-the-merge.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637276

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by auston in "QuickNode (YC W21) Acquires NFT Analytics Platform Icy Tools"

auston — Thu, 12 May 2022 22:21:17 +0000

Co-founder of QuickNode here. Happy to answer any questions!

New comment by auston in "My First Impressions of Web3"

auston — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 03:58:35 +0000

I think he makes legit points:

1. NFT spec is flimsy at best

2. We trust output from ETH nodes inherently

3. Most of the user facing clients for Web3 are decentralized

4. Power is easily rolled up into convenience providers like QuickNode

but I think something that is (perhaps conveniently missed) is that there is A LOT of power in having decentralized / censorship-resistant state - this is the thing that makes DeFi a real threat to orgs like exchanges and banks. They can't force people to have a certain amount of capital to trade derivatives or have a certain credit profile to borrow, the system is permissionless and the API is open 24/7.

That's pretty remarkable IMO and I think that sort of permissionless is likely to be used for very compelling things in the future, NFTs aside.

Also one thing that he notes but doesn't quite provide a solution for but I'm betting will exist in the near future is a markup language to map UI components to smart contract functions/views.

New comment by auston in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)"

auston — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 05:30:07 +0000

QuickNode | Full Stack (1) or Go (3) Engineers | Full-time | US Remote or Miami, FL

Our mission is to help blockchain ecosystems scale, by providing accessible core infrastructure.

We make it simple to power your blockchain applications and scale up as you grow. From elastic APIs & dedicated nodes, to powerful tools & analytics, all at your command through a simple control panel.

We're hiring software engineers to work on our core network platform and web interface. In the network platform, we're largely Go. On the web interface side, you'd be working in Rails with some of the best tooling (Sorbet, StimulusReflex, etc). We've got decent tooling in place to make our code approachable - but we need more.

See open positions and specific descriptions here: https://hire.clarify.so/company/quiknode-inc

New comment by auston in "Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees"

auston — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 02:48:23 +0000

To be fair, I'm a 35 year Florida resident and this summer has been exceptionally nice. It is usually crazy hot and humid by this time.

New comment by auston in "Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees"

auston — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 02:42:13 +0000

Hey! Are you in Miami by chance!?

New comment by auston in "The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes"

auston — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 01:14:14 +0000

> The issue is that deferred prosecutions shouldn't be offered to anyone, instead of as yourself and parent imply, being offered to this guy. In this case the system worked, in the others, it needs to be adjusted.

If it is offered to others, it should be offered here. Let's keep people out of cages.

New comment by auston in "The rocket is on the launchpad: 2021 will be MiamiTech’s breakout year"

auston — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 04:25:47 +0000

Wrote this - happy to answer any Q’s. Thanks @Jorslu for submitting.

New comment by auston in "Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy"

auston — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 21:45:55 +0000

Feel like this article is thin on people moving to Miami, so here's a short thread of people ID'd as moving to Miami in just the last seven days: https://twitter.com/bunsen/status/1335735136277688329

New comment by auston in "Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy"

auston — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 21:41:56 +0000

I believe they will, given the current Keith Rabois as a mentor.

New comment by auston in "Is the US Banning Crypto Wallets?"

auston — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 03:02:27 +0000

I disagree, if this is passed, everybody break it and call your congress person / senators and complain that it was passed.

disclaimer: also not a lawyer.

New comment by auston in "Ethereum 2.0 launches"

auston — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 21:21:00 +0000

also: https://bcoin.io/

Show HN: I built an Ethereum Node debugging tool

auston — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 22:41:22 +0000

Article URL: https://etherflow.quiknode.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25088427

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by auston in "Banks, QE, and Money-Printing"

auston — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 07:40:31 +0000

I understood that part, what I'm saying is that why can't market forces correct that?