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New comment by buildbuildbuild in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

buildbuildbuild — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:31:46 +0000

I realize it's not a pure-Rust UI, but building with Tauri has been a joy. I recently built a GUI for one of my side projects and being able to use standard Typescript client-side development approaches, with a locked-down IPC, was surprisingly smooth. Love the "Wails-style" approach to a smaller release size than Electron as well.

It's nice to be able to use existing design systems and components, and to be able to validate in a web browser in quicker build loops before doing the full Tauri builds. I still manually QA across platforms pretty aggressively but Tauri's "cross-platform from day one" really isn't much of a stretch. The project if curious: https://github.com/zecrocks/zkv

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

buildbuildbuild — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:05:23 +0000

The unannounced web collaboration platform in-progress might be.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Show HN: 30k IKEA items in flat text"

buildbuildbuild — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:32:44 +0000

User friendliness. I’ve seen several less-technical people able to quickly access, create, and understand “llms.txt”.

It’s not ideal but representative of the tension between user experience and technical correctness.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "The Tor Project is switching to Rust"

buildbuildbuild — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:52:55 +0000

This was mostly funded by Zcash Community Grants. Good things can come from crypto R&D.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

buildbuildbuild — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:19:41 +0000

Cable failed at millennial+ user experience.

Many on-demand viewing experiences still play ads through atrocious “cable box apps.”

Entrenched cable bureaucracy disrupted by app culture. For the better.

Netflix also will some day be disrupted, as the wheel turns.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "History and use of the Estes AstroCam 110"

buildbuildbuild — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:40:50 +0000

I loved my AstroCam as a kid. I think dad and I tried six launches. When a photo finally came out it was the best day. Thank you for sharing, a great reminder of how far we’ve come. Also of how short attention span has eroded patience during many of today’s prescribed “STEM” activities.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Google Cloud suspended customer's account 3 times, for 3 different reasons"

buildbuildbuild — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:34:53 +0000

This happened to me in college. They never refunded my $7k balance. It was devastating to me at the time. The experience has played no small role in me becoming a cryptocurrency believer and advocate for the unbanked.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Wireguard FPGA"

buildbuildbuild — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:34:45 +0000

See also Obscura's approach of QUIC bridges to Mullvad as a privacy layer: https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

buildbuildbuild — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 01:08:37 +0000

Easier: I can earn or spend real money 24/7 without anyone’s permission, at any age, in any location.

Faster: Payments settle lightning fast compared to ACH/Wires, permanently and internationally.

Better: I don’t need anyone’s approval to be “banked” and I don’t have to operate in fear of clawbacks. Programs are the ultimate unbanked, and that’s the “agentic economy” that is emerging.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo"

buildbuildbuild — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:25:17 +0000

At minimum all of these rules should be inflation-adjusted.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Ask HN: Has anyone tried alternative company models (like a co-op) for SaaS?"

buildbuildbuild — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:22:52 +0000

I’ve been curious to try starting an Aftok: https://aftok.com/

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app"

buildbuildbuild — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:15:58 +0000

Perhaps the author would consider open sourcing if they received financial compensation for their work to date? Crowdfunding or retroactive grants can liberate code.

Context: a big chunk of my 2024 income was from grant money to build open source software that I may have tried to monetize otherwise. It’s possible.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table"

buildbuildbuild — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:46:07 +0000

Sometimes you have applications that should not be able to access an entire database. There are other various scaling reasons, and PG extensions that can be helpful. But I agree that for small to medium sized projects, SQLite is highly underrated.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Grab built its own map in Southeast Asia, and is now going after Google"

buildbuildbuild — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:44:38 +0000

Yes. And they accept cryptocurrency natively (without using gift cards), extremely practical for believers in the space.

Uber also owns a significant share of Grab.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends"

buildbuildbuild — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:10:51 +0000

The “someone hates Tor relays” theory doesn’t sound worth the effort. This could be an entity running malicious relays, while also trying to unethically take down legitimate relays to increase the percentage of the network that they control.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

buildbuildbuild — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:46:20 +0000

Imitating science fiction is great marketing for a space company.

Brand association with familiar depictions of “the future” is the goal, not realism.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?"

buildbuildbuild — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:35:47 +0000

Beware the edge case: I responded STOP to a message years ago, then was unable to receive SMS from a popular money transmission app during the signup flow to claim funds that a friend sent me.

After over a month of troubleshooting, it turns out that I had sent "STOP" to that number years ago on a different device (no longer visible in chat history) and now had to send "UNSTOP" in order to receive the phone verification SMS required to sign up for the service. It was a shared number between multiple apps.

New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn"

buildbuildbuild — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 23:46:44 +0000

Context: these users were not paying, were using stolen credit card numbers.

He Was an Online Drug Lord, Now He's a Crypto Entrepreneur

buildbuildbuild — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:08:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/business/blake-benthall-silk-road-crypto.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41068858

Points: 14

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New comment by buildbuildbuild in "Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)"

buildbuildbuild — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 19:23:28 +0000

Will you ever have regrets about your words and activities?

Will your logged activities of today be acceptable to every regime in your nation’s future?