Hacker News: dylkil

New comment by dylkil in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

dylkil — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:43:40 +0000

ZK proofs are the solution to this problem. Its a pity this tech is not taken more seriously. I recently used a product that required proof of country (or rather proof of not from certain countries). It was a very painless experience with https://zkpassport.id/

New comment by dylkil in "Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?"

dylkil — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:29:43 +0000

> which adds a great deal of UX complexity to the end user

Not exactly, L2s are being abstracted away, end users eventually wont even be aware what chain they are interacting with without tracing the tx

New comment by dylkil in "The pro-Israel information war"

dylkil — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:52:14 +0000

they let it happen

New comment by dylkil in "Rattled U.S. government fears wars could spread"

dylkil — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:29:57 +0000

Why vote down the cease-fire then in the UN?

Boltzmann Brain

dylkil — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:04:02 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37490402

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dylkil in "Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services"

dylkil — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:33:00 +0000

It limits denial of services attacks on onion services

New comment by dylkil in "Tornado Cash devs charged with laundering more than $1B"

dylkil — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 22:32:01 +0000

There was evidence that north korea specifically used tornado cash to hide stolen crypto, which is where this has all stemmed from

New comment by dylkil in "Psychedelic scientist sends brains back to childhood"

dylkil — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 22:23:34 +0000

Using your phone feels strange too

New comment by dylkil in "Germany wants to legalize quality control of illegal drugs"

dylkil — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:12:24 +0000

Every study under the sun shows drug criminalization causes more public health issues than it solves. It should be treated as a public health issue rather than a criminal issue. Portugal is a fantastic case study of how this succeeded.

New comment by dylkil in "Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments"

dylkil — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:09:32 +0000

thats a bit of a stretch

New comment by dylkil in "Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments"

dylkil — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:20:49 +0000

You can offer censorship to users who want it, everything stays up but some people dont see it

New comment by dylkil in "In praise of blowing up your life"

dylkil — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:10:46 +0000

momentum going down is usually what makes people unhappy, blowing up your life up kicks momentum in a new direction

New comment by dylkil in "Ted Kaczynski has died"

dylkil — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:42:15 +0000

>collapse of civil and political life

civil and political life is terrible and still better than it has ever been

New comment by dylkil in "Binance commingled customer funds and company revenue, former insiders say"

dylkil — Tue, 23 May 2023 16:24:24 +0000

What i find especially intriguing is the certainty some people on this forum have of crypto going to zero. The same certainty they had 2, 5 and 10 years ago. Yet here we are. At what stage do they start questioning the strength of their certainty.

New comment by dylkil in "Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption"

dylkil — Mon, 22 May 2023 20:28:38 +0000

In the uk politicians were allowed to opt out

https://www.digit.fyi/data-protection-political-parties/

New comment by dylkil in "Binance sees $2B in outflows as troubles compound"

dylkil — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:46:08 +0000

"for allegedly listing unregistered securities"

Hasn't coinbase repeatedly asked the SEC which tokens were securities and have yet to get answer... I don't think SEC strong arming is any indication of shadiness.

U.S. Regulators Are Choking Crypto

dylkil — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:13:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-regulators-choke-point-for-crypto-blockchain-occ-framework-backdoor-fdic-banks-warning-8b426152

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35347948

Points: 2

# Comments: 6

Bitwarden Iframe Vulnerability

dylkil — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:25:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techradar.com/news/hackers-might-be-able-to-crack-this-top-password-manager-and-steal-your-logins

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35137957

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dylkil in "$3.3B of the ~$40 billion of USDC reserves remain at SVB"

dylkil — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:31:13 +0000

LUSD and RAI are fully decentralised (no centralised backing), though they are not quite as stable are their centralised counterparts (yet)

New comment by dylkil in "SEC Says Crypto Fugitive Do Kwon Tapped Hoard of 10k Bitcoin via Swiss Bank"

dylkil — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 13:37:56 +0000

Modifying "fugitive" with the context of said fugitive doesn't really exemplify the commonness of those type of fugitive.