Hacker News: freerk

New comment by freerk in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

freerk — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:28:11 +0000

No, that doesn't work with Bitcoin, it only works with a fork of Bitcoin that has less than 0.5% of the value of Bitcoin.

New comment by freerk in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

freerk — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:24:09 +0000

But not on mobile. First iPhone with USB-C was iPhone 15 released late 2023. The Google Nexus 6P phone had USB-C in 2015, 8 years earlier.

New comment by freerk in "Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?"

freerk — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:58:24 +0000

I just got a R36s retro handheld console for 31€ (US$35) including a 64GB microSD and shipping from Aliexpress. Apparently sometimes you can get it for as low as $25. It has a IPS instead of a eINK screen, but the CPU, RAM, Storage, battery etc. are as good or better as any ereader, so it is possible to get a tech device for way less than $80-100. But I guess it won't count as mainstream and nobody should expect support. It relies on open-source software (ArkOS) and ships pirated roms of abandoned game consoles, so there is no option for the manufacturer (unknown) to earn more after the sale.

New comment by freerk in "EmailBTC – A new way to send and receive Bitcoin using only email addresses"

freerk — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:22:09 +0000

You claim "open-source simplicity", so where is the code? I can't find a Github/Gitlab link or something like that anywhere on the page.

Bitcoin's Protection Under the First Amendment

freerk — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:49:54 +0000

Article URL: https://nydig.com/research/bitcoins-protection-under-the-first-amendment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41649974

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by freerk in "Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU"

freerk — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:43:50 +0000

Interesting, might be useful as a backup connection.

Currently I am using https://silent.link since several years and I am very happy with that. For 5$ you get a eSim without any time limit and roaming in almost all networks in almost all countries. You just pay for ever MB of data a reasonable amount (not as cheap as local options, but not bad either). This is perfect as a backup eSim for traveling, even just in my own country because I can roam in all three available networks. You can only pay with Bitcoin/Lightning but it works great since 3 years or so. This is just so much better than all those travel sims which only work for 30 days in only one country...

New comment by freerk in "Absence of orgasm-induced prolactin secretion in a healthy multi-orgasmic male"

freerk — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:08:15 +0000

AFAIK this has been known already? See the Off-label section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabergoline

New comment by freerk in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is locking out Linux users"

freerk — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 15:55:56 +0000

The captcha on https://app.ahrefs.com/user/forgot-password from your video works fine for me with both Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu. Do you use any fancy JavaScript blocking plugins?

Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet

freerk — Mon, 15 May 2023 21:01:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/fake-trezor-hardware-crypto-wallet/48155/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35954422

Points: 206

# Comments: 156

New comment by freerk in "The floppy disk just won’t die"

freerk — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:32:17 +0000

yep, sounds like getting something for 21$ on Aliexpress (https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832100710868.html) and selling it for >13x more.

New comment by freerk in "Boosting upload speed and improving Windows' TCP stack"

freerk — Tue, 18 May 2021 19:16:14 +0000

How come Linux doesn't have this issue? Why did Microsoft had to fix TCP with the RACK-TLP RFC when both Linux and MacOS implementations did fine already?

New comment by freerk in "Ask HN: What are some hobbies for a 72-year-old retiree? Maybe OSS?"

freerk — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:49:01 +0000

Besides of open source software development I'd propose envolvment in Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. Both are kind of welcoming communities where you can easily spent a full time equivalent of work in. In most bigger cities in the world there are (used to be before Covid) regular meetups in real live and it really feels as a useful service to the world or local community. Or maybe local wireless communication networks are a thing in your area (like Freifunk)?

Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? By Alex Gladstein

freerk — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:22:07 +0000

Article URL: https://quillette.com/2021/02/21/can-governments-stop-bitcoin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26223246

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Square’s federal comment letter regarding FinCEN’s proposed rulemaking

freerk — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 20:52:32 +0000

Article URL: https://squareup.com/us/en/press/fincen-letter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25637771

Points: 76

# Comments: 14

New comment by freerk in "Ask HN: Do you have a spare domain that I could use?"

freerk — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 09:39:26 +0000

Just register a free .tk/.ml/.ga/.cf or .gq domain on freenom.com

New comment by freerk in "Show HN: Fast and simple way to get EV SSL certificates"

freerk — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:16:53 +0000

gogetssl.com sells Comodo EV certs for 126$/1y or 221$/2y. certsimple costs more than twice as much. And I am not sure if there is actually such a big difference between the verification process since both are just resellers of another CA...

New comment by freerk in "WoSign: Free two-year multi-domain SSL certificate"

freerk — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:03:53 +0000

update: WoSign now has a new page https://buy.wosign.com/free/ which is in English, works without creating a account first and wraps up all the steps in one simple page. The issue with "Submit request contains invalid data" some people ran into was fixed as well :)

New comment by freerk in "WoSign: Free two-year multi-domain SSL certificate"

freerk — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:52:40 +0000

Yep, I have full permission do use the instructions :)

New comment by freerk in "WoSign: Free two-year multi-domain SSL certificate"

freerk — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 08:11:56 +0000

...because in China pre-SP3 Windows XP is still alive and doesn't work with SHA2

WoSign: Free two-year multi-domain SSL certificate

freerk — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 22:51:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ohling.org/blog/2015/02/wosign-free-2y-ssl-certificate.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982013

Points: 104

# Comments: 60