Hacker News: garydevenay

New comment by garydevenay in "Emporion: A P2P Economy for Agents"

garydevenay — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:16:15 +0000

Hey Hacker News! I'm the developer of Emporion. It's a really new project but I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Emporion: A P2P Economy for Agents

garydevenay — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:45:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/garydevenay/emporion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295937

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by garydevenay in "Show HN: I built a running coach that reacts to your training performance"

garydevenay — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:57:10 +0000

Yes, self made. Based on fairly standard practices. The intensity of the plan workouts are based on how you are performing during the training block and adapt to fit the most “optimal” for you

Show HN: I built a running coach that reacts to your training performance

garydevenay — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:55:26 +0000

Article URL: https://strides.coach

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052352

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by garydevenay in "Ask HN: Promoted, but Career Path Derailed"

garydevenay — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:54:29 +0000

1. Communicate this to your leadership? They can’t read your mind and communication is the only thing that makes an organisation work.

2. You don’t have to join the team and just observer the status quo, especially in an under performing team. I see a Sr Staff Eng as a leadership role- shatter the status quo and reform it to be a high performing team.

Take the bull by the horns.

Edit: This will do more for your career than any team or product you can produce.

New comment by garydevenay in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

garydevenay — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:06:36 +0000

The fact people are using either is mind numbing. Such a waste of life.

New comment by garydevenay in "Freenet: A decentralized alternative to world wide web"

garydevenay — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 19:32:29 +0000

Nostr (https://nostr.com/) is doing reasonably- though I think most apps are still in the social media realm.

New comment by garydevenay in "The importance of local development"

garydevenay — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:13:56 +0000

Not having a local development env is a total productivity burner for me.

New comment by garydevenay in "Bitcoin windfall for Mt. Gox creditors after 10 year wait"

garydevenay — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:25:50 +0000

This is true in crypto, but not true in Bitcoin

New comment by garydevenay in "Bitcoin windfall for Mt. Gox creditors after 10 year wait"

garydevenay — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:24:36 +0000

The supply wouldn’t even be increasable if SHA256 is cracked

New comment by garydevenay in "Bitcoin windfall for Mt. Gox creditors after 10 year wait"

garydevenay — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:22:43 +0000

It’s also not just that! theres no requirement for a business to be involved for it to be an investment (e.g Gov bonds)

New comment by garydevenay in "After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL"

garydevenay — Thu, 30 May 2024 19:27:34 +0000

I admire the 6 year dedication (or architectural investment?). We were both jumping aboard that hype train in 2018, even talked about it in meat-space. I left that project in 2019 and never looked at GraphQL again, so didn’t make it as far you to the technical depths.

Something just never felt right about the client building the queries for me, I guess.

New comment by garydevenay in "Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf]"

garydevenay — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 22:44:34 +0000

Certainly doesn't seem like first principles...

New comment by garydevenay in "Holepunch Unveils P2P Platform "Pear Runtime""

garydevenay — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 13:14:03 +0000

I certainly had no intention of attempting to put words in your mouth, but I believe the words you wrote have the implications that I highlighted.

I disagree that I am being dishonest. I stand by the fact that the money is stolen. Bank rescues are financed through the monetisation of government debt, this causes monetary debasement which directly confiscates purchasing power of those who hold the money, without their permission. This fits the definition of theft.

New comment by garydevenay in "Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC"

garydevenay — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:17:44 +0000

I use Bitcoin almost every day. Using fiat rails is painful.

New comment by garydevenay in "How crypto goes to zero"

garydevenay — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 21:45:38 +0000

Not exactly. Credit creation creates an asset and a liability. The creation of credit facilitates the ability to create liabilities in excess of the underlying asset (e.g fractional reserve banking).

By introducing the ability to transfer a scarce asset globally you resolve the requirement for credit, as no one ever needs to redeem.

Credit is a hack, Bitcoin is the fix.

New comment by garydevenay in "How crypto goes to zero"

garydevenay — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 12:44:06 +0000

I argue that it's the best value exchange that humans have found since turning wood in to fire.

New comment by garydevenay in "How crypto goes to zero"

garydevenay — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 12:42:10 +0000

Western Union doesn't transfer value, it creates and settles credit.

New comment by garydevenay in "Mainnet Merge Announcement"

garydevenay — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:07:13 +0000

Signalling is not consensus I’m afraid…

New comment by garydevenay in "Mainnet Merge Announcement"

garydevenay — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:20:46 +0000

The rules of the Bitcoin network are not validated by miners, they are validated by nodes. The miners have no control over nodes and unless their mining work is accepted by the consensus rules of the nodes they receive no mining reward.