<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gibybo</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gibybo</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:57:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gibybo" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gibybo in "Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>it would be trivial to add a service that would sign challenges to prove so<p>If the author was being dishonest about the key, they could just keep the key on another secure server and have the vulnerable one forward the challenge requests to it.</p>
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<p>Send a lot of them and have them act as relays</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:26:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948546</link><dc:creator>gibybo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gibybo in "Show HN: I'm building an AI-proof writing tool. How would you defeat it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I clicked begin and immediately alt tabbed to ChatGPT. I took a screenshot of the prompt and pasted to ChatGPT, with the instruction "Write a 1 paragraph response as if you were a human". I alt tabbed back to the writing website and started typing ChatGPTs response. I intentionally added a few pauses in places where I thought I might pause, and deleted words a couple times. I also slightly changed the last sentence from "down, plus the assumption that..." to "down. And.." to give it the human touch of poor grammar, although I'm not sure if that mattered.<p>I scored 100 "Highly Authentic"<p>Instructions to ChatGPT:<p>[What's something you pretend to understand but actually don't? Why do you fake it?] Write a 1 paragraph response as if you were a human.<p>Response:<p>Honestly, I probably nod along to conversations about highly technical stuff like advanced financial instruments or super niche software internals when I only grasp the surface, because stopping to ask for a full breakdown can derail the moment or make me look out of my depth. It's not about trying to deceive anyone, it's more about social momentum and not wanting to slow things down. And I can fill in the gaps later if I need to.</p>
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<p>Yes, and you would almost certainly want to automate it with a filter wheel that changes the filters for you on a schedule. However, a key advantage of a mono camera is that you don't have to limit yourself to RGB filters. You can use some other set of filters better suited for the object you are capturing and map them back to RGB in software. This is most commonly done with narrowband filters for Hydrogen, Sulfur and Oxygen which allow you to see more detail in many deep space objects and cut out most of the light pollution that would otherwise get in your way.</p>
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<p>They look like they could be lines of code to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 09:16:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40896251</link><dc:creator>gibybo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40896251</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40896251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gibybo in "Ask HN: Alternative to Mint.com?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I responded to one of their sales emails saying that I liked their service because it was free, and I wasn't interested in paying for their advice. Haven't heard from them since, but have been using the free service for years.</p>
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<p>>If you mark to market the bonds these banks are carrying you can see they are insolvent.<p>Do you have any sources/data for this? I saw something for BofA that indicated a $110b mark to market unrealized loss, but they have roughly $200b in equity so that wouldn't make them insolvent. I don't know if that $110b included everything or just a subset of their hold-to-maturity assets and would love to see more complete data for all big the banks if you have a nicely consolidated source for it?</p>
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<p>The "Invisible Deck" is a very famous trick. It can be purchased[1] for about $10 and just about anyone can master it in about 10 minutes. With the standard method, you don't need to memorize the deck or flip the card.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.amazon.com/U-S-PLAYING-CARD-COMPANY-SG_B002MI1B38_US/dp/B002MI1B38/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/U-S-PLAYING-CARD-COMPANY-SG_B002MI1B3...</a></p>
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<p>According to the linked post, Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) aka bath salts.</p>
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<p>If you're interested in this concept, you may enjoy the novel "The Unincorporated Man" which is set in a future where everyone (except the protagonist) has personal shares traded on an open market.<p>It's a bit thick on ideological propaganda of the extreme capitalist/libertarian type, but I found the exploration of the concept fascinating enough to get through most of it.</p>
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<p>Can't they reflect that radiation away from other galaxies, or even in to their host star?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 21:39:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756539</link><dc:creator>gibybo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gibybo in "Coinbase Announces Listing Date of Its Stock on the Nasdaq"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the bull case may be more about their future sources of revenue. If crypto succeeds, exchanging it with fiat may end up being only a relatively small amount of the economic activity. Traditional brokers are not likely to be able to compete with Coinbase in those future markets.<p>Of course it's really hard to predict what those future markets might be or how much value Coinbase will be able to extract from them, so I have no idea if $68 billion is a reasonable valuation.</p>
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<p>This sounds like a case of blaming the user for poor UX design. If the users that the system is designed for are constantly making the same "basic mistakes", then the system isn't designed well for them.</p>
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<p>Oh I didn't realize they depended on the device they were running on, that's too bad :(<p>I can reliably beat the 1100 bot and lose to the 1400 bot so they at least seem to be in the ballpark of matching my rating on the site for my hardware though.</p>
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<p>It took me 4 tries to beat it, and I have a rating of 1300 on lichess.org and 1100 on chess.com.<p>In an effort to guestimate its strength a little more accurately, I had it play the first 4 levels of bots on lichess.org. It comfortably beat the level 3 (1400) bot and got crushed by the level 4 (1700) bot. Combined with beating me 3-1, I would estimate its lichess equivalent Elo rating to be somewhere in the 1400-1500 range.</p>
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<p>>We can think about "what" the initial state is ? Is that initial state self contained ? or was it under effect of something else ? Will the computer "generate" the initial state, or the programmer (aka god) has to explicitly hard code it carefully to create an apparent stable universe ?<p>They have infinite computing power, just simulate all possible initial states?</p>
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<p>>25/5Mbps satellite circuit<p>>data cap of 80 / 150 MB<p>So if you had the full 25 mbps available, you would hit your peak cap in 26 seconds? Do you only use it for email/text based applications?</p>
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<p>>Pharmacy is about 10% of total healthcare costs<p>That's good to know and something I've been curious about. Do you have a source that breaks down the other 90%?</p>
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<p>>Ask your representatives to make stronger labor laws.<p>Lawmakers don't do things when one person asks, they need significant public pressure. Publicly showing displeasure with how a company operates is usually the first step for that.</p>
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<p>I thought electric charge in conductors already moved very close to C? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity</a></p>
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