Hacker News: jasonlingx

New comment by jasonlingx in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

jasonlingx — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:13:47 +0000

An alternative is using an eSIM with an “internet breakout” via another country.

Esimdb is a good place to start.

New comment by jasonlingx in "A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers"

jasonlingx — Thu, 01 May 2025 23:08:13 +0000

He could’ve skipped the intermediate steps and made it a one-liner by piping the sql dump over ssh right into the sqlite3 reconstruction command.

New comment by jasonlingx in "Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator"

jasonlingx — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 02:18:11 +0000

Depends what you mean by “holding” USD. Is it under your mattress? Or in a bank? Is it a bank in Venezuela or Lebanon?

Holding USDT is kind of holding USD. You just have Tether in the middle.

Main utility (value?) of stablecoins is to “bridge” USD fiat into crypto though.

Interestingly, crypto.com (exchange) keeps a “USD” balance for its customers, which is separate from its USDT balance. You can deposit/withdraw to/from your “USD” balance via fiat (bank transfer) or a basket of stablecoins like USDC, BUSD etc. Binance does this as well, and FTX before. They all kept USDT separate though. Worth considering why this is the case.

New comment by jasonlingx in "Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator"

jasonlingx — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 01:52:41 +0000

If Tether is insolvent then better to ban it earlier than later, before it becomes even “too bigger” to fail.

New comment by jasonlingx in "Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator"

jasonlingx — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 01:45:46 +0000

The other stablecoins are unaffected though…

New comment by jasonlingx in "Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B"

jasonlingx — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:40:43 +0000

So here’s where there might be some confusion, Binance consolidates a pool of different stable coins into 1 “BUSD” balance for its users[0]. Depositing any of these stablecoins into Binance will add to your BUSD balance, and you can withdraw from it as any stablecoin of your choice. What CZ is saying is that they ran out of USDC but have plenty of the other stablecoins instead. It sounds like they need to redeem the other stablecoins to fiat USD and send it to Circle to mint USDC with it, hence the talk about the bank.

[0]https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-to-a...

New comment by jasonlingx in "Show HN: Rmt an alternative to rm with trash written in Rust"

jasonlingx — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 01:03:23 +0000

Why not just use or alias ‘mv’ to trash?

New comment by jasonlingx in "Wizz Air now charging some travellers a strange extra fee (2020)"

jasonlingx — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:57:01 +0000

In the article, a Wizz Air rep explained it’s meant to charge bots and other automations for booking, but is catching users who use ad blockers as a false positive.

New comment by jasonlingx in "Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipient in crypto transfers"

jasonlingx — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 09:50:04 +0000

Just send it to yourself first?

New comment by jasonlingx in "Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C: study from 2018"

jasonlingx — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 22:53:59 +0000

This is it. Amount of energy spent = profits from mining / cost of energy.

While price is the main factor affecting profits, fees/volume and the constantly decreasing block reward also play a part.

New comment by jasonlingx in "Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band?"

jasonlingx — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:02:19 +0000

> Maybe HFT is intellectually more interesting than day-trading but I don't believe it to be very gratifying at deeper level.

HFT is automated day-trading in a way, so 1 meta level more intellectually interesting I suppose.

TikTok: Trump signs order to address 'threat' of Chinese app

jasonlingx — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 02:04:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53660860

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24077306

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jasonlingx in "Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters"

jasonlingx — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 04:42:05 +0000

> The Supreme Court asked them to block the delivery of content inside of Brazil, for brazilians in Brazil's territory.

If you read the article it’s saying the court is asking Facebook to block delivery of certain content globally, not only within Brazil. And they are threatening a local Facebook employee with criminal liability, which is the reason Facebook says it has complied with the order while appealing it.

New comment by jasonlingx in "Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters"

jasonlingx — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 02:51:49 +0000

The Brazilian Supreme Court is asking Facebook to block accounts globally, not only in Brazil.

New comment by jasonlingx in "When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]"

jasonlingx — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:26:50 +0000

He’s probably saying these are free apps which Apple doesn’t take any money for, and the money the developers keep are from ads or fees from clients and so on.

New comment by jasonlingx in "I made a simple geolocation service"

jasonlingx — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 08:30:47 +0000

This one I made couple years ago (and haven’t checked in years) is still running for free thanks to Heroku and Cloudflare: https://github.com/jlxw/geoip

Show HN: Static-JSON-db, a database that can be deployed as a static website

jasonlingx — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:27:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jlxw/static-json-db

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23916713

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jasonlingx in "Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?"

jasonlingx — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 14:31:28 +0000

Facebook had a free simple login service, over email and SMS as well. Until they shut it down.

New comment by jasonlingx in "Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel"

jasonlingx — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 09:34:00 +0000

Of course, but that was my (and presumed common) use case for discrete graphics.

New comment by jasonlingx in "13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics"

jasonlingx — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 09:29:44 +0000

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that iOS has “content blockers” built in. If you google “iOS ad blocker”, AdGuard should be the first result, just install the app and flip a few switches in settings to enable it. I still haven’t actually used ad blockers yet on my other browsers, only iOS Safari.