Hacker News: kobieyc

New comment by kobieyc in "Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany"

kobieyc — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 16:54:27 +0000

Yes but this clients, not nodes. So this actor does not control a large share of the network, they just use a large share of the network.

New comment by kobieyc in "The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS"

kobieyc — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:55:14 +0000

Careful, there is someone whose name I shall not mention who is suing people claiming he is Satoshi and has copyright over the Whitepaper. He even got it banned from Bitcoin.org in the UK

New comment by kobieyc in "Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 is not the web"

kobieyc — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 21:54:31 +0000

This gives you a good overview of what web3 is https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

New comment by kobieyc in "Offline map test on Apple Watch Ultra for hiking"

kobieyc — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 02:38:49 +0000

Sounds like you're getting all the benefits of a regular apple watch with cellular, no need for the Ultra

New comment by kobieyc in "Ethereum Proof-of-Stake"

kobieyc — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 15:44:01 +0000

Something that always trips me up about PoS is how a system that determines the transactional chronology (i.e. sequence of valid blocks) that uses, as a weighted input, the current transactional chronology (valid blocks determine your stake) isn't a logically a circular definition.

New comment by kobieyc in "Ethereum Proof-of-Stake"

kobieyc — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 15:21:09 +0000

food waste generates 60x more emissions than Bitcoin, yet nobody is freaking out about that, which makes me think people are just riding the ESG bandwagon

New comment by kobieyc in "Ethereum Proof-of-Stake"

kobieyc — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 15:20:20 +0000

Don't forget about the Lightning Network

New comment by kobieyc in "The firefly population could be declining"

kobieyc — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:54:03 +0000

Where exactly? I want to show my daughter some and there aren't any in my state.

New comment by kobieyc in "The firefly population could be declining"

kobieyc — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:52:43 +0000

I don't understand why light pollution gets so little attention in the US.

New comment by kobieyc in "Proton is trying to become Google without your data"

kobieyc — Thu, 26 May 2022 21:14:22 +0000

Yes, especially since Moxi cashed out and bought a big mansion after they released their spy-coin cryptocurrency.

New comment by kobieyc in "Proton is trying to become Google without your data"

kobieyc — Thu, 26 May 2022 20:58:56 +0000

I think this is a safe assumption.

Guilty until proven innocent, by making your code open source.

New comment by kobieyc in "Proton is trying to become Google without your data"

kobieyc — Thu, 26 May 2022 20:56:36 +0000

Hmmm, that does seem somewhat suspect.

New comment by kobieyc in "The problem with Bitcoin miners"

kobieyc — Mon, 16 May 2022 01:36:56 +0000

That constraint is perfectly reasonable and rational, not a thumbsuck.

New comment by kobieyc in "Finality does not exist in payments"

kobieyc — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:31:26 +0000

Yeah, major wtf by this author. Clearly didn't do their homework.

New comment by kobieyc in "Show HN: No-code alternative to Retool, Appsmith, Internal, etc."

kobieyc — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:36:47 +0000

Yeah, at my company we spent a ton of R&D time adding first class git support in conjunction with drag and drop UI, WITHOUT introducing a DSL. Non-trivial problem but it can be done.

New comment by kobieyc in "Crypto leads to surge in online scams"

kobieyc — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:51:56 +0000

check out helium.com

New comment by kobieyc in "The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto"

kobieyc — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 16:10:50 +0000

Excellent straw-manning 10/10

New comment by kobieyc in "Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community"

kobieyc — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 22:21:26 +0000

We use Discourse's hosted solution and it's effectively zero maintenance

New comment by kobieyc in "Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community"

kobieyc — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 22:20:08 +0000

what you said

slack doesn't have categories and tags and some search terms in slack bring up too many results without context to be useful

New comment by kobieyc in "Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt"

kobieyc — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:53:52 +0000

This is an example of why I moved off Gmail to ProtonMail