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New comment by l___l in "Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?"

l___l — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:27:44 +0000

Downvoting when someone gives information you didn't have makes them not want to give more information.

A word to the unwise is insufficient. https://www.paulgraham.com/word.html

New comment by l___l in "Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?"

l___l — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:46:20 +0000

What you don't say is what you don't get

New comment by l___l in "Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?"

l___l — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:46:07 +0000

Solved problem. https://x.com/AshtonForbes

New comment by l___l in "Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?"

l___l — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:45:24 +0000

Perpetual-ish motion machines exist if you know where to look.

New comment by l___l in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"

l___l — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:24:58 +0000

> There's zero value in these posts

Source?

You might be surprised by the tremendous amount of value in AI posts. AI considers context NI doesn't.

New comment by l___l in "Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?"

l___l — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:21:44 +0000

The problem with ambiguous boundaries, messy constraints and the perception that there is no linear path to transferring meaning in language.

New comment by l___l in "Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?"

l___l — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:16:48 +0000

That you know of.

New comment by l___l in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

l___l — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:46:50 +0000

If it was only a minor incremental innovation, in this specific form, wouldn't it have appeared years earlier?

> haven't seen a use case but crypto yet.

BTC is up 500%+ since 2 years ago. This looks like a use case to me. It maintained purchasing power better than stocks and bonds.

This comment read to me like AI slop.

New comment by l___l in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

l___l — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:43:20 +0000

> there's no way Bitcoin is more efficient

No way? You studied this personally and can prove it?

Transaction Fees On Bitcoin Lightning Network Are 1,000 Times Cheaper Than Visa And MasterCard

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/447705

New comment by l___l in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

l___l — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:36:44 +0000

> its nothing more than a high risk stock

Nothing more? Proof-Of-Work wasn't innovative?

With fiat you have high risk of losing 50% of USD's purchasing value within 2 years, which already happened, and which is not far from being robbed, as have happened to millions of people too.

New comment by l___l in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

l___l — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:34:20 +0000

One interpretation of this comment, if viewed from an adversarial angle, is that comments like this, although perhaps not this comment specifically, are designed to dissuade people from buying crypto days before a bull-run starts.

Accurate data illuminate a lot of things.

New comment by l___l in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

l___l — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:31:25 +0000

A different metric of comparison isn't Bitcoin's energy consumption compared to other countries but compared to the existing banking system it's trying to replace, which burns more energy than Bitcoin and allegedly burns more energy funding wars with fiat. Mining gold instead of Bitcoin burns more energy than Bitcoin too.

Compared to that for energy consumption, Bitcoin is superior really.

New comment by l___l in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

l___l — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:27:50 +0000

One theory backed with proprietary data is that it's because bitcoin was created by the US government and money printed by the Fed goes in bitcoin so the government will one day pay its projected $113T of debt by dumping on everyone.

New comment by l___l in "Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app"

l___l — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:36:36 +0000

I want a simple CRUD mobile app that talks to a website. Like a website where you GET and POST to read and write data. Something that copies the submission forms of a website and gives me the website as a mobile app. Something that identifies all endpoints in a website and gives me access to these endpoints as a mobile app.

New comment by l___l in "Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app"

l___l — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:30:52 +0000

Without looking further into hallway, I'm inclined to say no because it doesn't instantly prompt me to describe the app I want to build.

I want to build an app. Not to enter an email in a textbox.

The Age of Disclosure

l___l — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:24:10 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Disclosure

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162491

Points: 2

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New comment by l___l in "Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app"

l___l — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:58:50 +0000

This might be super-obvious or it might already exist but can you make Phind create mobile apps? I don't know of any site that builds a mobile app and actually gives you the app instead of give you half the app or ask to pay for credits and so on and never showing you the full real app that you can install on your phone and actually use.

Phind user for ~2 years.

New comment by l___l in "Ask HN: Would you use a fast/cheap "prior art" service instead of a patent?"

l___l — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:06:56 +0000

How does disclosing an invention protect it? Protect it from what and for how long? If a patent isn't filed eventually then competitors can file.

Why not publish the invention on a blog?

Why not keep the invention a secret?

New comment by l___l in "Don't obsess with security and privacy unless they are your core business"

l___l — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:19:04 +0000

I want privacy and security over everything else. This disproved your point.

New comment by l___l in "Ask HN: Vitalik says that QC might break ECC before 2028. This is crazy, right?"

l___l — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:36:09 +0000

> Quantum computers haven't even factored a three-digit number yet, right?

Since there isn't proof that such computers don't exist, the answer is: wrong.