Hacker News: nout

New comment by nout in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

nout — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:02:44 +0000

That's not true. Most money laundering is in USD and then stablecoins (USDT, etc). NFTs are a thing of the past and the big majority was not on bitcoin anyway. So no, bitcoin is not a major player. If you would completely eradicate bitcoin (which is not possible), you would solve (I'm guesstimating) 0.3% of money laundering.

New comment by nout in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

nout — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:30:48 +0000

I like DOSBox pure, because that allows you to put the full games into a single zip file and so you then essentially have the equivalent of per-game file on consoles.

New comment by nout in "Google I/O"

nout — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:26:57 +0000

I want to do that. Last week there was an article from a person that vibed their whole system in assembly and it was super fast and it did exactly what the person wanted and nothing else. That was eye opening.

New comment by nout in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

nout — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:25:22 +0000

This will probably finally push me to migrate away from Bitwarden. Somehow over the years the UI was getting worse and worse too. It's more steps to add custom hidden fields than it used to, etc.

New comment by nout in "Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server"

nout — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:37:34 +0000

I could do some cool backups with this bad boy.

New comment by nout in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

nout — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:28:18 +0000

I ... now want to read this book.

New comment by nout in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

nout — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:34:57 +0000

Some retrogaming devices have multi-boot options where you can pick between android and linux (e.g. Anbernic RG353V).

New comment by nout in "Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks"

nout — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:34:43 +0000

In case of error you talk to the seller, if they are reasonable and care about their reputation, they pay you back (e.g. the Square seller devices have options for this). If they don't, you can try suing them. There's a wide group of people that are stealing from sellers (especially on Amazon and similar) by using the product and then returning it with made up issues. Bitcoin would help these businesses, since the settlement is final.

New comment by nout in "How Monero’s proof of work works"

nout — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:44:04 +0000

It's also couple percent cheaper to send money internationally using bitcoin as the "rails" when compared to e.g. Wise. Even for sending money from classical bank in one country to a classical bank in another country. On bigger amounts you can save quite a lot of money.

New comment by nout in "How Monero’s proof of work works"

nout — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:39:58 +0000

Allen Farrington makes a solid case in this essay [1] about deflation being the more effective mode of economy.

[1]: http://x.com/i/article/2045147796752175104

New comment by nout in "Days without GitHub incidents"

nout — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:32:05 +0000

I think it depends if you pay them money. If you do, then you should indeed have strong expectations towards them and hold them accountable. If they provide a free service to you, then it's still reasonable to feel upset, but at the same time you get what you pay for.

New comment by nout in "Why TUIs Are Back"

nout — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:00:49 +0000

I think Midnight Commander is still the most advanced TUI there is. It has so many hidden capabilities that you may not even know about. You can be connected over ssh to another computer, while browsing the inside of a compressed zip file and previewing the content of the file inside of it . If you enable lynx motion and case insensitive - you are navigating across folders so much faster than just trying to "cd" and "ls"... It's impressive that this category of file managers has worked the same way for more than 40 years - the same shortcuts, etc.

New comment by nout in "Why Nostr Will Win Where Mastodon and Bluesky Failed"

nout — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:46:38 +0000

I think the effects of how the services operate in the background are observable by the real users at some point. Unfortunately it's often too late do something about it. You get hit by censorship when the overton window moves past you, you get deplatformed when your mastodon instance shuts down - that has happened to me and so that's why I have bad aftertaste from mastodon.

On nostr there are some very cool sub-communities - there are surprisingly a lot of surfers, there are multiple book authors with bestselling books, there are local non-english communities, etc. And on top of that there's a variety of applications on top of it, like divine.video.

Why Nostr Will Win Where Mastodon and Bluesky Failed

nout — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:33:10 +0000

Article URL: https://primal.net/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqgycd7urua6ajmgc3jjunhcseekkz0swkljhdzs0pvftxlx6cgdnqq2hwvpnddt4zu2x2vcx5hmnwdx573jrxay5vllycxr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992406

Points: 35

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New comment by nout in "Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks"

nout — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:25:15 +0000

I'll get the usual hate for this, but in this instance using bitcoin is safer, since it forces you to verify the transaction on your phone (i.e. you use your phone to pay - either scanning QR code or now NFC). In the US the Square payment terminals can now accept bitcoin from any lightning enabled wallet app, CashApp does it natively, etc.

New comment by nout in "City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo"

nout — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:42:33 +0000

So there are people sitting in cubicles in various companies/orgs that flock sells the access to and they are watching your children on a screen.

Usually the government is trying to wrap the spying/privacy breaches by "save the children", but this time if you want to save your children from some older dude watching them on a screen, you actually have to be against this privacy nightmare.

New comment by nout in "Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public"

nout — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:37:07 +0000

Very cool. It's great seeing non AI "low quality" videos that are just plain fun.

New comment by nout in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

nout — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:35:31 +0000

Search archive.org. All old games are archived. Since the games are no longer selling, imo this is fair.

New comment by nout in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

nout — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:29:19 +0000

Or maybe the government should not require companies to KYC you for every little stupid thing or action you do in this world. What happened to requiring only the information that's actually required? Why do I need to be KYCd in the systems when buying banana, ordering delivery, etc.

Because of the inevitable breaches and leaks - KYC is the illicit activity. The selling point of KYC was preventing fraud and money laundering. It doesn't actually do that. Search for "largest money laundering settlements" and you will find 5 banks and one crypto scam.

New comment by nout in "Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents"

nout — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:23:22 +0000

If you want to check for agent that can compute stuff, then you can let it compute sha256 of some small string... that's quite tricky for humans to do by hand :)