Hacker News: triangleman

New comment by triangleman in "EmDash: A Fresh Take on CMS"

triangleman — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:04:34 +0000

Hi cloudpeaklabs it looks like this comment was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617426

And now you're shadowbanned.

New comment by triangleman in "Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation"

triangleman — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:48:05 +0000

What's the latest on homebrewing on the actual Xbox 360 these days?

New comment by triangleman in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"

triangleman — Fri, 16 May 2025 14:20:47 +0000

What do you mean by "message me" and "later" in this context?

New comment by triangleman in "Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital currency prototype study"

triangleman — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 19:11:31 +0000

Reading Matt Levine's latest column on this CBDC was sort of mind blowing. With a truly centralized digital currency the Fed would basically monopolize all bank deposits (why store money in the bank at all when your digital wallet is perfectly safe) and destroy the entire banking sector.

So they are forced to decentralize the currency to some extent, so that banks are the ones to actually issue the currency (after borrowing it from the fed).

New comment by triangleman in "Did I just lose half a million dollars?"

triangleman — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 16:50:46 +0000

Frankly that is the best case scenario for crypto. It's similar to the dot com bubble in 1999 actually, it's 20 years later and the internet is finally somewhat useful and intergrated into our lives. Originally it was just a bubble inflated with ad revenue inflated with investor money

New comment by triangleman in "Did I just lose half a million dollars?"

triangleman — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 16:46:56 +0000

There's some detail on weth.io. apparently ETH is not Ethereum (ERC-20) compatible, if you can believe it.

I'm still kind of confused how ypu go from one ERC-20 chain to another. I know there's wrapped Ether on other chains but I'm not clear on how it got there or whether it's a good idea to hold that. Seems like a "not my keys" situation in a way.

New comment by triangleman in "Did I just lose half a million dollars?"

triangleman — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 16:29:19 +0000

So, could the Ethereum community get together and agree to rewrite the blockchain and undo this transaction? Perhaps they could vote on it and have a hearing of the facts. Of course that introduces its own tyranny but is it possible?

New comment by triangleman in "NodeMCU ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE IoT boards show up for about $4"

triangleman — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:31:54 +0000

The question is, if you did grab a box and tried to do something with it, how would your dad react?

New comment by triangleman in "Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says"

triangleman — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 18:34:00 +0000

Apparently if you sell someone an airplane you're on the hook for 18 years of safe operation.

New comment by triangleman in "Physicists confirm two cases of “elusive” black hole/neutron star mergers"

triangleman — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:37:43 +0000

Is there any chance these were somehow the same event, and the universe sort of loops back on itself?

New comment by triangleman in "The great resignation is coming?"

triangleman — Tue, 11 May 2021 15:35:11 +0000

You have the right personality for work-from-home. There are others who need that social interaction in order to be productive.

When I was in the office, most developers had headphones on when working and you wouldn't interrupt them at that time.

I definitely agree that if you're in the kind of role where you can turn off notifications and just put your head down and work, this has probably been a very productive year.

New comment by triangleman in "Coinbase from YC to DPO"

triangleman — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:23:57 +0000

It used to be that you could not IPO unless you were profitable, and furthermore the point of an IPO was to raise money needed to fund growth. But today these companies have raised enough money from VC's that they don't need any more from the public markets. By listing shares and letting these insiders sell, there is more limited supply and great demand, so they can sell tiny stakes for inflated prices. It's really great for VC's and other insiders.

New comment by triangleman in "Money and Investing (1996)"

triangleman — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:51:13 +0000

Well Buffett is 90 years old, so there's one example of a lifetime of 20% CAGR.

New comment by triangleman in "Money and Investing (1996)"

triangleman — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:49:03 +0000

Yes, in the long run the economy is driven by productivity growth. However there are debt cycles at work:

https://economicprinciples.org/

The world may be near the end of a long-term debt cycle, we will have to see.

In 1996 PE multiples were indeed high and there was indeed a correction. For instance the Nasdaq went from 1300 at the end of 1996, to over 5000, and back to 1300 in 2002. There was obviously productivity growth over 7 years, but valuations are another thing entirely.

New comment by triangleman in "Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default"

triangleman — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:16:30 +0000

Could we get it to stop searching Google from inside the datacenter though

New comment by triangleman in "“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes”"

triangleman — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 20:07:39 +0000

LOL, I see what you did there

New comment by triangleman in "Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility"

triangleman — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:32:51 +0000

You can rest easy knowing that most of these things provide practically no utility to anyone (or even negative utility), and they are simply speculative bubbles.

New comment by triangleman in "Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility"

triangleman — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:24:53 +0000

The best analysis is always against the company itself:

- SBUX instead of buying Starbucks

- MO instead of buying cigarettes (see The Millionaire Next Door for this analysis)

- LVMH instead of buying LV, M, or H

- NVDA instead of buying video cards and AAA games

- CVS instead of shopping at convenience stores

New comment by triangleman in "Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility"

triangleman — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:19:09 +0000

Even if it was true, much of the anti-Wall Street sentiment is a scapegoat for their avarice.

New comment by triangleman in "Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster"

triangleman — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:40:37 +0000

Aren't you supposed to avoid plugins and config so that vi/m will be familiar everywhere you go? That's the advice I've gotten on this board.