Hacker News: unboxingelf

New comment by unboxingelf in "GitHub is down again"

unboxingelf — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:45:58 +0000

1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.

New comment by unboxingelf in "Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows"

unboxingelf — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:39:23 +0000

Who cares. From one walled garden to the next. Renting identities on permissioned networks is so tiresome.

New comment by unboxingelf in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

unboxingelf — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:51:58 +0000

I argue there is a more fundamental problem with the money: Debasement.

Debasement is an invisible tax and its effects far outweigh individuals bypassing taxes.

New comment by unboxingelf in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

unboxingelf — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:12:29 +0000

  It's a massive flaw in how Azure works and why it's 10x more complicated than AWS or GCP.

Wait until you try OCI.

New comment by unboxingelf in "Show HN: ChartDB Agent – Cursor for DB schema design"

unboxingelf — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:07:26 +0000

Nice thanks, I was finally able to design the schema for my dog turd tracker. The foreign key to the smells table was a great suggestion!

New comment by unboxingelf in "macOS Tahoe"

unboxingelf — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:33:22 +0000

You’re not the only one.

New comment by unboxingelf in "macOS Tahoe"

unboxingelf — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:32:24 +0000

Who is macOS designed for? I assume a non negligible customer base are software professionals and this iOSification of the desktop is borderline hostile. I don’t get it.

New comment by unboxingelf in "I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace"

unboxingelf — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 15:36:33 +0000

In addition to self hosting, anonymous access to hosted inference is another interesting path.

There’s a “A Decentralised LLM Routing Marketplace” being built out on nostr that leverages ecash.

https://www.routstr.com/

New comment by unboxingelf in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

unboxingelf — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:51:53 +0000

The Simulation Theory presents the following trilemma, one of which must be true:

1. Almost all human-level civilizations go extinct before reaching a technologically mature “posthuman” stage capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations.

2. Almost no posthuman civilizations are interested in running simulations of their evolutionary history or beings like their ancestors.

3. We are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

New comment by unboxingelf in "Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans"

unboxingelf — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:38:58 +0000

KYC only hurts law abiding citizens.

Criminals just use stolen identities (from breaches of KYC data).

New comment by unboxingelf in "Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app"

unboxingelf — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:01:40 +0000

The analogy works in the visibility sense and I see why you might assume there’s a blockchain involved in Nostr. But to clarify, there is not.

It’s worth highlighting as there are many affinity scammers spinning up tokens/blockchains called “Nostr”.

New comment by unboxingelf in "Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app"

unboxingelf — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:42:18 +0000

Nostr doesn’t have a blockchain or token.

Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays.

It’s just signed json messages distributed by [websocket] relays.

New comment by unboxingelf in "Show HN: Qrkey – Offline private key backup on paper"

unboxingelf — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 05:17:44 +0000

superbacked, now free and open source, does exactly this.

https://superbacked.com/

New comment by unboxingelf in "Block to roll out Bitcoin payments on Square"

unboxingelf — Wed, 28 May 2025 02:48:19 +0000

Lightning is a layer two protocol on Bitcoin. It supports any Lightning wallet including CashApp.

Block to roll out Bitcoin payments on Square

unboxingelf — Tue, 27 May 2025 22:21:06 +0000

Article URL: https://block.xyz/inside/block-to-roll-out-bitcoin-payments-on-square

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44111158

Points: 11

# Comments: 3

Netflix's Adolescence Is a Trojan Horse for Online Censorship and Surveillance

unboxingelf — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:08:17 +0000

Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/adolescence-trojan-horse-for-online-censorship-surveillance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465430

Points: 29

# Comments: 4

New comment by unboxingelf in "Mistral OCR"

unboxingelf — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 23:46:16 +0000

Take a look at MCP, Model Context Protocol.

New comment by unboxingelf in "Mistral OCR"

unboxingelf — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:31:44 +0000

We’ll just stick LLM Gateway LLM in front of all the specialized LLMs. MicroLLMs Architecture.

New comment by unboxingelf in "No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard? Here's why"

unboxingelf — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:15:18 +0000

The rare, correct Bitcoin take on HN.

New comment by unboxingelf in "Apple introduces M4 chip"

unboxingelf — Wed, 08 May 2024 14:14:28 +0000

Apple is UX-first, not privacy-first.