Hacker News: zaik

New comment by zaik in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

zaik — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:41:41 +0000

What happens when the bot places a huge bet on "No" in this market?

New comment by zaik in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

zaik — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:38:15 +0000

I do not understand the security implications of this "Invisible Salamanders" post, but I would prefer XMPP even without any end-to-end encryption over a walled garden like Signal or Session.

New comment by zaik in "Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists"

zaik — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:40:15 +0000

I would argue the opposite is true. It takes a long time to beat the Bayesian thinking out of students when presenting them with a confidence interval: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-013-0572-3

New comment by zaik in "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets"

zaik — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:45:40 +0000

Elections usually also have good liquidity.

New comment by zaik in "Stop Putting Secrets in .env Files"

zaik — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:53:22 +0000

Another solution integrated with most Linux systems: https://systemd.io/CREDENTIALS/

New comment by zaik in "GNU Texmacs"

zaik — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:53:49 +0000

I used it as a high school student. In college I switched to LaTeX.

New comment by zaik in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

zaik — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:58:24 +0000

> federated, self-hosted casino

Good news: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

New comment by zaik in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

zaik — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:19:12 +0000

He did earn a BS degree in mathematics, but his dissertation was a religious one.

New comment by zaik in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

zaik — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:09:41 +0000

Guess who took the other side of those forward contracts: https://www.wired.com/story/cantor-fitzgerald-trump-tariff-r...

New comment by zaik in "Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps"

zaik — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:15:44 +0000

Maybe they started at a hut on 9th station :)

New comment by zaik in "YouTube as Storage"

zaik — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:27:50 +0000

Hopefully the deletion will not affect videos with thousands of views, even if the account is lost.

New comment by zaik in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

zaik — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:42:29 +0000

Any XMPP provider will give you a chat address that is compatible with Snikket: https://providers.xmpp.net

Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators

zaik — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:31:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.prosody.im/2026-letsencrypt-changes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950780

Points: 193

# Comments: 209

New comment by zaik in "Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT"

zaik — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:25:53 +0000

Everytime I change my nickname in the XMPP room that is bridged to Matrix, the counter increases by one. Never used Matrix.

New comment by zaik in "Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year"

zaik — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:21:15 +0000

I'm in Austria and I pay separate bills for the grid and the electricity.

New comment by zaik in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

zaik — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:23:15 +0000

They should have converted to Euros first.

New comment by zaik in "Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates"

zaik — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:18:08 +0000

> which means you're at their mercy

Let's Encrypt could easily refuse to issue a certificate for a certain domain, even if you don't have a registered account. I don't see much difference.

New comment by zaik in "Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface"

zaik — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:01:57 +0000

Nowhere on the GitHub page does the project describe itself as "gamified", it's just the title of the HN submission

New comment by zaik in "Find Bitcoin-Friendly Coffee Shops – We Need Submissions"

zaik — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:37:13 +0000

There is already a lot of data about this in OpenStreetMap: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bitcoin

New comment by zaik in "Ask HN: What are some impressive vibe coding projects?"

zaik — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:29:38 +0000

Anki doesn't have any ads or trackers either btw.