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Previous discussion from 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26403857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26403857

de6u99er 6y ago
I wish thise links would work in the mobile HN app.
- wwarren 6y ago
  They work in the one I use: “Octal” for iOS
- dang 6y ago
  There's no "the" HN app - only a bunch of different third-party projects. If one isn't working, there are plenty of others out there to try.
- jermo 6y ago
  Works in MiniHack on iOS (unofficial)
- tasuki 6y ago
  Apart from broken links, what is the benefit of using an app other than the web browser to peruse HN on mobile?
- lk0nga 6y ago
  works on Materialistic for Android
etaioinshrdlu 6y ago
I was going to make a blockchain joke, but it was already in the linked discussion. It's comical how some of the blockchain space aspires to solve some of the world's problems with underpants-gnomes level business thinking. I guess HN already understands this.
- bartread 6y ago
  > I was going to make a blockchain joke, but it was already in the linked discussion. I see what you did there. Nice. Also, I had to look up "underpants gnome". For the other three of you who don't know what these are they feature in an early episode of South Park (which I thought I'd seen all of, but no). They steal underpants and use them to profit. Turns out they're also the originators of the "1. Something, 2. Something else, 3. ?????, 4. PROFIT!" meme that I've seen posted for the last 20 years, particularly on Slashdot in the early noughties, but never known where it came from. Not something I expected to learn via HN but I suppose we are living in unusual times.
  - walrus01 6y ago
    https://www.cafepress.ca/+crypto+underwear https://www.cafepress.ca/+crypto+underwear https://thatcryptohustle.com/products/bitcoin-rocket-launch-mens-boxer-briefs https://thatcryptohustle.com/products/bitcoin-rocket-launch-... https://www.amazon.ca/niBBuns-Underwear-Cryptocurrency-Business-Blockchain/dp/B08PNP2JMC https://www.amazon.ca/niBBuns-Underwear-Cryptocurrency-Busin... step 1) print cryptocurrency themed underwear step 2) ??? step 3) profit!!!
- onetimemanytime 6y ago
  This is enough to be FU money for all people involved: "I'll disappear, pay off police, blame Ali, do 4 years in jail and still have money..."
- ineedasername 6y ago
  Yes, I don't see how blockchain technology will solve a problem like this in any way whatsoever. No entry in a blockchain and labelling thereof on containers will prevent breaking the seals on a contain and swapping out real for fakes. Blockchain may be able solve a few different problems, but this isn't one of them.
  - Gibbon1 6y ago
    I'm probably dumb, but it feels like all the guys pushing blockchain on trying to solve the problem that the world tends to run on trust and good faith, because those things make them deeply uncomfortable.

de6u99er 6y ago

I wish thise links would work in the mobile HN app.

wwarren 6y ago
They work in the one I use: “Octal” for iOS
dang 6y ago
There's no "the" HN app - only a bunch of different third-party projects. If one isn't working, there are plenty of others out there to try.
jermo 6y ago
Works in MiniHack on iOS (unofficial)
tasuki 6y ago
Apart from broken links, what is the benefit of using an app other than the web browser to peruse HN on mobile?
lk0nga 6y ago
works on Materialistic for Android

etaioinshrdlu 6y ago

I was going to make a blockchain joke, but it was already in the linked discussion. It's comical how some of the blockchain space aspires to solve some of the world's problems with underpants-gnomes level business thinking. I guess HN already understands this.

bartread 6y ago
> I was going to make a blockchain joke, but it was already in the linked discussion. I see what you did there. Nice. Also, I had to look up "underpants gnome". For the other three of you who don't know what these are they feature in an early episode of South Park (which I thought I'd seen all of, but no). They steal underpants and use them to profit. Turns out they're also the originators of the "1. Something, 2. Something else, 3. ?????, 4. PROFIT!" meme that I've seen posted for the last 20 years, particularly on Slashdot in the early noughties, but never known where it came from. Not something I expected to learn via HN but I suppose we are living in unusual times.
- walrus01 6y ago
  https://www.cafepress.ca/+crypto+underwear https://www.cafepress.ca/+crypto+underwear https://thatcryptohustle.com/products/bitcoin-rocket-launch-mens-boxer-briefs https://thatcryptohustle.com/products/bitcoin-rocket-launch-... https://www.amazon.ca/niBBuns-Underwear-Cryptocurrency-Business-Blockchain/dp/B08PNP2JMC https://www.amazon.ca/niBBuns-Underwear-Cryptocurrency-Busin... step 1) print cryptocurrency themed underwear step 2) ??? step 3) profit!!!
onetimemanytime 6y ago
This is enough to be FU money for all people involved: "I'll disappear, pay off police, blame Ali, do 4 years in jail and still have money..."
ineedasername 6y ago
Yes, I don't see how blockchain technology will solve a problem like this in any way whatsoever. No entry in a blockchain and labelling thereof on containers will prevent breaking the seals on a contain and swapping out real for fakes. Blockchain may be able solve a few different problems, but this isn't one of them.
- Gibbon1 6y ago
  I'm probably dumb, but it feels like all the guys pushing blockchain on trying to solve the problem that the world tends to run on trust and good faith, because those things make them deeply uncomfortable.