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The Cypherpunk Library
- proxysna 4mo agoLooks really nice, but 10 fps in Firefox.
- yreg 4mo agoButtery smooth for me in Firefox (mac)
- tangerine67g 4mo agonice work, interesting page I don't think you need a pretty landing page and the content of https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/collection https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/collection could directly live under https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/ https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/ it's a website with information and I really want to see the collection and information insteda of just a single headline with an animation
- totetsu 4mo agoif it wasnt for needless landing pages where would we ever get a chance to use all the cool animation features browsers have accreted over the last 20 years.
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- aa-jv 4mo agoEven worse than a redundant/useless landing page, is a page with an invalid certificate. Nothing nopes me out harder than having to tell my IT-governed browser to ignore the site operators faulty administration of their domain ..
- ycombinete 4mo agoWhat is this very mild cyberpunk motif doing in my cyberpunk library website?
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- unprovable 4mo agoNice - can't wait to see how it grows!
- ramon156 4mo agothe hover animation on the books in `/` slows down my Firefox Cool project nonetheless! Enjoyed browsing through the options
- sen 4mo agoIf a site like this isn’t using your browser to mine bitcoin I’d be incredibly disappointed.
- esher 4mo agoNitpicking on style: hover animation on the books could not be capped by the container size and just overflow the content. Great case for page transition. Move the 3d book into the space where it will be located with single view. Firefox user here too.
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- juleiie 4mo agoEverything on the Internet is public domain, up for grabs In the past you could argue about legal stuff but now the LLM training companies have proven that beyond all doubt, it is not only possible but even legal to use any Internet material as you see fit.
- sdellis 4mo agoI really hope this is sarcasm.
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- ur-whale 4mo ago> Why would that be sarcasm on a site that calls itself “hacker”news? Let me beat that dead horse once more for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
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- raffael_de 4mo agoPrivacy for the citizens and transparency for the government. Sadly, all democracies are right in the middle of establishing the polar opposite.
- jesterson 4mo agoMiddle? We are way past the point
- Yokohiii 4mo ago> THE CYPHERNOMICON I've peeked into that one. I've expected those people to be radical to some degree, but I didn't expect they write it down so clearly. This writing wants to see the collapse of governments and democracy. I find it painful to read such radical statements. So I didn't get very deep. But I am riddled how those people think a collapse of that scale will work out in their favor. They are deeply reliant on technology and the first thing to happen on collapse, is that many lights turn off.
- Cthulhu_ 4mo agoThis is the thing I don't understand about (a superficial interpretation of) anarchists; while governments are often not ideal, a lack of one wouldn't be better. And trusting people to self-organize is idealistic, but in practice it'd mean we go back to tribalism and "might makes right".
- jvanderbot 4mo agoThere was this really good short story illustrating this: (edited to add: "Cloak of Anarchy", Larry Niven, thx to below). A park where anything goes ... because sentry robots keep the peace. When the robots break, things get scary quickly. I've become convinced that a well-governed society is the perfect foundation for a limited anarchist commune set up on property legally purchased. Libertarian, essentially. Or Amish.
- BigTTYGothGF 4mo agoCloak of Anarchy, Larry Niven.
- skinfaxi 4mo agoWe have a bunch of temporarily embarrassed tribal warlords among us.
- kibwen 4mo agoI get the impression that even the definition of "anarchy" itself is subject to anarchy, with lots of disagreements and infighting. The more even-keeled anarchists that I've seen stress that they're not against hierarchies, only involuntary hierarchies, with the idea being that individuals should be welcome to organize themselves into hierarchies into which they delegate power, as long as that power can be revoked at any time, which sounds like a reasonable proposition. And then there's crypto-anarchism, which is just right-libertarianism in a Scooby Doo monster mask.
- my_throwaway23 4mo agoSide note: I love literature, but I can not for the life of me understand how anyone can consider non-fiction enjoyable to read. Informative, perhaps interesting, yes, but enjoyable? Heck no. Take me as far away from reality as possible. Though, of course, to each their own.
- contingencies 4mo agoIf you don't enjoy learning you may be in a minority here.
- tommica 4mo agoStupid take, one can learn from fiction too.
- my_throwaway23 4mo agoAnd not everything's about learning. You are allowed to do things strictly because you enjoy doing them, with no ulterior motive.
- tommica 4mo agoAgreed, but the poster made it about that, thus my response. I thoroughly enjoy fiction and non-fiction - and rarely learn anything from them :D
- my_throwaway23 4mo agoIt sounds almost as if you're saying learning is only possible by reading, which, I would argue, most of the history of humanity proves false.
- chimpanzee2 4mo agoInteresting– Conversely, that is exactly how I feel about reading fiction. To me, how can you possibly enjoy reading something some other person simply ... made up? Like an elaborate lie? Contrarily, non-fiction tells it how it happened within the very reality I myself live in, subject to the same laws of nature and real psychology, and therefore, and only therefore, able to teach me something about real life on this earth.
- kriro 4mo agoI've been a bit out of the loop with Austrian Economics (last re-read of Human Action was ~15 years ago). I'm very well read in it and enjoy the aesthetics of the theories and the history of thought books but got very tired of the online flame-wars and the political side in general (both the pro- and anti-Austrians). So Praxeology of Privacy sounds like an interesting read, I'll give it a go this year.
- phyzix5761 4mo agoIf anyone is curious, like me, what Cypherpunk means: "A cypherpunk is one who advocates the widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a means of effecting social and political change."[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk
- slybot 4mo agoFunnily, this small library features works outside of it's domain, including a manifesto from PKK terrorist organization leader..
- danubis 4mo agoDid you read it?
- slybot 4mo agoYes, did you? Anything Cypher, punk or cypherpunk inside that you can point out?
- stronglikedan 4mo ago> Anything Cypher, punk or cypherpunk inside that you can point out? Why would you assume they read it when they haven't even answered that first question yet?
- beej71 4mo agoWhile I don't claim to follow the whole thing, it does have a section titled "Liberating democratic civilization from the State", which certainly smells cypherpunky.
- observationist 4mo agohttps://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/book/definition-of-democratic-civilization https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/book/definition-of-democrati... The book in question. What was the intent or purpose of coming at this sideways?
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- agentbraker 4mo agoGreat work! Open access to knowledge is always a win.
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- ricksunny 4mo agoThe crypto-oriented 4Seas coworking in Chiang Mai set up a very nice exhibit to cypherpunks as laid against the history of cryptography. I took pictures as the exhibit is supposed to have been taken down by now: https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/113373898014727437041/place/ChIJPbVeRwA72jARuNmLG2exheE/@18.7958868,98.9662655,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m7!1e2!3m5!1sCIABIhDRhQFrkwnjqp2E3SMptGMG!2e10!6shttps:%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2Fgps-cs%2FACgwaOsUENxlNkyKz3Zh-lOYAYp6C1QP3hCqUGMxIkFO9KQiNxXrcoUF6iga2_UE4SNi1DeUq5MsFO2ZRcYG-7AnDq3zSOvIlp_XPVO19q891_vVWdKEZLw5XsLBos9auuQpWG5GTR9g4tJHhiQ%3Dw365-h273-k-no!7i4032!8i3024!4m6!1m5!8m4!1e2!2s113373898014727437041!3m1!1e1?hl=en-GB https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/113373898014727437041/pl... I have photos of the individual exhibit pieces too if anyone's interested.
- drannex 4mo agoCertainly interested - are they shared anywhere?
- ricksunny 4mo agothen I will work on uploading them to Hoogle Drive. So watchbthis spsce (or register for the unofficial Hacker News replies-monitoring feature.)
- ricksunny 4mo agoHere they are, uploaded: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1armRjAXfk0KmYGK59rkkfBAh-ZClwSFs?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1armRjAXfk0KmYGK59rkk... I found the juxtaposition of cypherpunks with early greats like Claude Shannon and Alan Turing very interesting, and no doubt an intentional statement on the part of the organizers who clearly hold cypherpunks and cypherpunk culture in high regard (as do I, and admittedly the exhibit helped convince me to do so). I also like the manifestos placed on similar level as Shannon's seminal papers relating to both communication theory and his somewhat less-frequently referenced seminal paper on secrecy.
- drannex 3mo agoThis is incredible - wish I could have been there! Thank you for taking photos of the event!
- zeafoamrun 4mo agoLots of "digital cash" books there. I have to say that Bitcoin and Ethereum have not lived up to their cypherpunk ethos.
- akimbostrawman 4mo agoBecause they are by design aren't. Meanwhile monero has been exactly that and much more for more than a decade with by default fungibility, privacy and anonymity.
- alice-fishr 4mo agoSite wants to access other devices on local network, o rly?
- rhgraysonii 4mo agoIt might be helpful to rotate the books on the frontpage so that that you can read them by binding without tilting your head.
- ur-whale 4mo agoNice to see Tim May writings on HN
- jrochkind1 4mo agoback when crypto meant crypto not crypto
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- drannex 4mo agoThis is a very pretty layout and all, but the site itself needs more of a mission statement, to stand for something other than a dozen or two direct sources. Perhaps it can grow (and it should!) But, if anyone here is serious about this, and our hacker histories, please see the Cyberpunk Project Library, which features much more articles on all of this and then some: http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/ http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/ ("Last updated somewhen on 1998") There is another site that was built around the same time (92-2003?), that tracked privacy and other cypher/cyberpunk writings on a much larger scale (and other Extropian) writings, particularly by ~sasha (RIP), but I am unable to find it in my links right now. Perhaps its time to rebuild and expand, and the Cypherpunk Library could be the place.
- ktallett 4mo agoIs anyone going to the neocypherpunk event in Berlin this weekend?
- firefax 4mo agoI thought we had this, and it's called anonbib? https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/ https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/