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Meanwhile, on the original post, the author is acting like HN was tampering with the ranking of the article because it started doing poorly after people realize

Meanwhile, on the original post, the author is acting like HN was tampering with the ranking of the article because it started doing poorly after people realized that a real key wasn't factored: > "Update II : Amusingly enough, it seems Hacker News hand-diddled their story list to remove this discussion. Way to go Ydumbinator crew!" [0] [0]: http://trilema.com/2015/full-disclosure-4096-rsa-key-in-the-strongset-factored/ http://trilema.com/2015/full-disclosure-4096-rsa-key-in-the-...

zf00002 11y ago
that's pretty much typical of mircea popescu.
- ikeboy 11y ago
  Does he have any claim to fame beyond very elaborate trolling? I've been trying to figure out what's up with him recently.
  - rewqfdsa 11y ago
    Popescu is waging a pathetic little personal war against FetLife [1]. He's a textbook example of a self-deluded crypto-narcissist who, if there's any justice on this earth, will see his comeuppance. People like him always do. [1] He's been scraping the profiles of young women (specifically) and posting links, names, and hometowns on his blog. Yes, as technologists, we know that this kind of indexing is trivial. That's no reason, as a decent human being, to terrorize innocent people.
  - Adlai 11y ago
    Wealth. Most of the publicly known early adopters don't spend as much (or any) time trolling about (and getting trolled) on IRC. http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu
    - ikeboy 11y ago
      Do we know how much he's actually worth?
      - Adlai 11y ago
        His >50% MPOE[1] stake is at least 1.4 million coins (valuated by the last trade). If you're skeptical of numbers on webpages (c.f. "EmptyGox"), MPEx's trivially traceable addresses[2] currently contain around five thousand coins; tracking down the rest is left as an exercise for the skeptical sleth. [1] http://mpex.ws/?mpsic=S.MPOE http://mpex.ws/?mpsic=S.MPOE [2] https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co
        ikeboy 11y ago
        Oh, and who the hell is paying 50 btc to open an account at mpex?
        Adlai 11y ago
        crickets
        sanswork 11y ago
        Maybe I'm reading it wrong but according to that there is ~10m shares outstanding at a price of 0.00028btc per share. Doesn't that make it worth around 2800 btc not 2.8m?
        Adlai 11y ago
        We're both wrong. One billion shares, half of which he can't sell: CL-USER> (* 1/2 (expt 10 9) (parse-float "0.00029087" :type 'rational)) 145435
    - grubles 11y ago
      Possibly some people have been exposed to mircea through hearing about his insane quotes such as: The most you can do, after having been educated/raped, is picking the what and the how for other, later, virgins. http://trilema.com/2014/patriarchy-is-a-thing-because-nobody-likes-living-in-a-world-populated-by-little-girls/ http://trilema.com/2014/patriarchy-is-a-thing-because-nobody... Or they have read his Guide To Beating Women blog post: http://trilema.com/2011/cum-se-bate-femeia/ http://trilema.com/2011/cum-se-bate-femeia/ Or perhaps they have read how his site for betting with bitcoin screwed someone over for about $7,000 in bitcoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339544.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339544.0
Adlai 11y ago
It's worth noting that HN does adjust article rankings: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... Compare the gradual slide from the peak of other articles from the same time as the one in question: http://hnrankings.info/9560839,9561606,9561693,9561599,9561920,9560426,9560904,9560790,9561920/ http://hnrankings.info/9560839,9561606,9561693,9561599,95619... Moderated forums aren't censored, but they do get... moderated. What else did you expect?
- Dylan16807 11y ago
  Sometimes moderation steps in, but that's not needed most of the time when user flagging exists.

zf00002 11y ago

that's pretty much typical of mircea popescu.

ikeboy 11y ago
Does he have any claim to fame beyond very elaborate trolling? I've been trying to figure out what's up with him recently.
- rewqfdsa 11y ago
  Popescu is waging a pathetic little personal war against FetLife [1]. He's a textbook example of a self-deluded crypto-narcissist who, if there's any justice on this earth, will see his comeuppance. People like him always do. [1] He's been scraping the profiles of young women (specifically) and posting links, names, and hometowns on his blog. Yes, as technologists, we know that this kind of indexing is trivial. That's no reason, as a decent human being, to terrorize innocent people.
- Adlai 11y ago
  Wealth. Most of the publicly known early adopters don't spend as much (or any) time trolling about (and getting trolled) on IRC. http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu
  - ikeboy 11y ago
    Do we know how much he's actually worth?
    - Adlai 11y ago
      His >50% MPOE[1] stake is at least 1.4 million coins (valuated by the last trade). If you're skeptical of numbers on webpages (c.f. "EmptyGox"), MPEx's trivially traceable addresses[2] currently contain around five thousand coins; tracking down the rest is left as an exercise for the skeptical sleth. [1] http://mpex.ws/?mpsic=S.MPOE http://mpex.ws/?mpsic=S.MPOE [2] https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co
      - ikeboy 11y ago
        Oh, and who the hell is paying 50 btc to open an account at mpex?
        Adlai 11y ago
        crickets
      - sanswork 11y ago
        Maybe I'm reading it wrong but according to that there is ~10m shares outstanding at a price of 0.00028btc per share. Doesn't that make it worth around 2800 btc not 2.8m?
        Adlai 11y ago
        We're both wrong. One billion shares, half of which he can't sell: CL-USER> (* 1/2 (expt 10 9) (parse-float "0.00029087" :type 'rational)) 145435
  - grubles 11y ago
    Possibly some people have been exposed to mircea through hearing about his insane quotes such as: The most you can do, after having been educated/raped, is picking the what and the how for other, later, virgins. http://trilema.com/2014/patriarchy-is-a-thing-because-nobody-likes-living-in-a-world-populated-by-little-girls/ http://trilema.com/2014/patriarchy-is-a-thing-because-nobody... Or they have read his Guide To Beating Women blog post: http://trilema.com/2011/cum-se-bate-femeia/ http://trilema.com/2011/cum-se-bate-femeia/ Or perhaps they have read how his site for betting with bitcoin screwed someone over for about $7,000 in bitcoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339544.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339544.0

Adlai 11y ago

It's worth noting that HN does adjust article rankings: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... Compare the gradual slide from the peak of other articles from the same time as the one in question: http://hnrankings.info/9560839,9561606,9561693,9561599,9561920,9560426,9560904,9560790,9561920/ http://hnrankings.info/9560839,9561606,9561693,9561599,95619... Moderated forums aren't censored, but they do get... moderated. What else did you expect?

Dylan16807 11y ago
Sometimes moderation steps in, but that's not needed most of the time when user flagging exists.