alixaxel

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   by alixaxel 13y ago

   What is Portugal doing on the front-page of HN?! :O
2. 242.▲
   by alixaxel 13y ago

   Forget sleep. Sleep less. Have a nice morning ritual (go have a healthy breakfast outside, read the newspaper). Start working on the most difficult task after.
3. 243.▲
   by alixaxel 13y ago

   I got two emails from them (I had two separate accounts with Gmail + aliases). In one of them, they offered me $10, the other they didn't.
4. 244.▲
   by alixaxel 13y ago

   They are also A/B giving a $10 promo credit by email to some users apparently.
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   The Sad State of Hashcash(pthree.org)

   2 points by alixaxel 13y ago|0 comments
6. 246.▲
   by alixaxel 13y ago

   I think the submission itself is an attempt to sell it for 10k.
7. 247.▲
   by alixaxel 13y ago

   Who wants to buy that?
8. 248.▲
   by alixaxel 13y ago

   So cool and useful, I will use this all the time now!
9. 249.▲
   by alixaxel 13y ago

   No Linux version?
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    by alixaxel 13y ago

    I completely agree! I implemented Hashcash a couple years ago into my email wrapper and the algorithm is (in it's essence) suprisingly similar to Bitcoin: given this data, find a hash that has a consecutive number of x zeros in it. I d
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    by alixaxel 13y ago

    It's not mentioned in the body copy, but if you look at the URL slug it's there: https://github.com/blog/1698-weak-passwords-brute-forced
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    by alixaxel 13y ago

    They actually gave you an extra 2020 RXP if you star their repository (like I did). From the 3975 RXP I could send, it turned to ~85 USD the other day. Multiply that by 1698 and you get $167k. Pretty sure it was a win for them.
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    2Ths ASIC Miner(cointerra.com)

    2 points by alixaxel 13y ago|0 comments
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    by alixaxel 13y ago

    Very "refreshing"!
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    Quantum Simulator(cnotmz.appspot.com)

    2 points by alixaxel 13y ago|0 comments
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    by alixaxel 13y ago

    I think this pretty much nailed the reality. ^^
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    by alixaxel 13y ago

    I agree, it's pretty much the same old, same old.
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    by alixaxel 13y ago

    Skeuocard ( http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/ ) was on the top page of HN a couple of months ago.
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    by alixaxel 13y ago

    For such a high price, they could pay some more attention to their own buy license page: the security code help section is partially (mostly) hidden.
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    by alixaxel 13y ago

    The website lists guides on how to do a setup like this in Apache + Perl/Python + SQLite/MySQL.
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    by alixaxel 13y ago

    My main concern in a setup like this would be memory consumption. But it also just doesn't perform as well vs nginx, Lighty, Cherokee and others.
22. 262.▲
    by alixaxel 13y ago

    I don't get it... What's the surprise in having a cluster of 8 Pi serve 45k hits a month? That's 25 hits per hour, a single Pi would do it. Plus, Apache..?
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    by alixaxel 14y ago

    That's a striking point right there. Perhaps it would be nice if in order to request a takedown you had to provide your own personal credentials. That would bring some fairness to the game.