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   A Historic Crypto Selloff Erased over $19B, but Two Accounts Made $160M(wsj.com)

   4 points by kwar13 1y ago|1 comments
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   by kwar13 1y ago

   All out assault on the press.
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   The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2025 [pdf](nobelprize.org)

   1 points by kwar13 1y ago|0 comments
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   by kwar13 1y ago

   You don't think WhatsApp for some reason stopping to work and airlines losing their default way to issue tickets is a national security issue? How about health care appointments with national ID and address on them being sent as PDFs a
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   by kwar13 1y ago

   Nice try, Anthropic!
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   by kwar13 1y ago

   I'm a capitalist but yes when national security is in play "free market" in my book doesn't apply. You can't have health appointments, airline tickets, government services by default on WhatsApp. Most don't eve
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   by kwar13 1y ago

   Ah this is perfect. Thanks!
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   Ask HN: Betamax vs. VHS, what other products had the same fate?(en.wikipedia.org)

   2 points by kwar13 1y ago|4 comments
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   by kwar13 1y ago

   So weird how HN ranking system works. Same article submitted 2 days ago barely got any traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538928
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    It is really important to not build your national infrastructure around closed-source proprietary software that other nations control. I lived in Latin America for a year. It is shocking how much everything relies on WhatsApp. I got everyth
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    Feels like liquid glass is some weird preamble to augmented reality so that you get used to the interface. Thankfully most of the "liquid glassy" things can be undone in the accessibility options on iOS.
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    Having your name as a Linux contributor is the highest level of accolade I can think of when it comes to being a programmer.
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    How many times the same thing... most even tell you that they verify you and then delete your ID. ZK proofs cannot become mainstream fast enough.
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    That was beautiful to read. lol.
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    > Don’t feel like you have continue the conversation if they respond. You can if you want, but don’t feel obligated. > Don’t state you are going to keep in touch, unless you plan to. Either this was written by someone who works in HR,
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    Thanks for the service. I used it to figure out what's wrong with my ISP's ipv6 and even though I never figured it out a fix your website definitely helped a lot. Side note: I find ipv6 complex and very difficult to use. Might be
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    Signal is doing phenomenal work here. They could've sold out long ago. I highly encourage anyone to donate whatever they can.
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    That's a pretty good way to frame it. The speed of developing to me justifies the "second best" aspect.
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    Fair.
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    Money seems like everything until you realize there is an end to all of this.
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    Dude is a learning machine.
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    What a neat little idea lol. It's using the Braille patterns to update the URL with the dots. Love it. https://github.com/epidemian/snake/blob/master/snake.js
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    Nicely done! Seeing that it uses a port of Whisper, here's my shameless plug for a gnome extension I made using Whisper: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2tex...
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    Y Combinator's Request for Onchain Startups(blog.base.org)

    1 points by kwar13 1y ago|0 comments
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    Absolutely. I cannot use anything online anymore without pihole + ublock
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    I am born and raised Persian and I assure you Taarof is my least favourite part of the Persian culture. It wastes time, frustrates both parties with trying to guess what the other person truly wants but doesn't say, and in the end achi
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    Show HN: Speech2Text, a Gnome Shell Extension for Dictation(github.com)

    2 points by kwar13 1y ago|0 comments
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    > So when he asked me to read back a code — supposedly to prove I was still alive — in a moment of panic, I did. I am not clear how the account access occurred. What code did he read? He voluntarily read his own 2FA code from his Authent
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    by kwar13 1y ago

    I've tried the same thing and couldn't quite move away from the network effects of Github.