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by paulgb 4y ago
Thanks! When hosted on Cloudflare, it uses their Durable Objects product. Rather than running multiple backend instances that share state, it's set up so that all users in the same "room" are connected to the same instance. T
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Show HN: DriftDB – an open source WebSocket backend for real-time apps(driftdb.com)
367 points by paulgb 4y ago|101 comments
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by paulgb 4y ago
The crazy thing is, tether skeptics have repeatedly been proven right on the facts. The initially-denied bitfinex/tether relationship was revealed in the paradise papers. The fact that it was not 1:1 cash backed was confirmed by the NY
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DriftDB: Minimum Viable State Synchronization(driftingin.space)
13 points by paulgb 4y ago|0 comments
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by paulgb 4y ago
Autosurgeon repo: https://github.com/automerge/autosurgeon
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by paulgb 4y ago
Congrats Phil, and the rest of the TigerBeetle team!
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by paulgb 4y ago
That seems to have been a momentary blip coinciding with when retail investors momentarily forgot that stocks could go anywhere but up. The Big Short (2015) and The China Hustle (2017) both portrayed short sellers as the heroes, for example
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by paulgb 4y ago
This is fun, I like the music. Was ChatGPT able to give you the gradient animation as well? I have struggled to get ChatGPT to do anything that involves spatial reasoning.
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by paulgb 4y ago
Oh, this is great, I look forward to exploring some new genres with these playlists.
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by paulgb 4y ago
The second chance pool is great, I just wanted to give people a chance to shamelessly self-nominate their own posts. Especially at a time when I’m interested in reading some good technical original content and /new is mostly general ne
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Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
268 points by paulgb 4y ago|393 comments
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by paulgb 4y ago
> These tools are about as good as a non specialist with time to undertake some bullshitting. You’re not wrong, but AI being passably good at bullshitting (while mostly keeping a rhyme/meter) is still mindblowing to me.
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Determinism is WebAssembly’s hidden superpower(digest.browsertech.com)
4 points by paulgb 4y ago|0 comments
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by paulgb 4y ago
If you look at it from the perspective of “when will I be able to support 99% of users”, it will absolutely take a few years, but from the perspective of “when will a WebGPU game have distribution to more people than a Steam game”, it could
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by paulgb 4y ago
Not OP, but a Recurser (I suspect there's a lot of us on here!) If the idea of a self-structured sabbatical appeals to you, Recurse is great. It's definitely (and deliberately) not a bootcamp of a traditional sort, so it attract
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by paulgb 4y ago
Indeed. Bookmarked it for exactly this.
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Apple silicon as a WebAssembly Catalyst(digest.browsertech.com)
3 points by paulgb 4y ago|1 comments
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by paulgb 4y ago
If an attacker can generate sequential hashids, they can decipher the alphabet order that hashids use without needing to know the seed, and then use the seed to invert other hashids. I wrote a library that generates short IDs with the goal
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by paulgb 4y ago
It’s true, if the only goal of a UUID was minimizing collisions with a given number of bits, storing the timestamp would be a waste of entropy (assuming that generation rate is non-uniform over time.) The reason they encode a timestamp (whi
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by paulgb 4y ago
I’m curious if there are any “success stories” out there -- anyone who played the game and felt it made a material difference to their success?
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by paulgb 4y ago
Maybe that's part of it, but to add some datapoints, I've had a bunch of legit email from GMail addresses flagged as spam, and had people tell me that my emails (from a GMail account I've had for ~18 years) landed in spam.
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by paulgb 4y ago
I hate this approach. The victim from this sort of political theatre isn’t “democrats”, it’s everyday people who just want a functioning government without this sort of distraction.
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by paulgb 4y ago
This could use (2017) (original benchmark date) or (2021) (last modified time) in the title.
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by paulgb 4y ago
It’s neat to see a high profile case of Say on Pay (from Dodd Frank) actually working in the wild. It’s an advisory vote, so the company doesn’t have any legal obligation to act on it. But it forces the company to take a straw poll and shar
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by paulgb 4y ago
The article also links to https://zip.co/us/store/uber-eats , which is similar in the US.
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by paulgb 4y ago
I've had at least half a dozen US visas (J-1, TN, H-1B, plus renewals, then EAD and now permanent residency). I would have appreciated this benefit if I'd been laid off.
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by paulgb 4y ago
Yes, that's essentially the conclusion I've come to as well.
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by paulgb 4y ago
I agree, but the other path I've heard proposed is for miners to force a hard fork to lift supply cap and keep subsidizing the network with inflation. I think that's even less true to bitcoin's original ethos. (I also think
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by paulgb 4y ago
I think the idea is that if big institutional holders like Coinbase subsidize mining at a loss, the for-profit miners become less necessary. To be clear, I'm not defending this theory, it's just the most reasonable theory I'v
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by paulgb 4y ago
It tracks with what I've seen in NYC. “Most” might be a slight exaggeration, but not by much. (I'm hoping to put a tiny dent in that by growing our non-crypto Rust team over the next couple of years. And I won't hold anyone&#

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