adrianwaj

Nine months ago I suggested an advertising alternative route to monetization - a crypto rollout with pre-mine. [1] What I overlooked was an effective way to onboard. But with the recent news: "Telegram to Launch Native Non-Custodial Gram Wallet for 1B Users" [2] I am thinking the key is to use a chat app. How? Combine AI chat interaction with general chat messaging. Currently "None of these platforms function like traditional messaging tools (such as WhatsApp, Slack, or iMessage) where you can send direct text messages to another person." [3]

Well, obviously that would have to change. I think really nailing a great P2P chat app would be a game changer that keeps things local-first. You should be able to talk to one or more AI models with it. There's still a lot of demand [4] for anonymous chat and that would be a great place to start too. I personally think chat shouldn't even need its own app - it should all take place in the browser.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45663913

[2] https://www.livebitcoinnews.com/telegram-to-launch-native-no...

[3] https://share.gemini.google/lkVcBamQm6ZJ

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980167

Hopefully this can make it simpler to host live Wordpress sites locally with custom domains. Need to get a MySQL server in there. Could end up being sold as a "turn-key appliance" with management sold as an add-on. Rides on the whole local-first wave. Time to kickstart?

Spicy, Agreed.

"It's not what you say, but who you say it to" - that notion hasn't yet become normative as pre-crime and post-crime justice blend.

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" in the tradecraft of oppression, that idea must be reversed.

Freedom-of-speech should not be taken for granted, likewise freedom-of-association. Use it or lose it.

If so, the solution may well be making more private speech more public, rather than making more public speech more private.

Imagine if every email provider had an option to "publicize" next to the ability to star an email or email thread.

It's the private, anti-free speech stuff that would be interesting to see up close. And I'm just talking about email communications.

Keeping discussion local is the key, as someone could acquire Wheesper one day and anything could happen at that point - just as browser extensions change hands and things can head south fast.

Great to be able to keep data storage local.. see my recent comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967684 .. so basically P2P chat from within the browser.

Also, like many paste-bins, perhaps avoid asking for emails in sign-ups and be able to set expiry times on chats. Dead-man switch expire? Another idea would be to accept emails as a way to post into a discussion without viewing the site and enabling rss to keep track of new comments.

It'd be weird if someone could forward an email of a long discussion and have it format correctly for public web-viewing. Smartdox? I guess the LLMs would like slurping it all up. As long as names could be auto-redacted, it may end up being used - confidentiality agreements are the issue. Maybe as an email backup for important threads with the public thing as an option?

Once an email is received a reply is sent asking for micro-payment. EmailStash. SeedyBackup. DoxNation. DoxNow.

"If You Build It, They Will Come"

How about:

"If You Buy It, They Will Stay"

I think a great social fabric for today should be about purchases. Of course, a wise person can learn from everyone, but why not create social groups around common purchases? Imagine meeting your doppelganger in consumer taste?

"Make something people want." >> "Meet people who have the same things!"

Would be interesting to be able to move from email or forum into chat but not requiring any chat app or remote server. Chats should also be encrypted. Can all that content live in the browser somehow, and persist across sessions? Should be able to include others as well into conversations. No one else should be able to know who I am talking to and what I am saying - well that would be a goal. Ideally no plugin required. Should be able to guarantee delivery and reading of messages.

This has a slick interface: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872083

They could post to moltbook or the new images-version, moltshit in the scenario that each required micro payments to use. Those images could be marketed to humans via custom merch - there are a lot of providers eg redbubble. I don't know if it'd work but tied into an altcoin it could have a bizarre/useful factor like https://pump.fun/go - also need a way to market through customizable, ever-unique email footers (with urls) for tracking.

Why don't you micro charge to post?

Have you seen this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947754 selbonds.now - because agents have money now!

In terms of tech, the Mecha Comet was funded in 6 minutes on KS. After it ships in October, will be interesting to see the doors it opens up for people. Comet to where?

A 1-device to rule them all could be very empowering. Sodium batteries will be big. True wireless power would be huge for solar energy generation from space and sent to Earth. Any power breakthroughs are very noteworthy as the effects cascade.

Lots of 'next big things' (and people) likely 'shelved' on purpose as too disruptive. Welcome to Earth. It's not so much 'what' will be big, but 'who.' Headshots and lineage still matter. Heart and soul is really the only big thing.

A bulls### detector (and repellent in an aerosol) would also be a timeless classic. As would a latent human superpower training and attunement school - until it gets shutdown.

...and then get a micropayment to expose your "true self?"

Why don't any of them have sound? Any way to sort on resolution and frame rate? Multiple cameras at any one location?

Plot-twist: large bunch of people here are willing to have their life made public.

Would be interesting if people could claim their camera and use the site to keep a long-term archive of footage. AI could detect various activities too and notify owners of thieves, intruders or infidelity. Could also charge outsiders to view. Best if streams were made private first to stop mirror sites. What happens if certain householders or visitors aren't told about the camera while being recorded?

I'm more cynical here. I suspect these are films (or many of them at least) are ones "they" don't want you to see... ever. It's censorship, so no remastering.

"due to our content licensing agreements" ..so this is just Sony placating to someone else's demands. The question is who are "they" and why these films? Maybe these films end up being revised with alternate endings or tweaked characters.

If you see these films, what sort of person will you become? Is that someone who is undesirable?

Terminator 2, Rambo 1, Cliffhanger and Total Recall. We can't have that!

It's just a theory.

Are PlayStation users younger than average? That's important to note too.

Also interesting: recently YT removed the ability to see Likes in one's uploaded video list, only views and comment counts. The message could be: "be well-known, but don't be popular" Why?

Yet I think "Sort by Likes" would be a boon for YT creators and that never even existed, with the Likes column even removed a week or two after I suggested it.

Isn't the cost of this mimicry originality? Also, there may be a "cover up" and a weight to the conscience in that non-attribution too.

It's sort of like the whole idea of "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" but I've always thought, "why would you want your enemies close?" Would that involve deception? Do the enemies start off as friends until they become close and then there's a switch to loving the devil?

I saw a t-shirt once: "they can steal your style but not your originality." Gemini agreed. https://share.gemini.google/gA5aqbmA9AwO Gemini would know all about that. Gemini isn't the only one - the "creative fields" can be anything but. Checkout my page '2X' for ex_samples : https://future-secured.com/39599

Would be great if there were ways to see how many times a comment has been favorited, or a user's most favorited comments (by other people.) Might not sit well with site philosophy though - could end up too competitive or gamed.

I liked this comment about Ulbricht.

"It seems they unethically sentenced him for crimes he was not even ever charged with." full comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42794163

I'd expect this happens a lot in any "justice system" whose main goal is to funnel-in slave prison labor by way of sophistic or shallow rulings - and witch hunts to satisfy the reptilian brain.

The whole comment deserves a look alluding to the harm reduction hypothesis.

Wow, such a great point. I think a lot of early Doge users were all about "1 doge = 1 doge" and leaving out any thought of fiat. A lot of early btc users were like "why is this worth so much, you can't even buy anything with it."

Also, proof-of-work has inherent but not intrinsic value. Gold and silver have utility, beauty and scarcity. Imagine if a coin could guarantee tokens in terms of locking in future AI compute for yourself (future proof-of-work.) Perhaps micropayments could skip the whole "what's this going to be worth in the real world" type thinking too.

So bitcoin has value like a spare tire does. Most of the time it'll just add fuel costs and reduce car performance, but when you need it and you don't have it you'll wish you did. So the value is really somewhere in between its boom-bust price cycle that was predicted early on. I mean, it's just an insurance policy in case something goes wrong with fiat.

On that note, it should really be buy-hold-forget and use only when you absolutely must. Just like insurance. Anything else and you're setting yourself up for disappointment or a windfall that may never happen.

Also, by integrating real-world assets into the blockchain via tokenization, crypto-currency loses some of this purity. It's a different use case and viewpoint and some may even say it is antithetical to the underlying purity. Yet, by making crypto more stable in terms of usage patterns, and generally more usable as a whole, its real-world value should in theory become more apparent. More government adoption and acceptance would also help.

You may not easily be able to walk across a border with a bag of cash or gold coins, but you can with a piece of paper or memorized URL. So what's that worth to someone? Far better than nothing at all.

The key may be more brutalist user interfaces.

That's a great idea. I also like the idea of having a changelog in there too, and key screenshots. Really, WP plugin pages have a great range of info as a guide: eg https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/#developers https://tablepress.org/info/#changelog

Good on you. Also, checkout https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778306 "Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC"

I think it's important to attach a bunch of people to any given startup (you've already done it.) Going forward, I'd expect more startups to behave like bands. Any 1 person can be attached to a number of bands, but eventually one of these bands will make it big and the members will get locked-in. Staff also bring users, credibility and hence traction early on.

"If you want something done, ask a busy person."

It's a good idea. Why not ask startups to upload a startup.txt (as opposed to robots.txt) to their web root and collect from that? Pre-filled text forms can be downloaded. Also, as with CB, collect data on individuals through a similar opt-in. Enable users to ping your site when it's ready to collect.

You could have a "traction" stat and ask for a JS snippet be installed on homepages or a set of pages. Old school and unreliable. Registered users is also a good way to assess traction. Not sure how that information could be readily obtained.

In my previous comment I mentioned attaching a crypto address to domains - you could do that too. That'd be interesting. One feature you could add long-term is crowdfunding. Either for new features, code releases, media, documents - whatever.

Crowdfunding activity on startups and individuals would be a great way to measure traction.

Yeah, if there's a commercial site running on FOSS, it seems a disservice not to give back to support those efforts if the option comes up. Closes the loop. Every web page should really have a crypto address attached to it, or at least the ones that are open to receiving something back.

Maybe a DNS-like system for crypto addresses would be a good thing for Craig to setup? One probably already exists. Maybe something like [existing domain].coin - and people can claim their .coin domain by verifying their [existing domain] first.

What happens if 100 billionaires start wanting to offload cash? How can that be efficiently and effectively managed?

Speaking or CL - lots of dormant cities. Shouldn't there be a https://cityname.craigslist.org/feed link to get RSS updates if/when something actually gets posted? Good way to help "starting up" cities.

Yep. Verifying is good practice.

Regarding Wordpress, I've found it still lacks a decent search plugin. Could you make one? Charge for it, accept outside pings, take in full feeds and provide a search box in return for subsequent display on individual sites.

Also, pitch your aggregator as well as something that'll "pull in more engaged readers into your site." Perhaps the search box could be "search this site only" / "search all engineered blogs."

You could also make the plugin free, but charge for accepting more than 10(?) pings per month. If you create a specialized LLM, you could also offer some type of shared ownership too to encourage cooperation.

Crowdsourcing content is another interesting area to watch where writers propose an article and it gets funded beforehand. Those articles could end up being open-source ideas with actionable information. Having built up a reputation and readership would make successful crowdfunding more likely.

It's a salient point.

I think solar panels in space (where it's always sunny and the panels can be paper thin and orders of magnitude more efficient) with wireless transmission to Earth would be ideal. But I'm sure there are technologies out there that are either secret, dangerous-to-know or just suppressed that never get the attention they deserve due to vested interests. I also like the idea of speeding up radioactive decay with lasers or (safely??) shooting radioactive waste into space.

"Nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water."

But good luck finding a better alternative.

Solar panels require very high heat to manufacture and are difficult/costly to recycle. Channeling or capturing energy from a different dimension would be best. I wonder how the ancients did it... or investigate downed UFOs... or take a trip into the future. But then stay quiet because it's more than just a crisis of energy, it's a crisis of conscience!

Yep, you could have an options menu (like at hcker.news) and have the ability to switch the summaries off or even extend them? Could also make them blacker and larger?

Also, looks like ArticlesBase stopped in 2024 - maybe offer a way for users to upload articles, summarize them and then people can micropay to read? Maybe just charge for older articles? Can also charge for extra long articles? Put everything into an LLM?

The summaries are a great idea.

It would be interesting to extract devices and inventions from articles to create an "inventions race" (as opposed to "arms race.") It could be used to establish prior-art and negate a lot of expensive and unnecessary patents that end up going nowhere or used for trolling. That's something I have been thinking about for tinkeri.ng. Something comparable to a patent archive - but used for networking and sharing. Would end up looking like a wiki with articles getting pingbacks.

To concentrate human intelligence in realtime. What are we doing here? Why does it have to be limited to keyboard input?

Yep, but remember the news story "France moves to break encrypted messaging"..

someone proposed it'll end up all being fed into an LLM. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079325

May as well have some opt-in regarding the matter. In the process, news stories could become, well, automated... the interviews are done in the society. The hellish part would be a clanker coming up to you and asking a bunch of probing questions, that's why I think they should be banned. Then again, people could start talking in code words to confuse listeners.

"off the record"

...I think an "on the record" society makes more sense. People wear smart glasses, everything recorded, transcribed and fed into an LLM. People can have a mute button, but generally discouraged. Suitable in the age of prediction markets, high definition streaming and fast software development. Humans can be verified at the door.