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This is really cool, time to dust off an old PowerPC. I've been thinking about building apps for old Mac OS versions for a while with the advent of LLMs, glad to see someone is doing it.

Yes, same. I am now really curious for someone to culture bread tags, milk tops and fruit stickers.

...and further imagine the science that could be done if we mass manufactured probes rather than using experimental engineering for each one. We could have had dozens of Voyager probes in the outer reaches of our solar system by now.

I would have loved to see more Huygens probes dropped to the surface of Titan or more New Horizons zoom past Pluto.

I don't think human spaceflight is to blame, rather it's what connects taxpayers to space exploration as an inspirational human pursuit. But, I do agree that can be more efficient with how we spend those dollars all around.

Agreed. Phrases like "journalists are currently gooning over OpenAI and Anthropic" really put me off. It's a poor attempt at modern muckraking; cheeky yet offering little substance.

It's difficult to take articles like this seriously when they use hyperbole like "...the most evil industry the planet has ever seen [oil]", never mind things like chattel slavery.

I don't own an EV and am sympathetic to the idea that other road users are far more damaging and thus should pay more, however, I would much prefer a flat tax over some insidious Federal tracking device that monitors how much I drive.

Worse yet, you might not have a choice; the article notes that “sprinklers are already required in all new California homes built in 2011 and later.”

I've found that releasing and maintaining production Android apps has become more difficult in the last decade as compared to iOS which (surprisingly) has improved slightly.

Google Play removed a perfectly functional NFC utility app we released after a year of no updates (despite the fact that it didn't require any to work on the latest Android version at the time). By contrast, the App Store doesn't care as long as we continue to pay the annual developer fee.

We opted to open source the app and let users sideload the app as an alternative; now that will be far more difficult as we are no longer "verified" Google Play developers.

Really unfortunate, glad I'm not an Android user myself.

Make rice and beans, accept founders, hire batch partners and launch founders via demo day...to take over the universe.

United sadly removed games from its in-flight entertainment so I can no longer trounce 6 year old Magnus.

One simple solution here (and for all sorts of legislated fines and thresholds) would be to tie them to inflation; it looks like the fine of $5,000 dates to the early 90s.

I'm playing with modifying a BitAxe design (https://github.com/bitaxeorg) by allowing for more chips on a single board. It's theoretically pretty simple, but locating a buck that can handle the current I want to support is tricky!

I'm toying around with a custom board and searching here is far better than shuffling through the old Digikey filters. Awesome!

Huh, an arbitrary tax from a remote sovereign. Sounds familiar.

Congratulations on the launch! Stablecoins are a powerful use of blockchains and it’s great to see a novel means of distributing them.

A lot of commenters on HN are deeply biased against anything to do with blockchain, so best to ignore the noise here and keep shipping.

Honestly, X is such a cool prefix I would opt for this batch. It sounds like you are part of some skunkworks batch.

The "F" batches are a bit confusing due to the YC Fellowships eons ago whichd I recall were prefixed with "F" as well.

I've heard about these systems, and they indeed sound really cool. Unfortunately living in a 50 year old home with a patchwork of poorly sized ducts, no attic and a tiny crawlspace this will never be economical for me to do.

I want the nuclear future with practically emission free power that's 'too cheap to meter'. I want to stop caring about SEER ratings and be able to leave windows cracked all seasons to bring in fresh air. I want power companies that keep brush and trees away from their lines.

Until that happens, I'll hang onto my gas furnace and water heaters.

Coins get you into more trouble than cards :)

No, great question. We offer an open source SDK library that can interface with chips today (https://github.com/arx-research/libhalo) and will open source the web app.

Both would allow you to interact with Burner entirely offline as well if you use it for cold storage — libHaLo can easily be used with an off the shelf NFC reader through its CLI interface.

Maybe, but our first customers are people who want to gift crypto.

It turns out that many people don’t spend the gift cards designated for specific retailers, but rather trade or sell them for cash in their local market.

Good question.

We’ve spoken to a lot of people who have done this, and more often than not the recipient in the midst of some life event doesn’t imbue a QR code with value (and loses it/throws it away).

Burner comes with a pre-generated key or you can request that it generate a new key with entropy you supply (in part, it's hashed with entropy from multiple sources). In both cases you always need to trust the hardware, but this is true with any hardware wallet.

I would always recommend using a multisig for storing large amounts of funds regardless of the wallet vendor.

We considered this, but thus far I’ve only had someone ask me if I’m a Burning Man participant after seeing the logo.

Not opposed to doing a Solana variant!

You can just gift ETH. And good news, as a stablecoin backed by dollars USD II is pegged to the dollar so no “pumping” or “dumping”.

There is a massive trillion dollar market around gifting dollars on gift cards today, but you can typically only use them on Visa and Mastercard networks. We think gifting stablecoins is a better way to do that.

The same reason one would use any other stablecoin like USDC, you want to send dollars to someone.

The added benefit is that you don’t need to be worried about sending ETH as well to use USD II. Put another way, if I gift you a Ledger with USDC today, you as a possible crypto newbie need to work out how to get ETH to move that USDC.

You can! We just don’t feature it in the gift card “optimized” mode since we do not subsidize the gas costs for existing stablecoins.

Hmm, thanks for the report. I use uBlock origin as well but I might have it in some more permissive state...