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mhluongo

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Founder @thesis_co, incubated @fold_app, @keep_project, @taho_xyz, @embodyspace

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github.com 4mo ago

Show HN: Shrouded, secure memory management in Rust

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dapp.test.tbtc.network 6y ago

Show HN: TBTC – Bitcoin on Ethereum

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ln.pizza 7y ago

Show HN: 5% off when you order pizza with Lightning

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medium.com 8y ago

How to kill Equifax with Ethereum and multiparty computation

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decentralize.today 8y ago

Mixers and ring signatures

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decentralize.today 8y ago

Private and permissioned ledgers

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medium.com 8y ago

Zero-knowledge proofs, Zcash, and Ethereum

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medium.com 8y ago

Mixers and ring signatures

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www.coindesk.com 11y ago

Fold’s Scannable Barcode App Streamlines Bitcoin Payments

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blog.cardforcoin.com 11y ago

Our next app (spend Bitcoin at Target)

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Pitching a two-sided market

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blog.cardforcoin.com 12y ago

Exchange Target Cards for Bitcoin

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blog.cardforcoin.com 12y ago

Students, alums and faculty, turn your free Bitcoin into free coffee

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cardforcoin.com 12y ago

Show HN: Trade your Starbucks gift card for Dogecoin

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coinforcoffee.com 12y ago

Show HN: 10% off at Starbucks when you buy with Bitcoin

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Bitcoin business unexpectedly taking off, help!

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www.digitaltrends.com 12y ago

New website lets you trade Starbucks gift cards for Bitcoin

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cardforcoin.com 12y ago

Show HN: Sell your Starbucks giftcards for Bitcoin

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www.bountysource.com 12y ago

Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django)

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www.bountysource.com 12y ago

Fund the latest release of neo4django

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ristrettoapi.com 13y ago

Show HN: an API to pull Facebook-style thumbnails and abstracts for a URL

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mattluongo.com 13y ago

Neo4django 0.1.8 released

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scholrly.tumblr.com 13y ago

Scholrly Launches Comments for Academic Papers

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scholrly.tumblr.com 13y ago

Discuss Computer Science Papers on Scholrly

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scholr.ly 13y ago

Show HN: A new take on academic search

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www.boston.com 13y ago

Zynga closes Boston office

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www.cbsnews.com 13y ago

Global Bacon Shortage Unavoidable

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mattluongo.com 13y ago

Neo4django 0.1.7 released and some common misconceptions

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blog.scholr.ly 13y ago

Scholrly - Beta Invites Away

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mattluongo.com 13y ago

Sponsor My Time at a Startup Accelerator

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Interested in the implied strategy - that training a bespoke model for what you need will make economic sense over using a mass-trained model. I wonder if that's true?

I expect them to give a shit, yeah. Just like they should care about what they read or watch, or who they hang out with.

Don't let your kids have an internet-connected phone, or keep it locked down so they don't have parasitic apps preying on their pre-frontal immaturity until they're old enough to handle it.

All of this needs to be done intentionally, of course, or it will feel like the kids are being punished. But I can't emphasize this enough... it's our job as parents to raise our kids.

Sure! With my kids it's meant not buying them internet-enabled devices (or disabling the internet access, eg smart TVs), only having 1 family computer in a shared space, and managing my own local network. There also aren't screens in the house through the week.

On the flip side, I let them read whatever they want, including things that are upsetting or that other parents would say aren't appropriate, and I talk to them about what they've read.

Overall, I think these policies have meant more thoughtful media consumption, and more time outside and with friends. I'm not enough of a fool to think our rules are enforced at friends' houses, but we've chosen to live in a community that's largely on the same page.

None of this stuff is easy, but as a parent, it's the job.

By that logic, from my perspective - your family life, as we're practicing it today, it a car without a steering wheel.

The church down the street from me, that I have nothing to do with, is a car without a steering wheel. My local town, of which I'm only 1 member, is a car without a steering wheel.

Just because you see a system that you don't understand or control doesn't mean it's dangerous. The first instinct shouldn't be to centralize power.

Iroh 1.0 1 month ago

Hi! As someone who has historically built on libp2p, I'd love to see an updated comparison focused on app developers!

Last year, I was trying to choose between the two and went with that I know... but it feels like there's real momentum on Iroh's side.

My understanding - "insider trading" is specifically for securities, and brought by the SEC. The equivalent for commodities is called "market manipulation", brought by the CFTC. Market manipulation is a much harder thing to prove than insider trading.

This kind of reminds me of the OpenSea "insider trading" scandal. [0]

Not a lawyer, not legal advice, etc.

[0] https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2025/09/...

if they saw me romanticizing the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain?

Speaking for myself, I'd find that very interesting! I just stumbled over an article about it a few days ago, and don't think it's weird that different parts of the world would be interested in a regional business phenomenon.

Direct counterpoint: I've been a Dell XPS 13 stan for years (owned 3), and my other laptop today is a System 76. I've run IT for labs at a major university (Georgia Tech), across Windows, RHEL, and MacOS. I've been a desktop Linux user since 2006, both personally and professionally.

Across those, I've repaired plenty of laptops. I mentioned the RAM above because it's recent, and because it's easy. And I don't just mean physically easy - I mean I can find the part with a quick search, and it's just like any other ecommerce thing. That's a big shift from figuring out how to upgrade most laptops, where your top search result is a forum post or pushing you to talk to a tech.

Not breathless, but it is a breath of fresh air.

Happy Framework 13 user here to say this.

I recently realized the 32Gb I had originally spec'd isn't enough for work lately. Easy fix, I just ordered more RAM.

Pretty straightforward value prop here. If that's not why you want, buy a different device.