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nymag.com 1y ago

Did the Biden Administration 'Debank' Big Crypto Players

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fdic.gov 1y ago

FDIC Releases Documents Related to Supervision of Crypto-Related Activities

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twitter.com 2y ago

Interview with a Social Engineering Hacker

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twitter.com 2y ago

Reddit Says They Invested Excess Cash into BTC and ETH

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www.bogleheads.org 2y ago

Vanguard Blocking Bitcoin ETFs

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www.tabletmag.com 2y ago

A Man Amazon Erased

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Coinbase CEO on Crypto's Regulatory Challenges: An In-Depth Conversation

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www.spglobal.com 3y ago

'Narrow bank' challenges traditional industry model, but Fed pushes back

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twitter.com 3y ago

Bay Area Bed Frame Grants

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blog.celsius.network 4y ago

Crypto Platform Celsius Pauses Withdrawals

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www.cisa.gov 4y ago

North Korean State-Sponsored Apt Targets Blockchain Companies

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yorple.medium.com 5y ago

In Defense of Signal

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status.cloud.google.com 5y ago

Google Cloud Networking reporting issues

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web.archive.org 6y ago

Corruption in Textbook-Adoption Proceedings

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

How Hong Kong’s Protesters Evade Police and Keep the Demonstrations Alive

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www.clearme.com 6y ago

Health Pass by Clear

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

A one-to-one call with his majesty (1999)

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Judge Approves T-Mobile-Sprint Deal Affecting 100M Customers

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www.androidpolice.com 7y ago

U.S. security panel approves T-Mobile/Sprint merger

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www.crypto51.app 8y ago

Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Is anyone else receiving spoofed gmail spam in their inbox?

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www.irmawebcams.com 8y ago

Show HN: A live map of Hurricane Irma cameras

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www.moviepasslocations.com 8y ago

Show HN: MoviePass Locations – Map of Locations That Work with MoviePass

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Noise Cancelling Headphones

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Show HN: Barcode Scanner via MMS

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: What's that site that lets users pay for programming small tasks?

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jsonipv6.com 13y ago

Your IPv6 Address in JSON

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googledevelopers.blogspot.com 13y ago

Turbocharging web sites with new PageSpeed Service optimizations

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Show HN: My First Web App - A Pizza Coupon Search Tool

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I never found a comfortable way to ensure all of my accounts had more than one U2F key associated with them. I always wished there was a way to have 2 physical U2F keys, one on me, and by adding one to an account, both would work.

As is, I had to either:

- Keep both on me, and add both - I am at risk of losing both at the same time

- Keep one one me, one in a safe - I have to keep track of which device I've added to which service, and periodically take the backup one out of the safe and iterate through the "new" services

I was never satisfied with either approach, so I ended up with an OTP app with backups.

Interesting to see, but I also think more and more usage is moving towards subscriptions, which isn't captured by this metric.

(both my personal and corporate use has done exactly this)

If you intend to use VulnHunter on Anthropic's first-party platforms (Claude API / Claude Code), we strongly recommend enrolling first via the verification portal.

Has anyone actually had success with this? I applied for my company several weeks ago, and never heard back.

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

Which limit? Weekly or 5 hour?

I've been using it with hermes and some coding (with opencode), and I am getting a LOT more than one feature out of it, but the work is spread throughout the week.

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

Looks like I have access to gpt-5.6-terra and luna. How does one decide between gpt-5.5 and gpt-5.6-terra? Pricing is similar, but it's hard to tell if it's better..

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

I personally use opencode so I can swap between models and try different options. I'd say I prefer claude (fable and opus 4.8) so far, but curious to see where gpt 5.6 lands.

For personal stuff, I've been pretty happy with chatgpt's $20 plan. I believe it has considerably higher limits than claude's $20 plan, and it's enough for the personal stuff I play with (hermes, and some small coding stuff). Also allows me to keep up to date on openai models.

Agreed. To me this feels like the perfect solution for websites and ai crawlers. Instead of having crawlers paying proxy services and captcha solvers, they can pay the website itself. As a web scraper, I'd happily pay the website provider to get access if it meant easy access to the content. Heck, as a human, I'd pay to avoid the dumb captchas.

Grok 4.3 3 months ago

Gemini thinks my name is my brother in law's name, and despite explicitly telling it that's not my name + digging through the settings, it still amusingly calls me the wrong name.

I am hunting for houses - I've used it as an assistant that catalogs them (but it has this stored in multiple places and will give me the wrong list a lot). I also had it read through my emails and create a doc with my upcoming trips.

I'd say it's right on the edge of being useful, but given the number of bugs, it's not really that practically useful. It's moreso a glimpse into the future.

I've found this to be the case as well. My typical workflow is:

1. Have the ai come up with an implementation plan based on my requirements

2. Iterate on the implementation plan / tweak as needed, and write it to a markdown file

3. Have it implement the above plan based on the markdown file.

On projects where we split up the task into well defined, smaller tickets, this works pretty well. For larger stuff that is less well defined, I do feel like it's less efficient, but to be fair, I am also less efficient when building this stuff myself. For both humans and robots, smaller, well defined tickets are better for both development and code review.

It even has a sprinkle of the silly "wow very technology!" aesthetic pandering that's typical of EVs.

I've never heard it referred to that way, but you nailed the description.

Back in 2019 I created a Google Spreadsheet titled "family debts" that allows my family (4 siblings and my parents) to record when we owe each other money, and periodically settle up. I later learned that I recreated Splitwise, but having something like this with trusted folks has been hugely useful. We have over thousand entries, and use it constantly for splitting gifts, buying something at the store for someone, etc.

Om Friday after Thanksgiving I spent half a day building a telegram bot that accepts an address and a list of Amazon links, and in turn orders the item (at a discount since it uses my Amazon credit card), and adds it to the above "family debts" spreadsheet.

I really like the idea of programmable, trusted lending like this, and feel like it could be extended to other groups that you implicitly trust.