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4e1a

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/operatordd3; my proof: https://keybase.io/operatordd3/sigs/qy6FBE2gO2tu4_cn_-frM8V4oKze4QsiCz7PrE59J3E ]
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4e1a··on Designing a Permanent Personal Identity – Urbit
Got an invite? Hard spending money on an UrbitID when I cant access a demo or anything. Logging in with MetaMask does nothing.
4e1a··on Ask HN: Looking for Cryptography Courses
Try https://www.cryptopals.org/
4e1a··on I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked
What does this have to do with anything related to HackerNews? Go fuck yourself.
4e1a··on Show HN: Spy Codes: free booklet for kids (2018)
I did also. I would check out the same three code-making/spy club books from my elementary school library.

Now that I have kids I will see how it fares with them.

Thanks for sharing!

4e1a··on When we say “Everest is crowded,” this is what we mean
I read "smbc" as "xkcd" and immediately aggreed with your comment.
4e1a··on Retro: A Modern, Pragmatic Forth
I just wanted to say "Thank You!" For jonesforth. I don't know how many times i've read it. It's probably what made everything "click" for me, so "thanx"
4e1a··on How many ways are there to sort GUIDs?
Or try KSUID [0]. K-Sortable Unique IDs. I'm not affiliated, just easy to code from scratch and sortable.

[0] - https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid

4e1a··on Who Killed Lard? (2012)
After skimming the comments i was upset it was not about the band Lard.
4e1a··on Ask HN: What is the black bar on the top of HN?
Not a true statement. Where are you searching? I can find nothing to explain this other than the comment below about someone dying, but that doesn't explain anything either.
4e1a··on AT&T Collaborates with NSA spying via a web of secret buildings in the U.S
I think they failed to mention other sites. Here in Springfield Missouri we have an AT&T building which seems highly fortified like what is described in the article.
4e1a··on 50 Worst U.S. Cities to Live In
Woohoo! Where I live is ranked #8!
4e1a··on Ask HN: Why is nature so brutal
Being empathetic does not put food in my gut. It might get you a date and a plate, but does not provide a career.
4e1a··on Order of the Shadow Wolf Cyberzine 5
I agree. I'm using Firefox mobile and can't find a way to make this actually monospaced.
4e1a··on Show HN: A Brutalist-Design Chat Web App
I tried it on android and when you press space it makes you wait to type again
4e1a··on Firefox Quantum fails the Acid3 Test (And is slower than 30fps for some tests)
On my Android I see this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V7LHP1arMMEKnCaPIWjZvZKFhq1...
4e1a··on Russian Peasant Multiplication
I completely suck at calculus, but have a great need for kernels. I am an intermediate programmer/musician and I use them for audio convolution[0].

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_reverb

4e1a··on Password Algorithms
Give each user a random salt. Hash each subsection of the password with their salt and store that. No need for plaintext.
4e1a··on Ask HN: 15 lines of code to represent yourself
Never done before, but this is roughly what is currently in my clipboard:

function digest(s) --return crc32(s)..adler32(s) --return hmac_sha1(pass,s) return sha1(s) end

function phe_encode(s) t = {} for i = 1, #s do t[i] = digest(s:sub(1,i)) end return t end

4e1a··on Ask HN: Anyone interested in a darknet Dropbox alternative?
Yes! I have been looking for something like this! If it works good I would even pay for that service.
4e1a··on Tell HN: ProtonVPN is awful
I've been using it on my android phone with no problems, and without paying a dime. Not sure why all the negativity.
4e1a··on Ask HN: What was your best manager like? Your worst?
I met my wife-to-be when she was my manager.
4e1a··on SQRL – Secure Quick Reliable Login
I have a backup of my SQRL keys for when this goes mainstream. I really like the idea, but am not hopeful it will become widely adopted.
4e1a··on Show HN: Convert HTML to markdown with python
I completely agree. I had made something similar in lua and it was very fun and I found many md to html converters, but not the other way around. HTML parsing is what made me 'pause' development on that tool.
4e1a··on Aphex Twin is up to something, hints embedded in obscure website
This is too kool! It looks like a timestamp counting down followed by aphex twin jumbled.
4e1a··on How would you beam an AI to mars?
Use the InterPlanetary File System. https://ipfs.io/

I think it's 'physical usefulness' would already be shipped via rocket or some other sling-shot.

4e1a··on Ask HN: Where do you live?
SGF: Springfield, Missouri, USA
4e1a··on Show HN: Unpepefy – Making Twitter Great Again
Also for FF https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpepefy-maki...
4e1a··on Ask HN: What keeps you going?
Good question. Noone that I know gives a shit about programming or hacking and the music I record is pretty much misunderstood, so I'm not sure really what gets me out of bed. Just hard headed I guess.
4e1a··on Easy 6502 – How to get started writing 6502 assembly language
That's sounds friggin awesome fun! FORTH on a '6502' may be nightmarish to some but not to me. So many new 'words' to make.
4e1a··on [dead]
I cant even access this because of the bad ssl used by the site. What is this?
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