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fhinson··on Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty
Perhaps this was the final takedown necessary to pave the way for BTC ETF approval.
fhinson··on Claude 2.1
Very interesting timing of this release, amidst the turmoil at rival Open AI. I wonder if this is a clear play to capture enterprise customers who have been spooked by the drama.
fhinson··on The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
Growing up for me it was Runescape.
fhinson··on Myequifax.com Bypasses Credit Freeze Pin
> SSN and DOB data is widely available for sale in the cybercrime underground on almost all U.S. citizens. This has been the reality for years, and was so well before Equifax announced its big 2017 breach.

Again, I find that this only reinforces the fact that SSNs are not a useful identification system because there's nothing secure about them. Can someone explain where attackers obtain SSN/DOB data with such a widespread success rate?

fhinson··on Show HN: Pare down your S3 Bill; with `du` for AWS S3
Cool utility. Have you considered expanding this tool into a web app of some sort?
fhinson··on Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child
I imagine computer vision is surely the most logical solution to this problem.
fhinson··on Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin [pdf]
"The Zerocash protocol extends Bitcoin and enables users to pay one another directly, via payment transactions that reveal neither the origin, destination, or amount of the payment."

I can't see many governments being happy with a service like this.

fhinson··on Atom Is Now Open Source
Really great news for Atom.

Upon its initial launch, most of the criticism around it pertained to it not being open source. I think we can certainly expect to see its growth overtake that of Sublime Text, and I'm interested to see how the community interest will stack up against other open source editors like Light Table.

Hopefully Atom may join the legendary ranks of Vim and Emacs.