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HackerNews in 2022: Filled with luddites, charlatans, and midwits.
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fourstar··on Show HN: Zordle – Wordle but with zero-knowledge proofs
Pretty cool. Nice work. There's lots of money in the Zcash dev fund (almost $8 million, currently). https://grants.zfnd.org/ Perhaps you might try to build something else and apply for a grant. (I saw zooko retweet you).
fourstar··on Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
According to the proprietor, he claimed that when he went back X days later, the bottle was gone. He took this as a sign that "he liked it". This is a quote from a newspaper.
fourstar··on Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
What a story! Thanks for sharing. I love the bit in there about the lawyer buying the imposter the replica ring. It was written in a pretty unique way. My great great grandfather actually also owned a baseball team named after his signature beer. Random-fact: Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter's husband played for them.
fourstar··on Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
Yeah, a bit obsessed, I reckon. What irks me the most is my late father collected breweriana from the old brewery (serving trays, tip trays, signs, etc.). From what I've heard, after inheriting some of his collection and attending the bottle/breweriana shows he went to, I found out from a couple of dealers, that one of the guys from the brewery has also been collecting. So now I've got competition with deep pockets in an otherwise esoteric hobby.
fourstar··on Big cats in urban jungle: LA mountain lions, Mumbai leopards
Lol. Knock yourself out:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=banding+day

I believe they also stopped doing it at the Big Bear eagle nest.

And for mountain lions: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/13/los-angeles-... no mate yet? Hmm wonder if it could be the huge and unnecessary device strapped around its neck.

fourstar··on Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
Good question. We've talked to various lawyers throughout the years. The crappy part is that the people who resurrected it have hundreds of millions in real estate backed ventures (big $$$), so there's really not much we can do aside from pound sand considering we weren't brewing the beer, or enforcing the trademark. The even weirder thing is that they used his name as their contact email for the longest time on their website, made a brew dedicated to my late grandfather (a pediatrician they never met) based on tongue-depresser airplanes he made for his patients, and even had the gall to leave one of their first bottled brews at my great great grandfather's gravesite.

So the only thing I can do is just raise awareness, and tell people who ask me if there is any relation (when they see/hear my last name) to not support them!

fourstar··on Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
My brother owns (our last name.com). Our great great grandfather started and ran a fairly successful (pre-prohibition) brewery. Someone found out about our last name, trademarked it, and "restarted" the brewery with no relation to anyone in our family. The best part is they feigned ignorance when they "learned" that there were still living descendants in the area...
fourstar··on Big cats in urban jungle: LA mountain lions, Mumbai leopards
It'd be great if they'd stop putting those huge tracking devices around these mountain lions' necks down in SoCal (and elsewhere). Also, not a fan of banding (UC Berkeley Falcons for example). Extremely traumatizing for the animal.
fourstar··on Web3 is the big idea customers didn’t ask for?
Aside: "Web3" is a forced and overloaded name (and category) for all the VCs who wanted to get into crypto, but didn't know how. Similar to the "startup" nomenclature.
fourstar··on Three Arrows Capital reportedly facing insolvency
So if it didn't exist how can you be so sure about dismissing it? It literally is a new paradigm.

EDIT: nice to see all the luddites downvoting me. Guess the meme is true -- we still are early.

fourstar··on The Web's Timeline
Props for listing k10k (which CryptoPunks was heavily inspired from). No mention of E/N (Everything/Nothing) sites, though (markside, john's crawlspace, histandard, badassmofo, chilidog.org, etc, etc)
fourstar··on When Tether Blows Up
Looking at your Twitter, it seems a more apt article would be covering Solana's failure to function as a decentralized blockchain, rather than the same tired re-hashed Tether fud that most new crypto participants parrot.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/12/04/solana-devs-call-al...

https://solana.com/news/04-30-22-solana-mainnet-beta-outage-...

fourstar··on Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
Sure right after we dismember NATO. Oh wait…

EDIT: NATO shills don't like this comment!

fourstar··on I Miss Heroku's DevEx
I recently migrated some apps off Heroku and onto Render. Their global chat while annoying to have on every page was actually very helpful. "Adrian" from render quickly replied to 2 of my separate inquiries within less than 10 minutes. Very close to the Heroku exprience. Plus their free redis tier (I have multiple starter plans) allows way more connections than Heroku's.
fourstar··on Ask HN: Is Heroku Being Sunset?
I suggested you be more clear about this. Seems like you should probably take my advice.
fourstar··on Heroku resetting passwords for “a portion” of their users immediately
not that they're using it, but this is something that a zk proof would be a good solution.
fourstar··on Dan Price, Seattle CEO who lowered his pay to $70K, accused of sexual misconduct
Monkey does monkey things and gets accused by greater monkey community of monkey activity. Civilization is a meme.
fourstar··on Guido van Rossum: Let Web3 die in a flaming ball of fire
Web3 = term created by VCs and the like to commandeer the crypto landscape in their favor ($$$).
fourstar··on Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosquitoes
Humans "interfering" is nature. Lol.
fourstar··on Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser
No need for this to be a website. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94523/simulate-a-sca...
fourstar··on Heroku Security Notification
Hi -- yes this is on the free plan for clarification of the original comment. Good to know. I was testing out the free plans until I upgraded. https://render.com/docs/build-limits I don't see this mentioned anywhere. https://render.com/pricing should maybe show a row/column on the build speed for the different tiers.

Additionally, spinning up the postgres instance was on a paid tier. I contacted support but it self-resolved eventually after I blew away the instance and rebuilt. However, it was queued up for like 8+ hours on the first pass.

fourstar··on Heroku Security Notification
It’s alright but things are still flaky given they are smaller and newer. It hung on spinning up a postgres instance. Builds are slower as well.
fourstar··on Insider Trading at Coinbase
Coinbase is an SEC “compliant” company. What specifically about this company is “deregulated”?
fourstar··on What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers
If you remember Hypah, he went on to some success with slither.io. Plenty of people got their start that way, myself included.
fourstar··on What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers
I do this from time to time! Archive.org.
fourstar··on What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers
For me, Gothic Nightmares.
fourstar··on Kraken shuts down global headquarters because ‘San Francisco is not safe’
...Says the person who must relate everything to politics and politicians...
fourstar··on Kraken shuts down global headquarters because ‘San Francisco is not safe’
>Trump

Must be a huge bummer to not go a day without thinking of him... Rent-free. Still...

fourstar··on “This shouldn’t happen”: Inside the virus-hunting nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance
Oh no! Anyway…
fourstar··on Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and Belarus
By all means. Submit your idea to originality@zombo.com. Tip: a Ukrainian flag emoji in the subject will ensure a prompt reply.
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