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neb_bon "the era of humans writing code is over" – creator of Node.js

Full tweet from Ryan Dahl:

> This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.

neb_bon Verizon outages reported across U.S.

downdetector is showing a lot of down mobile networks & services

neb_bon Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792

fun video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3_95BZYIVs

neb_bon Airtable is relaunching as an AI app builder

https://x.com/howietl/status/1937577526634987595

neb_bon Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

Ah, i thought it used the model selected for your prompts, either way, it seems to work very well

neb_bon Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

You can use it in Cursor - called "Cursor Tab"

IMO Cursor Tab performs much better than Co-Pilot, easily works through things that would cause Co-Pilot to get stuck, you should give it a try

neb_bon [dead]

the website is up we have multiple databases that are still down

neb_bon Render Is Down

Their status page says operational, but even their main website https://render.com is down

edit: website is back up

neb_bon Tell HN: Npmjs.com seems to be down for scoped packages

Seems like an issue with ~aws~ cloudflare. There are a lot of reported issues on Downdetector

neb_bon Bitcoin has rallied. What are crypto’s true believers still smoking?

Using the lightning network is faster and cheaper

neb_bon Bitcoin has rallied. What are crypto’s true believers still smoking?

What about instantly sending money to Africa very cheaply?

neb_bon Bitcoin has rallied. What are crypto’s true believers still smoking?

Do you have stats for that?

neb_bon FTX's downfall and crypto's Bitcoin betrayal

Subheadline

> Bitcoin was a genuine technological innovation. But the crypto industry has become filled with scams, Ponzi schemes and bad actors.

neb_bon Replit Mobile App

This is mostly aimed at people who don't have the luxury of coding from a computer.

See this tweet from the CEO: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1582754947480793093

> We partnered with @TeamMindjoy to test the app by teaching girls how to code in a South African township and we made a video about it. During this time the wifi was super unstable and the few laptops they had were unusable, but kids continued to code on $100 Android phones!

neb_bon Show SN: usdebt.wtf

Thanks for sharing the link. I like that the bet winnings are donated to charities.

I have no interest to bet with you.

neb_bon Show SN: usdebt.wtf

As US debt continues to spiral, I believe the likelihood of bitcoin overtaking the dollar as global reserve currency increases.

neb_bon Show SN: usdebt.wtf

I built a debt clock website inspired by https://www.usdebtclock.org to explore some of the US Treasury APIs and learn more about Supabase - also to spend some more time working with data since I mostly do front-end work.

It's very basic now with a couple bitcoin stats as well, and after digging into these APIs it's really amazing how much data usdebtclock.org has to offer. The API is not very easy to work with. I hope to add some more data soon though.

code is here: https://github.com/neb-b/debtclock

neb_bon When will Bitcoin move to proof of stake?

It's not bitcoin if it uses proof of stake

neb_bon A $3B Silk Road seizure will erase Ross Ulbricht’s debt

He was never charged for that

neb_bon There is a new all time high in number of Bitcoin nodes running

They verify transactions and are important to the network

neb_bon James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature

SmarterEveryDay also has a really interesting episode about the sun shield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu97IiO_yDI

neb_bon Ask HN: Why do negative crypto articles dominate on HN?

You don't, but all of this makes it harder to track.

Even if the government can track you through all of this, you can setup your private keys in a way that your family can still access your money if the government arrests you.

neb_bon Ask HN: Why do negative crypto articles dominate on HN?

You can use a protocol that doesn't allow for a centralized coordinator with insight into the coin paths, like samourai whirlpool. It could potentially be logging ip's but can be accessed through vpn/tor

neb_bon Ask HN: Why do negative crypto articles dominate on HN?

There are ways to avoid your transactions being tracked. Coinjoin transactions, purchasing a miner for non-kyc bitcoin, payments on the lightning network, etc

Also, they can do all of those things, but you can setup your private keys in a way that your family will still have access to the bitcoin even if you are killed

neb_bon Ask HN: Why do negative crypto articles dominate on HN?

Sure for smaller proof of work coins, and maybe today. It would require a massive amount of money, energy, coordination, and time - and it's getting harder to do as the total hashpower grows every day.

neb_bon Ask HN: Why do negative crypto articles dominate on HN?

There are ways to avoid your transactions being tracked. Coinjoin transactions, purchasing a miner for non-kyc bitcoin, payments on the lightning network, etc

neb_bon Ask HN: Why do negative crypto articles dominate on HN?

It allows for uncensorable transactions. Which is an improvement to people living in authoritarian countries with governments trying to stop its citizens from saving and transacting freely.

neb_bon Ask HN: Why do negative crypto articles dominate on HN?

The key is that they can look at the ledger, but not alter the ledger. But also privacy improvements to the bitcoin protocol, privacy focused transactions like coinjoins, and payments on the lightning network help hide that even more.

neb_bon Ask HN: Why do negative crypto articles dominate on HN?

I think it's more that it's delivering in a practical way to people that live in authoritarian governments with currencies that are more unstable than bitcoin. In places where the citizens have to deal with their governments literally trying to steal their hard assets.

For those of us who live in countries with a good banking system and mostly stable currencies (which is most of hn), bitcoin isn't a necessity.

neb_bon What is Web3? NFTs? DeFi? I’m going to save you a lot of time: They’re scams

The leading blockchain surveillance company put out a crime report that estimated just 0.15% of cryptocurrency transactions involved illicit activity.

> In fact, with the growth of legitimate cryptocurrency usage far outpacing the growth of criminal usage, illicit activity’s share of cryptocurrency transaction volume has never been lower.

https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-crypto-crime-repor...