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sdan··on What Kind of Genius Makes a Traceable, Illicit Payment on Cash App?
I went on Venmo's public feed once and a handful of the dozens of transactions I scrolled through were clearly regarding something illicit... sometimes they were spelled out clearly lol.

I hope they know they're posting all their transactions publicly.

sdan··on Security Breach at US Universities
They send all sort of weird stuff (lots of odd phising test emails similar to this one) so this was not completely unexpected.

But the wording the link was a bit off and I really didn't think much of it and moved on

sdan··on Security Breach at US Universities
I got that email and immediately went to onion [dot] dog just to check out the site... was pretty clear it was some weird onion gateway so I decided not to go to the link.
sdan··on Beach High School
On google it seems like this "school" is a regular home
sdan··on UiPath Inc S-1 SEC Form
I believe it was 13 years to get from $0 to 1m in ARR? Am I mistaken?
sdan··on UiPath Inc S-1 SEC Form
I find it crazy they were able to go from 1m to 100m in ARR in 18 months
sdan··on Little League wants all your information
I was in Little League around 10 years ago and my parents are certain it was them who sold our info (SSN included) to advertisers since we got all sorts of junk mail and email all the time right after I joined. I'm surprised they're still doing it nowadays.
sdan··on Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors
As I said, stocks are inherently risky and should not open positions thinking you’ll strike it rich overnight; what I am saying is that robinhood swiftly stopped retail price action ( because most retail volume is from RH) which caused the price to plummet. Volume for amc and gme also got split for the day yesterday compared to Tuesday (which can be blamed because other brokers also eventually stopped trading these stocks later in the day).
sdan··on Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors
And right after saying they don't have any liquidity problems said, "We're #1 on the app" while retail investors were losing millions because of expiring options/stocks. Absolutely tone-deaf.

Not denying that all securities have risks, but that was a bad response imo.

sdan··on Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors
One interesting thing that happened today as I was selling my AMC stock/options is that they executed lightning quick. Normally Robinhood (especially this morning) takes time to sell these options, yet they were immediately picked up.

Would be crazy to think short sellers were buying up all the sell side stocks/options while retail were panic selling, to hedge against their shorts.

sdan··on Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2021)
Try the Octal app(ios afaik), I love it

You can also change colors by setting some uBlockOrigin filters, forgetting where exactly I got the filters from

sdan··on Simple Bank Is Closing
I do this. I've moved everything from my bank into RH because its far easier to play around with money to both deposit and withdraw. I'm seeing similar trends among my college friends.
sdan··on Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ battery tech: sources
They acqui-hired Drive.ai which given their team, seems to be most of their self driving team.

I live in their area and haven't seen any Apple cars for years, just Lexus' with a ton of sensors plastered on top, which is their self driving team (part of their SPG division).

sdan··on Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching its URL with a HTTP GET
In the recent past, I've seen Twitter harshly ban account I randomly make. Sometimes its weeks before they ask for a phone number and if you don't have a real number (iirc they check against VoIP) they won't unrestrict you. If you have the same IP as other account I think they also might auto restrict you.
sdan··on Vercel raise $40M Series B
I use Heroku; gets the job done and is simple.
sdan··on Vercel raise $40M Series B
Yeah, you'd have to host them yourself. So suppose you have a basic webapp with users logged in a DB:

Vercel(Frontend -> Serverless functions) -> DB

sdan··on Vercel raise $40M Series B
Vercel basically makes frontend dev super easy. You can literally type in "vc" in your terminal (after installing their cli) and it'll build and deploy everything you have locally in seconds (think React or Nextjs, a React framework).

You can also use their serverless functions; which add "backend" functionality to your existing frontends. You can deploy these serverless functions in a bunch of languages (see docs) but personally I've used them in Nextjs's baked-in functionality of api routes to basically add an endpoint for mutating/querying to/from my DB for example.

sdan··on Google outage – resolved
HN is also down because everyone is checking whether Google is down
sdan··on Steve Wozniak launches Efforce, a blockchain-based energy-saving platform
Was trying to figure out if this was a Deepfake.

If it is, they're getting good.

Otherwise, I don't see how they'll offset the carbon cost of the coin itself; which is a paradox I don't think they can overcome if I'm understanding this correctly.

sdan··on Show HN: A souece analyser help you to understand code efficiently
What other source analysers are there for something like VSCode?
sdan··on Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
It's weird to think P2P is becoming all the craze for "privacy" while it's the backbone of the internet: it is p2p. It's just nowadays its more of P2(big cloud servers)2p; which could be a good thing depending on who you ask and your usecases.
sdan··on Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
The

  <detail>
      <summary>
          Title
      </summary>
      Content
  </detail>
tag allows you to do that iirc. I use it on my site and works fine to hide things that you can expand upon when clicked.
sdan··on Self-host your fonts for better performance
Makes sense now that cross-site resources can't be shared (previously your Google Font loaded on another site, which is downloaded into your local cache could be used, but it seems like that isn't possible anymore).
sdan··on I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”
Yeah most of the dataset most NLP models use is common crawl; most of which contains Reddit, which is probably at gpt3 is giving those sorts of results.
sdan··on Mvp.css – build your landing page with only semantic HTML
Haha np, I actually posted newcss on HN as well (and use it on my personal site)!
sdan··on Mvp.css – build your landing page with only semantic HTML
Repo of a bunch of other drop-in stylesheets: https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css

You can try them all out here as well: https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/

sdan··on Transitioning from Docker to Podman
> One of Podman’s greatest advantages is its complete CLI compatibility with Docker. In fact, when building Podman, Docker users can adapt without any significant changes. For example, you can use the alias command to create a docker alias for Podman: `alias docker=podman`

Wow that's a great adoption hack; just alias another program as another

sdan··on Google plans to shut down Google Voice integration with classic Hangouts
At this point, I'm just waiting for Google Voice to be axed.

I've used it for text/call verification stuff and anything where I don't think its necessary to give my primary number for.

Might get a burner phone when they do in that case.

sdan··on Show HN: Tecktok – Triplebyte for Singaporean, Indonesian and Indian Engineers
> You have experience with Javascript, HTML, CSS and other front-end frameworks

Hate to be a stickler but it should be:

> You have experience with Javascript, HTML, CSS, and/or front-end frameworks

Since neither JS, HTML, or CSS is a "front-end" framework. They're scripting/markup languages

sdan··on Document your code just by hitting “record”
This sorts of videos would be much better if you could record keystrokes instead of the video; since coding is mostly just text based (and would be nice if you could copy straight from the video somehow).
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