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student2kon Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability

Best post ever? The level of details is beautiful. Any plan in releasing an Android app? Thank you

student2kon Ask HN: In which areas have you compared 3+ tools and formed strong preferences?

I was thinking about trying it too, don't your lower back hurt? Or you get used to it?

student2kon Tor is not just for anonymity (2022)

Sad indeed, take a look at BisonRelay, it is built on top of Lightning Network, no surveillance possible, no accounts, true privacy.

https://bisonrelay.org/

Some articles explaining a bit how and why:

https://blog.decred.org/2022/12/09/Trapped-in-the-Web/

https://blog.decred.org/2022/12/14/Bison-Relay-The-Sovereign...

student2kon GPT Might Be an Information Virus

A few more details on why and how BisonRelay :

https://blog.decred.org/2022/12/14/Bison-Relay-The-Sovereign...

https://blog.decred.org/2022/12/09/Trapped-in-the-Web/

https://blog.decred.org/2022/12/02/What-is-wrong-with-Decred...

student2kon Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP

Can you control various android phones from one PC with it? Can't find it in th documentation.

student2kon Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?

Split keyboard is a game changer

student2kon Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress

Good for them, hope they keep working on DF, as there are many things in the roadmap,

student2kon Bison Relay: Peer to Peer social media

https://blog.decred.org/2022/12/14/Bison-Relay-The-Sovereign...

The blog post explaining more why and how.

student2kon Bison Relay: The Sovereign Internet

Here the official website :

https://bisonrelay.org/

Really promising, architecture make a lot of sense.

student2kon Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

This was just released yesterday

https://bisonrelay.org/

Peer to Peer social media. No censorship, no surveillance and no advertising working with Lightning Network.

student2kon Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?

https://bisonrelay.org/

Just have been released yesterday , Peer to Peer social media. No censorship, no surveillance and no advertising, working with Lightning Network.

student2kon I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

nice one but why not split? game changer for me.

student2kon Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

An autobattler team vs team where you need to programe your team to cooperate for win.

student2kon Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”

I do find myself crying alone when get deep into a song I like, it is not sadness, not happy Ness , but overload of powerfull emotion I can describe, could happen with techno, rap, or other music style. I didn't feel this article was referring to the same thing.

student2kon Dwarf Fortress Steam Updates – Release Roadmap

They could even launch it on steam without a playing version people will buy it straight away... Tarn dedication is doubtless.

student2kon Decred proposal: Change PoW/PoS Subsidy Split From 60/30 to 10/80

Well they are selling in malicious way, for example they never put a lot of coins to sell at same time, so if someone wants to buy a lot, it show no liquidity, But you can buy pretty much as much as you want without changing the price, bots keep adding, Another way is they keep adding more when price breakout.

For me it is clear some group of people got an advantage (hardware and electricity price) and do that with a couple of alts projects in order to get more btc.

student2kon Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus

Decred witch is a dao focused on evolving with governance had an interesting block reward split, 60% miners, 30% pos (you get chosen randomly) and 10% tresuary.

Seems miners have been driving the price down for years and a new proposal just was written to give them only 10%, and 80 to stakeholders.

https://proposals.decred.org/record/427e1d4

student2kon I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old

I recently find out a windows folder can't end by a space.. But python for example you can create this folder 'example ' every file you create in this folder will be inaccessible, and impossible to delete.

student2kon Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

is the screenshot working flow better in obsidian now? I like how you can just bind a key to area screenshot in Evernote, then edit the note.

student2kon Bitcoin Killed the King and Now Network Effects Will Determine Its Future

hey did you know about lightning network? for few month now growing and it is specifically for this, using btc for small transactions.

student2kon Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

is there a desktop wallpaper version?

student2kon Tesseract OCR

Make sure you have black text on white background, it turns me crazy after upgrading from 3.0 to 5.0,

student2kon Tesseract OCR

Wish there was an up to date, complete guide for training fonts. I use it for digits and single digits, and it is not 100% accurate even if the image is best quality and I preprocess it well,

student2kon Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

the only things I didn't like of obsidian was working with images was a nightmare, in Evernote you have a shortcut to take an area screenshot, it stores automatically in a folder, then you can write stuff below it, and move it to another folder, really good work flow I miss in obsidian.

student2kon Policies that make the poor less poor

is that me or as long as you get 'free' and good quality, healthcare, education, food, and home, it is kind of OK being poor?

student2kon Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game

Nice, please make a random map generator, (good generation, not just 50% on off), then fog of war, and make an android app please, good job.

student2kon Cbonsai: Grow bonsai trees in your terminal

Nice one, unfortunately there are so little contemplating games, i would love a dwarf fortress style game running in my background , with almost no gameplay intervention.

watching the rise and fall on an empire/colony.

There are galimulatore and worldbox, but we need more.

student2kon On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward [pdf]

Honestly bitcoin core will never need to use it, I will die before,

It is not possible to adapt bitcoin as there is no governance (or a flawed one either accept what miners and few devs want or fractionate the community creating bch) , It is software, software needs to adapt, by definition.

I think the implicit idea that bitcoin will never change helps to grow now, as we get false sentiment of stability, But we are at the mercy of devs/miners.

If you think this is a concern, take a look at decred, is was born to be the best store of value, because it can adapt and evolve through governance, so it can last in time.

student2kon Nano is what Bitcoin hoped to be

I was a nano(I preferer the raiblocks name) I realised that:

-speed of transacion and low fee are really far behind in the priorities list of a store of value item. (most important are security, adaptability for example, that why I think decred will be world changing)

-it is really hard for me to approve the original distribution of coins, pos problem, for me the best would be pow really hard to mine, so futures generations are not that much handicap.

student2kon BTC Endgame

No or flawed governance in bitcoin, check decred