HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

BitWiseVibe

360 karma · joined May 30, 2023

submissionscomments
BitWiseVibe··on How the Military Will Hack the Election
This is so lacking in specifics. How exactly is the military "targeting" Americans? The article provides no examples
BitWiseVibe··on USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data
Imagine paying a billion dollars for some contract software devs to add tracking cookies to your websites.
BitWiseVibe··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Thank you for everything you do Fredrik. Very happy to be a customer of a company that supports freedom and privacy for everyone regardless of views.
BitWiseVibe··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
It could be automated action based on abuse reports. TONS of spam comes from Railway associated networks.
BitWiseVibe··on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
As someone who runs some public APIs, the amount of spam from Railway IPs is insane. They have horrible abuse prevention. Hopefully this encourages them to improve their operations.
BitWiseVibe··on Googlebook
so.. a chromebook with extra ai slop?
BitWiseVibe··on Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal
NIMBYism comes in all colors
BitWiseVibe··on Public Makes Millions on Plunging Crypto
The article comes to a completely incorrect conclusion by fundamentally misunderstanding what moves prices. The price of Bitcoin declines in USD terms when there is more net selling of Bitcoin than buying. If Bitcoin is sold by "crypto bros", only then do they have cash to "[push] up the price of items in short supply, like houses, and tickets to big-name concerts and major sports events". If you wanted the price of other scarce assets to decline, you would hope that more capital flows into Bitcoin or Crypto or something else that you don't care about.
BitWiseVibe··on Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth?
Maybe a government job
BitWiseVibe··on DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia
I'm curious how the Bitcoin was actually seized, given that the indictment says the perp is still at large and held the Bitcoin in self custodied wallets.
BitWiseVibe··on The Atlantic Did Me Dirty
> So when I ask them to code switch further into the recesses of linguistic history to read Shakespeare, the struggle is real.

Reading difficult texts is how you get better at reading?? If students are not struggling at all they are not learning. But the author seems more interested in validating students identities or whatever than actually helping them learn.

BitWiseVibe··on Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained
The cost basis of the asset can be "The fair market value (FMV) of the property on the date of the decedent's death".

Source: https://www.irs.gov/faqs/interest-dividends-other-types-of-i...

BitWiseVibe··on [dead]
I always ask people with e/acc in bio, "what are you building?" and the answer has never been anything interesting or useful.
BitWiseVibe··on Silicon Valley's Online Ideologues Are in Model Collapse
Echo chambers and media bias are a universal problem; it certainly doesn't only affect tech billionaires. Maybe we expect "elites" to be less biased and consume information in a more intelligent way than the general public? TBH Silicon Valley still leans overwhelmingly left of center, and the individuals the author mentions are able to draw so much attention because they are an exception to the historic ideology of Silicon Valley.
BitWiseVibe··on An exploration of Bluesky's public opening
I've never heard a convincing pitch for BlueSky over Mastodon/fediverse in the decentralized social media debate. Anyone want to give it a go?
BitWiseVibe··on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
Wouldn't you have to prove damages in a lawsuit like this? What damages does Musk personally suffer if OpenAI has in fact broken their contract?
BitWiseVibe··on Porn company makes millions by shaming porn consumers
We're not talking about the NSA here. We're talking about copyright trolls trying to pick up low-hanging fruit with a dragnet of lawsuit threats. If they can't pick up your information from subpoenaing the ISP that manages the offending IP, then I doubt they'd go to further effort to hunt you down.
BitWiseVibe··on The Free Movie
MSCHF probably knows what they're doing in terms of copyright at this point, lol.