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arcaster··on Large Bitcoin Collider Is Generating Trillions of Keys and Breaking into Wallets
Maybe this is what the future of "treasure hunting" looks like?

Myself and a friend ran a wallet recovery service a while back, brings back memories haha. Very cool work, even as someone who works in the blockchain space.

arcaster··on ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network
This project is cool, but I'm more interested in future releases by the Askasha project.
arcaster··on ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network
I wonder if they could look into using some of the DNS features currently being built by BlockStack?
arcaster··on YouTube will no longer allow creators to make money until they reach 10000 views
Sounds like the "rules" will just be content creators that fit the political motives of YouTube? I consider myself progressive, but I think it's still odd that channels that offer different views or question progressive views still deserve equal treatment by YT.
arcaster··on Ask HN: The most cyberpunk city in the world?
Maybe an unlikely choice, but I actually think Boston, especially chinatown in Boston is incredibly cyberpunk. Yes, I might be biased since I went to school in Boston and a huge fan of the Fallout series.

If I had to give a structure / area outside chinatown, the trench that the commuter lines and orange-line run through are incredibly cyberpunk.

arcaster··on A startup is filling SF's empty luxury rentals
Yeah, this is incredibly common, even in Mountain View. Not just true in luxury rentals with low occupancy, but also in house shares.

However, I still don't quite understand restricted kitchen access and shared living rooms.

arcaster··on Fake news is too big and messy to solve with algorithms or editors 
Fake News is an awfully vague term for censorship.
arcaster··on California Bill Looking to Criminalize 'False' Political Speech
Wow, well I was on the fence when it came to leaving California. Now I'm absolutely certain I'll be leaving. You guys enjoy playing "pin the smugness on the echo-chamber".
arcaster··on Lbry.io – decentralized digital library
Talked to some of the Lbry team members at Coindesk Construct in SF a few months back. You guys are awesome, keep up the good work!
arcaster··on Vibrator Maker to Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use
Just waiting for some scumbag to repost as fake news... "Vault 7 leaks find NSA spying on vibrator use!"
arcaster··on MIT Media Lab giving out $250K cash prize for disobedience
The irony is painful.
arcaster··on Study: Cannabis boosts risk of stroke and heart attack independently of tobacco
I cannot agree more with your sentiment. As a millennial, I can't wait for the surge in lung and oral cancer in about 20 yrs, when the cannabis industry unsurprisingly starts dodging the "real" health negatives of smoking cannabis.
arcaster··on Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
However, an OCL-HashCat benchmark is something I'm definitely looking forward to.
arcaster··on Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Wow, that price point is far better than what I was expecting. Still expensive, but it's below $800.
arcaster··on Build a crawler to crawl million pages with only one machine in just 2 hours
Seems like this wouldn't really be useful to scrape js rendered content or any content of "real" value that had any kind of rate limiting or monitoring enabled. Spreading the ip space and making scraping look like genuine user input is a far greater challenge than spinning up a RMQ cluster.
arcaster··on Learn Python 3 the Hard Way
My first thought when reading this. I still remember this guy's crusade against python 3.
arcaster··on ISPs ask lawmakers to kill privacy rules, and they’re happily obliging
Then run your own openvpn service on a VPS, it's not that hard.
arcaster··on Magic Leap said to be ‘doing 1,000 things badly’ after raising $1.4B
Wouldn't be too surprised if Magic Leap becomes the next Theranos.
arcaster··on Building Code Posters with Elixir
Hey Pete, I was an intern at AdmitHub a while back! Really cool to see some momentum behind a weird language Ive been a huge fan of for a few years.
arcaster··on Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts
I know Amazon AWS has most of their core engineering talent in Austin. The scene is small but strong, this doesn't really reflect on the hiring climate in ATX.

As a true Austinite, I never really considered San Antonio a "tech hub" or indicator of anything in tech.

arcaster··on Space Buckets: DIY Indoor Gardening with LED and Arduinos
Contacted the mods on reddit.
arcaster··on Don't Be a Free User (2011)
VSCO is a curious case.
arcaster··on 3M Novec 7100 Fluid Used in Largest Two-Phase Immersion Cooling Project (2015)
So cool to see the "expanded copper" heat spreaders on these servers. In many cases those heat spreaders are fused to the CPU with indium solder. Cool stuff.
arcaster··on 3M Novec 7100 Fluid Used in Largest Two-Phase Immersion Cooling Project (2015)
A few years back I was able to purchase through a commercial chemical distributor. It's hard to find in 1 gallon glass containers which on their own sell for $300 each. I know hobbyists on bitcoin forums have managed to purchase without an academic institution to back them.
arcaster··on 3M Novec 7100 Fluid Used in Largest Two-Phase Immersion Cooling Project (2015)
I did some research with Novec back in high school, really interesting stuff. It was a hassle to get my hands on, but after going through a chemical supplier that actually flew out a staff chemist to ensure my high school had proper facilities to handle the vapors from Novec I purchased 1 gallon haha. Here's a video summary of my project, essentially just comparing efficiency differences between immersion cooling and air cooling with server hardware. https://vimeo.com/37127378 (Yes, I know the "efficiency savings" numbers at the end are incorrect)

One of the coolest attributes of Novec 7000 (now outdated haha) is that it's viscosity is so low near it's boiling point that it can actually slip through teflon gaskets and even dissolve thermal paste between a CPU and heatsink.

Not sure if Zack Glander is still running Vapor Phaze, but back in 2011 his startup was one of the only private companies I knew of developing hardware to use this cooling tech at scale. He had some cool demos at CES for a few years.

arcaster··on ThinkPad X1 Carbon
I absolutely adore my ThinkPad X201, if there was any way to purchase a pristine new-in-box X201 I would. However, I recently picked up a 3rd gen x1 carbon and absolutely love it compared to my rMBP '15. Sure, it's not quite as fast and the screen isn't quite as good, but I can run a true tiling window manager (not the garbage that is KWM on OSX) and have a unfettered dev platform.

I run Fedora, I like it more than Ubuntu or Debian and like the fact that I don't have to worry about random underlying features breaking all the time when I update (which wasted a ton of my time when I was using Arch Linux).

arcaster··on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 per Fake News Item
Is the German government planning on supplying a regime of government funded (inherently biased) fact-checkers to gauge "fake news" in their country? Otherwise, this plan seems foolishly reactionary.
arcaster··on Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013)
This reminds me of the computer engineering coursework I completed before switching to CS during my time at university. Interesting stuff sure, but a great way to overwhelm a beginner.
arcaster··on Communicate Between Ruby and Elixir Using Erlang Ports and Erlectricity
I understand why the Ruby community has warmed up to Elixir and the Phoenix web-framework, however, I'm curious what the advantage or use-case of having Ruby talk to Elixir in an application is?
arcaster··on A cloud images processing platform
Yes! This was the blog post.
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