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hggh··on The Slurptop
"A home-built luggable that runs on power tool batteries"
hggh··on Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web
It reminds me of StumbleUpon [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon

hggh··on What Trump Has Built
"Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious."
hggh··on MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust
IBMulator has HDD sounds: https://www.ibmulator.org/
hggh··on OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor
> Bitcoin is slow as well, unusable for payments

Indeed, but fortunately, BTC was forked at the right time

hggh··on OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor
Also BCH + CashFusion for extra privacy
hggh··on OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor
That's an excellent reason to get rid of them and just make P2P cash payments
hggh··on OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor
> or cash come to mind

Did you mean Bitcoin Cash?

hggh··on Map of the world's great castles and fortresses
Wrong title. Wrong not even by two orders of magnitude.
hggh··on "You're fucking crazy": Trump fumes at Netanyahu in call on Lebanon
https://web.archive.org/web/20260601235636/https://www.axios...
hggh··on Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)
That's the first edition (2019), not the second (2025). But both are in annas archive, anyway
hggh··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
> What of it? Sort by value and see for yourself

> You are not responding to the debunking Opinions don't debunk. Proof does.

hggh··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
Take a look at the statistics: https://fusionstats.redteam.cash/
hggh··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
Value doesn't have anything to do with utility
hggh··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
> Bitcoin does make the transaction publicly traceable

It can be untraceable with CashFusion

hggh··on Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
Right thing == ethical != legal
hggh··on Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
Who cares?
hggh··on Internet Archive Switzerland
Internet Archive is a library. Libraries host copyrighted content. Libraries are good.
hggh··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
Yes. Alternative URL: https://xcancel.com/brian_armstrong/status/20516167591451857...
hggh··on How Monero’s proof of work works
SegWit added unnecessary complexity (~5,000 LOC) to a problem that could be solved just increasing the max block size (1 LOC)
hggh··on How Monero’s proof of work works
> Bitcoin was designed to be a replacement for real life cash, but it ultimately failed in this role

The BTC implementation clearly has failed in this role, but not Bitcoin protocol (look at BCH, for instance)

hggh··on How Monero’s proof of work works
> Bitcoin was intended to be funded entirely by transaction fees

Transaction fees used to be free, but miners started to require at least 1 sat/b, to prevent "spamming" the mempool, so... no.

hggh··on You Have No Idea How Much You Still Use BlackBerry
BlackBerry => QNX
hggh··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
You forgot to mention that that was a lie.

Spain quietly drops probe into “Russian meddling” in Catalan referendum: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/21/cata-j21.html

hggh··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
Such democracy, so constitutional

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/08/spain-violat...

hggh··on Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops
> it takes less than one second to go through Like Bitcoin used to be before someone had the brilliant idea of destroy the possibility of zero-confirmation transactions on-chain with Replace-by-fee transactions
hggh··on Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops
> Except people wanting to do more than 15 transactions a minute It's more like 7 transactions per second, which is still absolute crap, but that was after the original Bitcoin project was kidnapped. There aren't such limitations in the original Bitcoin (forked as Bitcoin Cash)

> Or that to scale everyone would need to store a petabyte size blockchain That is addressed in the whitepaper (SPVs and pruning)

hggh··on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
> you will likely see NSFW content. Please only continue if you're an adult.

Should be: Please only continue if you're not at work.

hggh··on Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
Who designed this abomination of website? The "infinite" scroll is preventing me to get to the footer links.
hggh··on Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged
I suggest you read, at least, the 2nd paragraph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces
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