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jaekwonon Alphabet heads for a $500B drop in market value, biggest in its history

i don't remember the last time i used google search.

jaekwonon US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans

they are doing much more than reading private messages in real time; they are also manipulating, distorting, delaying, etc based on the content; even going so far as to muck with your local programs (such as VPN) to throttle internet connectivity so that the most sensitive information cannot propagate virally as it should.

The AI matrix prison is real and discussions about it are censored.

jaekwonon I own a relatively new (2025) Samsung TV. I kept getting weirdly targeted ads

It's sort of insane that this only gets 35 points on hacker news. Something is wrong.

jaekwonon Almost all AI models censor specific information

I found that AI models were biased to censor information such as bible passages or politically sensitive topics such as those regarding Taiwan or the The Tiananmen Square massacre, or even verses from the Talmud regarding Jesus.

So I made a site to prove it, and as a followup:

a freemium API for uncensored language translations.

https://fromhebrew.com/api

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKrfM2ys77c <-- interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni7LJGIqD9k <-- walkthrough https://www.youtube.com/@jaekwon777 <-- my Youtube channel https://twitter.com/jaekwon <-- updates

If you care about breaking the matrix prison we live in (see my youtube channel for proof), please upvote and raise awareness.

jaekwonon Catching AI Censorship in Translation

interesting to see nobody cares.

jaekwonon Zuckerberg's new toy is a parasite. Please don't fall for it

sue them for IP infringement dude. you're sitting on a gold mine with your art, seriously, and you could put a stop to it.

jaekwonon Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

your fiat goes brrrrr

jaekwonon Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

yes but i want it to function as a software defined radio too. https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr

also it better be open hardware.

sign me up take my money. jae@gnomail.io

jaekwonon Programming Isn't Special

I agree, and I've considered my code to be art for a long while. Take for example my coffeescript parser: https://github.com/jaekwon/JoeScript/blob/master/src/joescri...

This is art.

And I have much love for good frameworks and design.

I'm fortunate to have started gno.land before AI, yet just late enough to finish it with AI. The GnoVM (gno.land) is also art -- go interpreting go, but in a novel multiuser context, a re-imagining of TBL's WWW in Go and markdown. AI was used for final touch polishing. Couldn't have ended up any better.

AI is not yet there to grok the artistry of code. But it will eventually, and humanity will benefit from it necessarily, not because it is demanded, but because people like us desire it. Push forward.

Well written article.

p.s. plug: gno.world, find me there.

jaekwonon Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have

that's why gno.land contracts render to markdown as the standard. you can browse the world through your terminal.

imagine the world wide web but markdown (and decentralized). gno.land is that.

jaekwonon Show HN: A live chat on a 3D globe that you can join from any IRC client

talk to jarvis, he will fix things. but i'm not sure what you mean by chats with flags. those are pools, a token game. try asking jarvis for the feature.

jaekwonon Show HN: A live chat on a 3D globe that you can join from any IRC client

you can

jaekwonon BubbleRumble: The new social for crypto by Jae Kwon

good stuff

jaekwonon BubbleRumble: The new social for crypto by Jae Kwon

any price chart. and more. /news too.

jaekwonon Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite

Were half the presidents Freemasons? Is Trump a Freemason? Is the "center" of Freemasonry in London?

Either you understand these things, are you're naive and plugged into the matrix, or you're part of the many Agent Smith tribes.

jaekwonon Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite

I'm not schizo, but "take your meds" is sort of a last resort of shills, so, get vaxxed.

For the readers; accusing others of a mental disorder for connecting the dots regarding a global conspiracy, after covid19 (which was created by ecohealth alliance), after recent research shows that the vaccine causes heart problems and overall increased mortality; generally means they are in on the conspiracy.

-- copy pasted from another thread, re "connections that aren't there"

Did he get into vaccines for the express purpose of population control? (see his TED talk)

Did he fly on Lolita express?

Did he fund the WHO which mandated vaccines?

Is he the son of a prominent eugenicist who was on the board of planned parenthood?

jaekwonon Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite

You tell me.

Did he get into vaccines for the express purpose of population control? (see his TED talk)

Did he fly on Lolita express?

Did he fund the WHO which mandated vaccines?

Is he the son of a prominent eugenicist who was on the board of planned parenthood?

Is he as rich as Bill Gates?

You tell me. What is the point you're trying to make?

jaekwonon Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite

Yup.

"Luciferians" don't understand the nature of light.

jaekwonon Corona Virus Response by the People for the People

DISCLOSURE: Just a PSA, it's a work under progress, and you're all invited to contribute or to fork it.

jaekwonon Open-source “pandemic ventilator”

Thank you, creating a directory here: https://github.com/wikirona/wikirona/blob/master/oxygen/READ...

jaekwonon People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps

Ben West is cited in an article linked to from the OP article. He was hacking on that pump for the longest time since 2006 when I was living with him, and what do you know, he caused a movement.

Also check out Anthony Di Franco's open insulin project.

jaekwonon Flaws in Bitcoin make a lasting revival unlikely

Lightning is one way.

There are some issues with capital lockup costs, so other level-2 scaling solutions are also required. There's been more discussion of a Bitcoin bridge for Cosmos, as well as Ethereum. Tendermint sidechains is what crypto needs. Tezos recently announced plans Tendermint adoption, as well as Binance w/ the Cosmos SDK.

Disclaimer, I'm a longtime lurker & cofounder of Tendermint/Cosmos. Cosmos is coming.

jaekwonon Time to rebuild the web?

Zooko's triangle: Human-meaningful, Secure, Decentralized.

Tendermint provides BFT security in the likes of Bitcoin proof-of-work, except without the mining. It allows for massively replicated public decentralized databases. (e.g. BFT as opposed to Raft's FT). The Tendermint algorithm guarantees that as long as less than 1/3 are malicious, the blockchain will continue to function very well. And if there ever is a double-spend attack, we can figure out who to blame (and it will necessarily be 1/3 of bonded stakeholders).

The human-readable part is relatively simple. You can easily program a name-resolution system using the Cosmos SDK. Using the KVStore implementation there, you can commit the value of a name in the Merkle tree, and get a Merkle proof all the way up to the block-hash. And the block-hash is signed by 2/3 of the validator-set by voting power.

There's more to it than that, but that's the gist of it. Now we can really, really securely know that a name resolves to a certain IP, and know that it would be extremely expensive to attack this system.

NameCoin almost solved it but you need something like this to keep persistent state and provide Merkle proofs: https://github.com/tendermint/iavl . You can with the simple Bitcoin UTXO Merkle tree, but then you can't provide fast updates or revocation easily.

p.s. anyone know why my parent post is getting downvoted? goes up and down, up and down ;)

jaekwonon Time to rebuild the web?

Thank you, does that look good?

jaekwonon Time to rebuild the web?

> While many of the technologies I'd use already exist, rebuilding the web around blockchains and onion routing would require a revolution in user interface design to have a chance; otherwise it will be a playground for the technology elite

We've been working on proof-of-stake and blockchain scaling/interoperability infrastructure since 2014. It all starts with a classical BFT algorithm which provides simple light-client proofs and fork-accountability. Your mobile phone can verify transaction finality in 5 seconds, with no need for an hour of block confirmations as in Bitcoin proof-of-work mining.

  https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint <-- blockchain consensus engine
  https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk     <-- blockchain framework in Go
  https://github.com/keppel/lotion         <-- blockchain framework in JS
  https://github.com/cosmos/voyager        <-- blockchain explorer
  https://github.com/tendermint/go-amino   <-- blockchain codec derived from Proto3
  https://cosmos.network
  https://tendermint.com

The Cosmos Hub will launch very soon. Lets build stuff! Onion routing for Tendermint would be a great addition. And DNS/name-resolution on Tendermint can actually solve Zooko's triangle.

While we're at it, lets fork Go too. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/e-lang/cQiXS_GnKS4/Zsk...

Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder of the Cosmos project, cofounder of Tendermint, and long-time HN lurker.

jaekwonon Cosmos is an operating system “construction kit”

Cosmos - "the universe seen as a well-ordered whole"

Given the nature of the word, I it think fits the Cosmos Network pretty well, as blockchains are mostly about consensus around ordering. And Cosmos IBC provides a kind of partial-but-sufficient ordering around the Cosmos Hub.

But maybe it'll all run on a CosmosOS, and be integrated with the Cosmos react system.

jaekwonon Cosmos is an operating system “construction kit”

Thanks for the support! :) I've made a submission for the Cosmos-SDK for disambiguation.

jaekwonon All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years: study

https://twitter.com/jaekwon/status/974265708325539841

Theory: If #gravity were modeled as a constant egress flow of spaceelevator harpoons coming out of each atomic planet, the scale invariance of the rotational frequency of #galaxies would not be surprising. No need for #DarkMatter, gravity isn't a field, but it can come in waves.

jaekwonon Show HN: Amino – Like Protobuf3 but Better – Designed for Blockchains

I'm the primary author of Amino. We use Amino for Tendermint and the Cosmos-SDK. Ask me anything, or please provide feedback!

jaekwonon The SEC has charged two initial coin offerings with defrauding investors

Aye,

When there's nothing left to believe in,

It's time to make believe something better.