aliasxneo

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The New Internet(dntls.substack.com)
1 points by aliasxneo 5h ago|0 comments
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by aliasxneo 5d ago
There's a far cry between someone showing off some weird contraption they hacked together versus posting about the Houthi's military campaign. If you can't see that, then I'm not sure what else to say.
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by aliasxneo 5d ago
Why does that have to be the only reason? I personally think it has nothing to do with "Hacker" news, but I understand that sentiment has been in the fringe lately with HN becoming increasingly political.
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by aliasxneo 5d ago
Why is there an "online" metric in the front page? That's one of the stranger things I've seen an AI do.
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by aliasxneo 7d ago
Use to be a huge Blizzard fan back in the day. Can't get behind basically anything they are doing today. Time will tell if something like this just reinforces whatever is broken or results in real improvement. I'm cynical on the m
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The Berlin Hack (II): You Thought 5.8 Terabytes Was the Bottom?(secureglobal.de)
1 points by aliasxneo 7d ago|0 comments
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Show HN: DNTLS – Decentralized Trust Layer for the Open Internet(dntls.net)
2 points by aliasxneo 9d ago|0 comments
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by aliasxneo 10d ago
Fair enough. I do have a specific sentiment in mind, though, and it's not the constructive kind, which I very rarely see anymore. I would classify "anti-American sentiment" as sentiment which is against the Western culture th
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by aliasxneo 10d ago
> HN is extremely american-leaning I would agree that's true for Y Combinator, but my experience in the HN _community_ for almost a decade now has suggested that the heavy anti-American sentiment started right around the start of th
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by aliasxneo 11d ago
I'd be fine with this so long as people who didn't contribute any taxes couldn't vote. Otherwise you're just signing up for those who choose to work to get exploited by the leisurely.
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by aliasxneo 11d ago
It mostly just feels like basic maths, not really a world model. Productivity is a finite resource. If there's a deficit in productivity, people will necessarily suffer and, in the worst case, die. The problem is world views that sugge
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by aliasxneo 11d ago
No argument there. The question is whether history shows us that that represents a majority or minority of people.
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by aliasxneo 11d ago
If enough people decide they want to spend their liberty not working, then the 12 hours is a necessity, not something "unhealthy" about the person.
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by aliasxneo 11d ago
What if health and liberty to someone looks like them not providing any net positive to society? What compels someone to work 12 hours a day to share those resources with such a person?
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by aliasxneo 11d ago
> living in a society that treats lack of income as deserving of whatever pains and suffering What does the opposite society look like? Universal income?
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by aliasxneo 12d ago
How do I know this won't just eat through my token budget? It's hard to understand from the website how "done" is derived in the loop. If it's not deterministic then it seems like it would be prone to over-engineeri
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
We're simply choosing to build in a small group of closely aligned individuals and organizations right now. Many will become the first participants in helping run the public network across the globe. The network will launch completely
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
As an olive branch, I came in connection with a group (mostly out of Asia) that seems to be more connected by the day (meaning I keep making more mutual connections). They have a very specific vision for capital aimed at funding generationa
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
A good question. Unfortunately, all I can say is we have a solution that involves specific European countries, laws, and regulations. As I said in a previous comment, happy to share more outside of this venue, but not all details are 100% p
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
See this other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553649
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
Well said. To be fair, there is a proposed healthy income stream to the company proper, and the investors are buying equity in the company (at relatively low scale, >$20M ARR). But that's sort of an "old school" play and i
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
Like I said, it's impossible to "defeat" it outright because the concept doesn't really lend itself to this sort of structure. If I buy a plaque with my name on it , therefore owning it, the only thing that could really
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
Names are not able to be traded, so it's first come first serve. It's impossible to completely defeat name squatting, but you can make it less enticing. In the above case, Alice can "sell" her name to Bob on some afterma
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
Sure, happy to put something here as a comment. Alice registers `alice.dntls` and Bob registers `bob.dntls` on the DNTLS network. During the registration process, they generate PQ key pairs that are registered along with the name. Alice&#x2
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
No, see the above comment.
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
Yeah, the website is a holdover from when we were pitching AI VCs a few months ago. We quickly determined that the whole system is now "Cancer Capital" (see the other front page HN thread) and have pivoted to just bootstrapping fr
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
I've been in an interesting spot the last few months. I've pitched probably two dozen or so VCs and, and while almost every case showed interest, it was quickly followed by "rules" and "desires" that were antit
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
The adoption has basically been non-existent. I have a lot of theories on where they've gone wrong. Being so heavily tied to a blockchain (Ethereum being the worst due to its state bloat) is probably the biggest mistake I think they ma
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by aliasxneo 13d ago
This is why I am building DNTLS. These organizations no longer deserve our trust and they have inadvertently gained too much power over the last two decades of massive internet expansion. Names need to be fully owned by individuals and a sh
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by aliasxneo 17d ago
I simply found it comical that they probably make quite a bit of money rolling these articles out while the owners fly around in their private jet fleet. Most people probably don't know that unless someone told them - which is exactly

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