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by nerf0 10mo ago
What's with the "is dead at"? I'm not a native speaker but it seems a bit disrespectful.
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by nerf0 3y ago
I work in this area and to me, the tech is still super interesting. In particular, things like zero knowledge proof and related scaling/privacy solutions are at the forefront of cryptography in my opinion.
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by nerf0 3y ago
Who's laughing now Hetzner? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607728
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by nerf0 3y ago
I want to make this random off-topic comment: For years I've been collecting various audio clips, where "environmental" sound (voice, noise, etc.) transitions into music, or vise versa, in songs, movies and TV shows. I'v
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by nerf0 4y ago
I had learned a saying recently "cars for the poor, watches for the rich". The idea is that cars have higher utilities so even though cars are higher price in general, watchers show higher status signal. As it turns out, this was
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by nerf0 4y ago
Correct. Here I'm assuming USDC is "stable". If USDC drops (or if USDT rises, for that matter), you might get liquidated.
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by nerf0 4y ago
Depends on market conditions and the lender you use. Currently around 4% on AAVE. If demand rises this can go up obviously. Note you do get interest on your deposit so that helps offset it a bit.
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by nerf0 4y ago
Not financial advice. Numbers are just examples. 0: Buy 10000 USDC with $10000 1: Deposit 10000 USDC on AAVE 2: Borrow 5000 USDT 3: Sell 5000 USDT for 5000 USDC 4: Wait for USDT to drop to $0.5 5: Buy 5000 USDT with 2500 USDC 6: Repay 5000
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by nerf0 4y ago
If crypto didn't exist, these people would either go to wallstreet, or play poker.
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by nerf0 4y ago
I admit I did panic and tried to withdraw my funds yesterday. They just processed it today. A bit delayed but still processing.
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by nerf0 4y ago
I don't see a problem. Of course banks want KYC, but that doesn't stop you from selling the crypto on e.g. Coinbase (also KYC'ed) and sending to your bank.
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by nerf0 4y ago
Pardon my ignorance: what does IRS have to do with money laundering?
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by nerf0 6y ago
I built a very simple website [0] for playing poker. The idea was that people can play poker in person without chips or a deck of cards. I had also planned for more features like hand history. But it didn't catch on and number of users
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by nerf0 6y ago
Not much right now, but see https://etheroes.io/roadmap
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by nerf0 6y ago
Sure! I'm using a network very similar to StyleGAN. After generating a batch, I review the images and weed out maybe 10% of the really bad ones. I was actually surprised at how well it worked. For training, I spent a lot of time scrapi
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by nerf0 6y ago
You are probably right. I'm familiar with how Lightning network works in bitcoin, but not super familiar with L2 in ethereum. Do you have some pointers that I can read? I'm also interested in how it'll evolve with ETH 2.
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by nerf0 6y ago
Hi HN: This is a fun project I've been working on recently. The idea of the cards started when I saw how an AI could generate realistic portraits of people. I tried to apply similar techniques to generating fantasy characters, and got
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Show HN: Fantasy trading card game with AI-generated character arts(etheroes.io)
6 points by nerf0 6y ago|11 comments
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by nerf0 6y ago
For anyone who's put off by the visual quality of the pdf, I made a nicer copy of it: https://nerfsoftware.com/reflections.html
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by nerf0 6y ago
So much this. Not to mention that even within the same language, the implementation can differ (e.g. Firefox vs Chrome). I recently had to parse a bunch of dates in python, writing them to postgres, and then handle the same dates in javascr
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by nerf0 6y ago
I made 2 things: I made a website for friends and family to play poker online. https://playcards.live . No cards or chips required. Works on any devices. I parsed en.wikipedia using AI and extracted events, time and location: ht
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by nerf0 6y ago
Wikipedia was a text gold mine waiting to be mined. They even publish data dumps themselves that anyone can download. I doubt they had any problem with people "stealing" their data. Just recently I made a website that extracts inf
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by nerf0 6y ago
Thanks! Yup I need to spend more time on it. I had a hard time finding an intuitive calendar UI that works on both desktop and mobile, and finally settled on just relying on search. But I did have a hunch that it's not good enough.
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by nerf0 6y ago
Thanks! Mind sharing what kind of project?
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by nerf0 6y ago
Thanks! No plan at the moment. The frontend is not very interesting. The backend is basically a "giant" database with all the events. I think the interesting part would be the way I collected the events, with a language model.
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by nerf0 6y ago
Hi HN, When browsing wikipedia, sometimes I find myself asking the question, "when this was happening, what else happened around the same time/location?" After debating whether this was actually useful and researching how it
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Show HN: I parsed the entire en.wikipedia for events, time and location(whataday.info)
18 points by nerf0 6y ago|9 comments
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by nerf0 6y ago
Mine is aws lambda + redis. I rely on extensive testing to flush out bugs early. But sometimes I do question my initial choice :D
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by nerf0 6y ago
Took me 2 months of spare time in total. Engine was definitely the hardest. Debugging was also tricky, due to multi-threading.
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by nerf0 6y ago
Nice. Looks like yours is much more feature-rich. Very impressive that you built it on your own. Good job! How long did it take you to ship it?

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