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veg | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is the crypto booming again?

For your particular case, you're referring to some of the slower blockchians. There are much faster and essentially free blockchains (like Base or Solana) which solve 1-3 on your list. UX still an issue.

veg | 2 years ago | on: Amazon acquires Fig

There's no need for a new terminal. Their homepage literally says "IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal".

veg | 3 years ago | on: Elixir – Phoenix LiveView Native

Have led multiple teams on Elixir projects across a few companies. And while I still love the projects, the community just isn't there anymore.

I hope this project sparks some renewed interest in Elixir!

(That said, the linked site has basically zero information or examples)

veg | 3 years ago | on: Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager

I clicked the link because I want something like what you mentioned. But your landing page showed a programming language and you lost me.

And I'm a developer.

You're not selling a syntax. You're selling a solution. The homepage should be selling me on what you're solving, not the syntax to do it.

veg | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

https://usdc.cool - I wanted to track the supply of the stablecoin USDC, and check against their audits. Another benefit was trying to see what happens to the USDC supply during certain crypto events, like crashes or pumps.

Turns out it's quite interesting. When crypto goes down, many folks sell into USDC, which causes more USDC buying by the exchanges. But when crypto goes up, people often get in with USDC.

So basically: USDC goes up. And since this money is sitting in Circle's bank accounts, imagine what happens when the Feds raise interest rates. $CND is the SPAC supposedly taking Circle public, if it ever goes through.

veg | 4 years ago | on: Songdata

I've been using the aptly named https://songbpm.com for about 10 years, which seems to have heavily inspired this site.

veg | 4 years ago | on: Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging networks (2000)

Napster is one of the two or three products that spawned a completely different world, entirely tossing established and antiquated rules on their head.

Of course, very directly, Spotify would not exist without Napster.

But a step further, it opened the eyes to end-users about their collective power, and the beauty of distributed distribution. It was the first proof that "regular" users would buy into such a thing. Napster, in many ways, gave birth to BitTorrent, Bitcoin, and all of the derivative work thereof.

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