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Satoshi Eye: Easy Crypto Wallet Checker Launched on Bitcoin Pizza Day
by TheSatoshiEye | 2025-05-22 08:08:55+00:00
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The tool has three key features for beta launch:

Address Risk Check

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Address risk score

Use of funds & Source of funds

Transactions

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by 1a527dd5 | 2025-05-22 08:09:00+00:00
I think it's starting to change.

I'm an AI sceptic (and generally disregard most AI announcements). I don't think it's going to replace SWE at all.

I've been chunking the same questions both to Gemini and GPT and I'd say about until ~8 months ago they were both as bad as each other and basically useless.

However, recently Gemini has gotten noticeable better and has never hallucinated.

I don't let it write any code for me. Instead I treat Gemini as a 10+ YoE on {{subject}}.

Working as platform engineer, my subjects are broad so it's very useful to have a rubber duck ready to go on almost any topic.

I don't use copilot or any other AI. So I can't compare it to those.
by calmbonsai | 2025-05-22 08:09:22+00:00
If you're specifying decibels in written form you always include the basis or you're simply being incomplete with your units. I don't understand the complaint there.

In casual conversation, the context implies the basis.

Dealing with decibels is also another shorthand to know the domain has a wide enough value gamut such that logarithmic values (where addition is multiplication) makes sense. See also, the Richter scale.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-05-22 08:09:33+00:00
A wealthier friend jokingly said to me, last week, "do you think it'll ever be $1,000,000/btc?!"

To which I informed him "that's only moving the decimal place just one more position — I've already seen it happen five times!"

This simple revelation shocked us both (both: me saying it, him hearing it).

I'm excited for what the post-Dollar world will allow (albeit with a long period of "readjustment," particularly for US citizens [of which I am, still]).

Triffin's Dilemma... just got even more interesting =P
by badpenny | 2025-05-22 08:10:17+00:00
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD659...

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD660...

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD661...

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD662...
by mnky9800n | 2025-05-22 08:11:05+00:00
This why I like how perplexity forces citations. I use it more like I’m googling then I care about what the LLM writes. The LLM simply acts as a sometimes unreasonable interface to the search engine. So really, I’m more focused on if whatever embeddings the LLM is trained on found some correlations between different documents, etc that were not obvious to a different kind of search engine.
by ohxh | 2025-05-22 08:11:20+00:00
This seems unusually shallow for the hedgehog review. I thought we'd largely moved on from this sort of sentimental, "I can't get good outputs therefore nobody can" style essay -- not to mention the water use argument! They've published far better writing on LLMs too: see "Language Machinery" from fall 23 [1]

[1] https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/markets-and-the-good/artic...
by rocqua | 2025-05-22 08:11:34+00:00
> But dB is not a unit, it is a multiplier. dB on its own is unitless.

The point of the article is exactly that this should be the case. But it ends up not being the case. Mostly because people use dB with reference to some assumed baseline. But also because a 20db change could be a 10x change conpared to baseline, or a 100x change compared to baseline, depending on what unit you are measuring in.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-05-22 08:12:16+00:00
I do see needs for something like decibels. It is a useful way to communicate an inherently logarithmic quantity. The real and IMHO only mistake is that it was described as a typical unit, while it should have been a unit constructor and specially treated in the SI unlike others. (Not in the SI, but the [milli]meter in mmHg etc. and `p` in pH---really p[H+] [1]---are other popular examples of unit constructor.)

[1] To be clear, I'm aware that pH and p[H+] are technically different. But that's orthogonal here.
Show HN: ColorSnap made for devs who hate picking colors manually
by kingvyn | 2025-05-22 08:13:03+00:00
Hey HN

I made ColorSnap to solve a small but annoying problem I kept running into as a developer — picking colors.

Whether you’re screenshotting Dribbble shots, UI mockups, or websites, ColorSnap helps you instantly grab clean color palettes from any image — no eyedropper tools, no guesswork.

It’s built for devs and designers who just want to get a usable palette fast — and move on.

I’ve just added Tailwind export, faster image handling, and a smoother UI. Would love feedback on how to make this more useful for real-world dev work.
by jrflowers | 2025-05-22 08:13:28+00:00
> Knowing they come in with such strongly held preconceived notions makes me reflexively question their own introspection before putting pen to paper.

>Ultimately, are you writing to convince me, or yourself, of your point?

I like that you point out here that the author clearly has a strong opinion, and then immediately say that the act of expressing that opinion may suggest that they do not hold that opinion at all.

By this logic, are you trying to convince us that you don’t love the way this article is written, or are you trying to convince yourself of that?
by chihuahua | 2025-05-22 08:13:47+00:00
I once briefly worked on a transpiler from Windows .BAT ("batch script", going back to DOS) to C#. The reason we wanted this is because some part of the Windows build system was a huge pile of .BAT files plus some PowerShell. The .BAT files were so unpleasant to work with, that we figured it would be good to at least translate them to a language that is easier to understand.

We didn't learn anything "useful" except we got to understand things like the bizarre FOR construct for the first time.

I'm sure Raymond Chen could write an airtight argument why the batch scripting language HAD TO BE exactly the way it is, and there was no alternative to iterating over files and lists using the FOR command with its bizarre flags, but once he leaves the room, I'll go back to insisting that this is one of the most screwed up things that have ever been done with software, and it's a travesty that this was still being used to run the Windows build system at Microsoft in 2013.
by mikewarot | 2025-05-22 08:14:00+00:00
Decibels aren't units... they are ratios. The ratio could be gain, or loss, or compared to the noise floor, or the signal of interest, or a standard unit, such as Watts, milliWatts, or microVolts into 50 ohms.

>The fact that decibels work differently for voltage and power is very weird, but understandable in isolation.

If you have a given load, increasing the voltage by a ratio of 10:1 (20 dB) is exactly the same as increasing the power by a ratio of 100:1 (20 dB) (because increasing the voltage ALSO increases the current, and the power is the product of the two)
by handsclean | 2025-05-22 08:14:34+00:00
https://conwaylife.com/wiki/HashLife is an algorithm for doing basically this in Conway’s Game of Life, which is Turing complete. I remember my first impression being complete confusion: here’s a tick-by-tick simulation too varied and complex to encapsulate in a formula, and you’re telling me I can just skip way into its future?
Show HN: I made a SPA to quickly practice/test/improvise my typing
by karanveer | 2025-05-22 08:14:59+00:00
Speed Test your Typing! no obstacles, no questions, no prompts, direct to practice.

There are a 100 typing practice services offered, why did you create this? No Reason, wanted quickly to wake up and practice a few minutes a day before my brain defrosts and procrastination kicks in. I even made a chrome extension plugin to support me do this quickly.

Monetization Model Donation or Non Interruptable Ads [not overdone, maybe just 2 on the side outside the typing space]. Not yet decided, just want to put out there first.

It is beneficial for people who use their pc daily from copywriters to programmers.

Next: probably add a smtp to have player logs delivered to them in mail.

Initially created for myself and friends, so no UI sugar coating as you can see. One of my friends suggested to turn this into a public domain, may help someone.

I hope this is helpful to someone.

PRACTICE!
by kingvyn | 2025-05-22 08:15:06+00:00
Hey HN

Melvin here

I built this because I got tired of the same loop: screenshot → open image editor → zoom → eyedropper → miss the hex → repeat.

ColorSnap is my attempt to skip all of that. Just drop a screenshot and you get a clean palette — ready to plug into Tailwind, CSS, or Figma.

Under the hood it uses a custom color reduction algorithm + contrast heuristics to avoid muddy outputs.

Still improving it, and I’d love to hear how other devs might actually use this in their workflow (or what’s missing).

Thanks for checking it out
by jeroenhd | 2025-05-22 08:15:24+00:00
The same can be said of any unit. "If you just learn to work with it regardless of its weirdness, it's completely normal" doesn't mean the standard isn't ridiculous.

I don't think anyone has stated that a logarithmic scale is bad. The type of logarithmic scale changing depending on the field it's being used in, and the non-standard notation (dBm being used instead of dBmW for instance), is just inconsistent for no reason.

For a unit of immense scale, I rarely see it used outside of the -100 to 100 range, though. That puts its daily use square in the middle of SIs giga/nano range. I'm sure the formulae are a bit easier by not having to include exponents, but I don't see a practical reason why dB's normal use can't have been covered by normal prefixes.

What sets the dB* aside from other American units is that this one is very close to following standard units. If it weren't for the deci- prefix and the usage of standard units like Watts and Volts ("Bell-horsepowers"), the inconsistencies in practical use would probably have been expected, making learning about the weird intricacies of each field a lot less infuriating.
by BlindEyeHalo | 2025-05-22 08:17:11+00:00
For me the usefulness of LLMs is proportional to how shitty google has become. When searching for something you get a bunch of blog spam or other SSO optimised shit results to pages that open dozens of popups asking you to subscribe or make an account. ChatGPT gives you the answer immediately and I must say I find it helpful 90% of the time.

For simple coding questions it is also very good because it takes your current context into account. It is basically a smarter "copy paste from stack overflow".

At least for now LLMs do not replace any meaningful work for me, but they replace google more and more.
by badlibrarian | 2025-05-22 08:17:18+00:00
Horsepower is a unit of measurement. There's hp and bhp and hpE and...

"Other names for the metric horsepower are the Italian cavallo vapore (cv), Dutch paardenkracht (pk), the French cheval-vapeur (ch), the Spanish caballo de vapor and Portuguese cavalo-vapor (cv), the Russian лошадиная сила (л. с.), the Swedish hästkraft (hk), the Finnish hevosvoima (hv), the Estonian hobujõud (hj), the Norwegian and Danish hestekraft (hk), the Hungarian lóerő (LE), the Czech koňská síla and Slovak konská sila (k or ks), the Serbo-Croatian konjska snaga (KS), the Bulgarian конска сила, the Macedonian коњска сила (KC), the Polish koń mechaniczny (KM) (lit. 'mechanical horse'), Slovenian konjska moč (KM), the Ukrainian кінська сила (к. с.), the Romanian cal-putere (CP), and the German Pferdestärke (PS)." [1]

Decibel is not a unit of measurement. Decibels are a relative measurement. It tells you how much louder or powerful something is relative to something else. And frankly far less ridiculous than horsepower, which has a hilarious Wiki article if you read it with a critical mindset.

Deriving some of the constants without Googling is a fun exercise to verify that you're not as smart as you think you are. "Hydraulic horsepower = pressure (pounds per square inch) * flow rate (gallons per minute) / 1714"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower
by mirekrusin | 2025-05-22 08:17:28+00:00
> After I got her feedback, I finally asked ChatGPT if generative AI could be considered a gimmick in Ngai’s sense. I did not read its answer carefully. Whenever I see the words cascade down my computer screen, I get a sinking feeling. Do I really have to read this?

Does the author know he can include "be concise" in the prompt if that's what he wants?

I do agree with the author this whole thing is challenging. Frankly I wouldn't like to be youngster nowadays – so much information, so many options, so much flood of tip of success that makes you feel like shit, so easy not to learn anything, so much feeling of "pointless" discipline and hard work, such a wide distance to excel at something - just summarizing available avenues is project on its own.

Anyway there is no turning back. What we see now as best of models will get replaced quickly with better ones and that change will only accelerate with time. I'm still positive – I think we'll find a way to be happy in this completely new reality.

I like it at work - time from business idea to PoC did shrink so much, it's easier than ever to win business (not sure for how long but that's today), agentic coding helps a lot with documentation, tests, finding medium-obvious mistakes that sit above linter/typechecker – that part is amazing as well. We'll continue focusing on low effort/high value tasks it currently excels at and keep expanding it.

At the same time we all know where it's going and it makes me uneasy as well.

I don't think I have anything substantial to add – just advice to try to enjoy the ride, take it easy and keep in mind well being of your colleagues. There is a sweet spot to use it – don't overuse it (don't fight with it where it struggles), don't under-use it either (don't say all of it is shit and you won't touch it ever), don't abuse it (do not drop llm output for others to review without knowing what you're pushing).
by cess11 | 2025-05-22 08:17:44+00:00
I don't think you are. I've found some use for cheap and somewhat unreliable machine translation of formal documents, but it doesn't work for idiomatic or rude texts, for example, LLM:s commonly try to avoid 'saying' something offensive about the house of Saud or the White House so I need to push them around to do the thing I want. Sometimes I also 'one-shot' HTML scaffolds because I suck at Tailwind and I only rarely save templates of single file things, they just end up in an unstructured pile.

Some people seem to use them as a database of common programming patterns, but that's something I already have, both hundreds of scaffolds in many programming languages I've made myself and hundreds of FOSS and non-FOSS git repos I've collected out of interest or necessity. Often I also just go look at some public remote repo if I'm reading up on some topic in preparation for an implementation or experiment, mainly because when I ask an LLM the code usually has defects and incoherences and when I look at something that is already in production somewhere it's working and sits in a context I can learn from as well.

But hey, I rarely even use IDE autocomplete for browsing library methods and the like, in part because I've either read the relevant library code or picked a library with good documentation since that tells a lot more about intended use patterns and pitfalls.
Use AI for proof of concept?
by mywacaday | 2025-05-22 08:17:46+00:00
I have an idea for a side project related to my job that I want to flesh out. It would involve having a low power display/terminal with an eink screen that connects to a backend that aggregates data from various enterprise systems and would accept requests from the terminals to send to other systems. I haven't coded in over 15 years and haven't dealt with hardware before and was thinking of going full AI to help get a POC going. Has anyone done anything similar, any recommendations for AI/language/framework and especially how to get the best out of the AI.
by spuz | 2025-05-22 08:18:08+00:00
I am not certain that I agree with this. If there are alternative ways of solving a problem that we're not taken then these should be documented in comments. A mantra I try to tell myself and my colleagues is if information exists in your brain and nowhere else then write down it down _somewhere_. If I tried 5 different libraries before settling on one, then I write in comments which libraries I tried but didn't work and why. If I used a particular tool to debug a race condition then I put a link to a wiki page on how to use it in the comments. If we have one particular colleague who is an expert in some area then I write their name in a comment. Basically anything that is going to save future developers' time should be written down.
by jiggawatts | 2025-05-22 08:18:13+00:00
Something I noticed a long time ago is that going from 90% correct to 95% correct is not a 5% difference, it’s a 2x difference. As you approach 100%, the last few 0.01% error rates going away make a qualitative difference.

“Computer” used to be a job, and human error rates are on the order of 1-2% no matter what level of training or experience they had. Work had to be done in triplicate and cross-checked if it mattered.

Digital computers are down to error rates roughly 10e-15 to 10e-22 and are hence treated as nearly infallible. We regularly write code routines where a trillion steps have to be executed flawlessly in sequence for things not to explode!

AIs can now output maybe 1K to 2K tokens in a sequence before they make a mistake. That’s 99.9% to 99.95%! Better than human already.

Don’t believe me?

Write me a 500 line program with pen and paper (not pencil!) and have it work the first time!

I’ve seen Gemini Pro 2.5 do this in a useful way.

As the error rates drop, the length of usefully correct sequences will get to 10K, then 100K, and maybe… who knows?

There was just a press release today about Gemini Diffusion that can alter already-generated tokens to correct mistakes.

Error rates will drop.

Useful output length will go up.
by guappa | 2025-05-22 08:19:09+00:00
Do you have any statistics that show that Debian patches introduce more CVE worthy bugs than the software already contains? OpenSSL doesn't really have a pristine history.

Let's not forget that the patch had been posted on the OpenSSL mailing list and had received a go ahead comment before that.

Having said that, if you're asking if there's a penetration test team that reviews all the patches. No there isn't. Like there isn't any such thing on 99.999999999% of all software that exists.
by onename | 2025-05-22 08:19:10+00:00
When I want to show people what an intro is and tell them a bit about the demoscene, I usually show them the intro Elevated, which won the PC 4k compo at Breakpoint 2009. For me it really shows the talent of Iq and the other people who created it. It’s truly amazing what can be done in just 4 kilobyte!

Elevated by Rgba & TBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB0vBmiTr6o

Iq's slides on the Elevated intro: https://iquilezles.org/articles/function2009/function2009.pd...

Sourcecode: https://files.scene.org/view/resources/code/sources/rgba_tbc...
by wiseowise | 2025-05-22 08:19:31+00:00
AI is gimmick, smartphones are gimmick, computers are gimmick, automation is gimmick, books are gimmick, only %MY_ENLIGHTMENT% is not.

Seriously, I understand saying something lime this about crypto or whatever meme of the day, but even current LLMs are literal magic. Instead of reading 10 pages of empty water and wasting my time, ChatGPT can summarize this as

> Malesic argues that AI hype—especially in education—is a shallow gimmick: it overpromises revolutionary change but delivers banal, low-value outputs. True teaching thrives on slow, sacrificial human labor and deep discussion, which no AI shortcut can replicate.

Hardly any revolutionary thought.
by aragilar | 2025-05-22 08:20:15+00:00
https://research.swtch.com/openssl provides more context: openssl was asked about the change, and seemingly approved it (whether everyone understood what was being approved is a different question). It's not clear why openssl never adopted the patch (was everyone else just lucky?), but I wonder what the reaction would have been if the patch had been applied (or the lines hidden away by a build switch).
by lordfrikk | 2025-05-22 08:20:38+00:00
Bases seem like a great alternative to Dataview [0] but better supported and with simpler syntax than literally writing inline JavaScript for more complicated stuff.

You can also export your table as CVS and they plan to properly support Obsidian Publish which was never supported in Dataview.

[0]: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview, I was a big fan but it seems the author has stopped actively developing it at some point which is a shame.
by suraci | 2025-05-22 08:20:44+00:00
(relatively)

I call this kind of nonsense that can be seen through at a glance an 'relatively honest lie'

those lines you quoted are nonsense that can be totally ignored without misunderstanding his point, those lines are like something as "get schwifty"

> Second, they can get schwifty by opening their markets and buying more from America

> Fifth, they could simply write checks to Treasury that help us get schwifty