It's tangentially related through the theme of decentralization

- It's trying to be a very decentralized chat application

- The linked post is on nostr, which decentralized broadcast messaging protocol

- Bitcoin is a decentralized money protocol

- Nostr has the capability to send bitcoin between users via the lightning network via https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/57.md

It takes more effort to use nostr than it does anything relatively more centralized like bluesky or mastodon. So people there are the kind who are dedicated to decentralized technologies & support bitcoin.

Jack is very strongly bitcoin only & anti "crypto". He sees Bitcoin alone as the Internet's missing money protocol. There is zero chance of what you suggest might happen.

Correct, Jack is even going to make double sha256 mining chips in the US.

There will be no NFTs. Jack is Bitcoin (only).

I've been using detekt for years. Why is this suddenly the top article on HN?

There's a ton of reasons why that may happen. One of which being that someone may not have known about it and wanted to share.

Yes, this is exactly why I posted it. I'm learning Kotlin but thought others would find it useful.

Thank you. I wondered if there was something new. Enjoy your Kotlin journey!

Thank you, I appreciate it. :)

Random trend, that's all.

Sometimes people post the same link to HN for weeks, and nothing happens. Suddenly after 10th try, trend catches up, and the same link is on the main page.

As someone who built advanced turn by turn routing based on openstreetmap, problems like the u-turn in the article are hard. Giving good turn instructions for the last 2% is also hard, because so often it requires an appreciation of what the turn looks like from the driver's perspective, not just the curves and angles of the vertices.

This is an example of the common fallacy of conflating energy consumption with carbon-intensive energy generation.

That's what you get when the powers that be have spent decades promoting guilt-tripping instead of internalizing the externalities.

"Conflating" energy consumption with energy generation, which here in the real world is still predominantly carbon intensive? I wouldn't say there's much conflating going on, rather, recognition of the reality we live in.

It's addressing the problem from the wrong end. If you replace your generating capacity with non-carbon sources then energy consumption is no problem. If you don't, you have a problem even at the current level of consumption, and that problem continues to have the same solution.

It's not even impossible for increased consumption to lower carbon emissions, because to meet the higher peak demand you may need to add more generating capacity. When the new capacity is renewables or nuclear then it adds no carbon emissions during peak usage times and allows for a reduction in carbon emissions whenever the grid is at less than full capacity by assigning the remaining load to the new plants and spinning down the legacy fossil fuel ones that would otherwise have been used.

Wrong. Currently most electricity is generated from sources that release co2. Also, all the energy used in computation is ultimately released as heat anyways!

As someone in his position 20+ years ago who did a lot of stretching and yoga for recovery, I can attest that this will only take you so far. Real gains come when you lift weights, which I started at the age of 49. The deadlift is a particularly good remedy for lumbar pain. Start on low weights with good form. Programmers develop weak lumbar support and stretching weak muscles can bring short term relief, but will not resolve the underlying issue. In time, stretching no longer becomes effective without over-stretching, which brings its own problems. Building that muscular support is key.

The early narrative around paying for coffee didn't pan out. But right now it is it's an extremely valuable global settlement system.

The Bitcoin whitepaper brought together a few existing technologies into something that had never before existed in the world - decentralised digital scarcity. This lead to a Cambrian explosion of new developments, most of which are pyramid schemes. But at its core, the invention is world-changing.

I was convinced this article was about the experience of being in your 40s, until I got to the end.

I guess Microsoft's attempt to use their superior marketshare to kill web standards back in the 90s is too long ago for the irony of this to resonate.

Maybe MS wants to reconsider stopping development of Edge. I think it might give them a lot of positive publicity without astroturfing.

If google is the new Microsoft does that make bing the new google? I suddenly have the urge to try it for the first time.

Sadly, no. Any startups in the search engine business ?