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The HN attitude about blockchain is overwhelmingly negative. Yet what I see with smart contracts on blockchain, such as the Ethereum Virtual Machine, is a huge potential for change and opportunity. If you don't know…

'we need a fast and effective mobile app for alerting people who have been exposed. Our mathematical modelling suggests that traditional public health contact tracing methods are too slow to keep up with this virus.'…

The Chinese and South Korean protocols for covid19 containment appear to contain a system for "checking in" any public place using a QR code. That QR code logs everyone who is in that place at any particular time, and…

I feel like loss of information density and too much clickbait has led to a collapse in quality of journalism, and their websites. Too much stuff everywhere, so much distraction I'm tempted to just close them. Anyone…

Something worth thinking about. If the Russians/Chinese/other bad actors keep doing influence operations into other countries (and let's say for the sake of argument, they are effective - it's hard to think they…

Hello HN, I'm a film/VFX person and I've come to realize over the years that one of the most important things for me to finish a job properly is organisation. Yet more and more I've realised that no one is really…

Looking into spideroak, whats the crypto community's idea about it? and Sync ?

Donald Trump getting elected I am no longer playing around, my life is going full encrypted.

Hey, Just wondering, how difficult is the problem of connecting a mobile app to networks so it can call normal cellphone numbers? I would imagine it could be a huge problem, due to different implementations and…

Do software companies realize that if they were to offer localized prices for poorer countries (read: not in the top 10 of global income) tons of people from India or even poorer european countries might buy it instead…