"Bitcoin\u2019s insane energy consumption, explained"
"One estimate suggests the Bitcoin network consumes as much energy as Denmark."
I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor
And then served customers Iceland ready meals on its opening night.
Hasnain says:
""Generally, the only people who create fake restaurant listings are journalists in misguided attempts to test us," replies a representative via email. "As there is no incentive for anyone in the real world to create a fake restaurant it is not a problem we experience with our regular community – therefore this 'test' is not a real world example.""
Not sure they understand the mindset of a fraudster..
This is an amazing story though, especially when people actually show up
Posted on 2017-12-06T16:44:21+0000
Debugging an evil Go runtime bug
I’m a big fan of Prometheus and Grafana. As a former SRE at Google I’ve learned to appreciate good monitoring, and this combination has been a winner for me over the past year. I’m using them for monitoring my personal servers (both black-box and white-box monitoring), for the Euskal Encounter...
Hasnain says:
One of the most interesting debugging stories I've read in ages. This person deserves a medal
Posted on 2017-12-06T04:05:49+0000
The Trouble with Politicians Sharing Passwords
Yesterday I had a bunch of people point me at a tweet from a politician in the UK named Nadine Dorries. As it turns out, some folks were rather alarmed about her position on sharing what we would normally consider to be a secret. In this case, that secret is
Hasnain says:
I'm still baffled that an MP thought it was totally ok to be sharing passwords
Posted on 2017-12-04T16:29:26+0000
Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships
Stanford Business School officials are admitting that for years they have given steep price breaks to preferred applicants while claiming the scholarships were only for needy students - and say they will close a glitch that allowed public access to thousands of confidential student financial aid rec...
CoderPad on Indie Hackers
Vincent Woo's online interviewing platform CoderPad brings in $170,000/mo. Read how he built it and made ordinary sales calls to find his first customers.
Hasnain says:
The story of coderpad's rise to success. It's a great product.
Posted on 2017-12-01T05:56:37+0000
We go live to the Uber-Waymo court battle... You are not going to believe this. The judge certainly doesn't
Down a deep rabbit hole of alleged theft of secrets
Hasnain says:
This is nuts.
"Uber caught one of its employees trying to steal documents and save them to his personal computer. He resigned.
And then Uber paid him $2m. And hired him back for a year as a consultant for $1m, offering a $1.5m end-of-contract payoff. And paid his lawyer $3m.
If that sounds highly improbable to you, you are not alone. Judge William Alsup was equally surprised at a hearing Wednesday morning in San Francisco.
But that's not all."
Posted on 2017-11-30T20:39:45+0000
Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Cryptocurrency Traders to the IRS
The exchange lost a legal battle and now Bitcoin’s tax problem is coming to a head.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-11-30T16:50:25+0000
Epidemic Of Health Care Waste: From $1,877 Ear Piercing To ICU Overuse
Unnecessary or needlessly expensive care costs hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Patients, employers and taxpayers are footing the bill.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-11-30T07:00:18+0000
Android O is Breaking Apps that Overlay on top of the Status Bar
Android O deprecates TYPE_SYSTEM_OVERLAY in favor of TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, resulting in apps that overlay on top of the status bar breaking.
Hasnain says:
This is the bane of my existence after upgrading to Oreo
Posted on 2017-11-30T06:28:10+0000