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| My First Impressions of Web3 (moxie.org) | ||
| recommended by 4 users | 2022 | 3393 points by natdempk | crypto | original thread | | ||
| 4 users recommended this thread. What they said: |
| sjtindell Jan 8, 2022 | on: Web 3 Doesn't Exist | context |
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jiggawatts Jan 8, 2022 | on: Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green text… | context
There was a great article on here yesterday that hits the nail on the head: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845208 Distributed standards inherently become ossified and are unable to innovate. The path of least resistance is to centralise and gain control, which allows fast iteration and innovation. Fundamentally, as a user I don't care about Google's or Microsoft's excuses. They're some of the biggest companies in the world. They've largely centralised their systems (G Suite, Office 365, Teams, etc...), yet have failed to capitalise on this centralisation, unlike Apple. I mean, we're talking about a trivial thing here: sending pictures! Yet only Apple gets this even remotely "right". Every other company is perfectly content with sending potato quality images, randomly mangling colours, etc... I just installed Windows 11 on a brand-new, high-end laptop with an OLED HDR screen. It's a shit-show. - HDR is off by default. I paid thousands for this feature, but let's just keep that disabled... for reasons? - HEVC is unavailable by default, so apps like NetFlix silently downgrade to 1080p & SDR. - HEIF support is available, but also off by default. - The Dolby Vision Extension is available, but cannot be found via the App Store search(!). You have to find an external link to it, and use that to navigate to the hidden storage page to download it. - Windows 10 used to have 10-bit SDR with wide gamut support. That has been removed. You can only have a colour-managed desktop by default in HDR mode. - HDR mode is forcibly disabled if you're running on battery. So you unplug your laptop and the colours shift. I could go on and on. And on. And on. You can't blame "standards" for this. Microsoft and Google are just too lazy to do things right, to have things "just work". With Apple, I can send another person a Dolby Vision 4K 60fps HDR video in a text message and it will work. With a much more powerful Windows 10 computer I can't. It won't play, and even if it does, it'll probably stutter like mad because an 8-core 5 GHz laptop struggles with something my phone can handle smoothly. |
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rchaud Feb 3, 2022 | on: Web3 is not going to change the world | context
Moxie Marlinspike's article at the start of the year got plenty of traction, and it was far more nuanced than most, not least because the author actually went through the process of creating and NFT and dApp, evaluating the tools from a software engineer standpoint, and from the consumer standpoint. What in your opinion would count as an optimistic conclusion? |
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ignoramous Jun 25, 2022 | on: The collapsing quality of dev.to (2021) | context
A few that come to mind: Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630 How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4367933 Writing an open source GPU driver without the hardware https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30107002 Teleforking a process onto a different computer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22987747 How NAT traversal works https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30707711 BPF, XDP, Packet Filters, and UDP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24848391 A viable solution for Python concurrency https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28880782 Updating the Go Memory Model https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27810459 zig-cc: A drop in replacement for gcc/clang https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22679138 Finite state machines as data structure for representing ordered sets and maps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10551280 Time-lock encryption https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22061752 My first impressions of Web3 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845208 How to build large scale end to end encrypted video calls https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29570938 Secure value recovery https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21838413 How Google code search worked https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18582469 Deploying authoritative DNS with Mirage Unikernels https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21868589 Playing around with Fuschia OS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23466564 Making tokio scheduler 10x faster https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21249708 JVM Anatomy Quarks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22190815 The hunt for a cluster-killer Erlang bug https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31746090 Static B Trees https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376140 Files are hard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10725859 Faster JavaScript calls https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143648 Firefox's new compiler https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16169236 Abusing Linux's firewall: The hack that allowed us to build Spectrum https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16821807 Million packets per second ingress https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9726185 Streams: A general purpose data structure for Redis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15384396 Let's build a compiler https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20444474 Improving compression with zstandard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18719592 When bloom filters don't bloom https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22463979 Critbit trees https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6920862 Mobile physical memory security https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25505517 How the Linux kernel works https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14422605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11467309 Following a select statement through postgres internals LMAX https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3173993 ELF https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17114672 Reading privileged memory with side channels https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16065845 How fast are Linux pipes anyway https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31592934 Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744518 io_uring examples https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23132549 Clojure design patterns https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15771561 Inside the Magic Pocket https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645536 A high performance cache in Go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21023949 Lockfree data structures https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7734202 mtime considered harmful https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18473744 Bracket colorization https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692470 Linux load averages https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14959288 A bump in the wire to make your internet go faster https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17721496 Backblaze durability https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17550837 H.264 is magic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12871403 Redbean: single file web server https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271117 Gotchas from 2 years with Node https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9372303 Counting objects https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10259471 Idempotent APIs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707681 Norvig's auto correct https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587 QuickJS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20411154 ... |
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A way better web3 take was posted earlier today. This is just hyperbole, some sort of self-hating tech worker thing, and bad thinking. Honestly it’s fantastic to compare the two and see just how useless this blog post is. The better take https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845208