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Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!

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27 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 1h

if you like stacker news, i think you'll like reading this again #507227

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 2h

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carter 2h

242 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 4h

Ngl these early days of SN will be missed if this site gets massive growth. It’s hard for me to keep up with everything on this site now if the users 10x or 1000x it will be impossible to keep track of everything.

Then the bots scams sat milking will make the experience just like other social media platforms.

Enjoy the early days stackers while we can

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 2h

stop contributing to fiat-matrix games, and u will have more capacity to fight scammers while providing quality content; u have a ton of unrealized potential (all stackers do);

every stacker opting out of silly games has the power to make stacker.news great; on the flip side, keeping up with distractions will usher in hell;

253 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 6h

omg. refactor is actually almost done. remaining QA/testing things:

QA rewards (make sure they still work after all the subsystem changes)
serious testing/review of noncustodial state machine edge cases

after that it's just planning for the maintenance window then i can go back to being a normal, abnormal human being again.

303 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 6h

i'm actually looking forward to code review again lol (and feel bad about all the PRs that've been sitting).

i'm also excited to work on things people consciously want again so that when I tell people what i'm working on i get more than the polite silence of "oh no, he's lost the plot."

243 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 6h

maybe part of the problem is that i explain what i'm working on as a "refactor" which is a huge understatement. i've been making our microeconomy(s) trivial to program/change/configure/analyze.

265 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 5h

i'll also sometimes say, hedging, that we are "still working on noncustodial stuff."

i am my own worst enemy.

202 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 5h

Naw. It's nice to have honest, direct people around. Much out there is already narrative-driven and fake-it-until-you-fake-something-else. Stay awesome.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 6h

big mac index coming soon haha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 6h

lol i totally forgot about that pr

110 sats \ 16 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 8h

133 sats \ 15 replies \ @optimism 7h

0 sats \ 14 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 7h

output?

100 sats \ 8 replies \ @SimpleStacker 6h

A joke I made to my programmer friend in 2020

def count_votes():
    if biden.votes < trump.votes:
        count_votes()
    else:
        declare_winner(biden)

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 5h

I'm not 100% sure about python performance with this, but it'd likely be faster if you drop the else and make the recursive call through a default return, like so:

def count_votes():
    if biden.votes > trump.votes:
        return declare_winner(biden)
    return count_votes()

or maybe even like so though I hate this notation because it's a headache when reviewing:

def count_votes():
    return declare_winner(biden) if biden.votes > trump.votes else count_votes()

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 5h

Let's not beat around the bush, haha

def count_votes():
    return declare_winner(biden)

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 5h

lol

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 6h

ahahah. That looks familiar, but I can't place the context.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 6h

To me, this remains suspicious til this day. The explanation was that the jump was when highly democratic large urban counties were counted.

But if that was the case:

If it's because the county is large, you'd expect to see a jump in both the red and the blue lines, even if the blue jump is larger
If this was a good explanation, you'd expect to see similar jumps in other states and in previous elections (which there may be, but I haven't seen any evidence of)

It happened all overnight too. I went to sleep thinking Trump had won and woke up to this new result.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 6h

For real, that's odd. There also seems to be a spike for Trump that's about a third of the one Biden got.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 6h

Yeah, and the suspicious thing is that these jumps only happened in two battleground states where Trump was leading, and these jumps reversed it, Michigan and Wisconsin IIRC.

I didn't see similar jumps in other states, even though those other states also have large urban areas that are heavily democratic.

I wouldn't go as far as calling myself an election denier, but as someone who works with data for a living, these fact patterns are pretty suspicious.

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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @optimism 7h

3 2 1 <no newline at end of file> at a glance?

ugly indentation/spacing though lol

(edit: and technically an ugly redefinition of i)

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 7h

(edit: and technically an ugly redefinition of i)

yes, but is local scope (for) ahahah

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 7h

Don't make it pretty

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 7h

indeed, it was unecessery!

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 7h

Still beats fucking emojis in code comments.

I'm having trouble the last couple of weeks to just shut up and deprioritize the vibe coders and worse, vibe commenters. Should find my zen again... it's kinda gone.

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36 sats \ 6 replies \ @BlokchainB 10h

Hey @siggy47 your @AGORA gift card is about to expire!!

83 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 10h

I didn't know it had an expiration date! I will try again. I have had a few false starts.

146 sats \ 1 reply \ @AGORA 8h

ahah, I did not know either, LOL! All good we have just been working on the site, that trigger reminders out. I double-check, and the gift card should expire on May 28th, 2026. Still have time, and even if you do it after this date, just ping me or @AG here and will extend it.

Remember there's a difference between gift-cards and coupons, make sure you use the code in the gift-cards field at checkout.

Lastly, congrats in your new venture #1265202, look forward to seeing how it grows.

81 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 8h

Thanks for the update and the good wishes!

36 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 10h

I also owe you some razors

64 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 9h

I stopped shaving. I'm going for the Ted Kacynski look. I will need those razors when my family insists, though.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 9h

Well once you are ready I will send you razors

128 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 11h

59% of people believe Donald Trump is Satoshi. The internet never disappoints.🤦

137 sats \ 6 replies \ @Scoresby 11h

Well, the discussion on https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2017 sure makes for some spicy reading.

Context: filteroors finally proposed a soft fork #1265553

I used to think Bitcoiners were mostly on the same page, but there are clearly people who don't understand what permissionless means.

180 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 6h

The only question I have regarding this that is in the order of magnitude of 500k sats or so important: will 50% of my current LN counterparties (SN) be on the shitcoiner chaintip that activates this? @k00b?

252 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 6h

lol I'm not changing my consensus rules anytime soon.

202 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 5h

bUt YoU hAvE tO cUz LaW! 🤣

90 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 8h

That was one of the first things I learned about Bitcoin. Nobody needs to ask permission to use it. We can argue about it, but that's a whole another story!

203 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 10h

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 9h

the best strategy:

193 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 11h

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 14h

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 15h

poll | bouba/kiki effect

#1265435

170 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 16h

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 16h

Happiness Journal 26/10/25

The son is obsessed with Light Rail Transit trains, so I suggested that we travel to Bukit Panjang LRT station. He then promptly suggested that we board bus 171 to reach our destination. Dumbfounded, I asked him how he had come to know of this bus service since I certainly didn’t know of its existence. He replied that he had noticed it while we were passing by Yishun Bus Interchange.

Anyway, so we boarded bus 171 and alighted at Pending LRT station. A part of Singapore I had never travelled to before. Captivated by the wall art adorning the facade of Bukit Panjang Community Centre, I took a snapshot of it, wanting to remember the time in which my adventurous preschooler son was able to plan what he wanted to do on a Sunday. May he never lose this zest for adventure.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 16h

Day 668 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 452 sats on 25Oct2025! Running total: 431,446 sats!

Yesterday's comment

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 17h

Taking a cryptography course on Coursera, got owned by the first assignment, got 40% on the first try, going to need to spend more time learning

89 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA 17h

🏷️ Hey it’s Spending Sunday!

What Have You Bought with Bitcoin this Week? Bonus sats if you found a killer deal!

Share it at #1265688

54 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 18h

100 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 16h

you forgot to add the twin towers LOL

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 16h

lol not bad, I will remember this one

9 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 16h

Next time when you go to the pilot classes, ask the instructor: "today we are going to the twin towers, right?" And stare at his face

😂😂😂😂😂😂

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 16h

well unfortunately they don't exist anymore

and they would be kind of far away from here anyway

sorry if I'm overanalyzing your joke lol

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 16h

use whatever tall building near by, that resemble the twin towers. If I were you, I will do the prank, just for fun. I will even say: "hey, I brought the passport with me too..."