1353 sats \ 8 replies \ @anon 11 Jan \ parent \ on: Taking the ETF temperature on Hacker News bitcoin
It's because Hacker News is an algorithmic opinion amplifier.
The upvotes/downvotes/karmapoints you see are just the steering wheel on the shopping cart child seat. They don't do anything. Their only purpose is to calculate your opinion-similarity (based on upvoting/downvoting similar comments) to Sam Altman and a few of his buddies. Sort of like a Web of Trust, but with additional regression/ml passes thrown in. The actual story/comment ranking is based on the sum of similarity-to-SamAltman multiplied by upvote/downvote.
Basically the whole site is engineered as a gigantic system to recruit people who think like its originators, and get them to moderate the site for free, without ceding any influence to anybody who doesn't see things the way SamAltmanAndFriends do.
Sam Altman hates bitcoin. Therefore Hacker News hates bitcoin. It's really quite simple.
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50 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 11 Jan
References? Genuinely curious about the algorithm, but tbh it sounds like you also might be extrapolating from your feelings which is cool too.
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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @anon 11 Jan
References?
You're kidding, right?
That's like asking Stacker News to provide an API.
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19 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 11 Jan freebie
That's like asking Stacker News to provide an API.
You can access the API from your browser using the GraphQL playground and your browser will automatically set the session cookies since it's the same domain.
But for external usage (like from Python), you would need to copy the cookies yourself. We don't have something like API keys yet.
But we do have an public API you can use and you don't have to reverse engineer it since we enabled introspection. But you probably meant that we should provide API keys.
If so, PRs welcome :)
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19 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 11 Jan
That needs a web browser, therefore it isn't an API.
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19 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 11 Jan freebie
Please tell me what your definition of an API is then.
Afaict, you're talking about API keys, not an API.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 1 Jul
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and founder of Worldcoin, has expressed excitement about Bitcoin, calling it a "super logical and important step on the tech tree"[5]. He believes that Bitcoin, as a global currency outside government control, can help reduce corruption by enabling transparent financial flows[5].
Altman has been a long-time supporter of Bitcoin. In a blog post from 10 years ago, he argued that a world transacting in Bitcoin would be more transparent and reduce corruption[5].
However, Altman and podcast host Joe Rogan are "very worried" about central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and believe they could give governments more control over people's spending and lead to a surveillance state[5].
Altman is disappointed with how the U.S. government has recently treated the cryptocurrency industry, describing it as a "war on crypto" that aims to control the technology[5].
Sources [1] employee retention. A reasonably common failure mode for startups ... https://blog.samaltman.com/?page=10 [2] Worldcoin, Sam Altman's Crypto Project, Is Building a Layer-2 Chain https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/04/17/worldcoin-sam-altmans-crypto-project-is-building-a-layer-2-chain/ [3] Worldcoin, Sam Altman's eye-scanning crypto project, announces its ... https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/04/17/sam-altman-worldcoin-blockchain-world-chain/ [4] OpenAI CEO promotes crypto project Worldcoin after fundraising ... https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-ceo-promotes-crypto-project-worldcoin-after-fundraising-report-2023-12-15/ [5] Bitcoin is a 'super logical' step on the tech tree — OpenAI CEO https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-openai-ceo-sam-altman-joe-rogan-excited
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury OP 11 Jan
Where is this coming from?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 11 Jan
I have no idea why Sam Altman hates bitcoin so much. Your guess is as good as mine.
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