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Hi, I'm Andrew Lyon.
I'm working on Stamp, a p2p identity system used as the foundations of other systems, like the upcoming version of Turtl (a p2p encrypted, collaborative knowledge base) and Basis (the world's favorite post-capitalist economic protocol).

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  • Stamp protocol: a p2p identity system
  • The property "ownership" myth (and other thoughts on socialization)
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  • Wealth is (mostly) a zero-sum game
  • How to really save Net Neutrality
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  • 201507.21

    Hackernews: a typical day

    • How I rewrote my IRC bot in just 400K lines of Javscript (uselessshit.github.io)

      13 points by jobless_wanker  | 2 comments
    • Ask PG: What time is it?

      569 points by lostmywatch  | 430 comments
    • Why I stopped holding the door open for people and you should too (medium.com)

      433 points by condescendingprick  | 103 comments
    • Ask HN: What to do if you get violent diarrhea during a VC pitch?

      892 points by stevejobsno1fan  | 504 comments
    • Silicon Valley is NOT in a bubble (medium.com)

      133 points by vc_stroker  | 92 comments
    • How I saved 20 microseconds per request by spending eight weeks rewriting my entire app (whocares.io)

      4 points by pinchitout  | 0 comments
    • Swift is so cool. It's sooo much better than Obj C. Right guys? (stackoverflow.com)

      666 points by applerules  | 324 comments
    • Ten reasons why straight white males are actually much more oppressed than anyone else (medium.com)

      5981 points by cisguy1488  | 890 comments
    • Something Something brogrammer amirite?? (nytimes.com)

      366 points by loveskarma  | 42 comments
    • Ask HN: My boss made an offhand remark. Should I steal all his code and start a competing company?

      402 points by whiner49er  | 12 comments
    • OH MY GOD THERE'S SOMETHING CALLED MALWARE HAVE YOU GUYS HEARD OF THIS? (nytimes.com)

      866 points by linkbaitr  | 234 comments
    • How I sold Javscript by using Javscript to Javscript Javscripts (standard.github.io)

      133 points by luvjs  | 132 comments
    • Show HN: a Javscript to x86 assembly transpiler in just four lines of Python (github.com)

      8033 points by gassy77  | 482 comments
    • How I threw out my Macbook and started coding using only an iPhone (medium.com)

      210 points by complete_douche  | 153 comments
    • Ask HN: One of my employees stole all our code and IP and started a competing company. What do I do?

      17 points by bigpapa  | 3 comments
    • NetTech Solutions acquired by Webbbbblerbler for $1.3B (screw-our-customers-we-got-acquired.nettech.com)

      399 points by cya  | 144 comments
    • Show HN: I ran over my pet frog with my office chair and a bunch of Javscript squirted out (github.com)

      4003 points by frogjerk  | 884 comments
    • New transistor the size of a car will revolutionize macroprocessors (time to market: 18 years) (intel.com)

      12 points by almost_there  | 2 comments
    • How I got fired after throwing out my Macbook and started coding using only an iPhone (medium.com)

      302 points by complete_douche  | 69 comments
    • Scaling a 47mb Postgres database using only 18 sharded/replicated servers (toomuchtime.github.io)

      999 points by premature_ejoptimizer  | 503 comments
    • Why you should use Github for everything or you are a complete idiot (trust.me)

      349 points by zealotry101  | 202 comments
    • Github considered harmful (moreblogs.com)

      402 points by i_didnt_rtfm  | 239 comments
    • [Flagged] Why torturing animals for scientific gain is a bad idea

      0 points by progress_h8er  | 0 comments
    • What I learned from not wiping my butt for 19 days (medium.com)

      344 points by justcuz  | 194 comments
    • Rewriting our single-threaded time tracking software in Erlang (and why Erlang sucks) (dev-xpert.com)

      45 points by windbaggio  | 4 comments
    • Everything Apple does is amazing. If you criticize them in any way, I WILL downvote you (apple-buttboy.com)

      456 points by blowhard  | 320 comments
    • MongoDB raises a $4.7 trillion series V (blog.mongodb.com)

      320 points by money_talk  | 255 comments
    • How MongoDB destroyed my life and I now live under a bridge giving handjobs for scraps of food (brij.ly)

      10 points by bridge_tosser  | 3 comments
    • Ask PG: Do these shoes make my butt look big?

      2045 points by no_ragrets  | 1057 comments
    • Apple does something incredibly mundane that ten companies have already done (apple.com)

      4388 points by moar_applez  | 2000 comments
    • WeBlow is hiring an interview specialist

      1 hour ago
    • Ask HN: Why won't women date me? Is it because they find me too attractive?

      707 points by dnd_dragonlord  | 400 comments
    • Intro to programming (1976) (oldcrap.com)

      390 points by i_post_irrelevant_trash  | 76 comments
    • Show HN: I made a useless VM that nobody cares about at all in Python (github.com)

      303 points by lovemeplease  | 198 comments
    • The tech industry is no longer sexist (medium.com)

      302 points by whitemale1212  | 86 comments
    • Slicky's HR department is hiring! Help change the world! (petite blondes w/ large naturals only)

      8 days ago
    • Using bloom filters to process an array of seventeen elements (standford.edu)

      122 points by i_can_read  | 100 comments
    • A Python to Javscript compiler generator framework in 70K lines of obscure Ruby code (github.com)

      412 points by ruby_is_the_way  | 256 comments
    • Haskell is superior to Lisp because monads. If you disagree you're wrong. (metabullshit.io)

      313 points by never_tried_lisp  | 102 comments
    • Why you should build your entire infrastructure on top of my shitty weekend side project (datatoilet.github.io)

      923 points by theone  | 402 comments
    • How I used Hadoop to process a 600kb CSV file (csvcrunch.github.io)

      682 points by i_heart_bigdata  | 211 comments
    • Ask PG: Will you be my best friend?

      569 points by butickler  | 430 comments
    • Taxes are literally rape (libertarian-news.com)

      780 points by bootstrappy_mctrustfund  | 599 comments
    • Seven reasons aging should be considered a disease (and why I should live forever) (obscureblog.com)

      450 points by narcissist_moron  | 1023 comments
    • How I started a successful company with only a high school diploma and an $8M trust fund (medium.com)

      870 points by webepreneur  | 377 comments
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