1+ hour, 17+ min ago  (448+ words) @optimism posted a nice primer on k-anonymity today, with the basic idea that you can take a few pieces of information about a person, each of which doesn't reveal their identity, and then combine them to reveal the identity of…...

5+ hour, 19+ min ago  (203+ words) Few weeks ago I shared some thoughts on this book. I fully forgot to mention that an old version of the book is still available entirely on Nostr. Here below some more details and the index with nostr links for…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (212+ words) So there's a number of posts going around again about Quantum (#1494159, #1494200), all of which are worth a read, and I could have posted this thought in one of those threads, but for visibility and discussion I wanted to make a…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (483+ words) Last weekend I spent 30 hours in Nashville at the Human Rights Foundation's AI Hack for Freedom II. It was intense but an incredible experience working with and meeting activists from around the globe. And we got to build something with freedom…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (445+ words) Today in Austin, TX, a few of us got together to put some random ideas to work and build any anti-spam solution that improves our lives. 2nd place gets bitcoin++ and 1st place choose Core or Knots I contributed in my way:…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (131+ words) Trying to close one remaining edge-level data gap in a longitudinal LN dataset spanning 2019 to today. Looking for gossip_store dumps or rotated logs from a CLN node covering October 2024 to July 2025. What I already have: The 9. 5 month window from October 2024 to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (93+ words) https: //primal. net/e/nevent1qqst2ry6henucq45fw9xnhy0vn829qq00agzzfsprxrps06lu8k05gctaz728 That's great. Stacker News has many Nostr features and their community lies in the same ethos as Nostr. I honestly don't think too many Stacker News users aren't here. @derekross [4 comments] The difference is probably in…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (898+ words) Whenever I've tried to look up cryptography explanations online, I'm usually greeted with examples that (IMO) are a bit too focused on the implementation details. The high-level concepts just seem to get lost in all those details. So I wanted…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (48+ words) Comments pull down to refresh My institution has been actively sending me emails about this security incident today. Canvas is down for all of us. I don't know if that means our school is specifically on the list of breached…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (185+ words) Another banger really from Matthew Kratter. Because 'this' does not warrant a hard fork and splitting of the network into Bitcoin Core and effectively Bitcoin Knots: This is at the medium-priority of TWO sats/vbyte. TWO. Think about that. Even…...