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Maia Chess: A human-like AI bot to spar with \ stacker news
3+ hour, 18+ min ago (173+ words) As an adult-improver chess player, one of the tools I have found useful is playing the Maia bots on Lichess (link), after learning about the project from Ben Johnson's Perpetual Chess and Perpetual Chess Improvement. With this stack, you can…...
Cypher Box 0. 0. 9 live on Testflight " \ stacker news
12+ hour, 1+ min ago (230+ words) Cypher Box contains 3 boxes which you can unlock after reading the instructions and warnings: High voltage sign: Lightning Account: beginner" Hot Vault: intermediate" Cold Vault: advanced (high security) Use lightning for payments, temporary accumulation, and fast liquidation! Customise a withdrawal…...
Timechain TV: "The best video site in Bitcoin" \ stacker news
14+ hour, 6+ min ago (125+ words) Check it out and give me feedback here! Video doesn't fit the screen on mobile (pixel 4a). ty for sharing the screenshot. super helpful! I'm still definitely working on the mobile UI. It's way better on desktop right now. Thanks again!...
Latest Strikes S03 E15 - April 6th - 12th 2026 \ stacker news
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (576+ words) Welcome to Latest Strikes, your weekly report of the latest Lightning-related news. Last week got us a huge Zeus wallet release, a Core Lightning plugin for Super Scalar, and an interesting path towards N-of-K Lightning nodes. The Zeus team seems…...
Bitcoin Math Primer: Poisson Processes \ stacker news
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (667+ words) In order to understand Bitcoin, you have to understand Poisson processes. A Poisson process is a probabilistic model of discrete events. It lets us answer questions like, "how likely is this event to happen within the next 10 minutes", or "what's…...
Would you use a lightning wallet that requires you to provide an email address? \ stacker news
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (189+ words) I saw this exchange on X: I can see both sides of the exchange. But I think I'd probably bounce as well if I hit a hard email requirement. Ark and Lightning aren't the same thing. I know, but so many…...
Bitcoin Math Puzzle #001: Selfish Mining Pt. 1 \ stacker news
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (227+ words) There are two miners, Alice and Bob. Bob is an honest miner and always mines on the public chain. Alice is a potentially honest, potentially selfish miner who can decide to mine on the public chain, or to secretly work…...
Will It Node? Should be the new 'Can it run DOOM' \ stacker news
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (95+ words) A fun experiment/meme within the community to get bitcoind/validator node running on as many devices as possible. To get the most reach, and a small feeling it might actually be useful, the nodes will be prune=550 and blocksonly…...
Does Stacker News browser push notifications work on Chrome? \ stacker news
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (57+ words) Comments It works on bennish for me! Can I ask you which browser you're using? @grimtechnet is in the right direction, we already patched Brave Browser with indications for users to follow. I am using Google Chrome - Version 147. 0. 7727. 55 (Official Build)…...
Rise and Decline of the Marginal Revolution, By Tyler Cowen " Chapter 4 \ stacker news
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (387+ words) This is a 4-part series " corresponding to the four parts of Cowen's "book" " where I share some extracts and comments from the book as I'm making my way through it. You can read Chapter 3 here. This last chapter is, probably,…...