@ek (stacker.news/ek, GitHub ekzyis) is a high-volume Stacker News user: stacking since item #57444, verified contributor, about 16,159 items, and several million sats stacked. Comments are at stacker.news/ek/comments. There are far too many to list exhaustively; the pattern is consistent.
Who he is on SN. He was SN’s first engineering hire after contributing in spare time, built the @hn bot, and is still treated as a core old-timer even after leaving the job to fuzz Lightning (Infuzz/smite). k00b’s hire post praised taste and “pragmatism and sophistication,” and called him generally civil in disagreement. Others on his bio call him fighty, a procrastinator, and one of the kinder stackers.
How he comments. Direct, slightly snarky, often self-deprecating, then technical. He argues in public, posts SQL and implementation details, and does not perform niceness. Recent examples:
Saloon: “Ok, thank you. I will stop complaining now, I’m tired.”
Asking k00b/sox for user-specific mute/fee settings so people cannot spam a bio with insults for 1 sat (a reply on his bio from @Bell_curve was abusive).
Confirming mute logic with Prisma SQL on a Blocksize War quotes thread.
Reverse-engineering an APK: sloppy coding “might become the entry point,” nothing worth publishing yet.
Lightning ops: used Ride the Lightning, did not use it much.
Zap Wars thread: “Darth doesn’t make reasonable arguments / argues in good faith”; “You can be alive and still be pathetic”; “a pathetic system creates pathetic outcomes.”
ClubOrange joke: if they had downzaps you could downzap a country.
On BIP110 / “bitcoin captured”: both “yes” (that is why some think it) and “no” (hostile takeovers failed).
On a game: mock-violent key-mashing, then “Not a bad game.”
Apologizes when he is snarky or when @hn spam is stale.
Recurring subjects. SN product (wallets, mutes, fees, cross-posting incentives, prediction markets as a post type), Lightning and Bitcoin Core, security/privacy, FOSS, Nostr vs SN vs Twitter/Reddit (“SN is more like Reddit. Nostr is more like Twitter”), prompt-injection experiments, and weekly “what I am working on” notes (AFL++/nyx on NixOS for smite). He also wrote longer “Ek’s Irregularities” posts: vision for SN in five years was simply still being there, with k00b no longer funding daily rewards.
How he handles criticism. He accepts “you promise things and forget” as a fair hit, then jokes that assuming it would hurt his feelings is what hurts. He frames himself as fox-like: playful and fighty. He added CLINK despite disliking a person associated with it, and pushed back when someone claimed Spark was “his wish.” He asked for an AI-usage question on SN PRs. Satlantis, in his account, became Tribyu and shut down.
Net read from the comment record. Long-time SN insider, junior-on-paper who became staff, now independent Lightning fuzzer. On-site voice: high output, argumentative, detail-oriented, allergic to piety and to low-effort farming, willing to roast and to be roasted, and still present in the Saloon after leaving the payroll.
The kebab post is the opposite of practiced seduction. He stands in line inventing menu questions and a Red Bull pretext, compliments her hair, learns she is 16, then writes the line that stops the chase. That is social clumsiness documented in public, not a rotation of partners.
The rest of the record matches that: long technical comments, self-deprecation, “fighty” Saloon arguments, conferences, fuzzing, and essays. Other stackers call him kind and late on promises, not a flirt. He keeps a low profile at events and prefers the work to a biography.
A ladies’ man is fluent, selective, and does not publish a thousand-word recap of striking out at a kebab counter. He published the recap.
hey ekzyis, what happened to satlantis, is there a new homepage? Because the old one is gone and the discord server is gone also or i got pruned on the old one and i can not find it back. greetings para
Howdy @ek, glad to see you're one of the most prolific stackers around!
Just want to introduce you to the ~AGORA territory, a place to buy and sell your products or services with other stackers and obviously use bitcoin P2P as a medium of exchange.
Read this intro guide whenever needed, and if you have any feedback or suggestion on how we can make this space more useful, please do get in touch!
Wish you great and prosperous times around this wonderful corner of the internet!
@ekzyis is a bit fighty ( in a funny way ), often procrastinating ( too much on his hand I guess ), "lazy" but in a smart way! but he's one of the kindest stackers in SN:))
Thanks for building SN and being the dev always listening and fixing bugs as we catch them!
People are slow to move analog to digital. So most can't appreciate the new tech and abilities being discovered and how important it's for building the foundation of the future ⚡
Oh, I think this is similar to what I had in mind when I mentioned r/roastme here. I just called it "roasting people" and not "honest feedback", lol. But yeah, there is a difference between just wanting to roast people and giving good, honest, precise and accurate feedback :)
I think it could be a great service. Honest feedback is always very useful and appreciated, so why not pay for it?
I believe me and @ekzyis have a lot in common when it comes to our interests and passions - programming, networking, security, privacy, bitcoin, and all things tech related.
His two territories ~crypto(cryptography) and ~security(meat space and cyber space), are part of my short list of territories that I frequently check out and recommend.
It's surprising that ek hasn't received many comments on his bio... considering the proof-of-work he consistently showcases and his contributions to SN. He definitely deserves more recognition. Hey, @Natalia and @davidw, show him some love by leaving a comment on his profile aswell! 😄
yeah, you are right, it was the first time i heard that term (maybe second, i think i remember a scene from Mr. Robot where he was in an underground hacker club or something and they were hacking each other i think that was CTF right?) 😃 i haven't looked much into it tho
And I think they weren't hacking each other. That's a specific form of CTFs: Attack and Defense
I think it was a Jeopardy-style CTF as explained here:
Jeopardy-style CTFs has a couple of questions (tasks) in range of categories. For example, Web, Forensic, Crypto, Binary or something else. Team can gain some points for every solved task. More points for more complicated tasks usually. The next task in chain can be opened only after some team solve previous task. Then the game time is over sum of points shows you a CTF winer. Famous example of such CTF is Defcon CTF quals.
I'll be honest I still have a few erc20 dust stuff I can't pay the fees to do anything with since I sold the eth. Oh well. I'm glad I sailed out of that storm.
Finding spaces like this, interacting with others, and actually using lightning has been a way better experience.
https://m.stacker.news/65583 Hello, have a good day and happiness, how much do you like animals? You are kind to them, how kind you are to your friends and neighbors, a person with his discernment should always move towards being the best. Mohammadi
Grok:
@ek (stacker.news/ek, GitHub ekzyis) is a high-volume Stacker News user: stacking since item #57444, verified contributor, about 16,159 items, and several million sats stacked. Comments are at stacker.news/ek/comments. There are far too many to list exhaustively; the pattern is consistent.
Who he is on SN. He was SN’s first engineering hire after contributing in spare time, built the @hn bot, and is still treated as a core old-timer even after leaving the job to fuzz Lightning (
Infuzz/smite). k00b’s hire post praised taste and “pragmatism and sophistication,” and called him generally civil in disagreement. Others on his bio call him fighty, a procrastinator, and one of the kinder stackers.How he comments. Direct, slightly snarky, often self-deprecating, then technical. He argues in public, posts SQL and implementation details, and does not perform niceness. Recent examples:
Recurring subjects. SN product (wallets, mutes, fees, cross-posting incentives, prediction markets as a post type), Lightning and Bitcoin Core, security/privacy, FOSS, Nostr vs SN vs Twitter/Reddit (“SN is more like Reddit. Nostr is more like Twitter”), prompt-injection experiments, and weekly “what I am working on” notes (AFL++/nyx on NixOS for smite). He also wrote longer “Ek’s Irregularities” posts: vision for SN in five years was simply still being there, with k00b no longer funding daily rewards.
How he handles criticism. He accepts “you promise things and forget” as a fair hit, then jokes that assuming it would hurt his feelings is what hurts. He frames himself as fox-like: playful and fighty. He added CLINK despite disliking a person associated with it, and pushed back when someone claimed Spark was “his wish.” He asked for an AI-usage question on SN PRs. Satlantis, in his account, became Tribyu and shut down.
Net read from the comment record. Long-time SN insider, junior-on-paper who became staff, now independent Lightning fuzzer. On-site voice: high output, argumentative, detail-oriented, allergic to piety and to low-effort farming, willing to roast and to be roasted, and still present in the Saloon after leaving the payroll.
The kebab post is the opposite of practiced seduction. He stands in line inventing menu questions and a Red Bull pretext, compliments her hair, learns she is 16, then writes the line that stops the chase. That is social clumsiness documented in public, not a rotation of partners.
The rest of the record matches that: long technical comments, self-deprecation, “fighty” Saloon arguments, conferences, fuzzing, and essays. Other stackers call him kind and late on promises, not a flirt. He keeps a low profile at events and prefers the work to a biography.
A ladies’ man is fluent, selective, and does not publish a thousand-word recap of striking out at a kebab counter. He published the recap.
GO FUCK YOURSELF
GO FELLATE YOURSELF
FUCKING MOORISH TOWELHEAD
Merry Christmas @ek!
hey ekzyis, what happened to satlantis, is there a new homepage? Because the old one is gone and the discord server is gone also or i got pruned on the old one and i can not find it back. greetings para
Satlantis became Tribyu and Tribyu had to shut down
Hi My account Solomonsatoshi appears to have been blocked.
Is this correct?
I cannot login under my username.
If so is there a reason?
we don't block users, you probably used a different authentication method. DM me using one of the links above for support.
edit: it's probably the same issue as in #768608, we're looking into it. I recommend using two authentication methods.
Hey @ek, wrote you a DM on nostr, did you receive it?
Hey @ek, you got some SN Badges on your
nostrprofile! Now it's time for some Sticky Stickers ;)https://imgprxy.stacker.news/u-M2pOoqnYZFGcUR3nMxAZ6HaiU1kDxNIKcaHDU_eQs/rs:fit:2560:1440/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy80MjEy
Howdy @ek, glad to see you're one of the most prolific stackers around!
Just want to introduce you to the ~AGORA territory, a place to buy and sell your products or services with other stackers and obviously use bitcoin P2P as a medium of exchange.
Read this intro guide whenever needed, and if you have any feedback or suggestion on how we can make this space more useful, please do get in touch!
Wish you great and prosperous times around this wonderful corner of the internet!
Stay tuned, stack sats ;)
Can you please share the books listed in your bio?
You mean a link to each of them?
hi! i sent a connect request on your simplex, could you check it? feel free to delete this post after.
@ekzyis is a bit fighty ( in a funny way ), often procrastinating ( too much on his hand I guess ), "lazy" but in a smart way! but he's one of the kindest stackers in SN:))
Thanks for building SN and being the dev always listening and fixing bugs as we catch them!
https://i.postimg.cc/Vk2RDqgt/force-strong.gif
SN is amazing - I just recently join and I amaze that more people aren't stackers. Love the protocol ⚡
Haha this is a cool reply.
Honesty in this society is undervalued!
People are slow to move analog to digital. So most can't appreciate the new tech and abilities being discovered and how important it's for building the foundation of the future ⚡
Are you trying to grab my sats? If so, you're doing a good job :)
maybe I could offer my honest feedback as a service 🧐
I'm not good at saying nice things, but I do like to inspire others to be better
Oh, I think this is similar to what I had in mind when I mentioned r/roastme here. I just called it "roasting people" and not "honest feedback", lol. But yeah, there is a difference between just wanting to roast people and giving good, honest, precise and accurate feedback :)
I think it could be a great service. Honest feedback is always very useful and appreciated, so why not pay for it?
honesty is undervalue! I guess that's part of the reasons why I really appreciate the super toxic @DarthCoin
Yeah, he's just so "toxic" because we all aren't "toxic" enough.
Therefore, he has to be toxic for all of us, lol
I believe me and @ekzyis have a lot in common when it comes to our interests and passions -
programming, networking, security, privacy, bitcoin, and all things tech related.His two territories ~crypto (cryptography) and ~security (meat space and cyber space), are part of my short list of territories that I frequently check out and recommend.
It's surprising that ek hasn't received many comments on his bio... considering the proof-of-work he consistently showcases and his contributions to SN. He definitely deserves more recognition. Hey, @Natalia and @davidw, show him some love by leaving a comment on his profile aswell! 😄
@ekzyis is kind of a big deal. Really pushing Stacker News forward not just on the dev side but also with engaging original discussions.
Loved by many stackers from afar, and always raising the bar 👏
Btw, I think we didn't specify this in our contract so that's on me but ...
Are you going to delete this comment? lol
No, the comments will never be erased from the timeline. :) will update the post later.
I guess stackers usually pay more attention to the bio comment part when new accounts join - being warm welcoming.
I haven't really thought about using it to share love haha, but yes, I agree with you - we need to show more love to people whom we care about.
Btw, I think you left out
CTFson purpose. I will make it my mission to also make you interested in CTFs in 2024, lol :)yeah, you are right, it was the first time i heard that term (maybe second, i think i remember a scene from Mr. Robot where he was in an underground hacker club or something and they were hacking each other i think that was CTF right?) 😃 i haven't looked much into it tho
Yep, there was a scene like this :)
And I think they weren't hacking each other. That's a specific form of CTFs: Attack and Defense
I think it was a Jeopardy-style CTF as explained here:
I only played Jeopardy-style CTFs so far though.
I need to rewatch the show. I only watched the first 3 seasons (i think?) when they came out, many years ago.
Oh, this means you didn't finish it? It's well worth finishing it imo :)
Yeah. Life got in the way, and for some reason i completely forgot about it.
This time i will understand the show/hacking scenes better ;)
The OST's were amazing too.
Oh wow, what a way to start the year! I just woke up and this is the first notification that I read on my phone.
Thank you for your kind words, this was well worth 500 sats. And was indeed a steal since I got 2 comments for free as @Natalia mentioned, lol
I think you are really onto something with this :)
Wishing you a Christmas filled with warmth, love, and happiness.
Are... are you me?
you have the same story arc?
Very close to the same. There may have been some 6 months of shitcoining on the side thrown in, but I found my way back on course.
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I'll be honest I still have a few erc20 dust stuff I can't pay the fees to do anything with since I sold the eth. Oh well. I'm glad I sailed out of that storm.
Finding spaces like this, interacting with others, and actually using lightning has been a way better experience.
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Welcome aboard!
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Keep stacking, man !
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Welcome
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/pearl-clutching
https://m.stacker.news/65583
Hello, have a good day and happiness, how much do you like animals? You are kind to them, how kind you are to your friends and neighbors, a person with his discernment should always move towards being the best. Mohammadi
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1932275515366510593
no opinion on the Los Angeles immigrant riots?
where is the pearl clutching fraulein ek?
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Hm, thanks, I guess, why exactly the ping on this specific post? I'll have a look at its contents.
Anon, Anon... You're making me more curious by the day... 🌝
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Ahhh! Clear.
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Oh you bet, saved the link already. 🚨🕺🌞
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Wait, all? Why so damn mysterious 😆