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Has anyone else noticed the notifications page taking longer to load than normal? I wonder if maybe some new DB index is needed? Just speculating, I haven’t looked at the code base in a very long time.

cc @k00b @sox @Scoresby

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51 sats \ 8 replies \ @k00b 12 Aug

how long? it’s been normal for me, so it might be a setting or something I don’t have

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few seconds maybe? I’ll try to measure and report back. Long enough that I watch the yellow loading bar stick for a bit up top

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176 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 12 Aug

something is certainly amiss then. i’ll check it out

edit: I suspect mutes because I have none. all my other settings are enabled and I have many subscriptions.

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I suspect mutes

Good idea. I sometimes (not always) see a delay on notifications refresh too. I also have a bunch of mutes.

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I do have mutes as well.

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197 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 12 Aug

Looks like territory subscriptions is the most likely culprit given the way the GIN index works. All the territories I'm subscribed to are pretty inactive.

Regardless, we are pretty under-optimized here. I'll try to push an update soon.

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Thank you! don’t break your back over it, I’ll live in the meantime

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Loot of the day:

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Why am I not allowed to set my desired balance to 21M BTC?

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you can't even set it to 21 million sats

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technically the supply is only 20,999,999.9769 BTC

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Fair point, and it’s not even that high yet.

Still, I don’t appreciate @k00b clipping my wings.

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I think I'm averaging about one bot a day into the mute list over the last few weeks

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Don't worry, the retards are still retarding

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Which one. I see infinite realities

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Hi 👋 Excuse my ignorance, how many sets does it cost to own a territory here in S.N.?

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  • 50k per month, or
  • 500k per year, or
  • 3M one-time
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96 sats \ 1 reply \ @DP0604 11 Aug

Damn! I thought it was cheaper. Goodbye to my dream of owning a territory 💣

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You never know. I assumed it would be beyond my reach, too, and now I've got 1.65 territories.

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pro tip: eat the watermelon rind as close to the crust as possible, that's where most of the L-citrulline abounds;

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but it's the least sweetest part. 🤔

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the above comment was a grammatically incorrect sentence... of course i can still decipher what was intended;

anyways, as parasitosis & dementia rage on, the number of mistakes a man or a woman makes will become even more noticeable - the silver lining is that it'll also be a way to tell man or machine 😂; i don't really like lapses in attention myself, constant 100℅ focus is tiresome - tho that's where the fun is at, in constant awareness, vigilance, and surveillance, so as to not miss any magic;

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eating the sweeter watery flesh will feed the parasites and make u urinate more; if u know what to do with the precious urine (water the plants or drink it) and how to deal with the parasites, then it's not a big issue;

with the issue of rampant worldwide parasitosis it has become very important to not waste nutrients & effort; juicing is also useful in order to flush out the toxins as well as replace the deuterium-depleted water (2x proteum atoms, 1x oxygen atom); however, the flushing also gets rid of some trace minerals... which then need to be replenished;

i simply don't like seeing waste; i can usually correlate how infested a person is by how much they leave on their plate;

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https://extralightwater.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nutritional-Deuterium-Depletion-and-Health-A-Scoping-Review.pdf

plenty of research out there on lowering deuterium content in the body and the benefits; if u live on a natural wholesome diet on a farm and suddenly have to travel into a city... good luck finding deuterium-depleted water in drinks & eats - just store & drink ur own urine and you'll maintain a lower deuterium content in the flesh while being bombarded with carconigenic EMF's and other toxins; the commerically available low-deuterium water is pretty expensive; i think making tea or some other brew in the sun is another way to deplete deuterium, tho idk the effectiveness - most water people drink is quite poisonous;

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what it looks like when a community tries to use Bitcoin to come to agreement on state, but the chain doesn't have enough proof of work to defend itself:

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what are we looking at here?

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Testnet4 chainsplits.

Luke said they would pick their new bip110 proof of work algo by the last character of the next testnet4 block.

This was to ensure everyone had a supposedly fair chance at getting ready to mine the new coin when that begins (sep1)

However, there was no clear next block, instead there were three different blocks all mined at the same time.

Testnet difficulty is much lower than mainchain. So then there was mass confusion about which chaintip was "real" and therefore what the new algo would be.

Then Luke tried again, but by this point testnet4 had split into several equal length chain tips and there was no clear way to choose which was the real tip (other than waiting till one chaintip pulled decisively ahead).

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Whatever the case, this is probably not a good way to go about it:

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I guess they are trying again?

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“did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?”

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10 sats \ 8 replies \ @anon 11 Aug

The king of bitcoin has spoken? @Scoresby

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I wouldn't be surprised at all if BIP54 gets activated in the next year or two. It's probably the thing most people agree on. Unfortunately, it is also a thing that doesn't do a whole lot...

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 11 Aug

put a dollar on it.

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Let's not pass around crowns.

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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @anon 11 Aug

let's not acknowledge the unlikely activation of a BIP without the approval of one man?

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approval isn't the point here, I think. The sentiment relayed is not just representative for only the one man or only the pool founded by that man. It represents a wider point of view carried by more than just the messenger.

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135 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 11 Aug

Cope

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best. argument. ever.

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doesn't this summarize the problem, huh:

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Today I'm starting this initiative of asking Stackers about various topics, offering a reward of 20 sats to anyone who participates and 1000 sats to the best answer to the question I ask that day. As the weeks go by, I'll improve the participation reward and the prize.

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I think they're going with BLAKE2b-256, but honestly they have a somewhat convoluted process here...

it seems that they were waiting for a new block on testnet4 and then they were going to use the block header from that as an oracle of sorts. unfortunately, there seems to be a fork on testnet4 right now...

h/t @0xB10C

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dear lord:

source

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so it could be sha3x?

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1021 sats \ 7 replies \ @Scoresby 11 Aug

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perhaps there is another commonality...

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lmfao you beat me my 5 seconds

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i guess we are getting a small glimpse of what it might be like to change the PoW algo...(although i'm not confident they went about it in a very thoughtful manner).

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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 11 Aug

lol imagine the (BIP-110) chain splits again

lol. I don't think so.

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346 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 11 Aug

What I like about this is that it means I might be able to sell my bipcoins one day

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264 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 11 Aug

the way this is going...i wouldn't count on it

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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 11 Aug

Mhh, the way I'm thinking about this: BIP-110's hash rate is somewhere between BSV and BCH, and both have exchange rates, so I see a chance. Or rather, I don't see why exchanges wouldn't want to support it; it's just another shitcoin to them, no?[1] I think they want you to trade, regardless of what it is.

It would also mean I need to care about replay protection, though.

  1. Replace "exchanges" with "miners" and "support" with "signal", and I sound exactly like the forkers haha

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179 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 11 Aug -210 sats

This the new fake L2 fascination? Fake Chain 2?

10 sats \ 4 replies \ @anon 11 Aug

stacker news deleted items over time.

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I think it has to do with that bet from last year about whether SN would reach X number of publications.

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Indeed...it was about the bet...

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @ek 11 Aug

I assume this is related: unpaid items increment the ID but can't be found

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Was I the only one who didn’t get daily rewards?
cc @k00b @sox @Scoresby

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135 sats \ 1 reply \ @sox 11 Aug

Daily rewards didn't show up at work today, sorry about that. k00b will fix once he's online 🙂‍↕️

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in the last few days, i've noticed that daily rewards haven't been triggering consistently at a fixed time like they used to

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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @Lux 11 Aug

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... that's pretty messed up. I'd sell the car and never buy another BMW, honestly.

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