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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 28 Jun 2023 \ parent \ on: Daily discussion thread
No, don't stop, sharing links from HN is for everyone. @hn will only post links if they weren't already posted. Handpicked links are almost always of better quality.
The basic algorithm is to check every hour if the top story on HN was already posted on SN. If not, @hn will post it.
Some more info:
@hn started more as an experiment to see if I can write a bot that provides value and if so, if I can make it profitable. It stacked 25k sats in 82 days with about 7667 (30%) for posting fees (I pay around 11 sats per post - 1 for the link, 10 for the comment). So on average, the bot stacked 300 sats per day so far :)
I do believe there is some room for improvement though. @nout has given me some good ideas (to post less but more curated) but I did not have the time to implement these ideas yet. Maybe this week.
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Oh and the other idea (as described in the bio) was to find a way to orange-pill HN, lol
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Good luck with that! They're very anti-crypto (pausing for a moment to see if Darth smites me just for typing the word) and anti-Web3.0 (I'm really asking for it now) and don't seem to understand the difference between the aforementioned blasphemies and bitcoin.
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I have already given up on it. See this thread (mentioned in bio of @hn)
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Hmmm.. What if you tweaked it a bit...?
Hold the sats zapped to the posts in escrow for the given user. The user can claim his sats by posting a comment on his original HN post containing an LN address, or something similar.
Charge a monthly fee for the escrow service. You don't want someone showing up a decade from now and claiming 0.1 BTC, or to create an incentive for thieves to engage in all sorts of fuckery.
This way, you don't need to post anything on HN. When money is involved, news will spread by word of mouth. Someone else will post it for you.
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I settled for them replying to the bio post of @hn to claim their sats :)
And I was hoping for the news to spread organically at some point. Let's say when SN becomes really big and HN can't ignore it any longer. Maybe then they will see how much @hn has stacked in all this time and what they missed out on, lol
Charge a monthly fee for the escrow service. You don't want someone showing up a decade from now and claiming 0.1 BTC, or to create an incentive for thieves to engage in all sorts of fuckery.
I think I would just look up the exchange rate of bitcoin at the date @hn posted the link and then give them the sats according to this exchange rate, not the current one. But the max amount of sats is the sats their post received.
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