You may be in the wrong place if you think there is anything wrong with technical people hacking away at software and hardware.

he's referring to the silly "you'll get your ass handed to you" tone of the post. it's ridiculously adversarial and self-aggrandizing. he might as well have written "tango down" after showing a reversed chip..

> it's ridiculously adversarial and self-aggrandizing

Well yeah, that is the whole point.

Hey, I think it's pretty cool, and I'd like to see a write-up of how he did it.

Plus it's good advertising for their firm, assuming they don't get sued or anything.

Ugh, is there any way to only get the HN FrontPage via Feedly? Tired of this shit clogging my feed

Correction: They built a trailer and mooch off the girls parents. Not really all that commendable.

It seems like the right order to do things actually, I can understand starting off that way. It's not too different from simply building a traditional house on the land permanently (whatever you think of building on your parents property), both are a step up in certain ways compared to simply living in the parents house. And this one is on wheels, it can be moved away at some point if they want to.

I think it'd be worth it, if at all possible, to build in such a way that real plumbing can be swapped in when the time comes. "litter box for humans" is making me cringe :)

Also the parts of this story that are about them as a couple are cute I think.

You're begrudging them their accomplishment because they are currently using her parent's land and electricity?

Hacking together their tiny house on a shoestring budget and documenting the endeavor for others hardly deserve such dismissive disregard.

You mean.. like put regulations and oversight into place?

How delicious.

What does regulation have anything to do with what I wrote? Do you know you can demand things as a consumer? As a group? As a community? As a market participant?

Target 'leaked' 70m+ credit card details and there was no regulation that would have forced them to disclose it. But yeah, lets make all the regulation in the world for Bitcoin exchanges, because, you know ...

Are you being pedantic about forcing them or are you unaware that most U.S. states have notification laws that apply when a data breach involves personal information?

Yep. Fun fact: libertarians don't want the world to be the wild wild west forever. We believe in regulations and oversight, we just think it need not be at gunpoint. Hopefully the Bitcoin industry gets to it before the government does and we'll find out how it compares.

No, he clearly did not mean regulation. He said demand, as a customer may do, rather than coerce by force, as a government must do.

Spam. Title should be "visit my site! Oh and ghost should be free for no reason."

Does everything have to be "hacked" these days? Pardon me while I go "hack" my bathroom break.

I just read it as "smurf" and think of whoever is writing it as Brainy Smurf.

Yeah, I have small kids.

Remember the cloud to butt chrome extension? Sounds like we need a new one for hack

Personally, I picture an axe and whoever is writing as a crazed lumberjack.

Yeah, I probably need help.

Hack your life, hack your rate, hack the planet. At this point I can imagine some people be confused if you actually used hack in reference to a tree, thinking you were talking about conservation.

Many people used to assume "hacker" meant "blackhat." Now, if they're paying attention but not part of the tech community, they likely think "hacker" means "janitor" or perhaps "blogspammer."

I agree wholeheartedly. The internet has a way of repeating things over and over again until they're almost meaningless.

Your correct. One of those terms which is overused way too much to make click-baits.

This trend of over using the word is really hacking me off.

Because bitcoin! Way of the future man!

No thanks, I'll stick with insured deposits. Imagine if your bank called you up and said "Your money is gone, but we're reeeeeally sorry."

Actually this happened in Cyprus very recently...

I like Digital Ocean and Gandi.net

+1 for Gandi.net. Great experience with them.

This feels like some skeevy attempt at grabbing business information. As another poster has pointed out, the server is sitting in India.

The server is in fact in USA, if you could have cared to check. I think it would have been better had it been into India to safe it from NSA snooping. isn't it?

The Paulbots have to start up the spam machine for Rand Paul's 2016 run somewhere. Gotta keep the money flowing into the Paul family!