Hacker News with Generative AI: Money

Dolla dolla bill, y'all: Reverse engineering a banknote validator (fromnothing.blog)
Like Wu-Tang said: “C.R.E.A.M / Get the money, dolla dolla bill, y’all”. But how are these “dolla dolla bills” actually validated. Can you print your own money?

Reverse Engineering, Security, Finance, Money

48 points by voxadam 25 days ago | 4 comments

So Much Blood (dynomight.net)
In a recent post about trading stuff for money, I mentioned:

Trading, Finance, Personal Finance, Money

440 points by debesyla 31 days ago | 209 comments

Someoen accidentally saved half a million-dollars (mataroa.blog)
I saved my company half a million dollars in about five minutes. This is more money than I've made for my employers over the course of my entire career because this industry is a sham. I clicked about five buttons.

Business, Money, Software Engineering, Career

48 points by jeeybee 44 days ago | 4 comments

Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money? (2011) (asmartbear.com)
What can’t be solved with money, are the most valuable things.

Startup, Money, Business, Entrepreneurship

15 points by mooreds 50 days ago | 13 comments

Decline of cash credited for drop in NHS surgery for children swallowing objects (theguardian.com)
Figures reveal 29% fall in operations in England to remove foreign bodies from children’s airways, noses and throats

Health, Children, England, Money, Healthcare

5 points by zeristor 71 days ago | 1 comments

The FBI Seized This Woman's Life Savings–Without Telling Her Why (reason.com)
Almost four years ago to the day, the FBI entered U.S. Private Vaults (USPV), a storage business in Beverly Hills, and raided the safe-deposit boxes there, pocketing tens of millions of dollars in cash, valuables, and personal items.

FBI, Law Enforcement, Privacy, Money, Crime

251 points by pseudolus 78 days ago | 120 comments

Sometimes Money Can Destroy You Faster Than Poverty (robkhenderson.com)

Poverty, Money, Social Issues

12 points by paulpauper 82 days ago | 6 comments

Molly White: Cryptocurrency Industry's Unprecedented Election Spending [video] (youtube.com)

Cryptocurrency, Politics, Elections, Money

8 points by samvher 197 days ago | 0 comments

What made Dostoevsky's work immortal (wyounas.com)
Along with air, earth, water, and fire, money is the fifth natural force a human being has to reckon with most often. This is one, if not the main, reason why today, one hundred years after Dostoevsky’s death, his novels preserve their relevance.

Literature, Philosophy, Money

167 points by simplegeek 197 days ago | 159 comments

Musk's Super Pac Offers $47 to Those Who Help It Find Trump Voters (nytimes.com)
Elon Musk is dangling part of his fortune as part of a potentially expensive arrangement to identify likely voters for Donald Trump in seven battleground states.

Politics, Election Campaigns, Social Media, Money, Super PACs

5 points by croes 242 days ago | 2 comments

When To Do What You Love (paulgraham.com)
In fact there's an edge case here so spectacular that it turns all the preceding advice on its head. If you want to make a really huge amount of money — hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars — it turns out to be very useful to work on what interests you the most.

Entrepreneurship, Success, Money, Startups

245 points by underdeserver 251 days ago | 213 comments

How to Make $6k a Month by Moving Citi Bikes Around the Block (nytimes.com)
It was the perfect New York hustle, a scam of subtle perfection. And for three years, it helped Mark Epperson pay his rent.

New York, Entrepreneurship, Business, Money, Side Hustles

47 points by johnny313 261 days ago | 19 comments

UK Shops can refuse to take cash even though it's legal tender (2023) (fullfact.org)
Shops can refuse to take cash even though it’s legal tender

Legal, Retail, UK, Money

12 points by ColinWright 269 days ago | 31 comments

Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money (newatlas.com)
It's massively profitable for cruise operators to hack their ships in half and stick an extra section in to lengthen them

Cruise Ships, Business, Money, Profit

346 points by peutetre 272 days ago | 347 comments

Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500 (marketwatch.com)

NFL, Sports, Streaming, Television, Money

69 points by ilamont 274 days ago | 87 comments

NYC's Idling Complaint Law Can Earn You Six Figures (curbed.com)

Law, Money, Environment

5 points by akalin 274 days ago | 0 comments

The Bands and the Fans Were Fake. The $10M Was Real (nytimes.com)

Music Industry, Fraud, Money

30 points by cainxinth 275 days ago | 20 comments

Printing Money (neal.fun)