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The Project G Stereo Was the Definition of Groovy

https://spectrum.ieee.org/project-g-stereo
1•oldnetguy•53s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Oauth2-Proxy-Injector

https://github.com/spacemule/oauth2-proxy-injector
1•spacemule•5m ago•0 comments

Addressing the Lack of Built-In Storage in UK Housing

https://dreamhomestore.co.uk/collections/bedroom-furniture-sets
1•tonypaterson•5m ago•2 comments

The birth of a WATERBEAR 1000x magnification [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d3jvvqwaaIE
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

Snowflake Koch Fractal

https://xaya-e.bearblog.dev/11-xaya-advent/
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

The 80s Movies Rewind

https://www.fast-rewind.com/index.html
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

Most Code Is Just Cache

https://blog.sshh.io/p/most-code-is-just-cache
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

Glass Onion by US Soccer, an Identifier Synchronization Tool

https://www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/1/25/introducing-glass-onion-by-us-soccer-an-ide...
1•donohoe•9m ago•0 comments

A 3-part series on SQL performance optimisations

https://ohdear.app/news-and-updates/our-3-part-series-on-sql-performance-optimisations
1•Mojah•10m ago•0 comments

Any recent fiction with software engineer protagonist?

1•yedidmh•11m ago•0 comments

Gonemaster: A Golang clone of the Zonemaster DNS checker

https://codeberg.org/pawal/gonemaster
1•fanf2•12m ago•0 comments

Library of Congress Pywb Wayback Machine

https://webarchive-beta.loc.gov/playback-services/general/
1•fuggh•13m ago•0 comments

Adversarial AIs debate your question, a judge picks the winner

https://mindhalo.ai/debates/
1•ivanmikhnenkov•15m ago•0 comments

Apple to Launch These 20 Products This Year

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/25/rumored-apple-products/
1•01-_-•15m ago•0 comments

Self-Recognition in Conversational Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02334
1•elasolova•17m ago•0 comments

Joyus: I Tried Datastar

https://ajmoon.com/posts/joyus-i-tried-datastar
1•alex-moon•21m ago•0 comments

Ultimate Guide to LLM Memory

https://fastpaca.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-llm-memory/
1•cpluss•21m ago•0 comments

Spinning Around: Please Don't

https://www.siliceum.com/en/blog/post/spinning-around/
2•todsacerdoti•21m ago•0 comments

Explainable machine learning: k many q-dimensional best-fit polytopes

https://figshare.com/articles/media/A_demo_of_k-polytopes/7991909?file=14884349
1•elasolova•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MWP – Open spec for making web content AI-readable

https://github.com/mbumpus/mwp-spec
1•digitalegoai•25m ago•0 comments

Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

https://www.pcmag.com/news/lawsuit-alleges-that-whatsapp-has-no-end-to-end-encryption?test_uuid=0...
3•OutOfHere•25m ago•0 comments

What is 9bizub, how it works, and how Nigerians should use it

https://9bizub.com/archives/3624
1•CapricornQueen•26m ago•0 comments

Let the Chinese Cars In

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/let-the-chinese-cars-in
2•xrd•27m ago•0 comments

The Importance of Diversity

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/01/27/the-importance-of-diversity.html
3•aabiji•27m ago•0 comments

Aarte: Personal AI Assistant

https://www.aarte.co
1•haeli05•28m ago•0 comments

Simpler JVM Project Setup with Mill 1.1.0

https://mill-build.org/blog/17-simpler-jvm-mill-110.html
1•lihaoyi•28m ago•0 comments

The Inverted Panopticon: China Weaponized the West's Own Wiretap Infrastructure

https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-inverted-panopticon
2•jc_811•29m ago•0 comments

I went off the deep end with AI

https://newsletter.masilotti.com/p/i-went-off-the-deep-end-with-ai
1•joemasilotti•29m ago•1 comments

2026 MIT Integration Bee – Finals [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8enYup_FaY
1•marvinborner•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Stratos – Pre-warmed K8s nodes that reuse state across scale events

https://github.com/stratos-sh/stratos
1•roeehersh•30m ago•0 comments
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Zszrun: Legit Trading Tech or a Shell for a Liquidity Trap?

2•awjykudguj•1h ago
I’ve been digging into ZSZRUN, and I’m trying to wrap my head around their business logic.

On the surface, the frontend is low-latency and the UI is slicker than most legacy brokers. However, I’ve hit a few "black box" moments that feel inconsistent with standard fintech practices in 2026:

Withdrawal Architecture: I’ve seen reports of users being asked for a "20% tax fee" upfront via crypto before funds are released. Is this a specific smart contract limitation or a localized regulatory requirement I’ve missed? In my experience, legit platforms net their fees from the balance; they don't ask for a fresh deposit to "unlock" an account.

Operational Transparency: For a platform handling this much volume, their documentation on liquidity providers is surprisingly thin. It reminds me of the "maintenance" loops we saw with CZR Exchange or LongAsia—where the tech was fine, but the backend was essentially a black hole.

Trust vs. Marketing: They’re pushing hard on social channels with "mentors," but I can't find a verifiable NFA or FCA registration number that holds up.

As someone who survived the 2000 bubble and the '08 crash, my "sysadmin gut" is telling me this might just be a well-designed wrapper for a liquidity trap.

Has anyone thoroughly investigated their backend or audited their smart contracts? Legitimate platforms waive transaction fees or require investors to assume the risk themselves; they don't ask users to deposit new cryptocurrency to "unlock" their accounts. I suspect this is a shell company—an elaborately designed, technically empty shell intended to create a false market perception, which is actually a scam. I suspect this is a sophisticated liquidity trap. Stay away from it.