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    Reading Supply

    reading.supply · Publication · on HN since 2018

    Reading Supply is a platform hosting essays on the internet, startups, economics, and web bloat from various writers.

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    What HN says

    HN links it mainly for individual essays; one commenter points to a post explaining VDFs as a way to make parallel attacks harder.

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    16HN people shared it
    21linked in comments
    475story points
    Apr 2026last shared

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      The Internet's Old Guard
      1 person · 212 points · first shared 2019 · 63 comments on HN
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      What you need to know before you join a startup
      1 person · 147 points · first shared 2019 · 63 comments on HN
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      On Facts and Thinking
      1 person · 89 points · first shared 2020 · 11 comments on HN
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      Movements as Markets
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
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      A vulnerability in Solana that allowed nodes accept arbitrary state as canonical
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
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      The Wolf and the Winter
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
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      200 Years of Advertising, Original Sin of the Internet and No Ads Society
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2019 · Discussion on HN
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      The Legacy of Binary Economics & Worker Ownership
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2019 · Discussion on HN
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      The Form of Formats
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2019 · Discussion on HN
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      What the News Is
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2018 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • pona-aApr 2026

      As someone interested in cryptography, I'd also recommend a VDF. A Wesolowski VDF isn't that hard to hand-roll [0] [1] and will make parallel attacks much harder while penalizing low-power devices less.

      [0] https://reading.supply/@whyrusleeping/a-vdf-explainer-5S6Ect
      [1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/623

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