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Larry Salibra
Personal blog · larrysalibra.com · on HN as larrysalibrasecurityeconomics
Larry Salibra's personal blog at larrysalibra.com covers security and economics. Since 2014, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “Goodbye USA”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Larry Salibra's blog, where one linked post explains giving up US nationality to live abroad as an expat. Comments only cite that post as a source and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Larry Salibra's personal website and blog.
Most-linked posts?
- Goodbye USA3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-11-05
- Chinese government firms sell products that subvert censorship3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-09-22
- How Chinese Tinder clone screws you3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-13
- Signal is losing the network effect battle in Hong Kong2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-07
- A Guide to Slack Identity Theft2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-15
- Hey Paul Graham Stop Picking on Programmers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-28
What Hacker News says?
As a former American who lived abroad for about 11 years before renouncing, “cartoonishly cruel” is a pretty accurate description of the system. It’s even worse an American entrepreneur abroad because that makes things even more complicated. I gave up jumping through the hoops in 2018 and the self-torture and renounced. I shared my story in case anyone is interested: https://larrysalibra.com/goodbye-usa/
Comment linking /goodbye-usa/
on “Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship”Submitted Hey Paul Graham Stop Picking on Programmers as a story · 44 points
HN discussionBitcoin does serve a useful purpose! It is perhaps not obvious to someone like you who don't seem to be a user. Or if you can't imagine how Bitcoin can help improve the world, you are probably only considering your little bubble, and not thinking about the other 7 billion human beings who are much less fortunate than you, economically, professionally, politically, financially. Overall, Bitcoin reduces friction, enab…
Comment linking /hop-over-the-great-firewall-with-government-help/
on “Used GPUs flood the market as Ethereum's price drops below $150”Submitted 4 lessons Bitcoin needs to learn from Apple Pay as a story · 18 points
HN discussion> they make living abroad as an honest middle-class expat a total nightmare There was a guy a few days who wrote an article about giving up on his US nationality exactly for that purpose https://larrysalibra.com/goodbye-usa/ (found on https://hnblogs.substack.com/p/hn-blogs-51120 )
Comment linking /goodbye-usa/
on “Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus”Submitted Capital Wants a Monopoly as a story · 16 points
HN discussionAs many have noted, you can't tell from this site whether apple decided to remove an app from the China app store or the developer decided never offer it in that coutnry. Because of that, it's not useful for calling out censorship. We do know, however, that Apple does certain certain apps and functionality on device for China. Censorship of the News app is one such example: https://www.larrysalibra.com/how-apple-cen…
Comment linking /how-apple-censors-news-in-china
on “GreatFire is tracking Apple iOS applications for instances of censorship”Submitted Goodbye USA as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI’m the one that “broke” the story the author mentioned as being reported in 2015. At the time, the team at the New York Times reached out to a source at Apple that confirmed that this behavior was intentional: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/technology/apple-is-said-... iOS disables Apple news based on the mobile country code / network code and not on the name in my experience. If your iOS device doesn’t have ce…
Comment linking /how-apple-censors-news-in-china/
on “Apple Censoring the News App”Submitted Goodbye USA: The story of how I left America as a story · 15 points
HN discussionVAT is different than sales tax. Sales tax is charged on the sales price while VAT is charged on every step of the production process. VAT is very hard to avoid. All of the inputs to your business have to have VAT charged on them - if your business didn't pay VAT on your business expenses in China, you can't deduct them as expenses, which increases the business tax you pay. Several years ago, when I still had a busi…
Comment linking /10-things-you-didnt-know-about-invoices-in-china/
on “Why only 2% of Chinese pay any income tax”Submitted How Chinese Tinder clone screws you as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThe same state-owned Chinese carriers will sell you products in Hong Kong that when used in mainland China let you circumvent the great firewall. https://www.larrysalibra.com/hop-over-the-great-firewall-wit... The regular crackdowns on VPNs mean that many who live in the region long since stopped using them and switched to a mobile plan or prepaid sim from China Mobile Hong Kong or Hong Kong Unicom that provides a H…
Comment linking /hop-over-the-great-firewall-with-government-help/
on “China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by February”Submitted Signal is losing the network effect battle in Hong Kong as a story · 5 points
HN discussionJabber/XMPP is now over 25 years old. Its peak was back when Google Talk and Facebook Chat adopted it in the late 2000s and when Whatsapp launched using XMPP under the hood. And it largely died when those two large companies went fully proprietary around 2015. The fact that 25 years later it's still being described as two completely different names with a slash between them ("Jabber" SLASH "XMPP" ) makes me pretty c…
Comment linking /the-death-of-jabber/
on “Jabber/XMPP: How Do We Gain Traction?”Submitted How Chinese Tinder clone screws you as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe article is rather light on details on what Didi actually did better, but from using Uber as a foreigner in China, I could see significant problems in Uber's product execution: 1. The Android app continues to use Google Maps which is Great Firewall blocked, meaning I had to use a VPN to load uncached tiles. 2. Uber in turn IP blocks EC2, preventing me from using my main VPN while in app. 3. Entities on the map ar…
Comment linking /5-problems-with-uber-in-china-and-why-i-love-it/
on “Uber Slayer: How China’s Didi Beat the Ride-Hailing Superpower”Submitted Paul Graham: Let in the programmers, but not the lawyers, bankers, doctors as a story · 5 points
HN discussion1. The U.S. isn’t at the top for visa free places to travel…a number of passports in Europe and Asia are better. https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/ranking 2. Yes - an example I travel to frequently is Vietnam - it is visa free for Italy but not for USA (former American Italian here) 3. Generally no - USA is the only major country that taxes based on citizen and not by residence or territorially 4. Embassie…
Comment linking /goodbye-usa/
on “CitizenX: Invest in Citizenship”Submitted iPhone Duo: the high price is a feature as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCEO reached out to me via email as well a few hours ago to acknowledge the security problems and promise to implement encryption. Our email thread and my comments can be found here: https://www.larrysalibra.com/tantan-responds-promises-encryp...
Comment linking /tantan-responds-promises-encryption/
on “How Chinese Tinder clone screws you”Submitted Ben Thompson is wrong: US frontier labs are right to be panicking as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHi HN! I'm the one NYT quoted in this article. The creepy thing about this is that it does this while ignoring the user's location privacy settings and even if users are using a VPN or roaming (ie. data hits the Internet in user's home country instead of in China). There are more details about how I tested this at the Hong Kong/China border on my blog: https://www.larrysalibra.com/how-apple-censors-news-in-china...
Comment linking /how-apple-censors-news-in-china/
on “Apple Is Said to Deactivate Its News App in China”Submitted Goodbye USA as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBen's article "distills" down to 2 reasons that US frontier labs shouldn't be "afraid": 1. US frontier lab unit economics are better 2. US frontier labs are moving up the stack making tools that are "stickiness" and will prevent users from switching. For 1...he doesn't provide any evidence for US lab unit economics being better...the major input to unit economics is electricity...which is cheaper in China. And build…
Comment linking /ben-thompson-is-wrong-us-frontier-labs-are-right-to-be-panicking/
on “Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?”Submitted Why Baidu has been hijacked to attack GitHub and why you should care as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Signal Is Losing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2015: The Year China's Great Firewall Went Global as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Chinese Tinder clone screws you as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AirPods Pro Protect Parents as a story · 2 points
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