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New comment by 3s in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

3s — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:10:22 +0000

I still have the Be My Eyes app installed but haven’t had a call in over a year - I think it’s a testament to how powerful AI vision models have become. I find it cool that AI works well enough for vision impaired people to solve all their problems.

However there was something very human and nice about helping out a stranger with a small random task from time to time. I fondly remember one older lady who spilled a box of blueberries on the kitchen floor and I helped her hunt them all down by guiding her around. It was 10 minutes of connection with a random person doing something fun and which is till remember fondly 4 years later

New comment by 3s in "Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth"

3s — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:37:11 +0000

Beautiful lecture. As with a lot of things that shape our everyday life we forget to contemplate their qualities. For example fonts subtly impact how we perceive, understand, feel about any text yet we fail to give it much thought as Etienne points out. A shape of a letter, especially in math papers, can influence how "beautiful" and understandable the proof is. Really appreciate that Knuth spent years building LaTeX so that compsci and math papers could be formatted as beautiful PDFs and not published as Word documents

Supply Chain Security – Part 1

3s — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:26:18 +0000

Article URL: https://tinfoil.sh/blog/2026-05-01-supply-chain-client

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973501

Points: 1

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New comment by 3s in "Interview with Bob Odenkirk"

3s — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:31:38 +0000

> I think if Bob Odenkirk lived on a community farm where everyone had to work together to survive he would be far happier and think life is far more meaningful.

So you think everyone was happier in the USSR? /s

New comment by 3s in "DeepSeek v4"

3s — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:05:45 +0000

It’s not top of the line and mostly not open source

New comment by 3s in "Claude Opus 4.7"

3s — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:44:14 +0000

Not to mention their recent integration of Persona ID verification - that was the last straw for me.

New comment by 3s in "Claude may require identity verification in some cases"

3s — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:55:39 +0000

But they already have PII on nearly all users. Many user upload documents with their name, or pictures of themselves, or have a chat where home addresses are involved. All of this is information anthropic already has on their users (voluntarily provided via chats or via api) and is equivalent to what Persona gets via their verification - it’s just more convenient to use a third party SaaS product for this than vibe coding their own identity verification platform I guess

New comment by 3s in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

3s — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:40:12 +0000

Yes it appears your personal data IS being sent to open router and the model provider here. The problem I think is that a lot of people (especially in the openclaw community) mistake “I run it on my mac mini” to mean their data is private. Meanwhile all data is being shipped off for training to anthropic via openrouter and both of those parties see everything.

I guess you could theoretically plug in a local model here but of course the readme should be more precise here when talking about privacy

New comment by 3s in "How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model"

3s — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:36:58 +0000

The attestation report is produced ahead of time and verified on each connection (before the prompt is sent). Every time the client connects to do an inference request via one of the Tinfoil SDKs, the attestation report is checked relative to a known-good/public configuration to ensure the connection is to a server that is running the right model.

New comment by 3s in "How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model"

3s — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:17:25 +0000

The attestation is tied to the Modelwrap root hash (the root hash is included in the attestation report) so you know that the machine that is serving the model has the right model weights

New comment by 3s in "On privacy and control"

3s — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:17:14 +0000

The absence of solutions for LLM privacy on that list is telling. We’ve figured out how to have private communications with other humans via end to end encryption but arguably we’re leaking a lot more to chatbots about ourselves in a few sessions than we do to even our closest friends and family over Whatsapp

New comment by 3s in "Confessions to a Data Lake"

3s — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:04:38 +0000

It uses confidential computing primitives like Intel TDX and NVIDIA CC, available on the latest generations of GPUs. Secure hardware like this is a building block to enable verifiably private computation without having to trust the operator. While Confer hasn’t released the technical details yet, you can see in the web inspector that they use TDX in the backend by examining the attestation logs. This is a similar architecture to what we’ve been developing at Tinfoil (https://tinfoil.sh) if you’re curious to learn more!

New comment by 3s in "Bankruptcies are exploding across the economy"

3s — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 03:55:20 +0000

reminds me of a story called “a disneynand without children” about a planet overtaken by AI pursuing meaningless “inbred” GDP goals and completely neglecting the humans in the process https://open.substack.com/pub/nosetgauge/p/a-disneyland-with...

New comment by 3s in "Apps SDK"

3s — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:30:58 +0000

not to mention the privacy concerns associated with connecting my entire life to OpenAI or Anthropic. If you have the memory feature enabled, it's scary how much ChatGPT knows about you already and can even infer implicit thoughts and patterns about you as a person.

New comment by 3s in "Launch HN: RunRL (YC X25) – Reinforcement learning as a service"

3s — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:22:53 +0000

This is really neat! Didn’t realize it could be this simple to run RL on models. Quick question: How would I specify the reward function for tool use? or is this something you automatically do for me when I specify the available tools and their uses?

New comment by 3s in "You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019)"

3s — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:08:00 +0000

I scraped and plucked them off, not the safest way to get rid of them apparently...

New comment by 3s in "You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019)"

3s — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:02:23 +0000

> Far easier said than done. If it were that easy why even go for the salt?

I think it's more gross to pluck it out. Hence why people just pour salt on it or let it finish feeding maybe? Leeches can be really viscerally repulsive to look at and touch

New comment by 3s in "You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019)"

3s — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:46:55 +0000

I was once hiking in the dark in the south of Japan. I crossed a few streams but didn't think much of it. A while later, I felt like my socks were sticking to my shoes and unusually warm. I looked down to see my ankles and shoes covered in blood. Totally drenched in dark red blood with 10 leeches attached. This was truly the most confused and terrified I ever felt in my life - seeing that much blood without feeling any pain was utterly disorienting.

New comment by 3s in "Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information"

3s — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:37:31 +0000

I think there is a difficult cost benefit analysis with screen sharing. For example, what constitutes PII in that context? Maybe the text on the screen can be extracted and redacted but what about peoples faces? What about website icons in your browser tabs lists? It feels like eventually you’d need to redact everything to have privacy or accept loads of leakage

New comment by 3s in "Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API"

3s — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 05:44:17 +0000

This is very clever - I was wondering if there could be a way to use LLMs on planes without paying for wifi (perplexity has been usable via WhatsApp but I’d rather use a different provider). Appreciate the privacy focus too