Hacker News: DarkByte

New comment by DarkByte in "How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?"

DarkByte — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:27:54 +0000

I am confused how chaining two 32-layer models is comparable to a 64 layer model in terms of "difficulty in chain of thought". The reasoning appears to rely on the fact that each processing of a token has fixed number of steps while my understanding is that can very greatly based on the type of data being reasoned whether it is originally text or something else. My mind falls back to graph theory in this case and pictures a much higher potential branching in a 64 layer model and all the tradeoffs that come with that.

I must not have the right idea of what is happening here.

New comment by DarkByte in "The End of an Era"

DarkByte — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:45:22 +0000

From the post: "Doing a thing for the love of the thing is no different than it ever was. The problem is, there aren’t many people for whom this applies." I think this is an interesting point but I am not sure it matters when deciding whether someone should be paid for the work they have done. It is fine to have your opinion on what you think deserves your money. However it doesn't change that they have done work that has value regardless of their motivations.

New comment by DarkByte in "ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods"

DarkByte — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:26:47 +0000

"can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer" sounds strangely like what was reported to be happening to Palestinians in Gaza. Penlink is in Israel. I think there is a good chance this tech was developed and used in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians and is now being resold to law enforcement here.

New comment by DarkByte in "Steam on Linux Use Easily Hits an All-Time High in November"

DarkByte — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:31:42 +0000

Last I checked WoW is only available from Blizzard directly.

New comment by DarkByte in "Ottawa to create regulator to hold platforms accountable for harmful content"

DarkByte — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:43:27 +0000

Unfortunately this is extremely dangerous as this opens the door to mis-labeling attacks by politicians pushing agendas and looking to censor talk against them.

New comment by DarkByte in "Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content"

DarkByte — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:38:45 +0000

The world has already learned from doing this mistake. Despotism is bad and listening to the above is how you get there.

New comment by DarkByte in "Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content"

DarkByte — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 01:38:35 +0000

Thank you for your effort in keeping the discussion healthy.

However my impression is that this thread is lower in the HN rankings compared to what I usually see for something this new and with this score and discussion.

Am I wrong in perceiving this? Can you please help me understand?

New comment by DarkByte in "Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content"

DarkByte — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 01:24:21 +0000

This is extremely concerning if true.

New comment by DarkByte in "Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content"

DarkByte — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:39:34 +0000

Terrifying. Thank you for sharing your story.

New comment by DarkByte in "Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content"

DarkByte — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:03:22 +0000

This is extremely concerning and hints at a potential intentional organized suppression of information that is calling out the horrors that are being committed in Gaza.

New comment by DarkByte in "Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content"

DarkByte — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:40:12 +0000

I would argue free speech is much more preferred as a citizen of one of these countries as too many are walking around convinced their understanding of facts is truth when it is in truth not.

Free speech is a necessity learned from the past horrors of fascism.

New comment by DarkByte in "Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content"

DarkByte — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:30:46 +0000

If this "Iron Truth" is a smoke screen to remove any information that is true and sympathetic to Palestinians through mis-categorizing and mis-labeling and that is not hateful then it is a system of oppression and must be stopped.

New comment by DarkByte in "Unintended electromagnetic radiation from Starlink satellites"

DarkByte — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 02:33:27 +0000

Is it possible Starlink satellites are providing non-publicly known functionality at those (and other) frequencies to military and/or government agencies?

New comment by DarkByte in "Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra"

DarkByte — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 02:33:27 +0000

I will be unsubscribing once this is live.

New comment by DarkByte in "Telegram Cooperates with FSB (Rus)"

DarkByte — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:41:02 +0000

Can you please elaborate on this statement? How did you determine this?

New comment by DarkByte in "Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours"

DarkByte — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:45:16 +0000

The bigger and more important issue here in my opinion is that this completely paves and protects the road to breaking Apple style CSAM detection systems by any 5 eyes country for other uses. Game Over.

New comment by DarkByte in "John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US"

DarkByte — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:51:54 +0000

Why is it when I use the safari share button on my iPhone and select someone to share this article to the URL is swapped for this other nxsttv domain with an article on the same topic?

New comment by DarkByte in "Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died"

DarkByte — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:40:55 +0000

The greatest ambassador to the space effort. Always humble and selfless.

New comment by DarkByte in "How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%"

DarkByte — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 01:24:08 +0000

This is quite impressive though it is important to remember that this came out for machines like the Xbox360 and the PlayStation 3. I am not convinced these modifications would “fit” on those machines without significant thrashing/paging and significant memory usage to the point where other negative effects come into play. Great read and effort regardless.

New comment by DarkByte in "Soft Skills in Engineering Leadership"

DarkByte — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:17:30 +0000

I agree. I consider delegation of high value or visibility tasks as a combination of 1 and 2. Regardless I recognize it as being very important overall.