<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: DerSaidin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DerSaidin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:39:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=DerSaidin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the alternative is "burn more tokens on finding issues than the attackers do", formal verification starts to look comparatively feasible cost. Think of it as setting an upper bound on cost, vs just burning more and more tokens.<p>AI assistants would reduce effort of verification too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:46:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799280</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now<p>Imo, cybersecurity looks like formally verified systems now.<p>You can't spend more tokens to find vulnerabilities if there are no vulnerabilities.</p>
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<p>For me it was Sygate personal firewall back on windows xp</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:59:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699808</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699808</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it a moat if new start ups avoid competing in the space because there is inherently no moat?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:27:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852081</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One difference with Mullvad is VPN traffic is ephemeral. Here, a VPS has a persistent disk attached, that could contain identifying information (if it is necessary to do useful work).</p>
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<p>+1<p>Personally I'm more optimistic about Servo - because originating at Mozilla, I imagine more web browser experience and expertise went into its architecture, and also because Rust.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:04:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644763</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644763</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "OpenAI Burns the Boats"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the "burning the boats" action is releasing very low API pricing. Once consumers see the lower price they would balk if it was raised back up enough to provide some margin on inference. So the article is saying OpenAI won't have a way to switch back to profit from inferences.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ler-ares-industries-building-low-cost-cruise-missiles">https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ler-ares-industries-bui...</a></p>
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<p>Any connection/collaboration with <a href="https://www.plasticlist.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.plasticlist.org/</a> ?</p>
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<p>> It did okay. I didn't do any big tests with it but it seemed to work well enough, and was super simple to configure.<p>What issue/experience stop you from saying "it did great"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:03:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43071164</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43071164</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43071164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was initially opt in for me, then they made it mandatory.<p>(Sure, I could pay by check but consumer banking technology/US in the US already feels like is is lagging a decade behind other countries without voluntarily going further back. Paying by check every month would be quite inconvenient.)<p>I'd already decided to avoid bilt as much as possible, but reading this thread prompted me to try going a little further.<p>Looking through their privacy policy it talks about what California residents can do under CCPA: <a href="https://legal.biltrewards.com/policies" rel="nofollow">https://legal.biltrewards.com/policies</a><p>> Request to Know... The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you.<p>> You have the right to opt-out from having your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information sold to third parties. You also have the right to opt-out from having your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information shared with third parties for purposes of cross-contextual advertising<p>Might as well give this a go.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 03:42:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42914689</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42914689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42914689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "The Nix NGI Team: Advancing Open Source with Nix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks like a technical decision on where to focus investment.<p>Using words like "bias" and "descrimination" imply there is some wrongdoing.<p>From a quick read (maybe I'm missing something) this seems to me to be coming from "You didn't fund the project I care about" rather than any wrongdoing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:56:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42813046</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42813046</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42813046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "Documenting an 1115 ft radio tower climb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've also done a lot of rock climbing. As other replies said, you get comfortable with the gear and the height and loose the fear.<p>When Covid broke my regular climbing habit. One interesting part of going back to it after a year or so of not climbing - I felt some fear of heights again.<p>It was mild fear, and didn't have me to hanging on extra tight or something. I remember the odd sensation of observing this fear in myself and thinking something along the lines "Oh that's weird, fear of heights - I don't remember the last time I had this."<p>Like a muscle, if you start training to be comfortable again it seems to come back quicker if you had trained it well previously. I guess fears have homeostasis too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 23:09:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42605861</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42605861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42605861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "Static search trees: faster than binary search"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think there is an error in 1.7 figure 3:  Layer 1 should have a 10 instead of a 12.<p>Edit: Also, 1.3 figure 1: Should the y-axis label be "Inverse throughput" to match later figures?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 06:19:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42564293</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42564293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42564293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Unlike tokenization, BLT has no fixed
vocabulary for patches.<p>iiuc this means: the vocabulary of patches is not known prior to training.<p>I guess once training has established a vocabulary of patches, that same fixed vocabulary is used for inference (if this is not true I don't see how it could work).<p>Right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:06:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42423433</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42423433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42423433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Imagine if they added something like this to UE5 licensing:<p>If your game has not been updated in N years...
1) Internet Archive can distribute it for free
2) Let people distribute modified versions that does not need license key or whatever copy protection.<p>Harder but extra cool: To get a UE royalty discount, put source code in escrow set to release it if game not updated in N years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 05:57:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42191159</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42191159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42191159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "From Julia to Rust (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Linear Algebra and numerics where not a primary focus of Rust when starting out as they were with Julia.<p>Typo: where -> were</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:26:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41392519</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41392519</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41392519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "Lyttle Lytton Contest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> He slammed the door in my face, loud and sharp, like an acoustic lemon.<p>I think its not really about the sound, it is about the response you might make after a big hit of lemon flavor: puckering up, wincing, pulling your neck back - I can definitely imagine responding to a distasteful and loud sound in the same way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 03:28:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40862489</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40862489</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40862489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "Sword Fighting Is Not What You Think"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also, I felt this implies the proper-historically-correct-techniques are much better than the wrong-modern-impression-techniques, and would win in combat.<p>Makes sense, but it would be cool evidence to see simulated combat to test this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 03:22:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40479574</link><dc:creator>DerSaidin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40479574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40479574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DerSaidin in "The best way to have complex discussions?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> we started searching for a tool specifically built for complex discussions. We found none<p>What about:<p><a href="https://www.kialo.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.kialo.com/</a></p>
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