Hacker News: MASNeo

New comment by MASNeo in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

MASNeo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:03:18 +0000

Yes. Very much feels like the encryption story indeed. This is very normal in many industries. Explosives, space, chemicals etc.

The difference is that still the bio and space hackers are few and SWE are plenty so there is more of a collective voice.

I’d love to build a hobbyist space rocket. However, many tools and fuels required per my research can’t be obtained outside the US. So I didn’t even start.

New comment by MASNeo in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

MASNeo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:54:52 +0000

While this is regrettable the guardrails were rather sloppy and I managed to do things with Fable that really should not be possible. It seems with all the focus cyber and bio security, threat scenario analysis went out the door.

I guess they will fix the guardrails and then open it up again. Clearly nobody wants dangerous models out there and I can understand the national security concerns. If the restrictions persist even if guardrails are updated, well, perhaps other countries may want to compete for becoming the new home for frontier labs?

New comment by MASNeo in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

MASNeo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:47:39 +0000

New comment by MASNeo in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

MASNeo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:42:32 +0000

That’s exactly what a model should be: Implementation detail.

New comment by MASNeo in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

MASNeo — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:22:05 +0000

On prem AI makes sense for more than just the cost. More control, IP, model improvements you can keep, data privacy to name a few. People will realize that AI is not like compute the moment they get their own knowledge sold back at a premium.

New comment by MASNeo in "Magnifica Humanitas"

MASNeo — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:22:50 +0000

The church has arguably used technology progress to its advantage, repeatedly. I cannot wait what the Magnifica Humanitas will start. Will Musk respond by making Grok more faithful, what will be the Leonardo DaVinci of our times for future generations to admire, will the Vatican research if God can express himself in LLM?

New comment by MASNeo in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

MASNeo — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:51:24 +0000

I was, yes.

New comment by MASNeo in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

MASNeo — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:51:02 +0000

> no one would use cloud providers

I think many are trying to move away from US providers actually. FISA section 702 and the current administrations liberties taken towards international law are not helping. The trust problem is real.

Not sure I’d trust China with anything onshore. But offshore, it does seem they play by the rules, because it pragmatically serves the stability of the people. China has not started wars in the past 50 years or so. By that logic one may assume they’d not abuse the arguably broad powers over Chinese firms abroad to risk one now.

In a world where rules are increasingly less important how states use power matters more to me than how they claim to be monitored.

New comment by MASNeo in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

MASNeo — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:31:47 +0000

Besides the cost you get the control, transparency and ability to identify small language models or LoRA you want to serve even more cost effective.

New comment by MASNeo in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

MASNeo — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:29:01 +0000

Well, available for Gemini means these days that half the time they are “Receiving a lot of requests right now.” and so sorry they couldn’t complete the task. Luckily the model supports long time horizons because that’s what’s needed. /me likes Gemini a lot just wishing Google would add the compute!

New comment by MASNeo in "Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules"

MASNeo — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:32:34 +0000

If you are OK with child abuse, unfettered corruption, sex and weapons trafficking or scammers stealing your parents savings and generally like to wonder constantly if the next terrorist bomb or cyber attack happens close to you. Then there really is no need for such things as AML/CTF controls. That isn’t saying AML/CTF stops all crime but it’s making it more expensive and less criminal activity happens.

You are not alone with your view, in a sense Meta, Google and AWS as well as most social media platform act like they don’t think they need to have such controls. They just provide the platform.

By that logic AML/CTF controls would need to stop for banks and all others. Processing a payment for murder would become OK. Even though the killing would be a criminal act the payment processor would not have any obligation to support the investigation, they just processed a payment.

Is that aligned with your moral view?

New comment by MASNeo in "Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules"

MASNeo — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:55:19 +0000

I took editorial license on the title. Having worked to convince people that blockchain technology really solves more than just the privacy and payment problem I am just annoyed when the industry seemingly erodes trust established over years with a carelessly written manifesto. I just believe it merits more discourse.

New comment by MASNeo in "Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules"

MASNeo — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:50:55 +0000

I can only imagine what a nightmare real life must be like :D

New comment by MASNeo in "Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules"

MASNeo — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:51:26 +0000

That argument can well be made, given how (un) effective it is. But what would be the alternative?

New comment by MASNeo in "Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules"

MASNeo — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:47:28 +0000

The concerning aspect is 1 of 6 objectives so it’s no minor goal. The transmission to self-hosted anonymous wallets is what makes crypto so effective for fraud, sanction evasion, money laundering and other crimes. It clearly fails FATF Recommendation 16 and virtually all KYC standards. Seeing Coinbase and a German exchange support such an objective is rather unexpected.

New comment by MASNeo in "Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules"

MASNeo — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:12:39 +0000

I count myself to the pro crypto camp but some of this ask is inviting criminals more than supporting legitimate use.

Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules

MASNeo — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:12:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.standwithcrypto.org/eu/en/manifesto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184921

Points: 11

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New comment by MASNeo in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

MASNeo — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:46:57 +0000

Why is everyone obsessed with US military when the news seems to be Bitcoin? Just like that the US Dollar suffered because clearly a crypto currency may well become what the US Dollar was, a commodity to exchange value in a way that nobody can reasonably refuse. Whether that is for better or worse, I think that is bigger news then whose got the bigger gun.

New comment by MASNeo in "Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model"

MASNeo — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:41:12 +0000

Is there a little bit more on this in terms of evaluation or is this rather a Show-HN post?

New comment by MASNeo in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

MASNeo — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:42:01 +0000

The efforts by Googles, Meta, TikTok, X and AWS etc. to fight fraud and other financial crimes are probably largely deficient. They earn significant revenue from crime and criminal activity. Compared to banks which are required to prevent financial crimes up to personal criminal liability of employees there are no comparable rules for social media platforms.

How do two service businesses get treated so differently by law?