Hacker News: Medea

New comment by Medea in "“Are you the one?” is free money"

Medea — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:53:59 +0000

They have an example that calculates the expected information gained by truth booths and all of the top ones are giving more than one bit. How can this be? It is a yes/no question a max of 1 bit should be possible

New comment by Medea in "AMD and OpenAI announce strategic partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs"

Medea — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:18:44 +0000

This deal is odd. OpenAI gets AMD chips but also a chance to own a big part of AMD if things go well. It makes AMD look stronger on paper, but it is risky. These kinds of deals can hide problems and make a bubble. It feels more like hype than real long-term value.

A single adblock filter may have caused YouTube's global view drop

Medea — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:56:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/22375

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276614

Points: 97

# Comments: 2

New comment by Medea in "Bear is now source-available"

Medea — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:01:51 +0000

But he chose not to use the exact wording from the Elastic Search license, which clearly says "third parties." Instead, he wrote his own license, and now it is not clear if I am allowed to self-host. In my opinion that is a bad decision.

New comment by Medea in "Show HN: Anonymous Age Verification"

Medea — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:36:23 +0000

This is an active area of research see for example: EU Digital Identity & Anonymous Credentials at real world crypto 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpQHWObCx4I

New comment by Medea in "Areal, Are.na's new typeface"

Medea — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:58:16 +0000

It contains 475 glyphs in total, including 13 diacritics for the letter A. The set includes most Latin characters, but does not cover Greek or Cyrillic

New comment by Medea in "Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com"

Medea — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:41:16 +0000

chrome.com redirects to www.google.com/chrome/

No one has to download Edge or Safari.

New comment by Medea in "Show HN: Ariadne – A Rust implementation of aperiodic cryptography"

Medea — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:25:08 +0000

Are you sure it is the same Ariadne? The paper you linked is from 2002 and does not mention aperiodic or "Cryptographic Virtual Machine"

New comment by Medea in "Show HN: Ariadne – A Rust implementation of aperiodic cryptography"

Medea — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:07:28 +0000

I am having trouble understanding the main purpose of this protocol. After looking at your code example, I want to ask: what is the benefit of using this instead of an AEAD (Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) that is already available in Rust? What specific security guarantee does this give me that would help when I am building protocols?