Hacker News: Tryk

New comment by Tryk in "Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science"

Tryk — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:31:21 +0000

Really appreciate your work! We use your git tutorial as an (excellent) reference for a university course on Software Development I teach.

New comment by Tryk in "WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe"

Tryk — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:24:44 +0000

No thanks, I wouldn't want my text messages used to train an AI. Or my metadata used to improve surveillance.

New comment by Tryk in "AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is"

Tryk — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:59:01 +0000

Imagine if there was a push to create a professional organization to handle qualification, certifications etc. Like there is for doctors, dentist, accountants and other fields

New comment by Tryk in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

Tryk — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 22:28:37 +0000

Do you like not working on weekends?

New comment by Tryk in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

Tryk — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 06:14:37 +0000

What about tax cuts for the rich, quantitative easing? Who are they brutal to? Everyone? Where in that chain linked web does it hurt the most when you distribute money to the wealthiest 10%?

New comment by Tryk in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

Tryk — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:29:03 +0000

Apple and Google remove apps that inform about ICE

Tryk — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 10:39:42 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/apple-ice-iphone-app-immigration-fb6a404d3e977516d66d470585071bcc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480510

Points: 14

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New comment by Tryk in "Sora 2"

Tryk — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:38:57 +0000

One analogy is to liken tiktok (and shortform content) as exploring the shallows. Walking around, close to the shoreline, you explore pieces of flotsam that the sea washes your way. You might spend a lifetime on this shore, walking up and down, but most would argue that you've actually never gone anywhere.

On the other hand, reading a book is like getting on a boat. You've made certain preparations for acquiring the vessel and set course through unknown territory. A journey away from the shore and away from what's immediately at hand, which can also turn out to be a journey towards self-discovery.

New comment by Tryk in "Unexpected productivity boost of Rust"

Tryk — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:07:53 +0000

The notion of a type is not fixed, Rust has a more generous conception of what is a type and what its static type system checks.

New comment by Tryk in "AI is different"

Tryk — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:17:40 +0000

Blog post is almost exactly 1 year old...

New comment by Tryk in "Tesla used car prices keep plumetting, dips below average used car"

Tryk — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 06:08:34 +0000

It was a Nazi Salute, two of them.

New comment by Tryk in "Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people"

Tryk — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:16:18 +0000

>Fifty-three percent of adults report that grocery expenses are a major source of stress

What an absolute embarrassment. Income inequality will lead to societal collapse

New comment by Tryk in "Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth"

Tryk — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:22:07 +0000

So by your logic we should consider lowering the minimum wage in order to ensure employment.

Employment is not a means in itself, the point of being employed is to "make a living". If a job cannot sustain a person then it should not exist.

People deserve to live with dignity, earning a living wage.

New comment by Tryk in "Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth"

Tryk — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:11:45 +0000

US != The World.

This analysis fails to realise that there are simply other countries with which to trade with.

New comment by Tryk in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

Tryk — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:47:05 +0000

Well a counter argument would be, how would you know if anything is changed? If you're not part of the editors for a newsrooms how would you know which stories are cut and which make the broadcast?

New comment by Tryk in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

Tryk — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:45:14 +0000

I think people are interested in local news, so the gap will certainly be replaced but by monied interests, e.g. Sinclair [1] or similar. Who will promote their narrative and further polarize the information landscape.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

New comment by Tryk in "Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet"

Tryk — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:36:47 +0000

When comparing two ciphertexts A,B a FHE sorting function will output a sorted pair of two new ciphertexts:

E.g. FHE_SORT(A,B) -> (X,Y)

where Dec(X)But without decoding, there's no way of knowing whether X (or Y) comes from A or B.

Source: II. D of https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/995.pdf

New comment by Tryk in "Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet"

Tryk — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:07:17 +0000

What do you mean by homomorphic compression?

Given that the operations you can execute on the ciphertext are Turing complete (it suffices to show that we can do addition and multiplication) then it follows that any conceivable computation can be performed on the ciphertext.

New comment by Tryk in "Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet"

Tryk — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:03:38 +0000

Interesting! Can you provide some sources for this claim?

New comment by Tryk in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

Tryk — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:15:37 +0000

What makes you say that?