Hacker News: bravoetch

New comment by bravoetch in "The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes"

bravoetch — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 04:47:02 +0000

What would they sue for? Nobody lost any funds.

New comment by bravoetch in "Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance"

bravoetch — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:55:38 +0000

Except that banks often don't unwind or freeze transactions. I've seen cases of both criminal conduct, and human error, leading to millions in lost funds. And banks didn't reverse or freeze anything. Yes it would be a security feature, but it's not used the way you assume.

New comment by bravoetch in "Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance"

bravoetch — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:52:13 +0000

This seems like pure projection on your part.

New comment by bravoetch in "Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer"

bravoetch — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:06:37 +0000

I might not know the trouble-shooting steps for a problem I'm having. LLMs may give poor answers, but they can help me find documents with good answers. That would be enough for most people.

New comment by bravoetch in "Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20"

bravoetch — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:21:18 +0000

Not sure about death being required. It's more that life after reproductive success is not required.

New comment by bravoetch in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bravoetch — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:13:00 +0000

Do they claim that's the case? I don't think they do.

New comment by bravoetch in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bravoetch — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:11:11 +0000

> Most work on maths has no real benefit other than to further human understanding of maths - it's more like an art.

It's been a while since I was reminded of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/

New comment by bravoetch in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bravoetch — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:49:30 +0000

What does a backfire look like? It's ok to be wrong in the science/math world.

New comment by bravoetch in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bravoetch — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:47:46 +0000

In previous math sharing there was speculation about stealing human researcher's results or progress, via prompt inputs from those researchers, and sharing that as their own result. They're adjusting their process, and it seems ok.

New comment by bravoetch in "When did Google get so weird?"

bravoetch — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:35:57 +0000

What search is better? I use DDG, and I also know search has been broken for years because of attention and surveillance economy.

New comment by bravoetch in "Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries"

bravoetch — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:55:11 +0000

> This is simply untenable. Institutions of all kinds have been keeping records connected to individuals for millennia.

This is the reason privacy is needed.

> Try to run a school when you can’t maintain data on the students.

Yes, we should try this. Zero-knowledge proofs and other modern technology allows for this. Even the first step of not selling or using student data for commerce is an easy step.

Those who think that we should not try to improve because our privacy is already compromised, should step aside.

New comment by bravoetch in "Good people refuse to do bad things"

bravoetch — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:13:15 +0000

If everyone doing a 'bad thing' stepped off the hamster wheel today, the world economy would collapse before markets closed. The biggest companies have built an attention and surveillance nightmare machine that funnels all the money to a relatively small number of shareholders.

New comment by bravoetch in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

bravoetch — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:57:46 +0000

My journey went from downloading movies and TV shows to paying for Netflix, Apple, and Prime. Then back to torrents to avoid all the trailers and ads and curated feed. It's so peaceful now.

New comment by bravoetch in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

bravoetch — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:34:24 +0000

I was a young child when I learned chess by reading a short book, then practicing with a friend. That is not how LLMs learn. I'm no expert on LLMs, but if you showed a human all chess games and books in all history and then said 'play chess' and they still kept making illegal moves, they would have to have a brain injury.

New comment by bravoetch in "Show HN: Analyst Index – analysts who make money telling you good stock calls"

bravoetch — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:39:26 +0000

I like this idea. There's at least one system I know of in competition with your business model. In trading desks, the data of traders is analyzed ato reveal the better traders. Almost always it's because they have some kind of 'inside' information. Can be a small thing like a friend that works somewhere keeps giving them tidbits. Legal or not, this is reality. The finance companies take this internal trading data and build models based around those traders, and sell the trade advantage to their own customers.

I think your site needs to compete with that, and other existing systems for adding value to 'better traders'.

New comment by bravoetch in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

bravoetch — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:55:37 +0000

1 - How are people torrenting and not using a VPN? 2 - How are judges still allowing this business model of sharing files then trying to shake down people that download them?

New comment by bravoetch in "I Don't Have a Smartphone"

bravoetch — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:06:26 +0000

I get it, I really hate it too. When I don't want to use my phone, I just leave it somewhere in the house and forget about it for a couple of days.

New comment by bravoetch in "Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush"

bravoetch — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:26:28 +0000

Dyson seem to be the champion of turning a cheap effective device that's well understood into the same device but an order of magnitude more expensive. Are people still buying it?

New comment by bravoetch in "Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are"

bravoetch — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:23:23 +0000

It's horrifying to see that our browsers give up anything at all. I feel like we need a new model where we just get served the content, and we don't serve up anything to the content provider. I feel ill.

New comment by bravoetch in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

bravoetch — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:57:24 +0000

Fort Collins, CO is probably where that rate is. I don't know of anywhere cheaper for residential electric.