Hacker News: byteware

New comment by byteware in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

byteware — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:39:41 +0000

polynomial commitment based zero knowledge proof system

New comment by byteware in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

byteware — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:37:21 +0000

first order zero knowledge proof system (zk-stark), it works on android, macos, linux, webassembly, vulkan/cuda backend (metal coming), but the composition polynomial evaluation is suboptimal so i am working on that now

https://theorium.org/constraints.html

New comment by byteware in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

byteware — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:52:35 +0000

zero-knowledge proof framework to prove for example that a bank has the necessary funds, or for a loan application that I make enough without revealing how much

New comment by byteware in "Apple Vision Pro review"

byteware — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 07:37:22 +0000

why would foveated rendering break down? it does not stop rendering where you are not looking just lowers the resolution

New comment by byteware in "Circle (or highlight or scribble) to search"

byteware — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:12:59 +0000

how is the "world is on its knees"? also didn't google target net-zero carbon by 2030? https://sustainability.google/operating-sustainably/ what do you want google to do about war?

New comment by byteware in "Welcome to the ad-free internet"

byteware — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 07:54:23 +0000

tangent: do we have to censor words here as well? i thought it was for youtube and tiktok recommendation systems (unalive is particularly funny imo)

New comment by byteware in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

byteware — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 07:45:34 +0000

in theory some publications are available as torrents, in theory they are in batches zipped together and in theory one could, by requesting certain parts of the zip file using a crafted torrent client, download only the publication they are looking for, in theory

New comment by byteware in "My techno-optimism"

byteware — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:04:54 +0000

10 races we should sterilize, number 6 will shock you, click here to learn more

New comment by byteware in "$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize"

byteware — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:36:51 +0000

talking as someone who is building such a system, why would an avarage participant of the network give their own money, i dont think they would for the same reason i'm not running a bounty program with my dollars, the only use of having it on the blockchain is rewards without using your own money (so it's economics depends on the eventual value of the coin), for that it has to be bound to the minting process, but a purely algorithmic system for determining who gets how much based on their proofs seems elusive (think of the infinite possible proofs 1+2=3, 1+3=4...), we are going for having a central authority doing the minting for proofs (as voting based on money would hardly reflect mathematical experties)

New comment by byteware in "A Video Game That Pays: Lessons Learned from Working Remotely"

byteware — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:21:15 +0000

I am in a such a "meaningless" pickle myself, I have never imagined that hard tasks with strict deadlines are a breeze compared to this, it slowly but surely chips away my will to live, even though on the outside it sounds wonderful

New comment by byteware in "WeWork nears bankruptcy"

byteware — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:51:10 +0000

well for their definition of tech "approaching zero cost", the only tech companies are pure software ones, the cost of manifacturing a rocket can hardly approach zero

New comment by byteware in "Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges"

byteware — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:53:11 +0000

I'm trying to find the takeaway, should kids not go to college? or that nobody reads the comments, since one of them raises the question, "is there proof?" and claims that not according to their linkedin

New comment by byteware in "Decentralized Artificial Intelligence"

byteware — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 18:40:52 +0000

although zero knowledge proofs can compress the "proof of gradient" so it takes much less time to verify than recompute, it take orders of more work to generate the proof, moreover can we merge multiple "improvements"? if not then upon the selection of the "winner" all those are lost?

New comment by byteware in "How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole"

byteware — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:57:58 +0000

not like I am vocalizing this damn, that would be effed up, I am just silently feeling this way then respond and act according to the expected norms

New comment by byteware in "How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole"

byteware — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 06:33:19 +0000

yes, coworkers thanking me for a bugfix or a feature bothers the hell out of me. man I am not doing it for you, I am doing it for money that is thanks enough

New comment by byteware in "Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit"

byteware — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 09:37:56 +0000

they stated that they print regularly, then without knowning anything of their use case and needs, came the "ackchyually" like they know it better or the original commenter is an idiot, why is it so unfathomable that they have done their research

New comment by byteware in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023)"

byteware — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:52:06 +0000

- Location: EU - Remote: depends - Willing to relocate: depends - Technologies: C++, formal verification, zk-stark - CV: on request - Email: on request

New comment by byteware in "Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?"

byteware — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 05:47:04 +0000

the maximum is given by the carnot cycle, which has COP=T_high/(T_high-T_cold) so from room temp 25°C to 250°C it is 2.3, but this is the theoretical limit

New comment by byteware in "Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?"

byteware — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 14:35:41 +0000

how is programming "democratized"?

New comment by byteware in "Reddit is OpenAI’s moat"

byteware — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:29:07 +0000

out of curiosity, how did you verify the information?