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New comment by crystaln in "Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping"

crystaln — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:57:17 +0000

Thanks for explaining. It's an interesting turn of phrase. I don't see how it relates to parallel construction.

New comment by crystaln in "Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping"

crystaln — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:28:08 +0000

Parallel construction would be if LE unlawfully intercepted transmissions using this technique and discovered a crime, then found other unrelated evidence to begin an investigation of that crime.

New comment by crystaln in "Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping"

crystaln — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:26:16 +0000

Indeed. Parallel construction is when law enforcement doesn't want to burn their source or their source is unlawful, so they find another way to justify a warrant or prosecution even tho their initial justification comes from a different source.

This has been upheld as lawful, but also can unfortunately be used to disguise unlawful behavior.

Reverse engineering is not related to parallel construction.

New comment by crystaln in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

crystaln — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:28:16 +0000

This is how markets balance. When there is under supply prices go up and incentivize production. When there is oversupply production goes down. Prices converge on a small premium to the price of production.

New comment by crystaln in "Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation"

crystaln — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:13:17 +0000

Seems much more likely the cost will go down 99%. With open source models and architectural innovations, something like Claude will run on a local machine for free.

New comment by crystaln in "Why I left iNaturalist"

crystaln — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:47:54 +0000

I am not inclined to read this longwinded post. Anyone who writes a headline like this is not worthy of it's subject, and the popular comments would tend to agree.

I'm sure the author is well intentioned and filled with integrity, however trashing a thing you created because you feel dejected is inherently self-interested and unworthy of attention.

New comment by crystaln in "Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations"

crystaln — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:19:36 +0000

A widespread theory among et believers is that nuclear explosions bring the attention of et intelligence around the universe as a sign of sufficiently advanced life to investigate, and that aliens are here to make sure we develop without self-destructing and join the intergalactic world peacefully.

New comment by crystaln in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

crystaln — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:23:25 +0000

It's definitely better to know what traffic is real for many reasons, however won't clicks just lower the value of a click and conversion numbers, but leave overall conversion the same?

If conversion rate drops 90%, the value of a click should also drop 90% as companies adjust the bids for ads.

I'm sure this isn't always true in practice and it takes time for bids to adjust. I'm just wondering how much impact this actually has.

And on the other side, if ad companies were better at filtering bots, their clicks become more valuable and companies should be willing to pay more.

New comment by crystaln in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

crystaln — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:30:45 +0000

I believe if you connect directly to the tower a phone is connected to you can bypass central spam filters.

New comment by crystaln in "Signal Secure Backups"

crystaln — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:17:19 +0000

This is mentioned as a future feature.

New comment by crystaln in "The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst"

crystaln — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:12:51 +0000

Yes bubbles always have survivors. They will be hurt and also one day worth much more than they are now.

New comment by crystaln in "The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst"

crystaln — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:02:55 +0000

Bubbles burst when the media and public are finally bought in that they burst. This article is a good sign we aren’t there yet.

New comment by crystaln in "The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst"

crystaln — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:01:34 +0000

Yeah. This time it’s different.

New comment by crystaln in "Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B"

crystaln — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:00:21 +0000

Deflation is what you want for investment assets. Btc is primarily a value store and commodity like gold, not a currency. Deflation is a good thing when you are parking value.

New comment by crystaln in "My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]"

crystaln — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:59:20 +0000

Hard to say that your work isn't derived from a GPL project if you quite openly are reimplementing a GPL project you used at the core of your own project.

New comment by crystaln in "My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]"

crystaln — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:52:07 +0000

Being obvious to a developer poking at a product is quite disparate from successfully bringing a lawsuit involving source discovery.

New comment by crystaln in "My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]"

crystaln — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:50:04 +0000

Probably just went closed source.

New comment by crystaln in "Show HN: I Built an iOS app to locate stray animals"

crystaln — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:13:09 +0000

This is really cute, however I have a hard time seeing a route to widespread adoption as a marketplace of source. I was going to suggest adding adoption and rescues, however there seem to be a number of highly rated apps in that space already.

I would imagine the most useful function if a pet is lost or found would be to allow posting to places like NextDoor, printing posters, a contacting shelters, etc. and offering other support to people.

New comment by crystaln in "670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision"

crystaln — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:22:04 +0000

Red light therapy is vasty undervalued among the techie longevity crowd I know when compared to supplements, perhaps because of the large initial cost and lower portability of systems.

The evidence seems stronger than for most supplements people take, for everything from hair loss to collagen production to soften tissue repair to brain function.

New comment by crystaln in "670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision"

crystaln — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:20:25 +0000

There is a large amount of evidence for red light therapy for all parts of the body.