Hacker News: cypherpunks01

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "ElevenLabs Music v2.5"

cypherpunks01 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:26:29 +0000

Are people asking for this to exist? There isn't a big enough pool of talented humans willing to work for low pay, widely available cheap recording gear and free musical educational material, that music needs to be made even cheaper and soullessly?

I'm not against some AI uses, I use LLMs myself where it makes sense, but music is one of the things that we were told AI would free up all our time to do!!

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance"

cypherpunks01 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:02:22 +0000

"Using smartphone surveys" is a pretty concise clarifier in the original title

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance"

cypherpunks01 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:42:25 +0000

Oh it is a scientific prediction for sure.

I am just saying that if a layperson were told, "I have invented a machine that can accurately predict when someone is going to do Z!", but then, while researching the technology behind how such a prediction is possible, turns out the machine simply has been repeatedly asking the person how likely it is they will be doing Z, how much they think about Z, etc, then the layperson may feel a bit misled by the initial claim. I feel that way towards the editor that wrote this article title.

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance"

cypherpunks01 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:26:58 +0000

Unqualified use of the word "predicts" is a little bit of a stretch in this editorialized title.

The study doesn't predict suicide attempts out of some type of biometric or otherwise observable data or surveillance information, it's predicting it from a self-survey. The actual journal article title tells the story much better:

"Using smartphone surveys to predict next-week suicide attempts"

https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fabn0001117

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet"

cypherpunks01 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:10:07 +0000

Seems that an Elements rangeproof cache bug may've gotten exploited. Fix for suspicious issue was committed just last week and attackers could've monitored the public commits and exploited the bug before fix was ever pushed?

Sort of self-fulfilling prophecy if true, that's a leading theory anyhow.

fix: range proof cache bind to asset and scriptpubkey

https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/commit/c26d719c2...

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

cypherpunks01 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:15:07 +0000

US gov is not going to reimburse a private company for war damage caused by a sovereign country.

Property insurance generally has war exclusions, insurance co will deny claims. Unless there is some affordable magic 100% war damage coverage policy sold in the middle east, which is doubtful, no insurer would be able to successfully underwrite anything like that.

The company eats the losses and the recovery efforts it wants to persue.

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "Google Workspace CLI"

cypherpunks01 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:05:48 +0000

Me: huh, 0.4.4 version, this project must have been around for a little while.

checks https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli/tags

v0.1.1 2 days ago

v0.2.2 yesterday

v0.3.3 18 hours ago

v0.4.2 9 hours ago

v0.5.0 8 minutes ago

Interesting times we live in..

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "Show HN: qbo-cli - Quickbooks CLI for AI Agents"

cypherpunks01 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:35:00 +0000

Super cool! CLI makes a lot of sense for this, interested to try it out.

The MCP server released by QBO is a mess, keep needing to have Claude hack it to fix inconsistencies in parameters, limit results that completely fill up context, etc.

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed"

cypherpunks01 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:38:25 +0000

Top comment right now says "newpipe breaks every few weeks or so", but revanced builds in my experience last for at least a year before a new build is required. Personally I'd prefer more upfront steps and get a stable result, rather than something that works quickly but breaks often.

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

cypherpunks01 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:29:14 +0000

Yeah, I think the multilingual improvements in V3 caused some kind of regression for English - I've noticed large blocks occasionally dropped as well, so reverted to v2 for my usage. Specifically nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 vs nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation"

cypherpunks01 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:09:25 +0000

Hate to ask the obvious question but.. how does Claude check for milk?

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "Postal Arbitrage"

cypherpunks01 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:37:28 +0000

Yes, Jmail.world and the entire Jmail suite is mind-blowingly impressive, apparently Walz and @lukeigel co-created it.

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis"

cypherpunks01 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:02:34 +0000

Anyone tried this?

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

cypherpunks01 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:50:50 +0000

Lightning Network already uses millisatoshis. Of course they can't be settled in sub-satoshi amounts on the main chain, until there's enough interest in a fork to do so.

The fixed supply describes the total sum of units that have been issued, and that are intended to be issued in the future - it doesn't relate to the divisibility of those units.

The College Students Who Can't Do Elementary Math

cypherpunks01 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:36:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-college-students-who-cant-do-elementary-math-2db5e549

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46115121

Points: 7

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New comment by cypherpunks01 in "The realities of being a pop star"

cypherpunks01 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:35:12 +0000

> "A couple of weeks ago Yung Lean came for dinner at my house .. He is probably one of the wisest people I know."

Two sentences I would've not predicted in close proximity to one another! Hah, love it. Guess he's been through a lot over the years.

New comment by cypherpunks01 in "Pozsar's Bretton Woods III: The Framework"

cypherpunks01 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:10:55 +0000

The flow has definitely started reversing, and yep you're right there will be problems. Worldwide central bank holdings of gold just recently surpassed holdings of US Treasuries for the first time in 30 years. And I believe that's using only reported amounts of gold, when all experts agree that China has acquired far more gold in recent years than what's reported.

UPS MD-11 crashes departing Louisville

cypherpunks01 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:01:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-tracking-news/major-incident/ups-md-11-crashes-departing-louisville/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818177

Points: 13

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New comment by cypherpunks01 in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

cypherpunks01 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:20:28 +0000

Correct, this is the answer. Wasn't really known until this year.

https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/11/25/commerce-nominee-howar...

At least 25 states plan to cut off food aid benefits in November

cypherpunks01 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:51:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/23/states-snap-food-aid-benefits-government-shutdown-00619117

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45688438

Points: 16

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