Hacker News: int32_64

New comment by int32_64 in "Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview"

int32_64 — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:57:36 +0000

Both. The skilled will use them to find problems, the unskilled will use them to slopcode insecure software the skilled will have to fix.

New comment by int32_64 in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

int32_64 — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:59:33 +0000

The brief window between the covid gaming bubble pop/PoS ETH switch and the AI hardware blackhole will be fondly remembered as the last golden age of consumer PC hardware accessibility.

New comment by int32_64 in "Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade"

int32_64 — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:27:44 +0000

There will probably be congressional hearings when it turns out Lazarus Group had access, and then the USG will use it as an excuse to lock AI behind harsh KYC.

https://x.com/kevinakwok/status/2049984076141281482

New comment by int32_64 in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

int32_64 — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:08:54 +0000

What's the current status of the 'biggest computer wins' vs. specialized proprietary research/data in the AI arms race? People had such high hopes for xAI because of the monster machine Elon built. Or has xAI just turned over too much staff too quickly?

New comment by int32_64 in "White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released"

int32_64 — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:35:52 +0000

Is there an arms race of payment infrastructure for international LLM providers? A common payment gateway so that people can pay providers anywhere for tokens will inevitably emerge if the US is making moves like this.

New comment by int32_64 in "GitHub Is Down"

int32_64 — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:08:49 +0000

At least people are gaining knowledge of how to use the git remote command.

New comment by int32_64 in "SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin"

int32_64 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:08:04 +0000

A better project would be to take the exact key generation function at the time Satoshi started it and mine possible PRNG parameters.

New comment by int32_64 in "Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores"

int32_64 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:27:04 +0000

Is haggling an individualized price? What's stopping companies from allowing arbitrary bids on any item they can choose to reject? What if the future of the grocery store is eBay, a true nightmare.

New comment by int32_64 in "U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back"

int32_64 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:00:02 +0000

Is there any technical solution to these centralized ID authorities doing sybil attacks and minting identities out of nothing to manufacture consensus on supposedly "human verified" sites?

New comment by int32_64 in "Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom"

int32_64 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:27:49 +0000

"quantum grifting" has hit the cryptocurrency space brutally.

Scammers can take an old defunct coin or create a new one, buy up/create supply, strap ML-DSA on to it, and pump their shitcoin claiming it's quantum safe, then they can unload.

Eventually low information retail will get wise to this, I honestly don't know who this even works on right now.

New comment by int32_64 in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

int32_64 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:21:03 +0000

There will be derivative contracts of prediction markets to predict if an insider is indicted for betting on a specific prediction.

And those prediction markets will have derivative markets to predict if an insider in the prosecutor's office bet on that contract.

And those prediction markets will have derivative markets to predict if a special prosecutor will prosecute the other prosecutor.

And those prediction markets will have derivative markets to predict if an insider in the special prosecutor's office bet on the other contract.

(additional derivative markets will exist up to the divine wrath of god).

New comment by int32_64 in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

int32_64 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:30:05 +0000

It seems like it would be highly demoralizing to US soldiers that they are prosecuted for betting on the outcomes of the battles they are risking their lives for but those insider trading commanding them aren't.

New comment by int32_64 in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

int32_64 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:10:00 +0000

>acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.

This seems like an elaborate Elon rug pull. A Windsurf situation 2.0

New comment by int32_64 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

int32_64 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:11:49 +0000

I still sometimes miss the Samsung Galaxy I had that had a microSD slot, a removable battery, and a headphone jack.

Phones have lost so much in a decade.

New comment by int32_64 in "The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe"

int32_64 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:59:07 +0000

Are there any projects focused on getting 'creative' software to work well on Linux? Valve solved Linux gaming but it seems tools like DAWs and video/photo editing is still terrible on Linux.

New comment by int32_64 in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

int32_64 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:42:12 +0000

>You're claiming the U.S. government is impotent against holding Polymarket to account?

Yes, if US regulators quash Polymarket their lunch will be eaten by a global competitor HQ'd in a country the US can't touch.

A lot of the insider weekend trading of oil is happening on hyperliquid, a DEX associated with developers in Singapore, what can the SEC or CFTC do to them?

New comment by int32_64 in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

int32_64 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:49:03 +0000

It's deeply American how so many of these articles about Kalshi or Polymarket frame the issue as something that can be solved on the American end with the stroke of a pen, especially in a multipolar world where American sanctions increasingly fail.

These markets are global with global demand and many of the insiders are on the receiving end of American foreign policy. If an Iranian with a starlink sees a b-2 spirit fly over their house that information will find its way to somebody who will profit from that knowledge, it's just part of the new information economy.

New comment by int32_64 in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

int32_64 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:21:02 +0000

By using these services, you're also exfiltrating your entire codebase to them, so you have to continuously use the best cyber capabilities providers offer in case a data breach allows somebody to obtain your codebase and an attacker uses a better vulnerability detector than what you were using.

New comment by int32_64 in "US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]"

int32_64 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:10:12 +0000

The Lavabit case years ago was quite scandalous, things have only gotten worse. There should have been much harsher limits on what companies can be compelled to do.

New comment by int32_64 in "US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]"

int32_64 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:45:52 +0000

Are there any model providers that don't log chats? It seems like a good market opening.

I wonder if anybody has gone all the way and made a darknet LLM service with no logs served only over TOR with XMR payments.