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Bot Management for a Changing Internet

madars — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:03:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.radiustech.xyz/blog/bot-management-for-a-changing-internet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467886

Points: 2

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Coldcard generated predictable wallet seeds for five years

madars — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:33:05 +0000

Article URL: https://coldcard-hack.up.railway.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129689

Points: 6

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UK AISI / Caisi Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities

madars — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:59:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/07/uk-aisi-caisi-preliminary-assessment-kimi-k3s-cyber-capabilities

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031080

Points: 6

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New comment by madars in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

madars — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:22:52 +0000

A useful project related to Apple's Core Audio is qaac - it wraps iTunes Windows DLL's in a standalone encoding tool with a CLI interface. I believe it even works under Wine on Linux: https://web.archive.org/web/20250814194428/https://www.andre... So you don't need a Mac or even a full iTunes installation to get high quality AAC encoding.

New comment by madars in "Open USD"

madars — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:39:41 +0000

Either way you look at it, stablecoins are both better rails and asset than commercial bank deposits - they are cheaper, faster, global, 24/7, and remove unnecessary friction. And if you look at, say, USDC reserves (mostly treasuries or overnight repos) they are structurally better than what your commercial bank has (illiquid mortgages and similar). That said, you don't get the FDIC $250k backstop and for some that might flip the entire conversation (in particular, narrow banking/reserve quality argument doesn't apply under that cap - you are simply fully covered).

New comment by madars in "China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race"

madars — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:52:01 +0000

https://archive.is/sQvr0

China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race

madars — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:52:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chinese-ai-anthropic-mythos-cybersecurity-574b02c2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703592

Points: 13

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Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

madars — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:26:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-capabilities-2026-06-24/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666781

Points: 8

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Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards

madars — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:27:49 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/currencies/articles/ecb-secures-key-parliamentary-backing-102718449.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48647444

Points: 232

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New comment by madars in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

madars — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:03:54 +0000

>You'd probably have to 4X to 5X the current housing supply to make a dent in prices.

Not at all. The important thing here is that price is set on the margin. Relatively modest supply increases can have outsized price effects. As an example, consider rents in Austin - something like 30% housing stock increase led to 16% drop in median rent, all while Austin simultaneously had massive in-migration, i.e., rents fell despite demand surging.

As another example of margin behavior: vacancy rates matter a lot, a modest vacancy rate increase can crater rents, which we see in the CRE market.

New comment by madars in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

madars — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:48:22 +0000

Uber/Lyft takeover had little to do with price (though, yes, they were cheaper) and everything to do with reliability and overall quality of service. Even though ride sharing industry lost money in subsidy arms race and side bets it was fundamentally sound in major metros since early on (similar to how Amazon was fundamentally sound from early on, despite not recognizing profit for a long time). Popular "analyses" kept equating Uber/Lyft with firms losing money on every sale with no path to fix it but the demand was always there as riders had already left taxis and transit on reliability and convenience grounds.

New comment by madars in "Apple WWDC 2026"

madars — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:58:38 +0000

This UserJS worked for me with Violentmonkey - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/485020-dvr-chan-force-enab...

What is the non-browser workaround? E.g., can streamlink do it?

New comment by madars in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

madars — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:11:03 +0000

Exactly right. Even though ride sharing industry lost money in subsidy arms race and side bets it was likewise fundamentally sound in major metros since early on. Popular "analyses" kept equating Uber/Lyft with firms losing money on every sale with no path to fix it but the demand was always there as riders had already left taxis and transit on reliability and convenience grounds.

New comment by madars in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

madars — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:57:22 +0000

Similar experiences in Boston area. Hailing a taxi at a taxi stand (e.g., at Prudential or Logan) - good experience to this day. Calling dispatcher - half of the time they don't show up (esp. so for scheduled airport rides) or show up late or arrive in a smoke-filled car. Hackney carriage medallions might have been bad investments for some cabbies, but Uber/Lyft are simply a much better service for the customer. Uber/Lyft takeover had little to do with price (though, yes, they were cheaper) and everything to do with reliability and overall quality of service.

New comment by madars in "Building a UMatrix Replacement"

madars — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:25:57 +0000

It works fine in Chrome 148. Earlier Chrome versions removed chrome://flags versions of the above even with "Temporarily unexpire M147 flags" (and similar), but command line invocation continues to work.

New comment by madars in "Building a UMatrix Replacement"

madars — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:56:01 +0000

Nice work! FWIW, you can still use Manifest V2 extensions, like uMatrix, uBlock Origin, or Violentmonkey, in Chrome by passing command line flags. For example, on macOS:

    open -b com.google.Chrome --new --args --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled

When Google finally nerfs that, it is past time to move to Firefox or Brave, the latter of which has explicitly announced uMatrix support.

New comment by madars in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

madars — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:17:14 +0000

Speaking as a European who did his PhD at MIT: that's destructive zero-sum thinking and "outsiders benefit" is backwards.

Knowledge spillover benefits everyone - would there be ASML (Dutch) without DARPA's monumental fundamental research investment in EUV? BioNTech (German) without NIH-funded mRNA research? Without American investment this research likely wouldn't have happened or would have come a decade later.

New comment by madars in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

madars — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:18:35 +0000

USB 3.0 was marketed as SuperSpeed USB. SS-marked ports should give you 5Gbit/s, compared to 480 Mbps USB 2.0.

PropAMMs and the Next Chapter of Permissionless Market Structure

madars — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:46 +0000

Article URL: https://jumpcrypto.com/resources/propamms-and-the-next-chapter-of-permissionless-market-structure

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801187

Points: 2

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New comment by madars in "HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X"

madars — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:53:35 +0000

Phrasing idiosyncrasies are publicly observable and anyone can note - as external observers did in Kaczynski or Hanssen cases - that a particular phrasing is quaint. It is probably true that Twitter is unlikely to run a browser fingerprinting query to de-anonymize someone tweeting spoilers from a softcore porn show. But a potential leaker has to ask: "how sure am I of that?"