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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: 12

# Comments: 3

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

# Comments: 5

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

# Comments: 376

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

# Comments: 0

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?"

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

madars — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:02:07 +0000

There are so many more ways one could screw up, and you only need to screw up once. For example, does X do browser fingerprinting and did you ever use similar setup to use a more identifiable Twitter account? Are you using unique phrasings or behavioral patterns? These things can be solved to a satisfactory degree, but I don't think "it's not hard" captures it - for an average user it _is_ hard.

New comment by madars in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

madars — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:39:13 +0000

A major problem with the article is the author's inability to weigh the evidence: actual evidence, like presence/absence pattern, is buried whereas p-hacking stylometry (let me try another expert, this one didn't give me what I wanted! let me feed him the Satoshi/Adam Back tells that I'm already in love with!) is majority of the article. It also includes absolute garbage like the vistomail spoof email during the block size wars. And, oh by the way, both Satoshi and Adam Back knew C++. Theranos evidence was binary (machines either work or they don't) but it is not so here and the author is simply out of his depth here.

It is sad - but entirely unsurprising - that NYT decided to paint a big target on someone's back just for clicks. Judith Miller-tier all over again. Miller too had real evidence and junk evidence, couldn't distinguish between the two, and editors wanted a flashy headline. Carreyrou has exactly the same problem here: NYT editors need multimedia events (like junk stylometry filtering - watch the number shrink from 34,000 to 562 to 114 to 56 to 8 to 1!!!) because that's what its audience-product relationship demands. I think it not unfair to say that modern Times' editorial culture has no mechanism for distinguishing rigorous inference from merely compelling narrative. Open the front page on a random day: how often do you see the Times staking credibility on a causal claim "A causes B" vs simply "X happened. Then Y came." vibes/parataxis.

Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum vulnerabilities responsibly

madars — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:28:03 +0000

Article URL: https://research.google/blog/safeguarding-cryptocurrency-by-disclosing-quantum-vulnerabilities-responsibly/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582418

Points: 88

# Comments: 35

Agreement with the Department of War

madars — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:13:24 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/sama/status/2027578580159631610

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189766

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by madars in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

madars — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:25:22 +0000

Indeed, for any particular outcome you could design a custom protocol. In contrast, Radius gives you a generic execution environment. Going custom you lose EVM tooling, audited standard contracts, and every bespoke protocol needs its own security analysis, its own edge case handling, and its own integration work.

That said, the most important loss is composability: an agent can't take your Chaumian coupon escrow and snap it together with someone else's DvP protocol and a third party's rate-limiting wallet in a single atomic transaction. The power of a shared execution environment is that these interaction patterns don't need to be anticipated and designed around in advance. Agents aren't going to negotiate which custom protocol to use for every interaction (the necessary protocol might not even exist!), they will use shared infrastructure where composability of various primitives is the effortless default.