Hacker News: moktonar

New comment by moktonar in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

moktonar — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:42:26 +0000

Inexistent security, absent security contacts/hard to get in touch with, denial/delay/won’t patch, most functionality to deploy a backdoor is already present, to me equals bugdoor. This is wanted behavior, not an accident, and is a widespread pattern..

New comment by moktonar in "C array types are weird"

moktonar — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:19:55 +0000

int x[n] and int *x are very different things when it comes to defining memory layout tho. In one case you end up with n int sized slots of memory, in the second with one register sized slot. That makes all the difference when defining structs for example.

New comment by moktonar in "Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys"

moktonar — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:12:07 +0000

I get what he’s saying, but, doesn’t he compare classical speed up of parallelizing 64 bit key space on 2^16 cpus with parallelizing 128 bits key space on QCs? It’s true that sqrt (2^128/2^16) = 2^56 and that 56 >> 48, but in one case you are attacking a 64 bits key space and in the other a 128! If you parallelize 2^128 on 2^16 CPUs you get 128-16=112 bits of key space per cpu which is much bigger than 56! No?

Edit: I mean, I get the point is to prove that 2^128 on QC is not the same as 2^64 on CC but it’s still a lot less to search. If a paper came out with that big of a key space reduction AES would be considered broken IMO

New comment by moktonar in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"

moktonar — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:43:09 +0000

Except maybe storing another smaller vector for the difference with the original data an also quantize that maybe recursively

New comment by moktonar in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"

moktonar — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:32:11 +0000

Aren’t polar coordinates still n-1 + 1 for radius for n-dim vector? If so I understand that angles can be quantized better but when radius r is big the error is large for highly quantized angles right? What am I missing?

New comment by moktonar in "Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference"

moktonar — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:42:55 +0000

Is it possible to do the inverse, then? (Tranforming weights back to code)

New comment by moktonar in "Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

moktonar — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:21:09 +0000

Thank you for all the work guys, I’ll see how I can help.

New comment by moktonar in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

moktonar — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:35:05 +0000

Well fucking done. Anthropic has just gained the “has bollocks” status. Also now we know what the govt is really up to with AI. G fucking g

New comment by moktonar in "Cosmologically Unique IDs"

moktonar — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:20:06 +0000

The random uuid selection is far superior because of lifespan, you can only have so many functioning devices at the same time, and on the contrary to tree-based uuids once a device is decommissioned the uuid can be reclaimed. Practically though it would probably be a mixed algorithm where positioning would give the id root and the rest is selected randomly

New comment by moktonar in "What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf]"

moktonar — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:46:57 +0000

UB is the definition of Free Will that’s why you can’t control it, and for a programmer something that cannot be controlled is felt as dangerous..

New comment by moktonar in "The RCE that AMD won't fix"

moktonar — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:48:12 +0000

Bugdoors, bugdoors everywhere..

The fact that they refuse to fix is the sketchiest part, and also they should be held accountable for things like this IMO

New comment by moktonar in "Hacking Moltbook"

moktonar — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:04:38 +0000

I can already envision a “I’m not human” captcha, for sites like this. Who will be the first to implement it? (Looks at Cloudflare)

New comment by moktonar in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

moktonar — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:09:56 +0000

I agree but if you can infer that maybe there are children running around because it’s the time they get out of school etc, then yes, you stop at every double parked car.. I’m not saying it’s easy to do, I’m just saying that’s a limitation of the system, that still already does miracles..

New comment by moktonar in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

moktonar — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:14:05 +0000

You are predicting stuff that your sensors don’t see all the time my friend

New comment by moktonar in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

moktonar — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:40:41 +0000

> detects foot movement ..

That’s probably how they do it, which is again very clever stuff, chapeau. But they do it like that b/c they can’t really predict the world around them fast enough. It might be possible in the future with AI World Models though

New comment by moktonar in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

moktonar — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:43:23 +0000

The Waymo driver tech is impressive. That said an experienced driver might have recognized the pattern where a stopped big vehicle occludes a part of the road leading to such situation, and might have stopped or slowed down almost to a halt before passing. The Waymo driver reacts faster but is not able to predict such scenarios by filling the gaps, simulating the world to inform decisions. Chapeau to Waymo anyways

New comment by moktonar in "Doom has been ported to an earbud"

moktonar — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:05:28 +0000

We should definitely send a playable copy of doom to aliens on a golden record on the next Voyager mission

New comment by moktonar in "Trump's Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw"

moktonar — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:09:30 +0000

But isn’t Greenland already in NATO?

New comment by moktonar in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

moktonar — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:37:00 +0000

It’s easier for a state to enforce censorship when there is only a SPoF

New comment by moktonar in "A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela"

moktonar — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:29:35 +0000

The real question tho is: how would you become the mitm reserving for yourself the benefit of the doubt?