Hacker News: pamcake

New comment by pamcake in "Incident with Github.com"

pamcake — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:27:48 +0000

> GH shouldn't have promoted LLM usage the way they have

No qualifiers necessary. But try arguing with a lawnmower...

New comment by pamcake in "Incident with Github.com"

pamcake — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:19:43 +0000

Allowing and accepting? More like encouraging and instigating.

New comment by pamcake in "A spectre is haunting Unicode"

pamcake — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:14:29 +0000

> I was told that the Unified CJK thing adopted a different "philosophy" from the rest of Unicode

What would that philosophy be about? Sounds apocryphal. Unicode has never done "unification" like that for other languages/scripts?

i/ı/i, ö/ø/ø̈/oͤ: Same same, different codepoints.

Search and sorting is a mess everywhere. Depending on your locale, ö sorts either after o or after z. Sometimes it's semantically and phonetically equivalent to o wrt search but moreoften not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96

New comment by pamcake in "Alternative to Internet Archive"

pamcake — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:37:16 +0000

Bonus if also add a .torrent with the same as webseeds: Can make easier for visitor to grab in bulk and makes a way to keep sharing in further future. No strict need to run torrent client to act as webseed - just point at http url.

New comment by pamcake in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

pamcake — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:13:57 +0000

Now have you met my friend Planck Length?

New comment by pamcake in "Open WireGuard Endpoints"

pamcake — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:35:48 +0000

Why stop there? Give use Wireguard certificate auth already!

New comment by pamcake in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

pamcake — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:39:55 +0000

"The state apparatus" (or "the state" for short).

"State and government" section in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity)

New comment by pamcake in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

pamcake — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:20:26 +0000

Most likely from above in thread.

There is no reason to believe it should be lower than that - or even that low. Or do you have access to research claiming such achievements?

New comment by pamcake in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

pamcake — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:09:31 +0000

I'm still a bit skeptic - 1000x sounds overly optimistic and only looking at encryption transformation without any operation is already at least 10000x with scheme mentioned in that quote.

Sibling comment estimates lower bounds of current research at minimun 10^6 overhead which sounds more realistic.

New comment by pamcake in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

pamcake — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:02:39 +0000

Benchmarking code in repo: https://github.com/google/heir/tree/main/benchmark

Project intro talk from 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqDFdKUTNA4

New comment by pamcake in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

pamcake — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:29:26 +0000

No we haven't.

New comment by pamcake in "New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner"

pamcake — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:30:04 +0000

I would question why individual police officers would be able to plant pucks administered by the agency and track using (a combination of third-party and) agency infrastructure at will without oversight and properly reviewed papertrail.

Nobody's calling for outright banning of cameras. It's about the way these and their feeds are being deployed, integrated and utilized.

New comment by pamcake in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

pamcake — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:45:18 +0000

So the CFTC frames Kalshi as a financial derivatives exchange for the financial instrument category of event contracts, dismissing NYs characterization of it as a gambling/betting platform. Interesting.

New comment by pamcake in "GitHub repo hagezi/DNS-blocklists flagged"

pamcake — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:39:30 +0000

hagezi comment from linked thread:

The repo and the account were locked again, so I opened another ticket with GitHub. Their automatic fraud detection is “very frustrating.” No idea how long it will take. Last time, it was bots that reported the repository en masse. Let's see what the reason is this time...

This time, GitHub didn’t notify me about the lock; a user reported it to me.

The mirror on GitLab is online, and the CDN links from jsDelivr are still working.

https://gitlab.com/hagezi/mirror

New comment by pamcake in "Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases"

pamcake — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:14:47 +0000

You are right that SSS requires temporarily rematerializing the raw key at the moment of signing. Even so it would be a huge improvement:

> Which makes the exact situation that occurred here possible.

Not so. The situation here was operator errror and someone mistakenly committing signing key in cleartext to repo. So this exact situation would not be possible. They could also have a process of signing on a dedicated instance (possibly with its own shard) which would remove key exposure completely from operator machines. This is all achivable with existing tooling and without changing implementations on verifier side.

The first link shows how an actual threshold signature scheme for PGP could be constructed.

New comment by pamcake in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

pamcake — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:38:53 +0000

All of those are pretty specific to US national culture whereas GP is talking about something more global.

New comment by pamcake in "[dead]"

pamcake — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:05:43 +0000

> I'm actually too lazy to explain everything now that I'm typing.

This will not do. Try harder. I believe in you.

New comment by pamcake in "Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases"

pamcake — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:31:38 +0000

Could be multiple individuals, each with a different key.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/540

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

New comment by pamcake in "Everything you do is being recorded"

pamcake — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:07:13 +0000

False presumption. You are just making that up, right?

New comment by pamcake in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

pamcake — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:53:44 +0000

> How do you solve the issues of private key sharings that are stored in cwd .env?

Stop putting sensitive stuff there.