<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pas</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pas</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:41:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pas" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pas in "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LLM does not work on encrypted tokens. It happens at the API gateway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:06:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268393</link><dc:creator>pas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268393</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pas in "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>or add some metadata and don't allow downgrading.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:42:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260921</link><dc:creator>pas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pas in "Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>assuming their "reserve item" function is just "update the table set N rows to reserved=true where reserved==false"<p>more transactions can commit at the same time, but with one counter they would conflict (as it did in the Redis case)<p>they should use CRDT (and trying to model that with this 1000 row workspace, no?)<p>still, eventually at some point they need to do the math</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:07:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228852</link><dc:creator>pas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pas in "As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>in the age of containers, overlay filesystems, a decade of UX work regarding sharing data/files/content between applications on phones, it should.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:10:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222575</link><dc:creator>pas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222575</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pas in "After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>biology uses a lot of gradients and culling. the brain starts with more neurons than it needs, and those that don't form connections get recycled.<p>no need to start futile fights when you are in the (ideological) minority.</p>
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<p>> What is the correct procedure for this?<p>in general to work on something that will get "into the rust compiler" it needs at least an RFC and then a Major Change Proposal [0]<p>in practice it starts with asking on zulip [1]<p>[0] <a href="https://forge.rust-lang.org/compiler/proposals-and-stabilization.html" rel="nofollow">https://forge.rust-lang.org/compiler/proposals-and-stabiliza...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://forge.rust-lang.org/how-to-start-contributing.html" rel="nofollow">https://forge.rust-lang.org/how-to-start-contributing.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:50:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179796</link><dc:creator>pas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pas in "After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4B_movement" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4B_movement</a></p>
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<p>oh, it could be worse!<p>spending time on fake CVEs while people are exploiting real 0days against your system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:58:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158409</link><dc:creator>pas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pas in "Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have complicated feelings regarding academia, and in general IMHO it's way past due to start focusing on quality instead of hype.<p>who was first to some kind of novelty? who cares. someone did something but no one can replicate it? intentionally wasting public money. fraud by any other name.<p>"science" wouldn't move slower if we would build more robust data generating processes.<p>of course, since usually it's hard to judge quality academia uses proxies. not to mention that the people who could usually are also live inside fancy glassware. and it would be a shame to rock the boat.<p>... but math is doubly special, because we accepted that it doesn't matter (until it does, but then it's called cryptography and logistics network optimization and high frequency trading, and machine learning), and how long a problem stays unsolved was quite a good proxy.<p>still, if AI solves the easy ones we can finally have fun with the hard ones!</p>
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<p>ehh, it's Python, it's mostly vibe-based.<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/32802486" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/a/32802486</a><p>though there's sandbox: <a href="https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/sandbox/" rel="nofollow">https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/sandbox/</a><p>it simply predates the "sanitize by default" mindset/convention that nowadays React (dangerouslySetInnerHTML) and Angular has.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:33:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102691</link><dc:creator>pas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102691</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pas in "Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>... what is understanding of mathematics anyway? if some AI result helps a mathematician to solve more problems I would say then that it gave them some understanding, but just as there are proofs that span hundreds of pages it's likely that soon proofs will be long Lean programs and studying them will be part of mathematics, just as studying Go played by AI.<p>(see the open (Lean) label for Erdos problems <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/116987866420438091" rel="nofollow">https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/116987866420438091</a>)</p>
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<p>that doesn't mean much. it has a lot of tests, the architect seems sane, it fits a niche (for example scripts baked into container images don't need full (Node + tsx + esbuild) or Bun/Deno)</p>
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<p>how would they detect?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:30:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018960</link><dc:creator>pas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pas in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the same is true of passwords. some sites provide password reset some don't. how is that not clear?</p>
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<p>natural selection rather quickly fixes this, don't worry</p>
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<p>sure, and there are obvious pitfalls, but IMHO it's much better than going to a 100+ dates and not reflecting on what went wrong/well after any of them.<p>(tangentially related recommended reading <a href="https://danluu.com/p95-skill/" rel="nofollow">https://danluu.com/p95-skill/</a> )</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-dating-men-in-the-bay" rel="nofollow">https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-dating-men-in-t...</a></p>
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<p>use an open source password manager that supports them.<p>as others mentioned, there's BitWarden (cross-platform, self-hostable), but if you want something simple there's KeePassXC (and you can put the store file on a dropbox shared folder)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:02:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010869</link><dc:creator>pas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pas in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>password managers do the backup for you based on how you set them up (eg. to your google drive, or to a simple SFTP/FTPS/S3 URI)<p>those that don't have this built-in (eg. KeePassXC) recommend using Dropbox or some external sync mechanism<p>but the keys are stored in a file, which you can back up.<p>> all the security vanishes if you put usable recovery mechanisms for the passkey or the second factor<p>no, not at all. it still gives you better UX, because when you use the passkey you know it's the site you want to log in to. (because there's mutual authentication.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:59:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010828</link><dc:creator>pas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010828</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pas in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it depends on which password manager you are using. if you use Google's then it gets backed up to your Google account.<p>BitWarden, KeePassXC, and probably a bunch of other password managers have very thorough support for import-export, automatic/periodic backup, sync/merge, etc.</p>
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