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New comment by sambejk in "Homomorphic Encryption for Pseudonymization – privacy enabled data-sharing"

sambejk — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:01:56 +0000

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) allows the calculation on encrypted data. Invented in 2009, it was traditionally too slow to be realistic for real use. With new innovations, it has now become possible to run in production.

This blogpost shows a practical application that uses AES encryption in FHE - yes, you are encrypting under encryption - to mask identifiers to enable datasharing.

Homomorphic Encryption for Pseudonymization – privacy enabled data-sharing

sambejk — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:00:06 +0000

Article URL: https://belfortlabs.com/blog/smals-blind-pseudonymization

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50390811

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New comment by sambejk in "Living Maps: Bay Area tech since 1960s"

sambejk — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:35:11 +0000

Most of the finance and legal firms are still there. Guess tech companies also need lawyers and investment bankers.

New comment by sambejk in "Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011)"

sambejk — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:31:46 +0000

Really great post, though a bit old, still relevant. Peter Norvig is one of the better thinkers of our generation.

Have to say that I confronted myself with the fact that I can't read longer posts anymore due to overuse of AI. Guess a detox is required...

New comment by sambejk in "After Texas' blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX?"

sambejk — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:24:14 +0000

let's hope for the best; though most people I talk to believe the DoJ is a ghost of its former self and it will take years to rebuild

New comment by sambejk in "Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I."

sambejk — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:22:59 +0000

very fair

New comment by sambejk in "Ask HN: Can current AI models reverse engineer CUDA drivers?"

sambejk — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:22:08 +0000

what do you mean? most of those decompile projects were not even close the original software; for a driver, this would be completely different. i do believe there is some open-source drivers that are just not that good.

New comment by sambejk in "Herdr vs. T3 Code vs. Amp: Software Factory Test"

sambejk — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:20:15 +0000

Pretty cool! Do wonder how this is different than running plain codex or claude code.

New comment by sambejk in "Ask HN: Can current AI models reverse engineer CUDA drivers?"

sambejk — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:45:06 +0000

I think it is unlikely that this would be possible right now. The complexity of the driver and how it interplays with the hardware makes this really difficult. However wondering why you would need this as they are pretty good and free?

New comment by sambejk in "Nova beat Fable 5 with Opus 4.8"

sambejk — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:41:25 +0000

I'm a bit skeptical. This is just a single benchmark with an already capable (&closed-source) model. Would have been cooler if there was a more recent benchmark with an open-source model.

New comment by sambejk in "Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I."

sambejk — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:38:28 +0000

Schools have to choose between giving kids access to AI tooling (which has been proven to be terrible for education) or basic internet search.

New comment by sambejk in "After Texas' blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX?"

sambejk — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:36:31 +0000

I don't expect anything big to change just because there is one election. The entire judicial system is still very much MAGA.

New comment by sambejk in "GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research"

sambejk — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:34:18 +0000

It feels like we have overfitted on safety by a long mile. This is how labs that care less about safety (a.k.a. Chinese & Grok) will probably be able to catch up in the future.

New comment by sambejk in "Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I."

sambejk — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:27:01 +0000

Google has long forgotten their old motto: "Don't be evil", but this is a new extreme. Luckily we have things like Duckduckgo

New comment by sambejk in "Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms"

sambejk — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:03:30 +0000

I think calculator is not part of the labels in cifar-10. Pretty normal as it has ‘only’ 90% accuracy. Things could improve quickly though

New comment by sambejk in "Belfort Releases Fastest Encrypted Image Classifer"

sambejk — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:08:14 +0000

Very cool to see practical applications of this technology!