Hacker News: superpositionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=superpositionsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:46:53 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by superpositions in "Open source security at Astral"]]>Yeah, this is usually where things break in practice

]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:07:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705440superpositionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705440https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705440<![CDATA[New comment by superpositions in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"]]>I think the tricky part is ownership after the break.

If signatures are no longer trustworthy, rolling back doesn't really tell you who the coins belong to. It just rewinds you to a state where the same problem still exists. So this seems more like a migration problem than a governance problem.

]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:21:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704134superpositionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704134https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704134<![CDATA[New comment by superpositions in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"]]>I think a lot of the confusion in these threads comes from treating quantum risk as a single binary event.

A centralized system can often rotate credentials, patch infra, and recover operationally. A decentralized system with exposed legacy keys and social coordination constraints is a very different problem.

]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:17:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704086superpositionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704086https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704086