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New comment by tripplyons in "[dead]"

tripplyons — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:04:49 +0000

Your submission history looks like a bot trying to get engagement or something.

New comment by tripplyons in "Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea"

tripplyons — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:02:55 +0000

I think it's more about resisting some humans than it is about resisting machines.

New comment by tripplyons in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

tripplyons — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:52:55 +0000

I saw a video of guy who became an Amazon bestseller in a book category pretty easily by buying his own book.

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

tripplyons — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:24:46 +0000

MLA makes it so the keys and values used are a function of a smaller latent vector you cache instead of a key and a value for each token. KV cache quantization reduces the size of the values in the cache by using less bits to store each value. These two approaches operate on different parts of the process so they can be used in combination. For example, you can quantize the latents that are stored for MLA.

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

tripplyons — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:20:35 +0000

There are papers that try to quantize angles associated with weights because angles have a more uniform distribution. I haven't read this specific paper, but it looks like it uses a similar trick at a glance.

New comment by tripplyons in "Zed: We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy"

tripplyons — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:01:31 +0000

The good thing is you can still use their software without signing in and having to agree.

New comment by tripplyons in "Programmable Cryptography (2024)"

tripplyons — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:58:51 +0000

Got it.

The scenario I'm describing there is how a service like AWS has the ability to tamper with your code or its output. If instead, each response came with a ZK proof showing that the inputs you provided lead to the outputs it returned, you could efficiently verify that nothing was modified.

New comment by tripplyons in "Programmable Cryptography (2024)"

tripplyons — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:48:17 +0000

As much as I like the ideas, this article looks AI generated. This line with the bullet point, bolded label and colon, em-dash, and the second clause "it's about" all point to AI writing.

"Fiber-optic cables: Fiber-optic cables enable higher bandwidth phone lines and television—it’s about getting more television channels to more people."

New comment by tripplyons in "Programmable Cryptography (2024)"

tripplyons — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:45:45 +0000

One problem with private age verification is that because each verification cannot be traced back to a user, it is hard to prevent abuse like credential sharing. Imagine how a single stolen credential can be used by any number of users because the verification step kept the credential private.

New comment by tripplyons in "Programmable Cryptography (2024)"

tripplyons — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:42:07 +0000

To answer your question, ZKPs can enable the verification step to be done privately in your example. Another use case could be allowing cloud computing hosts to prove that they did not tamper with the results of a computation.

New comment by tripplyons in "Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit"

tripplyons — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:18:12 +0000

Saying Jane Street caused a $40 billion loss is wrong. Terra caused the loss because it was a Ponzi scheme that claimed to offer 20% APY on a stablecoin that wasn't backed by any real dollars.

New comment by tripplyons in "Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit"

tripplyons — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:17:01 +0000

It's a bad headline. They used publicly available blockchain transactions and didn't cause the collapse of the Terra ecosystem. Terra collapsed because it was a Ponzi scheme offering 20% APY on a fake stablecoin. The Terra stablecoin was not backed by real dollars, but instead by a cryptocurrency called Luna that did nothing else other than let you issue Terra stablecoins.

New comment by tripplyons in "How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model"

tripplyons — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:39:33 +0000

ZKML is a very exciting emerging field, but the math is no where near efficient enough to prove an inference result for an LLM yet. They are probably just trying to sell their crypto token.

New comment by tripplyons in "How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model"

tripplyons — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:33:56 +0000

It is definitely true across different chips. The best kernel to use will vary with what chip it is running on, which often implies that the underlying operations will be executed in a different order. For example, with floating point addition, adding up the same values in a different order can return a different result because floating point addition is not associative due to rounding.

New comment by tripplyons in "How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model"

tripplyons — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:29:20 +0000

There are many ways to compute the same matrix multiplication that apply the sum reduction in different orders, which can produce different answers when using floating point values. This is because floating point addition is not truly associative because of rounding.

New comment by tripplyons in "Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild"

tripplyons — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:49:46 +0000

"Use after free in CSS" is a funny description to see.

Find a Niche by Intersecting Your Strengths

tripplyons — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:00:37 +0000

Article URL: https://tripplyons.com/blog/intersecting-strengths/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051521

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New comment by tripplyons in "Iran has now been offline for 96 hours"

tripplyons — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:50:05 +0000

Thank you! I now realize that my analogy was misplaced due to how Starlink is bidirectional and GPS is unidirectional.

New comment by tripplyons in "Iran has now been offline for 96 hours"

tripplyons — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:46:44 +0000

I did not consider that direction of communication! Seems much easier to locate and send nonsense to satellites than to land-based terminals.

New comment by tripplyons in "Iran has now been offline for 96 hours"

tripplyons — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:39:40 +0000

Wouldn't you just be able to shield the antenna to only point up? I think that is how some aircraft stay protected from GPS jamming/spoofing, and I assume you can do something similar.