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New comment by wuiheerfoj in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

wuiheerfoj — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:02:34 +0000

I buy the argument 'we should prepare for Q-Day as crypto agility is hard', but the newest paper doesn’t change the timeline meaningfully.

Given TFA accepts that error correction is the bottleneck for progress, and the gap between any and lots of error correction is small, and we presently have close to 0 error correction then nothing has practically changed with reduced qubit requirements.

Of course, it’s totally fine to have and announce a change of view on the topic, though I don’t see how the Google paper materially requires it.

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

wuiheerfoj — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:26:13 +0000

I disagree and you could reduce basically anything to this: 'there can‘t be any interesting discussion about React. Every conversation boils down to which framework you use or how you manage state or whether you use typescript or javascript‘

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

wuiheerfoj — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:00:55 +0000

10mins is a lifetime in capital and crypto markets - I find it hard to believe that trading 10mins after the Terraform Labs swap hit the chain constitutes insider trading.

The claim of artificial price inflation with Jump sounds more questionable but TFA doesn’t seem to put it front and centre

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

wuiheerfoj — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:12:17 +0000

Don’t need an app for Apple Pay

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser""

wuiheerfoj — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:29:39 +0000

I‘ve been a happy user of https://helium.computer for a few months now after a previous Mozilla faux-pas. So far I don’t miss Firefox in the slightest

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)"

wuiheerfoj — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:15:48 +0000

Thanks for this.

I find having a name to certain phenomena makes them easier to understand and apply in the wild, and will definitely think ‘barker’ in the future haha

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "CU Randomness Beacon"

wuiheerfoj — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:13:24 +0000

Verifiable quantum randomness sounds interesting - https://drand.love is another verifiable randomness beacon, though using more traditional cryptography

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M"

wuiheerfoj — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:57:38 +0000

Most people with a mechanical engineering degree cannot buy an _average_ house - not quite the same

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess"

wuiheerfoj — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:14:01 +0000

Not quite vim bindings, but lichess supports typing pgn for moves (at least for blindfold)

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "Jules: An Asynchronous Coding Agent"

wuiheerfoj — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:25:20 +0000

I’m not suggesting LLMs are infallible, but boy you’re overselling the accuracy of literature

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results"

wuiheerfoj — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 21:42:38 +0000

When it takes multiple lifetimes to read the Terms of Service for everything a normal person uses to get through daily life, it’s not a case of willingness

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border"

wuiheerfoj — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:39:40 +0000

ah, I assumed it was just me - I can’t scroll at all one the page on mobile

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

wuiheerfoj — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:55:28 +0000

>When you point out that, for example, health insurance profits are low single digit percentage of overall healthcare costs

Do you have any source for this?

I’m assuming (because HN) that you had the USA in mind, and it doesn’t pass the sniff test for me given that US insurance fees are more than single digit percentages higher than other high quality care countries with privatised healthcare systems

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024"

wuiheerfoj — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:44:48 +0000

Answer a few messages? Catch up on the weather or news? Why waste 30 otherwise useless seconds?

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library"

wuiheerfoj — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:25:22 +0000

Afaik the x25519 recipient uses chacha20poly1305 which is authenticated

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "Peerfetch – Peer-to-Peer HTTP over WebRTC"

wuiheerfoj — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:42:33 +0000

check out NAT hole-punching in libp2p: https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/nat/hole-punching/

scroll down a bit for the STUNless/TURNless bit

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet"

wuiheerfoj — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 22:24:53 +0000

Or kids will be driven to free VPNs that track them/inject ads into them/etc

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal"

wuiheerfoj — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:22:36 +0000

Wow, perhaps I’m naive but what the hell are they spending over $800M a year on? That seems an obscene amount for a glorified message board.

I just read they have 2000 employees which is also puzzling to me

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "Crafting Interpreters"

wuiheerfoj — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:27:56 +0000

I find it’s the best way to work through these types of books - otherwise I tend to just copy the code mindlessly. Doing the exercises from a book in another language forces you to consume the semantics of it better.

I did the Torsten Ball books in Kotlin rather than Go and learned a lot

New comment by wuiheerfoj in "U.S. SEC Wins 'Shadow Insider Trading' Trial"

wuiheerfoj — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 11:15:47 +0000

>The governments of all countries 'print' new money at a steady rate

Central bank != government in most developed countries

>so long as all currencies inflate at a similar rate; the foreign exchange rates will be stable.

Exchange rates are not stable for a variety of reasons that are not purely supply-related