Hacker News: xinayder

New comment by xinayder in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

xinayder — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:15:27 +0000

Can't wait for Kessler syndrome to actually become a thing.

New comment by xinayder in "GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card"

xinayder — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:15:43 +0000

The cards are not World Cup cards (I thought it was in the style of the Panini sticker album), and judging by the style of the whole website, it tells that this was vibecoded.

New comment by xinayder in "Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance"

xinayder — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:41:00 +0000

For these things you listed what we have already is enough and works. We don't need to authenticate our ID with a 3rd party prone to data leaks, a simple person looking at our ID is good enough for a dealership.

Banks already verify your identity as well and don't require you to use a government app.

Law enforcement asks for your ID and check it with their database, which is already enough as well.

We don't need age attestation for accessing websites.

New comment by xinayder in "Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance"

xinayder — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:34:57 +0000

From my limited knowledge of ZKP I believe there are protocols that don't allow token reuse, i.e., once you consume a token for one round, you cannot reuse it for another attestation.

New comment by xinayder in "Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance"

xinayder — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:32:41 +0000

There is literally no way of us knowing if Google hasn't chosen to cheat during the ZKP protocol or not. Zero chance.

New comment by xinayder in "Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance"

xinayder — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:31:36 +0000

We don't need age attestation or any kind of identity attestation, period.

New comment by xinayder in "Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance"

xinayder — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:30:10 +0000

> Proper ZK proofs don’t work that way. N different proofs will not be linked to each other

in theory. How do you do that on paper? How do you "anonymize" this data, to make it so they aren't related to each other?

This is just like Facebook implementing the Signal protocol on WhatsApp. They technically can't access your messages, but they have all the metadata which most of the times will allow someone to infer the content of the conversation.

New comment by xinayder in "Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance"

xinayder — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:27:49 +0000

How about not needing to do age verification?

New comment by xinayder in "Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance"

xinayder — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:26:57 +0000

You also can't know if Google has broken any of the ZKP promises, or in terms of the field, if Google is cheating and uncovered the secret bits you shared.

New comment by xinayder in "Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance"

xinayder — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:24:53 +0000

Except that ZKP for sensitive data is far from being a thing, and also, I don't want the fucking government to have anything to do with what sites I access. Period.

Why the hell do I need to login to my digital wallet to access a fucking website???

New comment by xinayder in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

xinayder — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:12:45 +0000

The Swiss succeeded in this, maybe we should look at their model and improve.

New comment by xinayder in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

xinayder — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:44:28 +0000

Let it not be forgotten that when Denmark was president of the Council of EU and tried to push this forward, one of the former colleagues/friends of the justice minister was charged with child abuse in 2025. Just search Henrik Sass Larssen and Peter Humeelgaard.

We should start digging into the lives of those pushing for mandated age verification, chat control, and other privacy killing measures to show the world their true face. The public deserves to know who exactly is pushing for the "privacy law for kids" agenda.

New comment by xinayder in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

xinayder — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:19:16 +0000

Age verification online shouldn't exist, period.

New comment by xinayder in "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"

xinayder — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:11:03 +0000

I wish they provided an alternative to Cloudflare WARP as well.

New comment by xinayder in "Steam Machine launches today"

xinayder — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:48:02 +0000

Even with similar specs you can still get more performance from a PC because Valve is throttling the Machine to keep thermals down.

New comment by xinayder in "Steam Machine launches today"

xinayder — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:46:19 +0000

According to LTT the original price was in the $800 range, but thanks to Sam Altman it increased to what we saw today.

New comment by xinayder in "Steam Machine launches today"

xinayder — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:45:32 +0000

Steam accounts newer than April do not qualify, plus I think you need to have spent at least $5 to qualify for the reservation queue (i.e. not community limited)

New comment by xinayder in "Identity verification on Claude"

xinayder — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:52:03 +0000

How ironic it is that multibillion AI companies are complaining that their models are being distilled (read: used without permission) while the current top players trained their models on stolen data...

New comment by xinayder in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

xinayder — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:09:09 +0000

I've discussed this in my company, where I've argued that we are losing critical thinking skills for AI.

My friend said being an engineer is not just writing code, but designing and architecting the system. I agree, but we are also moving that to AI. We are offloading the thought process to a LLM, which confirms our biases and tells us what we want to hear.

Essentially, we are also losing the software architecture and design skills because we aren't talking to other engineers/architects/designers who may approach the problen in a complete different way; we are just asking the AI to confirm our thoughts.

New comment by xinayder in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

xinayder — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:41:13 +0000

> FWIW: People building games contribute something to society, playing them contributes nothing.

if there are no players, there is no money to be made, developers will be fired.

and besides, I'd rather put someone on the street if this is the multibillionaire CEO that exploits his devs, than a dev itself. And companies can, you know, slash their billionaire salaries and bonuses to comply with the law.