<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: yieldcrv</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yieldcrv</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:58:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=yieldcrv" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yieldcrv in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What struck me in particular was the fact the reporter noticed that Back had theorized how to evade stylometry.<p>there are automated tools for this now that students use routinely so that their papers don't get flagged as AI whether they wrote it or not<p>there would be lots of people that looked this up as it has been discussed a lot on those same mailing lists before being so commonplace</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:28:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697507</link><dc:creator>yieldcrv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697507</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yieldcrv in "Git commands I run before reading any code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>blog posts are just comments that would have been torn apart if only posted on a forum, now masquerading as important universal edicts</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:58:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690309</link><dc:creator>yieldcrv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yieldcrv in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "Claude Mythos Preview’s large increase in capabilities has led us to decide not to make it
generally available. Instead, we are using it as part of a defensive cybersecurity program
with a limited set of partners."<p>they also don't have the compute, which seems more relevant than its large increase in capabilities<p>I bet it's also misaligned like GPT 4.1 was<p>given how these models are created, Mythos was probably cooking ever since then, and doesn't have the learnings or alignment tweaks that models which were released in the last several months have</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:33:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680999</link><dc:creator>yieldcrv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680999</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yieldcrv in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the substantive nature of the comment is regarding overuse of niche terms and acronyms without defining them, in a forum not related to those things<p>how it would be poorer signal and even less substantive to have a subthread of people asking about what it means, some respondents saying just look it up and more, all when the parent poster could say what they are</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:59:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680592</link><dc:creator>yieldcrv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yieldcrv in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>mod reveal</p>
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<p>Also lets them quickly censor things the West doesn’t like, as a client state of particular nations in the Middle East<p>VPN sometime if you have doubts about that in western media, including US</p>
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<p>this is a fascinating example of how I'm interested in what any of this meant, but not interested enough to look it up, bravo!</p>
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<p>what's funnier is that this could have been written 10 years ago and the situation was the exact same<p>apps function more so as a checkbox for investors to take an organization seriously, as well as for the founder to self aggrandize and feel like their own app store presence means something. for devs it is functionally a make-work program.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:56:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662589</link><dc:creator>yieldcrv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yieldcrv in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The real question is how many products could AWS call the same thing<p>two extremes at play here. A single brand name masquarading as the same product, versus a hundred brand names that don’t tell you a thing about what the product is<p>Kind of why I’m fond of GCP now. Just name it what it is</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:41:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643755</link><dc:creator>yieldcrv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yieldcrv in "Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Distributing the load on this will probably be infinitely more useful than “folding at home”</p>
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<p>I like how the best way to protest this is by doing what everyone should have been doing to begin with: running a great open source model on rented hardware</p>
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<p>I love how all the public critique about not being able to see stars in nasa photos has resulted in better dynamic range photography and composition<p>just the lowest hanging fruit that had been a second class citizen to the marvel of having an extraterrestrial angle to begin with</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:00:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632203</link><dc:creator>yieldcrv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yieldcrv in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love the multipronged attack on RAG<p>RIP RAG: lasted one year at a skillset that recruiters would list on job descriptions, collectively shut down by industry professionals</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:48:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631313</link><dc:creator>yieldcrv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yieldcrv in "Solana Drift Protocol drained of $285M via fake token and governance hijack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this is a beautiful attack, the way that multisig signers were compromised with innocuous signatures in advance, without really compromising private keys<p>from the pre-funding to a virgin address, to the bundler, to the exit strategy to decentralized assets<p>to the protocols exposed but functioning perfectly under the stress test - props to Jupiter! - and the optional insurance protocols functioning decently, all while people point fingers at Circle for their bridge working perfectly, it's not even clear what people want them to do specifically! All of these aspects of web3 are working great, and it's easy for a cynic that <i>only</i> sees these headlines to miss that<p>inspirational, great place to build</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:24:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630170</link><dc:creator>yieldcrv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630170</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yieldcrv in "Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> SOC2 won't catch this<p>Cybersecurity professionals and their certification treadmill crack me up because of this<p>They get paid less, require more certifications to be marketable, all to simply show actual “computer wizards” where all the blind spots are</p>
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<p>At least these are IDEs with the save button finally gone<p>We needed that jump, there were still floppy disk icons</p>
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<p>states should remove the "purpose" field of incorporation statutes, its too antiquated now and for half a century</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:29:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618301</link><dc:creator>yieldcrv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618301</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yieldcrv in "StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>people aren't just using Claude models any more? that's nice to see</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:38:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606246</link><dc:creator>yieldcrv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yieldcrv in "TurboQuant KV Compression and SSD Expert Streaming for M5 Pro and IOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if it works it works<p>we live in a wholly unoptimized world because the available resources have been so high, while the benefits of optimizing have been so low. that has flipped now and there are tons of low hanging fruit to optimize.<p>I agree that benchmarks would be great, but thats only relevant to this one topic, not the overall agentic coded pull request concept itself</p>
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<p>developers are far too pedantic to make a mistake like that<p>sometimes imposter syndrome is completely because you are an interloper<p>I question this 10x dev that OP was talking to</p>
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