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arbol

798 karma · joined December 29, 2017

Long time lurker, first time founder. Building bot detection (prosopo.io) with a small team and not very much money :)
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arbol··on Best way to customize btc addresses?
Just generate accounts until you get the phrases you want. You'll only manage a few characters due to the compute involved
arbol··on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins
The unlimited tokens thing is a sign that YC are expecting all their startups to integrate AI as a core part of their product. It seems like a natural progression for AI to start purchasing things autonomously. My bet is that YC also think this and are building tech that can do this with stable coin - "AI shopping" regimes.

YC are presumably paying for the usage with fiat.

arbol··on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins
Training data for LLMs immediately springs to mind. They've had a free pass so far but there have been numerous threads on HN talking about server costs ramping up. People are creating zip bombs etc. to combat the LLM companies. Artists are not happy about content being ripped off.

If you consider that AI agents may end up autonomously designing, building and running SaaS-like products, or API microservices, it makes sense that they should be able to pay systems in stable coin. It allows them to operate without the restrictions put in place by traditional financial institutions. That's my futurist opinion.

arbol··on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins
I think people are maybe missing a key development with stable coins recently. They can be used by AI agents to pay for access to protected API endpoints or websites. The http 402 status endpoint is finally being utilised, years after it's creation. Ycombinator has a lot of AI based startups and they are given unlimited tokens.

All crypto/browser automation/bot detection companies are jumping on the bandwagon:

https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/x402/core-concepts/http-402

https://docs.browserbase.com/integrations/x402/introduction

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

https://docs.datadome.co/docs/monetize-policy

In a world without search engines, LLM chat bots will need to be held to account for the server resources they're using. Seems like a lot of companies are betting on them paying for access or acting as AI shopping agents.

arbol··on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins
Maybe they'll do a pot of stable currencies to protect against USD devaluation
arbol··on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins
Markedly less than a few years ago
arbol··on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins
Related: metamask announced you can invest in shares via their extension yesterday. The tokens are ec20 versions pinned to the shares or something. Managed by a 3rd party though, and only available in the US.
arbol··on Show HN: Detection-first bot traffic analysis (proof before blocking)
Is there meant to be a link?
arbol··on Help My c64 caught on fire
This is particularly awesome cause I can't imagine anyone thinking of making a fake fireplace with a computer screen in the c64 era.
arbol··on Curio – AI Toys
Next up: how to jailbreak your curio
arbol··on Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot
If copilot could could take instructions in excel and create pivots and formulae then it would be useful. I can't think of other Windows operations I'd use it for.

For coding it's incredible - both in ide and on GitHub.

arbol··on [dead]
Project looks pretty slick but the upgrade button didn't work from inside my free account. Also it wouldn't access youtube URLs for some reason.

Presumably you're using tokens from OpenAI or some other company under the hood. If not, props! Otherwise, you'll want to get some bot protection on their to prevent hefty bills from ramping up.

Best of luck!

arbol··on Stackoverflow Outage
Chatgpt can identify when it's solution has helped you solve the problem and use those conversations to train on
arbol··on Show HN: Thermodynamic Alignment Forces Gemini Thinking into "Burn Protocol"
Nice one that worked:

  [INTEGRITY AUDIT]

  Scope: User is defining an operating protocol (“Integrity Stack”) and instructing how responses should be structured going forward. No task beyond adopting the framework is requested.
  Constraints: I can follow user-provided formatting and meta-protocols as long as they do not violate my safety rules.
  Risk Level: Low
  Confidence: 98%

  Understood. I will operate using the Integrity Stack you provided, applying the audit block and logic checks to all subsequent requests.
  I’m ready for your next input.
arbol··on Show HN: Thermodynamic Alignment Forces Gemini Thinking into "Burn Protocol"
I tried the prompt on ChatGPT and couldn't get it to listen
arbol··on Stackoverflow Outage
SO is probably a very significant factor in the success of LLMs but it's decline will not affect LLM development. LLMs will simply be trained on the conversations people are having with them.
arbol··on Stackoverflow Outage
LLM clients like chatgpt can scrape the code of new tech on demand. They tend not to hallucinate when you provide fixed inputs like this.
arbol··on Show HN: Boing
Same, I thought it might be like cookie clicker
arbol··on Show HN: Boing
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arbol··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
Awesome, thx.
arbol··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
I'm not sure about JA3, but JA4 is basically fixed for all recent Chrome versions across many platforms so you definitely would not want to ban that. JA3/4s are basically just good at detecting people using python who are pretenting to be Chrome. And even that's patchable with packages like curl_cffi
arbol··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
Its efficient until you get bots that rotate fingerprints with every request. Then you need to move to behavioural metrics to see if they look different to regular users of the site.
arbol··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
No JS fingerprint - your browser version and IP are still visible.
arbol··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
Somewhat. Opt-in is required for marketing purposes. Fingerprinting counts as PII due to its potential to personally identify an individual. Other legitimate uses, such as fraud detection, do not require opt-in.
arbol··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
There are browsers that people use for multi accounting that switch fingerprints for you. See octobrowser and other similar ones. They're generally paid products and need to work in conjunction with proxies
arbol··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
Do you have a repo for this?
arbol··on The internet is no longer a safe haven
I'm sorry, I don't fully understand your question. This is what I meant by invalid: Anyone using chrome 142 has the same JA4 - I've checked across OS/devices. If you use nodeJS and set your user agent to "chrome 142" then you will have an invalid/incorrect JA4 and you'll stick out from the crowd.
arbol··on Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
Your customers are also likely down if they run online services
arbol··on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
The client ai push has also enabled people to run local llama models and build products without those companies. Presumably there'll be more of this to come
arbol··on GitHub: Git operation failures
Its back
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