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blast··on Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
Oh I even saw your other posts in this thread but didn't recognize the name. So much for my research skills
blast··on Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
> Someone

> https://www.youtube.com/@steveweis4786

FTA: This work was conducted at Anthropic by [...], and Steve Weis.

I wonder how much time he spent on the video relative to the other stuff

blast··on Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
> I don't know what the fix is

You said it was dead. How could there be any fix?

blast··on On social reality in China
Did you just make that one up? It's pretty good!
blast··on On social reality in China
Not simply for failing though. Obviously there were other factors.
blast··on "Apple engineer" builds GitHub AI torture chamber to inflict "pain" on models
That assumes that torture is something that is only done to an object, but it also has effects, probably strong ones, on the torturer. In that sense, torturing a rock, or an AI, could be a real thing.
blast··on More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
Daniel Litt on this:

https://x.com/littmath/status/2098130808456241372

https://xcancel.com/littmath/status/2098130808456241372

blast··on Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636930
blast··on Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
This position is so extreme, you'd have to have called Reader Rabbit "electroshocking kids" as well.
blast··on Count Binface
Prior art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
blast··on Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
Is "residential proxy" a euphemism for botnets or is there a difference? Genuinely curious.
blast··on Dostoyevsky isn't difficult
> The Possessed (2010), The Idiot (2017), and Either/Or (2022)

That's like publishing Hamlet (2010), King Lear (2017), and Thus Spake Zarathustra (2022). I wonder what her thought process is in choosing these titles? And what will her next work be?

blast··on How to earn a billion dollars
What's inaccurate in how he quoted her? The context seems fully consistent with the quote.
blast··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
> exams are designed so that cheating is not a viable strategy to obtain high grades

That's interesting. How do they do that?

blast··on Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
mlinsey wasn't anthropomorphizing technology, and your GP comment seems extreme to me.
blast··on Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft
Whatever its other merits or demerits, reinstating the draft would cut back on needless wars. Abandoning the draft is what ended the anti-war movement, and to reinstate it would be to revive those protests. For this reason, if nothing else, it probably won't be reinstated.

What this has to do with the argument Palantir is apparently making, I have no idea. I can't make any sense of it.

blast··on Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review
That leaves no solution when the quantity becomes more than any human can review.
blast··on Everything we like is a psyop?
A 'psyop' psyop!
blast··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
He also went to OpenAI's office and threatened to burn it down.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/tech/suspect-arrest-openai-ce...

blast··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
"Violence like this is not the answer. However,"
blast··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
Humans are social animals, so any mystery about another person is interesting, and wealth and fame multiply this.
blast··on Delve removed from Y Combinator
friday news dump tho
blast··on The open web isn't dying, we're killing it
Fuck boosting engagement.
blast··on The open web isn't dying, we're killing it
"The lesson is not just to resist. It is to grow up."

Barf.

blast··on The open web isn't dying, we're killing it
Well said and I agree completely...but did Robert Plant play guitar?
blast··on We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How
Gptzero and Pangram both say this article was AI-generated. Seems we've forgotten how to do other things as well.
blast··on Slop is not necessarily the future
> the cheapest bridge that just barely won't fail

That can't be right? What about safety factors

blast··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
The joke has been old for a while already.
blast··on Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
This trend predates LLMs though.
blast··on Tony Hoare has died
That's a great point which never occurred to me about Dijkstra, even though I knew where he came from. My father in law used to like this joke: "He was Dutch and behaved as such."
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