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MASNeo··on Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran
I am working to track and trace and time transactions and while this is possible when and if you know the identity of at least one participant it’s quite another thing when no identity is known at all. Criminals know that so it’s notoriously hard to pull off. Thanks to Daleware secrecy and lax Super PAC rules to disclose sources of funds it’s not going to get easier.

So either your friends are genius saucers or they have effective government intelligence that would be highly appreciated. I’d be interested.

You are spot on regarding the bedroom though. Exporting physical USD is far more lucrative, by the shipload, often by Chinese Money Laundering Organisations, for free.

MASNeo··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
At risk to be unpopular Gemini 3.0 Pro made a huge difference for me when I moved some workflow to Antigravity, especially compared to ChatGPT.

The latest update? I simply don’t care. I am not paid to evaluate models, I am paid to build. Not sure 4 benchmark points are making the difference.

MASNeo··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
Oh my, that is a depressing view on the human condition.
MASNeo··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
Worse, half-truths and half-lies.
MASNeo··on Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss
I wish there would be more of this research to speed things up rather than building ever larger models
MASNeo··on Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
That’s such an amazing story. I ca relate to much of the emotional, time and financial commitment of a non-profit and keeping at it like you have is absolutely commendable. Seeing you succeed is an inspiration to continue doing the right thing for me and for many others!
MASNeo··on How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI
+1 canceled all OpenAI and switched to Gemini hours after it dropped. I was tired of vape AI, obfuscated facts in hallucinations and promises of future improvements.

And then there is pricing too…

MASNeo··on A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway
Remarkably some claim AI has now discovered a new drug candidate on its own. Reading the prep-print (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.14.648850v2....), it appears the model was targeted to just a very specific task and without evaluating other models on the same task. I know nothing about gens, and I can see that is an important advance. However, seems a bit headline grabbing when claiming victory for one model without comparing against others using the same process.
MASNeo··on I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
Try philosophy, you would need good logic to get the necessary peer reviewed publications ;-)
MASNeo··on Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
Would be great if more data were made available by OP to peer review some of this. That said, making money with failure starts looking like a business model - highly unethical. Why make customers succeed when you loose money doing so.
MASNeo··on Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
So are you saying it needs a an agent.txt along the robots.txt?
MASNeo··on Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways)
Well, as it seems they have a hard time getting trains on time, perhaps stress resiliency practiced in gaming is a useful skill for customer service reps.
MASNeo··on Pixnapping Attack
If genuine, this finger pointing is an interesting approach to a security vulnerability. Last time I read such arguments was 20 years ago from a different firm in California and it was not to their advantage.

P.S.: where did you see this discussion?

MASNeo··on Pixnapping Attack
Would love a terminal and make world while on the go (-;
MASNeo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
I do not have any specific perspective on how this is best done. I believe being able to run inside a closed environment might be preferable, logs do contain pretty sensitive stuff. Perhaps a container that pulls from CloudWatch might be an option?
MASNeo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
Great idea. I had been thinking about pretty much the same but perhaps targeted at executives and perhaps including AI/Cloud.

I usually feel to many people wildly through around terms they hardly understand, in the belief they cannot possibly understand. That’s so wrong, every executive should understand some of what determines button line. It’s not like people skip economics because it’s hard.

Would love to perhaps contribute sometime next year. Stared and until then good luck - perhaps add a donation link!

MASNeo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
You’d be surprised how much trust people place in legal departments, balance sheet strength and talent capacity. All things for which I had to turn down superior technical proposals in the past. The old saying „Nobody gets fired for buying IBM“ still runs strong.

Free e-signatures are a great idea, have you considered getting a foundation to back the project and maybe taking out some indemnity insurance, perhaps raising a dispute fund?

MASNeo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
Advocating the use of appropriate AI and data standards for fighting financial crime: https://soteria-initiative.org/

Financial institutions and governments don’t spot crime because of incomplete information at individual firms. We help them understand federated learning and how to effectively collaborate and not just talk about it. All code is open source, so you can always help out ;-)

Some industry players are coming around: https://www.swift.com/news-events/press-releases/swift-ai-in...

MASNeo··on Leveling Up My Homelab
This is awesome and I wish more of this were happening. Hardware home labs are the best way to learn. I gained most of my Linux/FreeBSD skills at home.

It feels with cloud computing a generation of computer scientists kind of missed out on the experience.

MASNeo··on ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving
That’s nailing it really well: “willfully ignoring” is precisely what’s happening all around me. Me talking about small focused AI models, there you have everyone raving about AGI. Energy use and privacy issues of cloud vs local inference discussions end on how awesome the power of GPUs are and the jobs too. GPU backed finance with depreciation schedules past useful life seems OK for anyone chasing some short term gain. Even the job market is troubled, you can hardly tell a relevant candidate from an irrelevant one because everyone is an AI expert these days - hallucinations seem to make lying more casual.

It’s pretty clear to me there is a collective desire to ignore the problems to sell more GPU, close the next round, get that high paying AI job.

Part of me wishes humans would show the same dedication to fight climate change…

MASNeo··on Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?
I wonder if the buying customers of Nvidia are going to find the self’s left with the overcapacity. Certainly people are waking up to LLM challenges and as budgets focus more on useful applications, smaller language models, how much of that demand will remain.

Also, depreciation schedules beyond useful life of an asset may not be fraud but I’d call it a bit too creative for my liking.

Time will tell.

MASNeo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
Please show this to AWS. CloudWatch is such a pain, arcade visuals is what I want, if I have to look at logs.
MASNeo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
Fighting financial crime with federated learning: https://github.com/SoteriaInitiative/flstandards

Non-Profit to make cross-entity financial crime detection a reality using AI and establishing adequate data standards.

Volunteers welcome (-;

MASNeo··on Docker Hub Is Down
For what it's worth, my debugging made me install the latest docker version. So the outage is good for something ;-)
MASNeo··on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
Great idea and would love to see this gets deployed and paired with an actual products. Seems guardrails are in place and working so hope funding materializes.
MASNeo··on The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
If there would have been better policing of digital currency by its users against criminal actors, perhaps digital assets would be spared the attention and now regulation. Sadly, increasing adoption and privacy guarantees lure criminals same as legitimate users.
MASNeo··on Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file
I have already moved most MVP to single file apps. This gives my intuition much more tools. Thanks for building this!
MASNeo··on Show HN: Would You Rent a Robot for Your Home?
Think a dancing robot at a party. Waiting services for your guests, or just someone to do home simulations or building surveillance, perhaps a bodyguard (assuming operations in public spaces would be permissible).
MASNeo··on Show HN: Would You Rent a Robot for Your Home?
Thank you. Yes, we will definitely rework pricing. That’s great feedback.
MASNeo··on Show HN: Would You Rent a Robot for Your Home?
I find that is the perspective of the majority. My fiancé is violently opposed due to safety concerns for kids, dogs and cats. Hence why I wanted to get a few views outside my echo chamber. Thank you for that!

Which tasks outside the home could you imagine, if any?

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