wslh

36,790 karma · joined March 8, 2009

Bootstrapped <https://www.coinfabrik.com> in 2014 and https://www.nektra.com in 2003.

- CoinFabrik: Web3, R&D in decentralization, and security audits. Blockchain (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Algorand, etc) and language agnostic (Solidity, Rust, etc)

- Nektra: security, application virtualization, reverse engineering, Windows system internals

- BitVMX <https://bitvmx.org/>: BitVMX framework provides the foundations to run any CPU on Bitcoin, with a focus to run a fully-compliant RISC-V processor programmable using a standard compilation toolchain.

Blogging at https://blog.coinfabrik.com @coinfabrik, https://blog.nektra.com @nektra, and https://blog.databigbang.com @databigbang

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wslh··on Brazil Suspends Discord Livestreaming After Teenager's Death

https://archive.is/YPYMI

wslh··on Sequoia Raises Its Comfort with Risk in AI Bets

https://archive.is/gotoY

wslh··on Dogs can tell when you're happy, sad or frustrated

https://archive.is/wwOzw

wslh··on Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

Don't know but a single neuron as a computation unit is far more complex than an ANN [1].

[1] https://christofkoch.com/biophysics-book/

wslh··on AI Boot Camps Surge as Workers Race to Learn New Skills

https://archive.is/vfzA2

wslh··on Nvidia's Risky Business

Yes. The more capable SoC PCs become, the weaker the "everything has to run in the datacenter" argument gets. As more powerful SoC PCs from multiple vendors appear over the next few years, that advantage may shrink for many workloads.

wslh··on Argentine company accuses US of meddling in Huawei project

https://archive.is/M1roI

wslh··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

What 6 port charging hub do you have? I have a broken UGREEN one.

wslh··on Web Security is Too Hard

And as a dark pattern it adds "positive friction" for the company reducing the number of people that will have the motivation of obtaining the real people support.

wslh··on Melatonin vs. magnesium: Which is better for your sleep?

https://archive.ph/t82Gy

wslh··on The Toad Medicine Boom Was Built on a Myth

https://archive.ph/8bYlM

wslh··on Karpathy’s Pelican

If you like this check: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47400868 it can be used to generate animations (not games) as well.

wslh··on Coldcard's $38M (so far) exploit shakes faith in self-custody

Coldcard Security Advisory: https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-mk3-seed-generation-warni...

wslh··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

It's way too early to pick winners. This industry is still in the opening moves.

For example, today, investors are celebrating Microsoft's Azure growth as evidence that its AI investments are paying off: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110965>

wslh··on Matt Damon's Biceps in That 'Odyssey' Fight Scene? They're Hers

https://archive.is/ibG0U

wslh··on A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands

Before reading the article, I assumed AI companies were recruiting electricians and carpenters to capture their expertise to train robots or AI models on how to plan an entire project from start to finish: "Guide me through building a complete house".

wslh··on Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude

I'm looking forward to seeing similar work on SHA-256. It would be fascinating if AI could discover previously unknown weaknesses in reduced-round variants.

It would also be interesting whether AI could discover new algorithmic optimizations for SHA-256 similar in spirit to AsicBoost[1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00575

wslh··on Kimi Panic Is a Sputnik Moment for 'Open' AI

https://archive.is/NUwY6

wslh··on Amorality and greed at Silicon Valley's favourite university

https://archive.ph/ML6Sw

wslh··on The U.S. Thinks of Itself as Entrepreneurial. But It's Slipping

https://archive.is/ebRdI

wslh··on I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

I assume a VM that is running in the cloud will be enough. Not thinking about a local one.

wslh··on I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

I assume an standard way to do this is through a VM provided by the recruiter, right?

wslh··on Advertise in ChatGPT

> In a world where agents are searching, building, and signing up for services, how do you advertise your product?

The answer may still be the same: go where the attention is. Right now, that attention is concentrated in prompting frontends.

wslh··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

Meanwhile, Jack Dorsey keeps working with Claude at https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat

wslh··on The Reverse Information Paradox

https://xcancel.com/i/article/2076323181154230284

wslh··on Job Hunters Are Using AI to Cheat in Interviews, and Failing at the Office

https://archive.is/Jywdn

wslh··on Zuckerberg Pledges 'Aggressive' Pricing with Meta's First Pay-to-Use AI

https://archive.is/3ccKa

wslh··on More Workers Take Mental Health Leave, and Bosses Aren't Happy

https://archive.is/F6o35

wslh··on How the U.S. Engineered Its Sovereignty

This is drifting from the point. The thread was about the share of territory with optimal farming climate, not per-capita anything, and not whether resource-poor countries can be advanced.

wslh··on How the U.S. Engineered Its Sovereignty

The thread was about climate. US is 3.5x greater than Argentina.

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