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by EGreg 2mo ago
This already happened in many other areas. You don't ask locals for directions anymore. You just have Google Maps. There used to be jokes about how men don't want to ask for directions...
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In 2026: we now have a third way between Open Source and Closed Corporations(safebots.ai)
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by EGreg 2mo ago
That’s how much their silence was able to accomplish!
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Sounds like most URIs have been downright uncool, then!
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by EGreg 2mo ago
It's all a matter of whether someone is willing to pay for the hosting. Which is not, in my opinion, how things should be hosted on the Web. Freenet had a different approach, even back in the early days (two decades ago). I interviewed
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by EGreg 2mo ago
I think a) seems very quixotic and causes more problems than it solves. Instead, I would say that discrimination should probably only be illegal in places where there aren’t enough of the thing (jobs, etc). For example, what about x-only cl
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Orthodox Jews do it every Sukkot :)
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Wow, congrats! Can you discuss how you got YCombinator to select your open source project? I know they sometimes fund open source… I’ve been building several large platforms since 2011 but I have never considered applying like that. Would s
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Kenton, back when I was building qbix.com/ecosystem you were building sandstorm, and I wanted to get in touch. Now I have spent about 6 months building the hardened, self-hosted AI version that can be hosted in different clouds like AW
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by EGreg 2mo ago
I only realized it wasnt after googling for the phrase “cloudflare.pay” and finding the announcement on Cloudflare’s own blog, which I trust because it is on cloudflare.com All the bots including Google’s say it’s a phishing scam site proba
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Yeah, there are all kinds of spinoffs. How closely does Alan Watts actually teach Buddishm?
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Hm, Absurdity is an interesting concept, M. Camus. Thank you for posting it to HN, I have looked through the docs and I got curious. How does it compare with Buddhism of Siddharta Guatama and the preceding buddhas, or Stoicism by Zeno? I ha
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by EGreg 2mo ago
That is why I built https://safebots.ai/safebox.html Your strategy can’t be patch AFTER an intrusion. Only to build a hardened environment from scratch and be ready in advance.
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Very relevant: https://magarshak.com/blog/government-and-industry-distract-...
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by EGreg 2mo ago
An excellent and very detailed post-mortem analysis of the intrusion. It was clearly done with LLMs doing the forensic analysis. Here is an analysis of how the same exact attack would fare against Safebox . Spoiler alert: it would not succ
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Defeating vanishing gradients in deep neural networks: Quotient Tree Arithmetic(arxiv.org)
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Yes, actually. To be fair — from about half of the papers.
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Funny, as ONE PERSON with Claude, I've been on a tear when it comes to publishing my own research: https://arxiv.org/search/?searchtype=author&query=Magarshak%... So I know that smart people in those companies
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by EGreg 2mo ago
How would it be unfeasible to check someone’s age if it’s feasible now with a driver’s license? The technogy exists — it is called deepfakes LMAO
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Proofs that age verification and e-voting do not require sacrificing any privacy(magarshak.com)
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by EGreg 2mo ago
We can talk, talk, and governments will still move forward. Or we can build an alternative that shows it's possible to get age verification while maintaining privacy. There is a real way out of it -- the governments can have their cake
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Reminds me of this btw: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-12343597 Microsoft replied that Bing uses “many different signals” —- including cribbing from Google :-)
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by EGreg 2mo ago
That’s an issue with the README. The server doesn’t do that. Thanks for the good catch, will update README.
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by EGreg 2mo ago
It is quintessential socialism: collective ownership (of the “means of production”). It is just embedded in a market system, just as, say, USSR or Cuba was embedded in the global economy. That doesn’t make it not socialist. And not all soci
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by EGreg 2mo ago
“Trust” exercise is doublespeak in corporate settings Come to think of it, Orwell’s 1984 perfectly encapsulates what corporations actually do — even in his own time. Down to the groupthink, wrongthink, doublethink, doublespeak, all of it. S
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by EGreg 2mo ago
What are the actual requirements? In USA we only have a few requirements from the E-SIGN act: Key Legal Requirements Intent to Sign: Parties must show a clear, provable action to sign the document. Electronic Consent: Parties must agree to
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by EGreg 2mo ago
A few months ago, I released the Open Claiming Protocol, in order for an interoperable, open standard for people cryptographically signing things. I wonder, how does this overlap with that, and could it be useful to support it? I agree it&#
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Show HN: Pure-PHP server outperforms NginX for static files + 10x PHP throughput(github.com)
4 points by EGreg 2mo ago|3 comments
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by EGreg 2mo ago
This question is deeper than you think. Until the 20th century, most people didn't travel even a fraction of that many miles per year. The most prolific travelers, such as Mozart, did not travel nearly as much as a person who's co
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Yes, you will! :-)

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