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by Retr0id 5d ago
Are people really publishing blogs in docx format?
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by Retr0id 5d ago
Anything you can do with ""real"" randomness can be done just as well with a seeded [CSP]RNG, including DoS prevention if you can keep the seed secret. If you really want true RNG, you can inject a deterministic RNG at
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by Retr0id 5d ago
I've been pondering something I call "slop core, artisanal shell", as a way of keeping vibecoding under control. Slop core might sound like the thing you want to avoid, but as long as it's purely-functional (or perhaps,
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by Retr0id 6d ago
So, why are there 3 of them? I can make several guesses but I don't see any concise answers on the page.
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by Retr0id 6d ago
Isn't the appeal of those esp32 modules that they're already compliant, as a module? Or do you still need the product as a whole to be compliant?
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by Retr0id 6d ago
In a poll of "do you want to be surveilled", "do you think mass surveillance is good", sure. But in terms of revealed preferences, people will happily give up privacy for mild convenience.
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by Retr0id 6d ago
The median internet user doesn't even block ads (and associated surveillance). Facebook has 2bn DAU. And so on.
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by Retr0id 6d ago
The widespread opposition to flock is unfortunately an aberration. The average person is largely indifferent to mass surveillance, and I think a rebrand has a good chance of working. They'll give it a try either way.
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by Retr0id 6d ago
The bipartisan nature isn't that surprising, given that surveillance is more of an authoritarianism vs libertarianism issue i.e. orthogonal to left vs right (in an oversimplified kinda way).
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by Retr0id 6d ago
A torrent with a webseed is strictly more resilient than a direct download link alone.
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by Retr0id 6d ago
In regular unicode, a grapheme can be made up of an arbitrary number of codepoints (and thus an arbitrary number of bytes), which does cause issues at times.
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by Retr0id 6d ago
True, I forgot about that! It's more fun when the inputs are printable ascii, though :P It should also be easy to beat with just a few GPU weeks.
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by Retr0id 6d ago
If anyone else has spare GPU hours they don't know what to do with, may I recommend partial hash collisions: https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/birthday_party (The "record" set by me only took about 1 G
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by Retr0id 6d ago
Stock photos and AI images might as well be in the same category tbh.
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by Retr0id 6d ago
It's hard to put into words but the "texture" of GPT-Image-2.5 is just a bit off, like the difference between blue noise and white noise. It's like someone turned up the local contrast just a little too high.
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by Retr0id 6d ago
The time limit did make it quite challenging. I got 1,000 points with a max streak of 8 in a row. On second playthrough I got 3,550 / 12. It seems the AI images all come from a particular area of latent space that's quite easy to
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by Retr0id 6d ago
Saying it a second time doesn't make it any more true.
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by Retr0id 7d ago
Looks algorithmic to me. Reverse-chronological with upvote threshold(?), where upvotes are correlated with sort rank on vanilla HN.
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by Retr0id 7d ago
If you're preserving the original, then you don't need the ZKP. Part of the appeal of this approach is that you could apply redactions or make the file smaller, without invalidating the signature.
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by Retr0id 7d ago
Interesting work. > our tool can verify a large family of image transformations Is this family large enough to transform real image A into arbitrary fake image B? > ZK-JPEG can merge transparent or translucent layers into an image, us
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by Retr0id 7d ago
If LLMs can oneshot leetcode puzzles, then surely leetcode isn't a good measure of whatever the remaining skills that matter are.
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by Retr0id 7d ago
Are there really jobs that still have leetcode style interviews, in the age of LLMs?
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by Retr0id 7d ago
What does this do that huggingface, github, etc. doesn't already do?
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by Retr0id 7d ago
Nice, chip8 is a lot of fun. I looked at your emulator implementation too, and it looks like you have an OOB access bug in the "I" register (it can be incremented beyond the RAM array bounds). This is a very common chip8 emulato
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by Retr0id 7d ago
Well, they're superficially less same-y, but none of them are really giving spring fair vibes. Except for the "professional graphic designer has added typography to a poster paint drawing by his young child" one, I'd go
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by Retr0id 8d ago
Try https://github.com/alex193a/Root-My-Pixel , worked on my 9a as of a few days ago (the version table in the readme is stale). I haven't checked the September update yet though (installing it now, to check). Edit
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by Retr0id 8d ago
Google is also seriously dropping the ball in terms of security. The CVE-2026-43499 root LPE (aka ghostlock) is still unpatched across all Pixel devices, on the latest """security""" update, despite weaponized
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by Retr0id 8d ago
I don't see why that's weird
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by Retr0id 8d ago
Plants tend to enjoy rain
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by Retr0id 8d ago
It doesn't matter who writes what, what matters is that LLMs have a preference for LLM-shaped writing. By A/B testing against an LLMs opinion, you are optimizing in the direction of LLM prose even if the LLM never writes any of th

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