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Re:Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @07:59AM (#50070283)
Probably auctioned off, like what happened to Spirit Airlines: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/google-aims-to-...
It was posted 29 Aug
Re:Pi 1.0 on Friday October 02, 2026 @07:56AM (#49932484)
More like apple pie to apples. Turns out I just wanted the apples.
Re:"Are you the one?" is free money on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:53PM (#46282007)
They have an example that calculates the expected information gained by truth booths and all of the top ones are giving more than one bit. How can this be? It is a yes/no question a max of 1 bit should be possible
This deal is odd. OpenAI gets AMD chips but also a chance to own a big part of AMD if things go well. It makes AMD look stronger on paper, but it is risky. These kinds of deals can hide problems and make a bubble. It feels more like hype than real long-term value.
Re:Bear is now source-available on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @05:01AM (#45100628)
But he chose not to use the exact wording from the Elastic Search license, which clearly says "third parties." Instead, he wrote his own license, and now it is not clear if I am allowed to self-host. In my opinion that is a bad decision.
Re:Show HN: Anonymous Age Verification on Sunday August 31, 2025 @03:36PM (#45086339)
This is an active area of research see for example: EU Digital Identity & Anonymous Credentials at real world crypto 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpQHWObCx4I
Re:Areal, Are.na's New Typeface on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @04:58PM (#45045181)
It contains 475 glyphs in total, including 13 diacritics for the letter A. The set includes most Latin characters, but does not cover Greek or Cyrillic
Re:Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @03:41PM (#45044126)
chrome.com redirects to www.google.com/chrome/

No one has to download Edge or Safari.

Are you sure it is the same Ariadne? The paper you linked is from 2002 and does not mention aperiodic or "Cryptographic Virtual Machine"
I am having trouble understanding the main purpose of this protocol. After looking at your code example, I want to ask: what is the benefit of using this instead of an AEAD (Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) that is already available in Rust? What specific security guarantee does this give me that would help when I am building protocols?
Re:Swift's native Clocks are inefficient on Monday May 06, 2024 @07:40AM (#40273461)
"showing the median runtime of the benchmark, which is a million iterations of checking the time"
Re:Find the date of your birthday in the number pi on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:55AM (#37955389)
Because it is a marketing page by Wolfram
Re:Wobbly Clock! on Monday January 16, 2023 @11:06AM (#34402000)
Remixed with retina support: https://glitch.com/~noble-gratis-princess
Re:Results from Candy Japan box design A/B test on Friday May 06, 2016 @03:17AM (#11642271)
Just out of curiosity, which statistical test should be used in this case?

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