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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
on Monday June 30, 2025 @09:39AM (#44423147)
polynomial commitment based zero knowledge proof system
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
on Monday April 28, 2025 @03:37AM (#43818638)
first order zero knowledge proof system (zk-stark), it works on android, macos, linux, webassembly, vulkan/cuda backend (metal coming), but the composition polynomial evaluation is suboptimal so i am working on that now
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
on Monday March 31, 2025 @05:52AM (#43533082)
zero-knowledge proof framework to prove for example that a bank has the necessary funds, or for a loan application that I make enough without revealing how much
Re:Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset yet Is Just a Glimpse of ...
on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @02:37AM (#39201110)
why would foveated rendering break down? it does not stop rendering where you are not looking just lowers the resolution
Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search
on Thursday January 18, 2024 @04:12AM (#39039655)
how is the "world is on its knees"? also didn't google target net-zero carbon by 2030? https://sustainability.google/operating-sustainably/ what do you want google to do about war?
Re:Welcome to the Ad-Free Internet
on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:54AM (#38623986)
tangent: do we have to censor words here as well? i thought it was for youtube and tiktok recommendation systems (unalive is particularly funny imo)
Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:45AM (#38623904)
in theory some publications are available as torrents, in theory they are in batches zipped together and in theory one could, by requesting certain parts of the zip file using a crafted torrent client, download only the publication they are looking for, in theory
Re:Vitalik Buterin's Techno-Optimism
on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:04AM (#38447192)
10 races we should sterilize, number 6 will shock you, click here to learn more
Re:$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize
on Monday November 27, 2023 @10:36AM (#38433471)
talking as someone who is building such a system, why would an avarage participant of the network give their own money, i dont think they would for the same reason i'm not running a bounty program with my dollars,
the only use of having it on the blockchain is rewards without using your own money (so it's economics depends on the eventual value of the coin), for that it has to be bound to the minting process, but a purely algorithmic system for determining who gets how much based on their proofs seems elusive (think of the infinite possible proofs 1+2=3, 1+3=4...), we are going for having a central authority doing the minting for proofs (as voting based on money would hardly reflect mathematical experties)
Re:A Video Game That Pays: Lessons Learned from Working Remotely
on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:21AM (#38164604)
I am in a such a "meaningless" pickle myself, I have never imagined that hard tasks with strict deadlines are a breeze compared to this, it slowly but surely chips away my will to live, even though on the outside it sounds wonderful
Re:Once valued at $47B, coworking-space provider WeWork nears bankruptcy
on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:51PM (#38103078)
well for their definition of tech "approaching zero cost", the only tech companies are pure software ones, the cost of manifacturing a rocket can hardly approach zero
Re:Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
on Thursday October 05, 2023 @04:53PM (#37784157)
I'm trying to find the takeaway, should kids not go to college? or that nobody reads the comments, since one of them raises the question, "is there proof?" and claims that not according to their linkedin
Re:Decentralized Artificial Intelligence
on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:40PM (#37729044)
although zero knowledge proofs can compress the "proof of gradient" so it takes much less time to verify than recompute, it take orders of more work to generate the proof, moreover can we merge multiple "improvements"? if not then upon the selection of the "winner" all those are lost?
Re:How to Communicate When Trust Is Low Without Digging Yourself into ...
on Friday August 18, 2023 @08:57AM (#37175000)
not like I am vocalizing this damn, that would be effed up, I am just silently feeling this way then respond and act according to the expected norms
Re:How to Communicate When Trust Is Low Without Digging Yourself into ...
on Friday August 18, 2023 @02:33AM (#37172005)
yes, coworkers thanking me for a bugfix or a feature bothers the hell out of me. man I am not doing it for you, I am doing it for money that is thanks enough
Re:Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown law...
on Monday August 14, 2023 @05:37AM (#37119115)
they stated that they print regularly, then without knowning anything of their use case and needs, came the "ackchyually" like they know it better or the original commenter is an idiot, why is it so unfathomable that they have done their research
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023)
on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @03:52PM (#36961698)
- Location: EU
- Remote: depends
- Willing to relocate: depends
- Technologies: C++, formal verification, zk-stark
- CV: on request
- Email: on request
Re:Ask HN: Any Hardware Startups Here?
on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:47AM (#36611788)
the maximum is given by the carnot cycle, which has COP=T_high/(T_high-T_cold) so from room temp 25°C to 250°C it is 2.3, but this is the theoretical limit
Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo chamber?
on Monday July 03, 2023 @10:35AM (#36573498)
how is programming "democratized"?
Re:Reddit Is OpenAI’s Moat?
on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:29PM (#36328369)
out of curiosity, how did you verify the information?
Re:Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:12PM (#36316294)
"If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more." well if it is work that I know I can do quickly I'm just gonna procrastinate the hell out of it, if it is something I enjoy doing I am already inclined to do it
Re:Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the...
on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:52AM (#36310238)
what is gonna prevent someone from upvoting their own (or alt accounts', or friends') hundreds of post, inflating away the value of a single upvote?
Re:WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners
on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:12PM (#36295866)
the article linked on the WHO's site is titled "WHO advises not to use non-sugar sweeteners for weight control in newly released guideline", I mean why drop the "for weight control" part
Re:Mental Liquidity
on Sunday June 11, 2023 @03:38PM (#36284836)
I am curious how one would measure if their "belief network would be strengthened"
Re:Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:18PM (#36203776)
I mean, depending on the work using it as a thin client would make the most sense imo, compiling still takes a toll on the battery life even with m2 magic
Re:Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?
on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:19AM (#36068576)
not everything is on you, the observation may be valid, but there is always a way to word it such that it is more akin to "brainstorming", realize that some people are just socially inept, even more so in the tech sector, play the game of "this is a stupid response, what is the gist of it, and how could i have worded it were it my observation" (and also fix the mistake if valid)
Re:Thinking hard makes the brain tired
on Sunday April 02, 2023 @09:44AM (#35410408)
what I noticed is that rubber ducking works kind of like doing a DFS instead of a BFS, even when I can barely think, but I know that a few more lines at just the right places solves the problem and I simply can't let it go, (going for a walk rarely does it for me) so speaking out loud what and why is happening makes all the difference
Re:Relativity Space launches first 3D-printed rocket in historic test
on Thursday March 23, 2023 @03:22PM (#35279986)
did 3D printing help them iterate on some component design maybe? also they need to differentiate themselves, so they aren't just another spacex, so being the "3D printed rocket company" sounds better for getting investment I guess
Re:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”
on Thursday March 23, 2023 @02:25PM (#35279149)
I was so psyched about this movie, but the idea that an AI that can design new quantum processors in seconds, is even remotely challenged by a few humans is just so stupid
Re:Launch HN: Blyss (YC W23) – Homomorphic encryption as a service
on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:11PM (#35159725)
interesting prize, I wonder why they fix that it has to be radix-2 NTT, using higher radix speeds things up an order of magnitude on GPU (granted I am using a 256 bit field, so it might be more memory bound)