Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins (Anthropic)
Claude reverses the 1990s PRNG behind NIST's ECDSA curve seeds, ending a 25-year mystery.
Relief and vindication dominate, with some shifting focus to Anthropic's AI access gatekeeping.
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Claude reverses the 1990s PRNG behind NIST's ECDSA curve seeds, ending a 25-year mystery.
Relief and vindication dominate, with some shifting focus to Anthropic's AI access gatekeeping.
90% of US working hours go to tasks poorly covered by AI benchmarks.
Commenters agree benchmarks miss most real work, citing politics and stakeholder management as core unmeasured tasks.
Claude writes 90% of Claude Code's code; automated review replaces most human line-by-line reading.
Skeptics question 30,000 daily changes and point to 5,000+ open GitHub issues as evidence of regressions.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 offers low-cost, high-throughput AI with strong coding benchmarks.
Users celebrate cost and speed but debate token burn rates and benchmark vs. subjective quality.
Linear layers, MLPs, and attention as memory stores with differing capacities.
A split between readers wanting pseudocode and those comfortable with the math notation.
Software-rendered DOS games look sharper, grittier, and more authentic to their design than hardware-accelerated versions.
The thread splits: some say the look is just nearest-neighbor filtering, not software rendering.
Apple shows Muse Spark Open across four Mac Studios via RDMA and MLX.
Four Mac Studios for local inference cost over $40,000, far more than API usage.
Waymo plans to launch autonomous ride-hailing in Toronto by 2028.
Skepticism centers on winter weather challenges and bike lane politics.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Two camps: performance quality vs. takedown risk of hosting on GitHub.
The Butlerian Jihad was a holy war against thinking machines in the Dune universe.
Multiple camps: the Jihad as prophecy, its exploration (or lack thereof) in Dune, and real-world echoes.
AVIF usually beats JPEG XL on file size and speed for lossy web photos.
Top comment praises AVIF for future-proofing via containers; others question the benefit.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Skepticism about benchmarks, debate over whether frontier models will be withheld for elite access.
Anthropic received the highest junk credit rating from Kroll in June.
Skepticism over the rating agency's size and the push for investment-grade access.
eBay restricts radio equipment listings but exempts ham-band-only gear.
Many commenters argue the restriction is easily bypassed via key-combo unlocks on Chinese radios, while others clarify it mainly requires FCC IDs for new items.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Commenters largely condemn the maintainer's abrasive tone and the opt-out default as a breach of trust.
StarSkirmish Bench v0.2 tests LLMs by having them write StarCraft bots in one hour.
Astra drops to single digits against top human-written bots like Stardust.
Folders is an esoteric programming language where directory structure encodes code.
Delight at the absurdity, with debate over whether empty folders truly cost zero disk space.
New bill would let gamers own games instead of renting revocable licenses.
Support for the bill as a foothold for broader ownership rights, but skepticism about passage.
Postgres 19 delayed as LLM code reviews discover more bugs than developers can fix.
Split on whether LLMs found more bugs or merely made them visible; fear of AI fix loops.
Fewer people worldwide want to move to the US, now at a record low 15%.
Two camps: declining US appeal reflects policy shifts vs. US still most desired destination.