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OP did actually host a tracker. "I then started the tracker. After about an hour, it peaked at about 1.7 million distinct torrents across 3.1 million peers!"

Here's the submission that won the Hutter Prize in 2021: https://github.com/amargaritov/starlit It uses a LSTM to predict the next token lossily, then uses https://en.wikipedia.org…

I suspect it was, given that they've now deleted their comment.

`for char in message: encrypted_char = ord(char) ^ (shared_secret[0] % 256)` This is not real encryption, it picks only one byte of shared secret and XORs it into the plaintext. Th…

It was a one-way collaboration, in that we referenced their discoveries and code such as LattiCG https://github.com/mjtb49/LattiCG , but they were unaware of anything we were doing…

I'm just a regular SWE! Infosec or algorithmic trading - maybe someday.

Yes, absolutely :) that's why we went to FitMC to make the video, he always delivers.

I believe that may be the spectral test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_test which I mentioned in the explanation when showing the lattices visually

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29615428 :)

No that's not at all how this works. The iterator could "return" a boolean by passing a boolean to "yield". The return value of "yield" just indicates if the generator should conti…

This inspired me to plumb the depths of FizzBuzz, seeking further into it than anyone ever has before: the 10^10000000000th digit (it's a "1"): https://github.com/leijurv/reverse-f…

One person one vote is democracy, one dollar one vote is web3. Very different.

> I wonder how Blockchain explorers deal with more complex scripts. For example on blockchain.com one can look up coins by putting an "address" into the search bar. But how would o…

Some mistake or miscommunication happened there, as Wikipedia does have a policy that people can be cited for information about themselves, the policy is called SELFSOURCE. See: ht…

I think it has to do with verifiability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:V Essentially everything written has to be verifiable, and if a person doesn't have enough reliable source…

Well it's a continuous process: today the fees make up maybe three percent of revenue, but that fluctuates as transaction space demand changes, and as the coinbase halves every few…

I've heard the metaphor that "writing your ledgers in pen instead of pencil doesn't make transactions irreversible" - meaning that in the same sense, actions on the blockchain coul…

Why do you think it all comes down to that? Clearly there's much more to it. For example, cryptocurrencies with those two properties you mentioned are a dime a dozen. I could make …

I don't think that's true, fees are not proportional to that. Fees compete for a finite and precise limited space in blocks. There's no limit to how high fees could grow in this co…

No need to speculate on how big or small the gaps may be, the article looks at the actual random gap values used on Wikipedia. Quote: "The least viewed article in the sample, Erygi…

There's a download button in the bottom right, if you hit Original you get the actual original. Here it is: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51847931721_c3feebd201_o...

That is handled by MakeMKV, which the blog posts refers to. https://www.makemkv.com/ "MakeMKV is a format converter, otherwise called "transcoder". It converts the video clips from…

Well, read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621262 if you want to know why this ended up happening :)

Not quite a shortcut, it was actually to patch a bug in vanilla minecraft that causes desync, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621262 And it may seem silly that it tells …