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This is definitely a fair concern, and something that we have thought thoroughly about, but let me clarify some things: Our architecture makes jurisdiction less relevant than it wo…

Yes, we did see the thread shortly after it was posted, and we did move the restricted email address validation to the server side. The client-side check is still there in the UX l…

Hi HN. We have been building a quantum-safe, end-to-end encrypted email service where we, by design, cannot read your mail. Very few encrypted email services have post-quantum cryp…

The "just buy another one" argument only works if the alternatives are even comparable. For a lot of people, macOS is a hard requirement and not a preference, so telling them just …

The real frustrating part is that Cloudflare's "definition" of suspicious keeps changing and expanding. VPN users, privacy-first browsers, uncommon IP ranges, they all get flagged.…

This is definitely the right question. A list of failures without any baseline won't tell you anything. You would need the same exercise for human-written code at a comparable scal…

The actual scariest part isn't that the AI got it wrong... it's that nobody felt the need to verify the AI. A tip from an anonymous caller can get investigated and found out if its…

Post-quantum crypto is a good example of this. Lattice-based schemes were theorized in the 90s, but they took decades to actually reach production. The math existed, the hardware e…

MoE feels a lot more like engineering to me. You're routing around the problem rather than actually solving it. The real math gains are things like quantization schemes that change…

The asymmetry is what makes this very interesting. The cost to inject poison is basically zero for the site owner, but the cost to detect and filter it at scale is significant for …

The tone and sensitivity thing is a real issue. A neutral prompt will get a neutral answer, but adding any emotional charge, it will immediately fold. That's not really a reasoning…

uBlock origin on Firefox or Brave, which will block most of the tracker bloat, causing the RAM spike. It's not a perfect fix, but it will cut out a significant chunk of it. Tab Wra…

This is the price every small sender pays. The unblock request process is essentially designed to make you give up or move to a large ESP. There's no appeals process, no SLA, no ac…

The awkwardness after your answered was the interview telling you something important. A team that penalizes picking the right tool over an impressive one is a team where you'll sp…

I dont think the argument is really about child safety. If it was tiktok would also be working on fixing their algorithm that can send minors toward harmful content, which is a far…

That's the entire point of verified boot with custom keys, you don't need to trust Motorola or Lenovo. You can control what runs from the first boot, the threat model for a comprom…

The worst part isn't even that quote, its that nothing structurally has changed one bit since then. The business model still requires users as the product. Glasses that upload vide…

Even if the algorithm holds up we are still years out from a actual quantum computer that can run at scale. But that's kind of the point. NIST finalized ML-KEM in 2024 because you …