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Filippo Valsorda — words.filippo.io ‘seeds-bounty’ words.filippo.io

Valsorda independently reimplemented the identified algorithm in Go, confirmed the reconstructed process perfectly matched the historical seeds, and awarded the tripled bounty of $36,864 to the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).

deniz.in commentary (HN-style write-up) deniz.in

For the P-256 curve, the first valid candidate appeared at attempt 876, yet the designers skipped nearly a thousand more before selecting candidate 1,842 — this unexplained gap suggests candidates were being discarded, potentially to find a seed with ‘nothing-up-my-sleeve’ optics that still possessed a secret weakness.

madrobot.blog technical recap madrobot.blog

The seed for the binary curve B-163 did not match the pattern, and the specific ‘base points’ for the P-curves still lack a clear derivation… Claude also observed an unexplained ‘extra rejection criterion’ used alongside standard ANSI rules.

MindStudio — Preskill on OpenEvolve mindstudio.ai

John Preskill remarked that the magnitude of resource reduction was unexpected, noting that the project simply ‘would not work’ without AI-assisted optimization — while cautioning that achieving the error rates for logical qubits remains a monumental engineering hurdle gate reduction alone cannot solve.

KuCoin news flash kucoin.com

Bitcoin avoids NIST curve — the discrepancy between Anthropic’s internal models being permitted to perform advanced cryptanalysis while public users face ‘capability gating’ or refusals on similar tasks drew concern from developers.

Unite.ai — quantum circuits coverage unite.ai

The 17x Toffoli-gate reduction for modular inversion required 12% more qubits as a tradeoff, and the result remains an on-paper resource estimate rather than a demonstration on physical quantum hardware.

FourWeekMBA (summarizing Acemoglu response) fourweekmba.com

Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu… argued that AI would likely replace at most 5% of human work over the next decade, adding only about 1.5% to total GDP… organizational inertia and the ‘last 1% problem’—where human oversight remains essential for accuracy—will slow adoption far more than the technology’s theoretical capabilities suggest.

Forbes — Josipa Majic forbes.com

Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report, utilizing ADP payroll data, found that employment for developers aged 22–25 plummeted nearly 20% between 2024 and 2026… headcount for developers aged 30 and older continued to grow, suggesting companies are not firing existing staff but are simply ‘failing to hire’ the next generation.

Unite.AI on Google’s ATLAS study unite.ai

While AI use appears in 68% of occupations, workers typically apply it to only 20% of their tasks… fewer than 10% of interactions result in full task automation, framing agents as collaborative assistants rather than autonomous replacements.

Hacker News discussion news.ycombinator.com

‘commit volume’ is a poor proxy for value. Critics argue that agents often generate dozens of minor, fragmented commits that would have been a single cohesive change for a human… AI-generated tests often ‘embed existing bugs as testable patterns,’ leading to a state of ‘testslop’.

AFL-CIO (Liz Shuler) aflcio.org

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler has argued that unions are the only trusted institutions capable of enforcing ‘guardrails’ against workplace surveillance and algorithmic management… remains critical of corporate ‘self-regulation’.

BiggoFinance analysis finance.biggo.com

Critics have labeled the report a ‘single-company self-portrait,’ arguing that Anthropic is essentially ‘grading its own homework’ by showcasing its own product’s (Claude) impact on its own workflows… ‘code commits’ as a productivity metric [is] ‘notoriously imperfect’.

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Jack Sun, writing.