MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Forensic trace shows SISVIDA is a simulation with no liquidity
by Morris_ | 2026-01-30 11:23:26+00:00
I am a forensic accountant specializing in digital asset tracing. I am posting this to the community because I have identified a specific architectural pattern in a platform called SISVIDA that warrants technical scrutiny.

While the entity is currently pushing aggressive press releases via fintech newswires to establish SEO legitimacy, my analysis of their infrastructure suggests a decoupling between the user interface and actual on-chain execution.

Here are the specific anomalies I have isolated during a forensic trace:

1. The "Closed Loop" Ledger Discrepancy I executed a series of trace requests to map the platform's liquidity routing. In a standard exchange architecture, you expect to see API handshakes with known liquidity providers or distinct hot/cold wallet management on-chain. The SISVIDA architecture appears to operate as a closed loop. The dashboard reflects value changes, but these changes do not correlate with visible TXIDs on the public ledger. The backend behavior is consistent with a "simulation" environment—a database updating integers rather than a protocol interacting with the blockchain.

2. Regulatory and Entity Null Pointers The platform claims global compliance. I ran automated queries against the primary registries where they claim operation (including databases analogous to the SEC and FCA). The return values were null. The corporate entity described in their PR materials does not exist in the jurisdictions cited. It appears the "company" exists solely as a frontend render, without a corresponding legal object in the backend.

3. SEO Injection vs. Technical Debt There is a high volume of paid backlinks ("Reputation Injection") targeting fintech keywords, which contrasts sharply with the generic nature of their frontend code. The site structure appears to be a low-cost, white-label template often associated with "pig butchering" kits, rather than a proprietary stack built for high-frequency trading.

Conclusion If you or your clients are encountering SISVIDA, treat the infrastructure as compromised/non-existent. The "exchange" appears to be a frontend shell designed to ingest deposits without a withdrawal route.
by appsoftware | 2026-01-30 11:23:34+00:00
I think this is where current senior engineers have an advantage, like I felt when I was a junior that the older guys had an advantage in understanding the low level stuff like assembly and hardware. But software keeps moving forward - my lack of time coding assembly by hand has never hindered my career. People will learn what they need to learn to be productive. When AI stops working in a given situation, people will learn the low level detail as they need to. When I was a junior I learned a couple of languages in depth, but everything since has been top down, learn-as-i-need to. I don't remember everything I've learned over 20 years software engineering, and the forgetting started way before my use of AI. It's true that conceptual understanding is necessary, but everyone's acting like all human coders are better than all AI's, and that is not the case. Poorly architected, spaghetti code existed way before LLM's.
by mickeyp | 2026-01-30 11:23:41+00:00
SoftICE gang represent :-)

That's a skill onto itself, and I mean the general stuff does not fade or at least come back quickly. But there's a lot of the tail end that's just difficult to recall because it's obscure.

How exactly did I hook Delphi apps' TForm handling system instead of breakpointing GetWindowTextA and friends? I mean... I just cannot remember. It wasn't super easy either.
by yurishimo | 2026-01-30 11:23:42+00:00
I haven't seen any evidence that the "reliable" car brands are trying to change that dynamic moving forward. I think we are seeing a change in consumer behavior that leads to increased demand for new cars, but that is not connected to the reliability of the platform of the long term maintenance requirements.

If electric cars are actually simpler like all of these experts keep telling us, then in the next 3-5 years, we'll know which models are living up to expectations and which ones are not aging as gracefully.

The other thing to consider is the "old" batteries. If I can buy a used Nissan Leaf and harvest the batteries for a home-storage project after the frame kicks the can due to rust or some other problem, then I'm essentially able to keep those batteries as a form of equity on the vehicle. We also will see new companies popping up to address these home-battery conversion projects with plug and play harnesses to drop in your car batteries after the vehicle is no longer worthy of use on the road.

Sure, batteries will also continue to come down in price across the board, so that calculation also needs to be considered, but we're in this interesting middle zone where a lot of used EV value is being left on the table because the business market hasn't quite kept up with the demand for the next step in the lifecycle of modern EVs.
by rudolftheone | 2026-01-30 11:23:50+00:00
Summary:
On Dec 29, 2025, a coordinated attack hit Polish renewable energy farms (Wind/PV) and a combined heat & power plant.

Key findings from the report:
Attribution: CERT Polska links the attack to Static Tundra (aka Berserk Bear/Dragonfly), a group associated with the Russian FSB.

Impact: OT communication disrupted using 'DynoWiper' malware; power generation was not stopped, but remote control was severed.

- Initial Access: Exploited FortiGate VPNs lacking MFA and default credentials on OT equipment (Hitachi/Mikronika/Moxa)

- Timeline: Attackers likely had access since March 2025 but executed the wiper attack in late December.
by everdrive | 2026-01-30 11:24:12+00:00
I'm very excited for this. GoG is a DRM-free platform (for the most part) and I see it as the only positive competition Steam has. Imagine how bad the gaming landscape would be if a company like Epic soundly defeated Valve. They would enshittify at record pace. GoG doing well would only put positive pressure on other players. Ideally, you want your opponents to be healthy and sane, in case they win. And sane opponents drive the market towards better outcomes. I'll definitely buy some classics from GoG with their Linux client.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-30 11:24:21+00:00
> so, these systems should have existed for decades now.

Dubious. Perhaps if Congress could be persuaded to invest in tons of radio telescopes / radars, positioned all around the world, but good luck with that. The space-based approach used by SpaceX is something that presently only SpaceX is equipped to implement. Tracking star conjunctions only gives you high quality data on space debris / satellite maneuvers if you have a huge net of star trackers in orbit, and that's something which only SpaceX has been able to do.
by james_marks | 2026-01-30 11:24:57+00:00
This is why the quality of my code has improved since using AI.

I can iterate on entire approaches in the same amount of time it would have taken to explore a single concept before.

But AI is an amplifier of human intent- I want a code base that’s maintainable, scalable, etc., and that’s a different than YOLO vibe coding. Vibe engineering, maybe.
by postexitus | 2026-01-30 11:25:45+00:00
They achieve that by not generating the scene you see, but a lens warped version of 360 degree view. So you turning the other way doesn't delete what's happening / generated on your back side. However I expect it to breakdown if you put a blocker in between and remove it. i.e. go behind a wall and come back, or enter and exit a building. Would be nice to play with.
by donkeybeer | 2026-01-30 11:26:23+00:00
You are commenting to the wrong post. The Turkish person wasn't in any rally, she didn't leak any state secrets, she simply wrote an essay criticizing Israel. Either visa holders have a right to free speech in which case this is illegal,or they don't have a right to free speech in which case it must be advertised far and wide so people can avoid visiting the USA.
Analyzing the Fraud Vector: How Ormix Uses Mock Trading Engines to Trap Capital
by Lisa1314 | 2026-01-30 11:27:07+00:00
I’ve been investigating Ormix, an emerging "broker" that represents a sophisticated evolution in investment scams.

Technological Audit:

Fake WebSocket Feeds: Their platform uses a modified JSON feed to simulate market movements. While it looks like real-time trading, it’s a closed-loop sandbox.

Domain Obfuscation: The domain was recently registered via a privacy proxy, a common trait for "pop-up" exchanges that disappear once they hit a certain capital threshold.

KYC as Social Engineering: They collect high-res ID documents under the guise of AML compliance. In reality, this sensitive data is likely being harvested for secondary identity theft or sold on dark forums.

Has anyone in the security community developed an automated crawler to flag these "MetaTrader clones" that lack valid server-side certificates from regulated clearing houses?
by nacozarina | 2026-01-30 11:27:22+00:00
I did a lot of c++ in the mid-90s, often on teams with experienced C programmers new to C++.

They had little appetite for C++, it was 90% mgmt saying ‘use the shiny new thing we read about’. I was the FNG who ‘helped’ them get thru it by showing them the tools & lingo that would satisfy mgmt.

OOP is non-scientific and the snake-oil hype made it cancerous. C++ has ballooned into an absurd caricature. It obfuscates business logic with crypto-like strength, it doesn’t clarify anything. I feel like a war criminal. Replacing C++ is one thing but ridding the world of the OOP rot is a far deeper infection.

I later spent years doing my Typhoid Mary bit in the Java community before abandoning the heresy. Repent and sin no more, that’s all one can do.
by gambiting | 2026-01-30 11:27:27+00:00
>>Yup, town plagued by supernatural, everyone depressed,

But that's literally not what the game is, which is why I'm asking why are you making up the fact about playing it? It sounds like a quick judgement based on a trailer or watching a 30 minute analysis video on YouTube.

What other games have awful writing according to you? Out of curiosity. Or is it just anything written after 2018?

Maybe a better question is - what do you mean when you say "good" or "bad" writing in games?
by Noaidi | 2026-01-30 11:27:40+00:00
No one will ever get the timing right, but if you see the fundamental flaws of the economy, you know a crash is going to come. There were a lot of people who predicted the housing crash, not the timing but the crash. There are several signs that this is happening and the one no one is talking about is gold and silver prices. Don’t worry about the timing, you’ll never get the timing right, just worry about the fundamental economics and the flaws and protect yourself.

I happen to agree just because of golden silver prices that it’s going to happen sooner than later, regardless if war breaks out with Iran.
by bilekas | 2026-01-30 11:28:23+00:00
The US is resigning the position intentionally. It's not as if someone is gearing up to replace it.

But as a trade partner? China, markets love reliability and stability. Not every 4 years wondering if there will be another trade war for reasons unknown.

You'd be very surprised the amount of malicious behavior countries will ignore to allow trade. Look at Saudi Arabia.
by bborud | 2026-01-30 11:28:42+00:00
China seems to be the only candidate. But whatever happens it won’t be in the same way as before.

As for whether it is better for everyone, that question became a lot harder in just the last year. Who is «everyone»? And what do we mean by «better»?

With the US wanting to annex territory from its NATO allies, and engaging in extortionate tariffs, it is harder to argue that the US is good for Europe. Which is why Europe has already started to look eastward. Starting with a comprehensive trade deal with India.

What’s happening is good for Russia and China. Not so much for the rest of the world.
by themadboy | 2026-01-30 11:29:34+00:00
Free and open-source (Apache-2.0) QR and barcode toolkit for .NET with zero external dependencies.

Encodes and decodes QR/Micro QR, common 1D barcodes, and 2D formats like Data Matrix and PDF417.

Includes raster and vector renderers (PNG/JPEG/WebP, SVG/PDF/EPS).
by gdmka | 2026-01-30 11:29:37+00:00
Yep, I've used the € sign for a reason, to make sure people won't get confused.

The article goes into considerable detail about the EU tech industry. My comment relates to that context.

I also want to note, that EPP isn't the correct term here. For US, EPP would mean Manufacturer Employee Purchase Programs for New Products with a discount. Like, if you work for HP, you can purchase a product it manufactures at a discount price for your personal use.

The EU practice that I was mentioning is called IT Asset Disposition through employer to employee disposal program[0]. I don't believe big companies in the US get involved in employer to employee ITAD for lots of reasons. But in EU, it's a thing, much to my surprise.

[0]: https://www.mddp.pl/disposal-of-used-equipment-by-an-employe...
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-30 11:29:50+00:00
All these self driving and "drivers assistance" features like lane keeping exist to satisfy consumer demand for a way to multitask when driving. Tesla's is particularly cancerous, but all of them should be banned. I don't care how good you think your lane keeping in whatever car you have is, you won't need it if you keep your hands on the wheel, eyes on the road, and don't drive when drowsy. Turn it off and stop trying to delegate your responsibility for what your two ton speeding death machine does!
by voodooEntity | 2026-01-30 11:31:15+00:00
I agree that proactivity is a big thing, breaking my head over best ways to accomplish this myself.

If its actually the next big thing im not 100% sure, im more leaning towards dynamic context windows such a Googles Project Titans + MIRAS tries to accomplish.

But ye if its actually doing useful proactivity its a good thing.

I just read alot of "this is actual intelligence" and made my statement based on that claim.

I dont try to "shame" the project or whatever.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-30 11:31:17+00:00
China wants but China won't. They lack the military capability of force projection that is the basis of the US dollar dominance, their currency cannot be used as a reserve/trading currency due to capital transfer controls (that have no sign of ever going away because otherwise everyone who has money in China will move it immediately out of the reach of the CCP), foreign investors have gotten very skeptical over the years regarding IP theft on one side and supply chain law issues (e.g. underage labor, 996 and modern slavery, environmental concerns) on the other, and on top of that China is getting rocked hard by the inevitable consequences of the one-child policy that is driving up labor costs, further reducing the attractivity for foreign investors.
by freehorse | 2026-01-30 11:31:21+00:00
Having a downloader is a bit more convenient for getting game updates (you can always download the update manually and run it of course) and also for big games where you have to download multiple files to install. So it makes sense to want to have such a tool, as a big part of getting and retaining customers is convenience. But been there, I have done it, and it is doable, and sometimes preferable. Eg you may not want to install gog in a machine to play a game, or I may want to play a game through crossover but not download gog through crossover to get the windows version: with steam, I cannot do that. But even if you download the game through gog client for convenience, you do not need to run the gog client to launch the game anyway.
by palata | 2026-01-30 11:31:41+00:00
Sounds pretty bad...

I am a user a pCloud, but fortunately I use it as a backend for Restic, so I send encrypted stuff there :-). I believe it is better anyway. I have been a happy user of Mega for years, and I like the end-to-end encryption, but the fact remains that I need to trust Mega entirely because the encryption/decryption is made on their website/app.

Similar to e.g. ProtonMail: they PGP-encrypt the email on the client side, but the client is a website that gets reloaded everytime. They could totally serve me a different client one day.

Of course I have to trust Restic (or whatever similar system, there are alternatives), but:

1. There is a separation between Restic and pCloud/Mega

2. Restic is a program I have on my computer (that I can even compile from sources), and not a website that gets loaded everytime (and that I will obviously not audit every single time).
by fransje26 | 2026-01-30 11:33:00+00:00
> As long as there are still safety drivers, the data doesn't really tell you if the AI is any good. Unless you had reliable data about the number of interventions by the driver, which I assume Tesla doesn't provide.

Sorry that does not compute.

It tells you exactly if the AI is any good, as, despite the fact that there were safety drivers on board, 9 crashes happened. Which implies that more crashes would have happened without safety drivers. Over 500,000 miles, that's pretty bad.

Unless you are willing to argue, in bad faith, that the crashes happened because of safety driver intervention..
by fldivrus | 2026-01-30 11:33:23+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Florian.

I built Finova because I was uncomfortable with the idea that validating a simple IBAN or VAT number usually requires sending sensitive data to a third-party API server.

I realized that 99% of financial validation (checksums, country formats, ISO standards) relies on math, not databases. So I ported the validation logic for 110+ countries into a C# library that runs entirely in your browser using Blazor WebAssembly.

The Tech:
- Stack: .NET 10 (Blazor WASM) + Tailwind CSS
- Privacy: Zero data transfer. You can load the page, disconnect your Wi-Fi, and it still works.
- Coverage: IBANs (ISO 13616), BICs, VAT (VIES logic), and Business IDs (SIRET, KVK, etc.).

It is free for manual use. I monetize via a bulk CSV processing tool for businesses.

I'd love your feedback on the performance and if you can find any edge cases I missed! You can also use the core engine via a NuGet package !

Link: https://finovasharp.com/
by Draiken | 2026-01-30 11:33:59+00:00
Come on... it's always the same reason: money.

Companies don't support Linux because it's not widespread enough so it can't outweigh the costs. They don't give a rat's ass for the market's resentfulness or lack thereof. The Linux market was basically not a real market before because their market share was simply too small.

There are plenty of products made for resentful markets and as long as they keep being profitable they don't care.
by azuanrb | 2026-01-30 11:35:00+00:00
Not sure what you mean by incorrect since you already validated my point about the limits. I never had these issues even with Sonnet before, but after December, the change has been obvious to me.

Also worth considering that mileage varies because we all use agents differently, and what counts as a large workload is subjective. I am simply sharing my experience from using both Claude and Codex daily. For all we know, they could be running A/B tests, and we could both be right.
by ForceBru | 2026-01-30 11:36:13+00:00
> psychosis in the AI itself

I think you're anthropomorphising the AI too much: what does it mean for an LLM to have psychosis? This implies that LLMs have a soul, or a consciousness, or a psyche. But... do they?

Speaking of reality, one can easily become philosophical and say that we humans don't exactly "have" a reality either. All we have are sensor readings. LLMs' sensors are texts and images they get as input. They don't have the "real" world, but they do have access to tons of _representations_ of this world.
by Levitz | 2026-01-30 11:36:21+00:00
>Portugal's decriminalisation, (..) prove legal businesses will better and safer provide the same services to the society, and the lesser societal and health cost.

Portugal's success regarding drugs wasn't about the free market. It was about treating addicts like victims or patients rather than criminals, it actually took a larger investment from the state and the benefits of that framework dissolved once budgets were cut.
by raxxorraxor | 2026-01-30 11:37:56+00:00
Ah yes, the global Jewish finance conspiracy that suppresses valuable information. It cannot possibly be that TikTok is used for one-dimensional propaganda and propping up animosity.

I would defend freedom of speech of course, but then again, I was told I shouldn't have tolerance for intolerance. Ah well, Popper had Jewish roots too and most that use that quote didn't understand it.

There has been almost zero self-reflection on the Palestinian side on how the latest conflict started. Again, for that matter.

Seriously, a lot of people should be heavily embarrassed about their position and some about their obsession with the conflict. Israels approach is certainly heavy handed and innocents were killed. It is the logic of conflicts in the middle east. But what we saw right on the 8th of October is pretty much an oath of revelation about what the real motivation of some actors are.
by mort96 | 2026-01-30 11:38:30+00:00
I like Steam as a user. It syncs game saves between computers. It takes care of game updates. It has a decent launcher UI that I use on my living room computer so that I can launch games using an xbox controller. It makes Windows games work without any fuss. And when I play with friends, it lets me join friends' games without having to deal with in-game lobby systems. It lets me show FPS counters and system info in a unified way even in games without built-in support for that stuff. That is all stuff I want.

Game launchers are a good idea that lots of people want. A good game launcher needs both deep game integration and an online account, to provide save game syncing, joining friends and updating games. So far, it's mainly Steam which has been able to do this on PC. If GoG wants to compete, which it does, it only makes sense for it to provide the same.

It's not some evil scheme.
by repelsteeltje | 2026-01-30 11:38:34+00:00
Was thinking the same, but why would everyone be more interested in gold an silver in a couple of months than they are right now? Sure it beats holding dollars of stocks.

But, keeping both feet on the ground, I'm tempted to think that if the economy collapses I'd not be very interested in buying precious metals. I'd be looking for food, a roof to live under and safety.