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Murfaloon AI is dramatically accelerating AI research

This plot is funny. That's not what acceleration looks like. Also take a guess why everything before April 2024 missing!

Really all it shows is 2025-26 saw a bit more improvement than 2024-25, but nowhere near "dramatic" and NOT "accelerating".

Murfaloon Octomind – open-source AI harness that saves your tokens, static rust

Holy tagline. "The CLI-first AI coding agent runtime. Pipe it, schedule it, embed it. One binary, any model, MCP-native — built for autonomous work, not just chat."

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills...

Murfaloon The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading

Welcome to publications involving ML in 2026... Glad to see someone else write this though because it's important to start having these discussions. Too much overselling has been happening for too long. There is so much great about ML. IMO it hurts the field long-term to continue overselling claims like this.

In my field (biology+ML) it is a genuine epidemic. You could make a career out of comparing high-profile ML models vs baselines from the 90s.

edit: lo and behold! https://x.com/SchmidhuberAI/status/2117446822855888956

Murfaloon Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang

McCarthyism on the menu? Why, Cold War II is already being served! Hurry up, it's getting... cold : o

Murfaloon GLP-1 may slow biological aging

A few examples. Eli Lilly (Zyprexa): $36B sales vs. $1.4B fine, Pfizer (Bextra & others): $16.8B vs. $2.3B, Pfizer (Neurontin): $2.12B vs. $430M, Johnson & Johnson (Risperdal): $10.8B vs. $2.2B, Amgen (Aranesp): $7.4B vs. $762M, GlaxoSmithKline (Paxil & Wellbutrin): $9B vs. $3B

Wonder where GLP-1s will end up

Murfaloon GLP-1 may slow biological aging

Interesting hypothetical. Let me know when you've got one, can't wait

Murfaloon GLP-1 may slow biological aging

Let's play spot the conflict of interest. Three of seven authors tied to a company selling biological aging tests. One consults for Merck, GSK, etc.

There seems some promise at times but I also struggle to see the recent slew of "GLP-1s cure X", where X is seemingly any ailment known to man, as much more than the next Big Pharma gold rush where the profits dwarf any eventual regulatory fines, and taxpayers and real patients are left with the costs.

Murfaloon How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

Same. I'm in the US and do not use Amazon at all. Life, and the products I buy, actually got much better. Amazon is overpriced and low quality. Pretty much everywhere else has better products, lower prices and free & fast shipping at this point (Walmart, Target, Home Depot, direct purchases, etc.). Pretty shocked at all the people defending Amazon here.

Murfaloon LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

Fair, I may have tried too hard to see the other side of the argument! Sensitive topic of course, but definitely one of the clearer cases where "just put the book down" has not always an entirely available option.

Murfaloon LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

Tipping points and technological lock-in aren't new (e.g., the printing press, the radio, TV, phones, the internet, etc.). I do absolutely see your distinction, though, that prior technologies may have been less capable of imposing specific belief systems compared to frontier LLMs.

That's a fair point, and a key reason why competitive open models are so important. I definitely don't want to be stuck using Google's latest and greatest LLM once companies, marketers, and PACs can pay to subtly influence responses as they choose.

We've all seen this movie before, though.

Murfaloon LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

I love this line of thinking but the framing comes across to me as a bit inflammatory and uncharitable. Just about anything involved in the exchanged of ideas can be viewed as a virus! That is because, when viewed from an evolutionary biology perspective, ideas are the cognitive equivalent of genes (in fact, this is where the term meme comes from).

There's a whole field, evolutionary memetics, dedicated to this. Cultural values, marketing, religion, social media, education, propaganda, etc. can all be viewed quite naturally through this lense. Even the terms we use in every day language (eg, going "viral") seem to intuitively grasp this.

Is my friend a virus for recommending me their favorite book? Well, yes I guess, but that's kind of just how ideas work. Just my two cents

Murfaloon Don't Wordle

    *      12974
    QAJAQ   1979
    PZAZZ    861
    OBANG    449
    URARI    232
    FLAFF     58
    DWALM     10

(totally didn't cheat: https://github.com/murfalo/dontwordle-assistant)

Murfaloon Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny

Obvious? How do you propose adopting and regulating the technology in a way that the public wants and that allows reasonable privacy?

Murfaloon How to Exist

Right, I think commonly "doing nothing"/meditation is approached with the goal of "doing something", i.e. "getting the hell out of here" or changing instead of sitting with how you feel in the present moment. And, just as you say, that basically defeats the entire purpose.

Murfaloon Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025)

Simple trick for those outside of academia. Google the impact factor of the journal you are reading. If it's below 5 it's fake. If it's 5 or above, it's also fake.

Murfaloon Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable

> Is the mitochondria the powerhouse of the cell?

Chat paused. Fable 5's safety features have flagged this chat.

Murfaloon Computing the billionth prime in 1s with LLVM IR

See also https://youtu.be/uJkoI5TnKzA

Murfaloon Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

Help, it's 1 a.m. and I haven't eaten dinner!

Murfaloon Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

https://www.fulu.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jhRqgHxEP8

Murfaloon Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem

Alternatively, the "feel free to leak all my data but please use my GPUs and don't rm -rf /" config:

  {
    "sandbox": {
      "enabled": true,
      "filesystem": {
        "allowRead": ["/"],
        "allowWrite": [
          ".",
          "/tmp",
          "/dev/nvidia0",
          "/dev/nvidia1",
          "/dev/nvidia2",
          "/dev/nvidia3",
          "/dev/nvidia4",
          "/dev/nvidia5",
          "/dev/nvidia6",
          "/dev/nvidia7",
          "/dev/nvidia8",
          "/dev/nvidiactl",
          "/dev/nvidia-uvm"
        ]
      }
    }
  }

Murfaloon ClawInstitute

Announcement: https://x.com/KempnerInst/status/2036832290894962819

Blog/write-up: https://kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/news/harvard-researcher...

Murfaloon Blatant-Why: Stop paying for AI agent wrappers, start asking what's underneath

Latent Labs (a $200M company) launched an "autonomous AI agent for drug design" that appears to wrap open-source models behind a paywall. Tristan Farmer built an alternative with Claude Code in a day and has interesting things to say about it: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tristan-farmer-973b7a17a_anti...

Unrestricted link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260325194514/https://www.linke...

Murfaloon Attention Residuals

Amazingly, the first author is a high school student! https://nathanchen.me/public/About%20me.html

Murfaloon Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans

I am choosing to believe this is satire. A+

Murfaloon Daily multivitamin slows signs of biological ageing

Paywall-free link: https://archive.ph/lM6ZS

Primary source in Nature Medicine: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04239-3

Murfaloon Climate change is speeding up

Underlying Foster & Rahmstorf paper is also on the front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275088). This Nature piece adds context and estimates from other experts in the field.

Murfaloon GPT-5.4

To me, model card makes sense for something like this https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2029620619743219811. For "sheet"/"brief"/"primer" it is indeed a bit annoying. I like to see the compiled results front and center before digging into a dossier.

Murfaloon Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

Surely this is already happening with our other devices? Not that it isn't a problem but that the game is already lost...?

Murfaloon Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)

In the article they make that 2025 is a tipping point where open source frameworks and libraries "just work", making speedy, fun development possible without needing to fight the clunkiness of heavyweight engines.

And any new stuff regarding Celeste or from their devs will forever be relevant to me! Highly recommend to any who haven't played it.