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NewsaHackO··on OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
OpenCode is the name of the company though.
NewsaHackO··on OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
Probably another tool help steal more tokens. Or to probe more controversial topics without fear of getting banned. Would you be able to check in the history of what they made?
NewsaHackO··on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
Weird, I didn’t feel as though it attempted to hide that it was AI written at all. In fact, it is so cliche-ly Claude written it comes off as a parody.
NewsaHackO··on Tiny Little Office
I agree with you, but it is so funny that three years ago, a website that look like this would probably make the front page for its excellent design alone. Now, it gives off similar energy to a wix website.
NewsaHackO··on Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
I have not made a comment about him being a bad mathematician or academic, nor about what he contributed to mathematics. He is a tenured professor at UCLA, and won a Fields Medal. I am sure that in academic venues he is very well known, and I am not going to refute your story that math students are asking for his autograph after giving a lecture. The thing is, the level of public attention he is getting now isn't at the same level as for being a great mathematician. The only other event in his life when he got this level of non-academic coverage was when he was a child prodigy, which is my point.
NewsaHackO··on Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
I am confused, none of my claims have been shown to be wrong. Since you didn't even put the claim that was shown wrong in your reply and resorted to vague handwaving, I do not think you would be able to actually point out the wrong claim I have made. I do agree that entering a conversation without actually reading the thread isn't the best strategy, however.
NewsaHackO··on Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
>there were literal queues to get his autograph.

What I would expect of someone who goes to an lecture of a professor. I never said he was completely unknown; just that he didn't have widespread recognition outside of academia. Getting autographs after an academic lecture doesn't dispute this.

>He's just gaining popularity in your bubble, which is probably not much larger than the audience he previously had.

The reason why he is gaining this popularity isn't anything to do with his academic achievements though. It's because of him being a child prodigy that is commenting on AI in math. So yes, he is reaching much further than his base, especially because of OpenAI's advancements in math and what it means about AI capability going forward. He has essentially positioned himself as the voice of mathematicians' position on AI and math.

NewsaHackO··on Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
Was he? He was a child prodigy, which got him a lot of coverage in wider media, but then grew up and really became known in math circles. I'm sure he made lots of contributions to pure math and all and has won multiple academia-focused awards, but he didn't really make news outside of the math/academic area. Suddenly, with this AI math thing in the past year or two, he is starting to get more non-academic focused attention.
NewsaHackO··on Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
I feel as though Tao is getting alot of public attention that he hasnt had since his childhood, which is why he is releasing all of these blog posts
NewsaHackO··on 2D Vehicles
>One weekend in late August 1996, I wrote a 2D physics simulation which later became the basis of the vehicle system in the eventually popular game "Grand Theft Auto" aka "GTA".

I don't mean to be... judgemental, but if you had the talent to go something like this, why devolve on the remake? One could think that a person with your level of skill would be one of the main vanguard for hand coding. Again, I don't want to be too judgemental, as I am not a great programmer and use assisted tools when planning and designing personal apps, but I am just curious.

NewsaHackO··on If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves
chill, this is gonna be on your anti-AI dossier.
NewsaHackO··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
From the first example, it seems like this paper is so contrived. They pose a statement (y = x^3 - x^2 - 1 + 1 when x > -1) which is true, then provide incorrect reasoning but swapping the multiplicity of -1 and 1, then ask it to provide a proof. Essentially, they are running an injection attack; they give it 90% correct information, then it expects in good faith that -1 and 1 are not swapped, so it takes it verbatim. I don't see how the fact that ChatGPT can sometimes get this wrong, especially when the user is the bad actor trying to trick the computer and isn't actually trying to find a proof, is at all relevant to the Navier-Stokes solution.
NewsaHackO··on God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser
I wonder, with how aggressive most copyright holding companies are, if there is going to be a push to hold AI companies liable for reverse engineering like this. It possible AI companies designate it as forbidden knowledge, and “realign” models to not allow it
NewsaHackO··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
People just don’t spell that seriously buddy, especially when it is so immaterial to the point.
NewsaHackO··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
Actually, cybersecurity seems to be the area that LLMs shine the most at; though it needs directing to actually look for the problem, LLMs have been able to find security faults in code that is well-vetted and written by experts.
NewsaHackO··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
Yes, this is why no one really feels sorry about the LLM code situation other than other coders. Believe it or not, before the current iteration of LLMs(around 2015-2020), coders were still gloating about how they were going to replace other professional jobs (law, medicine, dentists, finance, etc.) in due time, and they and researchers were going to be the only people with white-collar jobs. There is a delicious irony of how it all ended up shaking out.
NewsaHackO··on Sonnet 5.5
You can tell how vague the grammar complaint was it probably wasnt a big of a gaffe that they think it was. Also, slight tangent, but the part where he said that it admitted where there was an error but was not able to say why it made the error is one of the issues with model sycophancy; it want to validate the users feelings of being wronged, but also does not want to say something factually incorrect. So it produces this fail state of saying sorry for nothing, but it cannot backtrack.
NewsaHackO··on GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
>Recently was using claude code/opus 5 to diagnose an intermittent wi-fi connection problem and one of the first things it did was to bring the adapter down.

Do you mean restarting it? IDK, that would have been my first step too.

NewsaHackO··on Z80 REPL (2018)
Yea, it doesn't have that... uninspired design to it, looks like the design of someone who actually created it themselves.
NewsaHackO··on Heretic removes restrictions from language models
I think a major difference is that while torrents are illegal, the main people enforcing it are copyright holders. I think the discussion would change if the government would label people who build/use/distribute "illegal" models as terrorists.
NewsaHackO··on Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K
This has to be 1) early LLM vibe coding or 2) “hand” vibe codingwhere the user asked the LLM to code sections and stitches them together manually, and the programmer is a novice. The second part I speak from experience; got to ~2k before realizing this is out of the script range and started to break it up. Regardless, it would be almost impossible to get an SOTA LLM agent to ever do this.
NewsaHackO··on Most people prefer traditional architecture
This is still in line with his point; presumably, people who live in the building and pay rent will want construction cost to be as low as possible as it will help reduce the rent needed for a builder to break even. An ornate stonework is great for someone looking at it, but if it requires rent to be raised by 100 dollar a month for a tenant, most would rather it not be there.
NewsaHackO··on Navier-Stokes Announcement
No the definition of == is the regular definition; it's just a deductive reasoning statement. Since the first part of the statement is never true, it doesn't matter what the second part of it says. Of course, like he said, that makes the statement have no value.
NewsaHackO··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
I guess part of the problem is that being against being against anything for economic interests doesn't really rally anyone to your cause; everyone has to make a living doing something productive for society, and professions have come and gone all the time due to technological advances. In fact, when one thinks about it, the people that are losing their professions now were major contributors to others losing their form of income. Often people talk about how they can use technological/programming/IT skills to make some secretary or administrative assistant's job obsolete. So most people just don't feel a lot of sympathy when people complain that AI are going to take those people's jobs.
NewsaHackO··on Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
What sane person use non systemd Linux? I kid, of course and thank you for your service in keeping the linux ecosystem honest in terms of reducing systemd’s hegemony and everything but this cannot be a problem you are not used to running into.
NewsaHackO··on Waymo racked up 8,300 SF parking tickets and nearly $1M in fines
Off topic but I got the weirdest ads on this site. Has to be off putting to people attempting to read it on their phone in public. Had to close it before getting past the first paragraph.
NewsaHackO··on Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools
When you use “we” hopefully you are referring to someone on your team. Just be careful, the first step down the rabbit hole of AI psychosis is humanization of LLM.
NewsaHackO··on Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
No one has actually had their account banned for this, Google just disables their Antigravity access due to breaking TOS. People just repeat the line that “Google bans accounts” because it’s a bigger headline draw.
NewsaHackO··on Creating backup storage sucks
I think there is a system to do this with git annex that will just keep the hash link in a repo but have the file in a offline drive, so you can easily keep track of files that are in cold storage. It may need you to have your own encryption system though.
NewsaHackO··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Honestly, unless what you are doing is frankly illegal, it usually is possible for you to get around most safeguards for coding things if you also know how to write code. Most problems have a separable completely innocuous core that Fable would gladly do. Then you can implement the problematic parts yourself. Particularly things like copyright issues, web scraping etc.
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