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Y_Yon OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents

In order to "help" myself I have taken some of your money.

Feel free to opt out maybe?

Y_Yon Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

You take a class. Do you think coveting is immoral? Retributive justice? Human sacrifice?

Y_Yon Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test

Scorpio was cool

Y_Yon Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds

Bullshit. How would a website even detect a VM?

Y_Yon WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

Every time I'm wronged I'll just throw a few thousand dollars at it? On the internet?

Y_Yon Wine ported to OpenBSD

Sounds like it's Apple who's behind

Y_Yon Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models

Forecaster of the Confounding Company here :)

You're right but, if the time series looks like music then you can apply your music domain knowledge. You don't have to only apply knowledge that's general across every domain, part of the magic of large neural nets is that you can do recognition and prediction at the same time thereby using (statistically) things known from training about how to identify a sequence and then also how to continue it.

Sure adding outside info helps even more, but with enough data it should become unnecessary (or so goes the theory).

Y_Yon Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

> they are identical movies

Y_Yon Show HN: How random are you?

I think Zipf's law means you're biased towards odd in that case (unless you allow yourself to choose empty strings)

Y_Yon AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs

What about OpenHarmony?

Y_Yon AlphaNIST

That is indeed the reference

Y_Yon Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs

What's this photonic Tiny Tapeout?

Y_Yon Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs

At milliwatt power, and terahertz frequency?

Y_Yon Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs

In honour of Akhenaten? Cool.

Y_Yon The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4

That sounds horrible, even in Europe deceptive and abusive tactics towards taking people's money are a constant hazard. I can't imagine trying to exist without even what little protection we have.

Y_Yon Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape

Careful, there are two German words there: "der See" means lake, but "die See" is sea.

Y_Yon Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

He has a nice yacht, I bet it's fun on the yacht.

Y_Yon Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

Good point, it could be any kind of sphincter.

Y_Yon Mistral Large 4

You didn't have to look at "reticulating splines" all day long though. Anyway that stuff came from Sim City.

Y_Yon Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

Y_Yon Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`

    print (foldl const 0 [undefined, undefined])   -- 0
    print (foldr const 0 [undefined, undefined])   -- Exception: Prelude.undefined

Y_Yon Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

Cogent.

Y_Yon Our approach to EU text provenance rules

I agree that if they're so noisy they need to average over more runs, but maybe they didn't feel the need to bother.

Y_Yon Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`

What I learned, many years ago, is that foldr was a footgun, and that foldl1' was almost certainly what I wanted.

Y_Yon Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

What about the contract law that says you can't (typically) breach contracts?

Y_Yon Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025)

Definitely decodable, that's what's being done now

Y_Yon Play GTA Vice City in the Browser

Ya, just like pointing and shouting at infectious diseases

Y_Yon .name Termination

Unless your trust for VeriSign is already zero

Y_Yon Creepy Crawlies

The implication here is that the proxy fridge forwards the Anubis challenge to a dedicated rig controlled by the scraper who efficiently solves it and returns the answer.

Y_Yon Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients

The hacked MSN client from mess.be was amazing. You could spam the "nudge" that made your friend's client take focus and shake and make a noise!