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d0mine··on Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
Only a tiny proportion of people can run software not signed/approved by a multibillion-dollar corporation even today.

Additionally, any capable local model can be reclassified as “cybersecurity risk”, not enough “safety guardrails” to run locally, etc

d0mine··on TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
containerd (docker) uses it
d0mine··on AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura
Isn’t the point of TLA+ is to model aspects of design at such high level that no deterministic generation is practical as a rule. The TLA+ models may be useful for LLMs (help find real bugs).
d0mine··on Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
You might like pilish in emacs. pi has plugins and you can modify most things even on the fly in emacs.
d0mine··on Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
If you decided to use an umbrella to protect something during a hurricane and umbrella breaks and your thing is ruined. Whose fault is that?

Distributing signed artifacts is a solved problem (until NP=P is cracked at least).

d0mine··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
I provided thousands of answers on SO (1/3..1/2 accepted?). I can tell from experience that most questions were complete and utter garbage — questions that could have been solved with a single google search at the time. Most of them were answered many many times almost daily.

It is a good thing LLMs exist. Even current capabilities are above median of effort demonstrated by those questions. My target audience was people coming from google (first) and questions authors (second) — but even then you burn out after a while.

Mismanagement and forgetting its roots were just the final nail long before AI.

d0mine··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
Unfortunately, “lost” wallet in public places is a common scam

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/news/article/321034/Resurgenc...

d0mine··on Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
For me, it is the opposite. It may be slower but it follows the rules better and makes less stupid mistakes, it takes less time to merge the solution.
d0mine··on 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
It is the usual mistake to think that it does not use Python as intended (offload number crunching parts into C/C++/Fortran code eg numpy is older than many here.
d0mine··on 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
Parsing JSON at tens of gigabytes per second… in Python

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/12/parsing-json-at-tens-of-gi...

d0mine··on 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
~Zero build time Python vs 20 min for Rust web app
d0mine··on YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
System that requires police to police itself does not work.

Selective enforcement is worse than no law at all.

d0mine··on 'Neanderthals Among Us' review
"table" is not a concept that's really supported by particle physics.
d0mine··on Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
Current inequality is greater, not talking what AI wealth distribution will look like.
d0mine··on The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent
Have you ever asked a long distance runner how are they feeling during a run?
d0mine··on Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles
It is literally true when you are going in circles ;)
d0mine··on What even is an OS now?
It is not clear whether models will be both capable enough and cost effective enough but not as capable to wipe us all out. The outcome is a tiny sliver of possible futures and even then likely short-lived.

Current capabilities are not there. You need software engineers to keep it going. And even then as intoxicating as it might be to be able to bring to life all the side projects you often had no energy/skill to finish, today it is still may be cost / “cognitive load” -effective to buy off the shelf apps that somebody else has to maintain (even if they are not as personal / less customized for your use-case).

d0mine··on Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
Are you including cyber-testing by UK AI Safety Institute in this list?

Sure, the models are capable (for some test tasks, though they are not omnipotent yet) but does it mean the actual OAI sandbox is adequate? Could have a competent engineer done better and made the escape less likely?

d0mine··on Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
It may be even simpler: plain markdown files that explain architecture including C4 diagrams generated from text using plantuml (automated via invoke/fabric/whatever). Plantuml includes C4 in stdlib https://github.com/plantuml-stdlib/C4-PlantUML
d0mine··on F-Droid 2.0
"can I do something [at all]" vs "how [easy] can I do something"
d0mine··on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
It is not about age. It is just a way to tie accounts to a real life identity.

It won't be surprising if the requirement comes from some alphabet agency.

d0mine··on What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
Middle may be wrong (it is a marketing trick to add 3rd outragesly expensive option, to make 2nd option look reasonable). The correct answer is “it depends” (even how long you should spend on choosing may depend on context too).

For example, write in whatever language you know best, then translate to a more appropriate language using LLMs once the desired behavior can be checked automatically. It is a tactic that works in some cases.

d0mine··on War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
“Strong appearing individuals“ just expose what is already there.

That is why Voldemort always comes back in real life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIv1f2AwFCI

d0mine··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
At the moment, the hurdle is [missing] context [aka shared model/understanding of the business, common sense].

Though it is not hard to imagine that any and all communications being recorded for AI consumption in the future.

The Next one is the relative lack of prompt feedback (expect the blowup in finite time like Navier-Stokes ;) [there is not much feedback even for humans at middle management positions].

The cost [tokens] might become prohibitive unless LLMs improve further [not a guarantee].

d0mine··on Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions
Is the implication that those who impose these sanctions can MITM anybody in the world except for countries under sanctions (which have to use their own root CAs)?
d0mine··on David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models
I've only heard of OpenAI and Anthropic agents hacking during training. Are open weights model not smart enough to hack Hugging Face to copy solutions? (doubtful)
d0mine··on We must pace the frontier
MAD is a belief system. It doesn't matter whether AI can effectively stop the retaliation, it is enough that people making the decisions believed that it can (are we there already?).
d0mine··on Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance
It is not “worst-case” (as the post demonstrates, you can get worse results by using specifically crafted data that exploits hash collisions). There are algorithms that can get you O(logN) instead of O(N) even on such data.
d0mine··on Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance
Note: weather observations being truly random data has been proved just recently (Navier-Stokes equations)
d0mine··on Navier-Stokes Announcement
> we use “malicious” to describe code that goes out of its way to trick or mislead the user, exploit bugs or compromise the system. This includes un-reviewed AI-generated proofs and programs.

It is interesting that AI-generated proofs are described as malicious by Lean docs unless reviewed.

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