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fph··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
But since it's so fast you can just ask it 100 times where Bruce Lee was born, and statistically you'll get the correct answer. We could call it "mixture of idiots". /s
fph··on Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
Reasons = because they are computing the desktop market share.
fph··on Future euro banknote design proposals
This sounds very self-centered. Many people already see the EU bureaucrats as something alien, let's not give them another reason to think they're selfish.
fph··on "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
Looks more like Munch's The Scream to me.
fph··on Firefox Containers Preview
Are they shipping it on Android, too?
fph··on Alternate clock designs and time systems
Weird that we chose these numbers because they have many divisors, and yet no one ever says "it's a third past 10", only "half past" and "a quarter past".
fph··on How to sequence your own DNA at home
Yes, it is in profile/settings.
fph··on Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access
Personally, I wouldn't use anything beyond ASCII in a password. I don't want encoding bugs to lock me out of my encrypted partition or bank account, thank you very much.
fph··on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
How would that even work for an open-weight model?
fph··on LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers
There are Latex documents whose output keeps changing no matter how many times you run Latex on them: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/30674/document-requi...
fph··on LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers
I'm looking forward to run Lua inside Latex inside Javascript inside Firefox inside my Android ART virtual machine.
fph··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
But let's put it in perspective: what you're paying them is more than the average salary in many poorer countries.
fph··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
Random shower thought: I wonder if it would be better in the long term to stop digging out archeological findings. The more we excavate, the more damage we do for future archaeologists who will have the superpower of reading these texts without even needing to dig the scrolls free and open them.
fph··on Egyptian Fractions (2006)
That's not an Egyptian fraction decomposition because there are 2 sevens.
fph··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
> Does GrapheneOS publish their repro build efforts as a dashboard anywhere?

Instructions to fully reproduce a build are here: https://grapheneos.org/build#reproducible-builds (disclaimer: I never tried using them).

fph··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
Technically it's "source-available", not "open-source".
fph··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
Root on computers is insecure. Malware can steal secrets from other applications. We're just used to it, but the Android security model is much better.
fph··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
I recommend Magic Earth. Free with traffic and navigation, and strong privacy promises (unlike Here Maps).
fph··on Thunderbird Littering My Home
Mutts also litter your home.
fph··on Thunderbird Littering My Home
What did you replace it with?
fph··on You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone
Clickbait titles should be changed, as per the guidelines for HN submissions.
fph··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
Because that would be pointless. If you have use-after-free exploit mitigations active, apps can test for its presence by simply trying to use after free. The only way to make the mitigation unnoticeable would be disabling it.
fph··on Muxcard, a dyi credit card size computer
How do you recharge it? Do you have to swap the battery?
fph··on Why are large language models so terrible at video games?
Nethack has been widely used to test reinforcement learning agents, starting from at least 2020; there was a Nethack challenge at NeurIPS 2021. https://nethackchallenge.com/report.html

For a more recent test, see https://kenforthewin.github.io/blog/posts/nethack-agent/ .

fph··on The sigmoids won't save you
As a wise man once said, "anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist".
fph··on Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
You can buy phones with Graphene preinstalled: https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop , https://zextons.co.uk/categories/DeGoogled-Phones , if you really want.
fph··on Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
Within the realm of possibility? Let's be honest, if you are a top NSA executive and you couldn't find a way to get your hands on Cloudflare's private keys (bribing or threatening the right person), you are not getting your Christmas bonus.
fph··on Arena AI Model ELO History
Very neat! It would be great to extend it to non-flagship models as well.
fph··on Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks
3-digits? What is this, an OTP for ants?
fph··on Ti-84 Evo
What prevents a motivated cheater from swapping out the processor entirely?
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