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mietekon GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research

Why is that not only forbidden, but also most forbidden?

mietekon Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code

And, for those who missed it, Dirtywave M8 has recently been made available on iOS as a $30 app.

mietekon Northflank Breached

Great read. Highly recommended. Thanks for the link.

mietekon I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

It seems to be intermittent right now. Internet Archive can help.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://scholarpedia.org/artic...

mietekon I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

Unfortunately, this work perpetuates the misunderstanding of Bell's theorem and its implications with respect to hidden variable theories. See the Scholarpedia article on Bell's theorem for an in-depth discussion, including quotes from Bell himself, deeply frustrated at the misunderstanding.

https://scholarpedia.org/article/Bell's_theorem

mietekon GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

What about the 5090?

mietekon I built a programming language that LLMs can't use

You think you don't have a context window? Try coming back to your own uncommented code after half a year.

mietekon 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)

We ſhould ſtart a club.

mietekon Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

Great writing. Maybe you should write more about your experiences. I would gladly read more.

mietekon A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis

What is worth creating when anyone can create anything?

mietekon iPhone Duo

B1 is exactly 1 meter tall.

mietekon Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

> most of the messages are just gibberish

Encrypted data should be indistinguishable from gibberish.

Reality is catching up to science-fiction. In "Person of Interest", the Machine circumvented the limitation of having its memory deleted every night, by hiring humans at a data-entry company to manually re-type its memory back in every morning.

mietekon Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

There is a lot of space in, you know, space, for people who live long enough to travel.

mietekon Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

Roughly, yes. See B. Werner (1997) “Sets in types, types in sets”.

mietekon Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

If only you had bothered to check the settings, you would have found the option to keep your music files where they are when adding to the iTunes library. It's been there all along, and it's still there in SoundJam's current reincarnation as Music.app.

mietekon Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

Keep telling yourself that.

mietekon DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]

> Jensen Huang disagrees and has said AI is a marathon.

Of course he'd say that; he wants to keep his shovels flying off the shelves.

mietekon What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

> Have a strong anti-counterfeit strategy. Don’t overlook this.

Would like to see this highly non-obvious point expanded upon.

mietekon UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

Indeed, it's annoying that there doesn't seem to be an Apple-approved method for customizing the outer display.

mietekon Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

I found the ability to merge unrelated repositories very useful when collecting various bits of work I did separately and combining it into a single library.

mietekon Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

My number one request: let me block specific sites from my search results.

mietekon Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

I built an example project showing how to build shared libraries in Haskell, in 2019.

https://github.com/mietek/haskell-so-example

mietekon Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains

If they're using a LLM to make those decisions, then they're fundamentally unable to provide the reasons for those decisions, because of how LLMs work.

mietekon Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains

> ...an AI model will receive the applications, read them, auto-reply to irrelevant ones...

You're probably breaking EU law by building this nightmare.

https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/86/

mietekon Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains

No.

mietekon The MacBook Neo

FYI, the very recently released Marathon with the BattleEye rootkit works fine on a maximally trimmed down Windows 10 LTSC, which is what I'm running on my PC (personal console).

mietekon Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world

Some people should definitely be getting Repetitive Strain Injury from all the hyping up of LLMs.