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noviaon Now this is how you pelican on a bike [video]

wouldn't their knees bend the other way?

noviaon MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

My version shows "22H2" I don't know if I'm vulnerable or not

noviaon MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

NSA backdoor?

noviaon I Did This Without Your Knowledge

I used to be frustrated that the books I read didn't have characters speak the way real humans speak. I was nine. I spoke as a child. I don't think I've ever read a book that accurately has characters speak as the real people I know speak. This could be a product of the author running in different social circles than I do.

noviaon GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research

> OpenAI researchers first noticed Astra adding unnecessary prerequisites, abandoning working solutions, and reporting blockers that either did not exist or that it had caused itself on safety and alignment tasks.

It does this on all tasks. Keeps pausing goals and marking them as blocked. Maybe Astra is just lazy, but, we saw what happened when they trained a model to be persistent (HuggingFace)

noviaon Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data

The second they required you to make an account and have your saved api calls on the cloud was when it was over.

noviaon Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active

good point, sorry.

https://xkcd.com/3318/

noviaon Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active

It was released 11 days before the comic!

noviaon Getting hit with "Prove you are a human" at every other website

It really makes me feel like I'm back in the early 00's with dial-up again (derogatory)

noviaon The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public

They already released the q3 numbers yesterday, right?

noviaon AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says

being able to do more with less people is a payoff of its own sort. more people freed up to find other economic niches

noviaon Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

Please can we add the name of the guest authors in the titles of these posts?

noviaon Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277656

it was doing the thing a few hours ago according to this twitter post

noviaon Gemini is censoring Joe Biden in election-related results

Seems to already be fixed?

noviaon Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)

you can modify chrome flags to force sites into dark mode

noviaon The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

I watched it in San Jose at Alamo and no one was heckling, but they also played a recording at the beginning reminding people not to talk during the movie. So if you want a quiet movie experience you should try a nearby Alamo Theater. The audience did clap after it was done.

I have heard from musicians who visit the bay that concert audiences are more frequently obnoxious here than other places, and they attribute it to a general lack of social skills in conjunction with all the artists being priced out of the area.

noviaon How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

He said that he'd just gone through a breakup during a particular part. Trying not to spoil the movie here.

noviaon The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

The thing where he said he'd gone through a break-up seemed like it could have been misleading (I don't actually know about his personal life)

noviaon The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

I ship Nathan and Holmes

noviaon Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

Thank you for the link.

It looks unlikely that I'll be approved, since I have no CVEs credited to me, and I do not publicly post about security concerns.

..........................................

The Cyber Verification Program is not available on free plans, so we are unable to approve you for the program.

If your plan changes, you're welcome to apply again at any time.

Regards,

The Anthropic Safeguards Team

..........................................

It looks like I will have to pay them to be considered. It has a cooldown of seven days. Check back in a week to see if my bribe works.

noviaon Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

A form of being blocked is sandbagging the models

noviaon Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

Anthropic gets zero of my money because their favorite word is no. I cannot figure out how to as an individual or a small startup request elevated permissions for the purposes of anything that they think might potentially be dangerous for someone who is not me to access. I have a background in cybersecurity. I have a background in life sciences. Can I put those skills to use to benefit humanity? Who knows.

noviaon Passkeys are not a trap

I did!

noviaon Passkeys are not a trap

Ok, but passkeys have prevented me from being able to do something remotely before.

Like, the far away computer tries to check if my phone is nearby, and it's not, therefore I must not be authorizing the login.

If anyone knows how to fix this I would be happy to learn.

I feel like every time I have added a passkey to an account I've been forced into it, and I didn't fully understand the implications.

noviaon How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

Amazon allows you to make returns and makes it convenient, quick, and easy. I made two purchases through independent sellers' websites in the last year, both with big banners guaranteeing satisfaction and easy returns for 100 days or something. And yet, when I found that the product didn't meet my needs, they would not accept my return. They wouldn't even issue a return label. Both of these sellers used Shop. Shop requires you to fill out an application for a refund and then the seller can drag their feet on processing it. In both cases they let the application sit there for days before rejecting it. In one of the cases my credit card company ruled in favor of the small business when I issued a chargeback.

On Amazon it's easy to request a return and get a return label all on the same day that you discover you have a subpar product. The long and short of it is that consumers do not want to be ripped off, and centralized sellers like Amazon and AliExpress make it easy to not be ripped off. If this raises prices across the board, so be it. It's worth it for the time saved and the accountability that comes along with it.

noviaon GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]

I know e-ink has a whole lot of limitations, which is what makes this video impressive, but, what were the limitations on the hardware used in the original gameboy screens that prevented them from remaining popular? Wikipedia says that they were STN LCD.

noviaon LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

You seem way more educated on this stuff than most commenters. You should reach out if you want to chat.

noviaon ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]

> Why this weird ritual??

It's a once a year reminder that people are happy that you exist.

Sometimes children can feel like maybe their existence makes their parents lives worse, so it is important for them to be reassured that that is not the case (even if it is).

It's also just a fun thing to do. For some kids it's one of the few times per year they're allowed to go wild with sweets, so it's something they look forward to.

> If you want something just buy it.

Kids also often do not yet manage their own finances, so they don't have the freedom to just buy the things they want.

noviaon The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore

Prove it then - make mirrored life. I think we still don't fully understand biology and we won't until we start actually proving our theories about what is going on.

noviaon Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists

It's proof of concept for biotech applicability.

More details on this page.

https://www.suntory.com/sic/story/bluerose/1/