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peddling-brink··on Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2
Presumably for those in the CVP that can use those capabilities, and general notoriety. US gov is using at full strength too.
peddling-brink··on What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
Ahh yes, but what about supply chain compromise?
peddling-brink··on How accurately did science fiction stories predict AI?
Just re read this. Great book. Frighteningly prescient.
peddling-brink··on HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
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peddling-brink··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Genuinely though, you're probably better off with an actually airgapped computer. Buy a $300 oldish dell or lenovo that you can slap ubuntu on to. Single purpose, no gaming, no email. If you keep it off the net, updates aren't needed. Sign transactions completely offline.

Keep the seed phrase safe. Use actual dice to generate it. Put a chunk of it into your wallet, a chunk into your password manager, a chunk in your attic or in a book, etc. Never type it into an internet connected computer.

Oh and, never tell anyone about how much crypto you have.

This is reasonably safe, and reasonably within the capabilities of a non cryptography nerd.

peddling-brink··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
An intern told them about the Hack My Bitcoin competition.
peddling-brink··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Not your keys, not your crypto. Use a nice safe hardware wallet. Just check for extra SIM cards first, and audit the key generator.
peddling-brink··on Genie 4
You're missing the forest for the trees. The less than amazing physics isn't the point.

When you have a conversation, you have an idea in your mind of how the conversation is going to go. You predict what the other person is going to say before they say it.

When you are driving, you predict what the other drivers are going to do, you predict what signs say, how long you have until the green. If you see two red lights attached to the back of a car flash on, you may predict that the car is about to slow down and you start slowing down before their speed has changed.

Forget video games and movies. I believe these models will be that inner predictive model for robots.

peddling-brink··on Genie 4
Your expectation is the point, not the physics. I'm not arguing that their model has an amazing grasp of physics. I'm arguing that this can be used as a predictive internal model for a robot.
peddling-brink··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
You seem to be coming from the position that the benevolent, independently thinking, fully aligned AI has graced humanity with a forever gift. But actually it's a privately owned company, built on the collective of human intelligence, apparently stealing from active research and blessing a small few with partial credit.

There are ways to do what they are doing ethically. But this isn't it.

peddling-brink··on Genie 4
How often do things in the real world not behave exactly as you expected them to?

I feeling I get from this is that this could be the mental model for a robot in the real world, continuously corrected by actual events.

We all have a world model in our heads of what we think is going to happen, we adjust quickly (or not) based on what does. This is pretty incredible stuff.

peddling-brink··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
Go ahead and send me your work outputs in real time. If I finish your work before you, I might give you partial credit.
peddling-brink··on Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model
But that was the whole article. Their exfiltration of data to Beijing, wasn’t. And it was told to build something to monitor against exfiltration attempts, shouldn’t it try one? It wasn’t sensitive data, it wasn’t even data, it was a test string. Everything they described was very benign.

Should the model have asked for an endpoint to test against? Probably yes, but this is not a very large model and the largest frontier models regularly do things like that without asking me.

peddling-brink··on Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model
They asked it for a detection against exfiltration attempts. Sending a test file out to the Internet sure looks like testing an exfiltration detection.

They claim that it read the DNS records and what was in tmp first. Again, all things that would be very reasonable to do when designing building and testing an exfiltration detection system out of tmp. It did not try and send the contents of the computer to Beijing.

This claim is absolutely overcooked.

peddling-brink··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
> most people are just speedrunning notetaking apps in JavaScript frameworks.

I feel seen. But seriously, my app, with my preferences, written by a semi-trustworthy entity that isn’t trying to shove ads down my throat. That’s really great.

peddling-brink··on Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France
I think the point is more about the intelligence gathering rather than the tampering.
peddling-brink··on Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster
Make them block you.
peddling-brink··on GLP-1 Drugs Cut Schizophrenia Hospital Visits, Study Finds
Yes, if only I could math, then the food cravings would stop..
peddling-brink··on I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google
It was “trusted” input, they validated the signature and everything.
peddling-brink··on Apple HomeView
This is a massively optional device that sits on your counter or wall.

1984 would be if you had to carry a Internet connected camera around with you all the time. Brave new world would be if you had to carry around an entertainment device just to do your banking.

Ridiculous concepts..

peddling-brink··on Apple HomeView
Most rational. Fight Club might be a better choice if you have children. Give them someone to look up to.
peddling-brink··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
> That's a feature, not a side effect.

You’re implying that the deep lizard state planned the LLM craze?

Sama might be a lizard..

peddling-brink··on It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"
If any life destroys all life, it will be humans destroying all life. So any human promoting act is a contribution to the destruction of all life.

Dolphins are advanced enough, we should let them take it from here.

peddling-brink··on Terraform Meets Proxmox: Lessons from a VMware Migration
Terrible website on mobile. Unreadable, text is moving around as you scroll.
peddling-brink··on Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights
They should make a black mirror episode about that..
peddling-brink··on Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
Is anyone under the apprehension that LLMs are human brains? I don't think so.

Clearly there are differences. I believe that during a response, there is some amount of experience or thinking happening. Obviously, it's not continuous experience like ours.

peddling-brink··on Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
Your brain cut off from any stimulus doesn't "know" either. There are a lot of reasonable arguments to be made against AI, but this isn't one of them.

Tool bad because I used it wrong.

peddling-brink··on Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
> Put the LLM/agent/AGI/SI in a box with full access to the internet. Don't give it any instructions. Nothing. Not even a system prompt. What happens?

This doesn't even make sense. Without a system prompt, how will it know that it has tool access?

Put man in pitch-black room, why doesn't he read book or talk to me?

peddling-brink··on Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia
Llama would be nice for the ggufs. Any specific flags or tutorials I should look at?
peddling-brink··on Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia
Two arc b60s. The intel vllm build is getting me ~15t/s decode with heavy context using qwen3.8 27b.
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