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vzmax··on eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
A car manufacturer that reused the same car key for every car.
vzmax··on There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet
So what, just broadly accept less realistic acting agents and lower the cost for bad actors?
vzmax··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
IRL paperclip maximizer LLM would resort to Enron practices and not actually make any paperclips.
vzmax··on Show HN: Genotype: language that compiles to idiomatic TS, Rust and Python
And what exactly do you mean by "idiomatic"? That word popping up everywhere in bizarre contexts is a huge slop red flag.
vzmax··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
You can't trust it's account on why it did something, it does not "remember". It will just make up something plausible sounding.
vzmax··on Doomscrolling ourselves to death
Before social media I remember people who had entire conversations just quoting tv shows, movies, and commercials. Which shows they quoted was their personality.

I think it is much worse with social media, the content is a lot more niche and the algorithms a lot more addictive.

It's not so much the weird stuff they say, I think that is fairly normal, especially the younger you go. It's the inability to do anything in person without talking constant phone breaks that I find most worrying.

vzmax··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Where do you get the $250B crypto number. He is corruptly profiting of his position, plain as day, but $250B in crypto? Really? What's the point in ridiculous exaggerations like this when the truth is bad enough?
vzmax··on Kain – A non-von Neumann language (Zero GC, Python syntax, no borrow checker)
The AI said it is faster, are you calling the AI a liar?
vzmax··on GoPro and Roomba were U.S. pioneers. Chinese rivals now dominate
Companies stopped innovating and pushed subscriptions instead. There's a word for that.