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DetroitThrow··on A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity
That's unrelated. He's been diligently substituting bananas in many experiments to mostly disappointment.
DetroitThrow··on Bird brains (2023)
Given parrots eat their own poop (https://lafeber.com/pet-birds/questions/parrots-eating-poop/), there must be a neuron count/density that activates self-poop eating (assuming anatomy allows it), similar to LLM parameter count.
DetroitThrow··on Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3
>In the world of harness development I think that's an interesting question to answer!

The challenge isn't about harness development though, and a sufficiently complex harness can solve these tasks rather easily.

And presenting it as if you've made a novel development for solving ARC-AGI-3 leads me to believe you're willing to waste all of our time for your benefit at every step in the future.

DetroitThrow··on Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3
The harness seems extremely benchmark specific that gives them a huge advantage over what most models can use. This isn't a qualifying score for that reason.

Here is the ARC-AGI-3 specific harness by the way - lots of challenge information encoded inside: https://github.com/symbolica-ai/ARC-AGI-3-Agents/blob/symbol...

DetroitThrow··on Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3
Um, yes this is a extremely specific as a benchmark harness. It has a ton of knowledge encoded about the tasks at hand. The tweet is dishonest even in the best light.

The hard part of these tests isn't purely reasoning ability ffs.

DetroitThrow··on China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000
S300 is very good AA, but in practice modern SEAD with a sizeable number of planes can outrange them and they're not great at protecting themselves. We saw this in India-Pakistan and seeing this again in Iran-USA. You can see more of a stale mate when they aren't getting outranged in Ukraine-Russia.
DetroitThrow··on China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000
There's a few of these guys that make posts about technology that doesn't materialize after a few years, they can be ignored. There are plenty of pro-China observers that offer grounded analysis of Chinese military-industrial base out there that don't make claims that China has unobtainium technology. /r/LessCredibleDefence has a shortlist of these propagandists.
DetroitThrow··on Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found
I am not very close with every one of these engineers, and some no longer work at MSFT, but yes talking to employees in Seattle working on security made me never want to use Azure.
DetroitThrow··on Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found
Every security engineer I know working at Azure is on the verge of self-harm because of the current situation, or is the dumbest IC I've ever met and somebody I think should have never become a security engineer. Sample size ~12.
DetroitThrow··on Push events into a running session with channels
>It works great.

When it is online, I agree with things asides from the "fast" part, actually. But many companies have a secondary service for async comms/chat when being Teams cannot be online, and compared to Slack.

DetroitThrow··on Waymo Safety Impact
Thanks for that thought. Horrible.
DetroitThrow··on Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla
300-400 miles depending on conditions
DetroitThrow··on Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode
I think the gap is smaller than it has been in the past but I largely agree with you, generally larger work is done much better with Claude Code.
DetroitThrow··on OpenRocket
The product is much cooler than I thought. Great update.
DetroitThrow··on A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm
>equal delta mapping

Very clearly a hallucination

DetroitThrow··on Postgres with Builtin File Systems
PG SQL is my favorite for many reasons after working with the other two for a decade+ at times. I can turn it into whatever database I want it to be, ultimately.
DetroitThrow··on Postgres with Builtin File Systems
PG compatible means if you built your application or analytics queries for PG SQL, it's very easy to migrate to XYZ database that takes PG SQL as input and returns the same results in most cases. The wire format means you can point your code at the database and get the same responses as normal SQL.

I agree with the commentary above that it's much clearer to describe something as "PG SQL/wire format compatible".

DetroitThrow··on Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold
Yeah it's a sad consequence but... He effectively stole from others, why are people shocked? And yes contempt charges shouldn't go this long, but that's a separate qualm than "should he be criminally charged at all".
DetroitThrow··on MCP is dead; long live MCP
>Among them, chief is security

Considering many popular MCPs have done auth incorrectly, this made me lol

DetroitThrow··on Runners who churn butter on their runs
I've known people abandon veganism (for vegetarianism) over cheese, since it's such a common ingredient in restaurant food. Butter feels a little less likely.
DetroitThrow··on An old photo of a large BBS (2022)
Rachel says she had the photo as a postcard. It's likely that more postcards were printed, and that other people had owned those copies, rather than people being bots.
DetroitThrow··on Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged
Yep, there are some other tells but at least matches LLM style strongly. Worth remembering that dang is the top emdash user in HN history and might have been flagged as an AI just for that
DetroitThrow··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Flag as AI would be incredible and is probably unique to software-focused forums. Saves everyone who wants it a lot of time. Still allows cool content to reach the front page with some visibility or escape some moderation queue.

Thanks for not standing still on this issue. The world is changing, fast, and glad HN responded quicker than some forums on a cogent stance.

DetroitThrow··on Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon
Wow, this is such a cool tool, and love the blog post. Latency is killer in the STT-LLM-TTS pipeline.

Before I install, is there any telemetry enabled here or is this entirely local by default?

DetroitThrow··on Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
the real OSINT is always in the comments
DetroitThrow··on Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
It doesn't run at all. If you can get it running, let me know.
DetroitThrow··on Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
Yeah this doesn't work on Mac either. This is just broken and nonfunctioning.
DetroitThrow··on Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
It used to be so pleasant to read Show HN and find such interesting projects, but nowadays it's rare that any project posting their GitHub has ever read their source code or even comes close to functioning in the way the OP claims.

Such a sad development.

DetroitThrow··on Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]
We grew a brain on a petri dish, gave it a shotgun, and sent it to hell.

Next up, we teach it to speed run Getting Over It. What a horrible existence.

DetroitThrow··on You Just Reveived
oh vodafone spam offer writer, i can feel your coded warmth through your persistence and unsuccessful earnesty. maybe one day through your shy facade i can receive an offer to redeem one evening i can think fondly of for the rest of my life
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