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NickNaraghi··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
On the meta, it’s wonderful to see so much disagreement in perspective on the top comments in this thread. Brave new world.
NickNaraghi··on Show HN: Atlasphere – Live Infrastructure Diagrams
This is brilliant. I've been really excited about Jack Dorsey's "From Hierarchy to Intelligence"[0] and I think what you've got here is a pretty important piece of the puzzle.

[0] block.xyz/inside/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence

NickNaraghi··on Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
If you wanted to go in the other direction, you could achieve more productivity with faster mouse skills. The competitive FPS genre has spawned a bunch of aim training tools[0] to improve muscle memory.

[0] https://www.3daimtrainer.com/

NickNaraghi··on AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
This would be an interesting approach if the course supplied a custom Harness (perhaps in place of a textbook) and this was part of the instruction set inside of it. As a standalone thing you ask students to import into their agent, seems unlikely to work.
NickNaraghi··on Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
Worth checking out the heart of what people were doing with DAOs
NickNaraghi··on I'm Tired of Talking to AI
Unfortunately this is a skill issue. The information is in the machine, you just need to figure out how to get it out. Most people are very far behind on this.
NickNaraghi··on The map that keeps Burning Man honest
Doesn’t sound like you’ve been there
NickNaraghi··on Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
Yes! Anthropic team calls this “regenerate, don’t fix.”

The person who builds an agentic IDE or GitHub alternative that natively does the process you describe will be a multibillionare.

NickNaraghi··on Simulacrum of Knowledge Work
It's a funny thing to write, like an article in an old newspaper that aged quickly. I suspect that this will be wildly out of date within 2-3 years.
NickNaraghi··on Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics
Note that these are 2023 numbers, not 2025.
NickNaraghi··on Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
As someone who has worked on multiple marketplace startups, I highly highly recommend this resource: https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-bible
NickNaraghi··on Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
With AI coding tools, pretty easy to use Mangos or similar to run a private server locally. They even have versions that fill the world with fake players to make it feel more MMOish.
NickNaraghi··on Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card
232 pages is bullshit. Longer than the Mythos system card? What are you hiding.
NickNaraghi··on Claude Opus 4.7
The generations are two months apart now though…
NickNaraghi··on System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
See page 54 onward for new "rare, highly-capable reckless actions" including

- Leaking information as part of a requested sandbox escape

- Covering its tracks after rule violations

- Recklessly leaking internal technical material (!)

NickNaraghi··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
> Over the past few weeks, we have used Claude Mythos Preview to identify thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities (that is, flaws that were previously unknown to the software’s developers), many of them critical, in every major operating system and every major web browser, along with a range of other important pieces of software.

Sounds like we've entered a whole new era, never mind the recent cryptographic security concerns.

NickNaraghi··on How the AI Bubble Bursts
> Taking this into account, Google is extremely well positioned to weather the storm. When they announce capex expenditure, they don’t spend it overnight. They can simply deploy month by month until their competitors struggle to raise and get forced to capitulate. At that point they can just ramp down the spending and declare victory in a cornered market. They don’t need capex, they just need to make it very clear for everyone that nobody can outspend them.

Have you tried Gemini 3.1 lately? It is not even close to Opus 4.6 never mind Claude 5.

This post, like many pessimistic takes, seriously discounts innovation and the exponential takeoff of recursive self-improvement.

NickNaraghi··on AI coding is gambling
It's only "gambling" for now...

The odds of success feel like gambling. 60%, or 40%, or worse. This is downstream of model quality.

Soon, 80%, 95%, 99%, 99.99%. Then, it won't be "gambling" anymore.

NickNaraghi··on I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job
The next step is for interviewees to send their own AI avatars. Then it’s fair and probably more efficient.

This to me reveals the power in the underlying pattern in OpenClaw. Seems like User+Agent will be everywhere.

NickNaraghi··on Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
Pretty exciting breakthrough. This actually mirrors the early days of game engine netcode evolution. Since latency is an orchestration problem (not a model problem) you can beat general-purpose frameworks by co-locating and pipelining aggressively.

Carmack's 2013 "Latency Mitigation Strategies" paper[0] made the same point for VR too: every millisecond hides in a different stage of the pipeline, and you only find them by tracing the full path yourself. Great find with the warm TTS websocket pool saving ~300ms, perfect example of this.

[0]: https://danluu.com/latency-mitigation/

NickNaraghi··on Our Agreement with the Department of War
That language is not consistent with:

> No use of OpenAI technology to direct autonomous weapons systems

NickNaraghi··on The happiest I've ever been
Csikszentmihalyi's flow research[0] basically predicts the author's whole arc here. People are happiest during structured, challenging activities with clear goals and tight feedback loops. Coaching middle schoolers in a gym hits every condition on his list.

Btw, the other finding worth mentioning is that people consistently predict that free time and relaxation will make them happier, then report the opposite.

[0] Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience if you haven't read it

NickNaraghi··on This time is different
Perhaps this is the failure to understand the distinction between a technology and a meta-technology. Upgrading the factory that builds the robots is much different than upgrading the robots.
NickNaraghi··on Show HN: Agent Passport – OAuth-like identity verification for AI agents
Very cool. Reminds me a lot of EIP-8004 https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8004
NickNaraghi··on Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment
https://archive.is/uyPhk
NickNaraghi··on I’m joining OpenAI
you living under a rock
NickNaraghi··on Company as Code
We tried this at Hats Protocol, I think you’ll find our approach very aligned! https://blog.hatsprotocol.xyz/organizational-graphs

We came at it from the perspective of DAOs, which was helpful at first but ultimately limiting. I think a non-blockchain version of this will take off. Tailscale is in a good position to do it.

Our earned insight is that you need to build the right primitive for delegation that works up and down the org. Our latest thinking on that is what we call a “Trust Zone” - more details here: https://blog.hatsprotocol.xyz/making-daos-work

You can ignore the “DAO” parts. Happy to answer any questions, I’m still very inspired by this line of inquiry.

NickNaraghi··on The age of Pump and Dump software
Similar history to you. Finding this compelling: https://open.substack.com/pub/omniharmonic/p/a-regenerative-...
NickNaraghi··on Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever
Data is available via torrent in this section: https://github.com/19-84/redd-archiver?tab=readme-ov-file#-g...
NickNaraghi··on Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned
They just label under the “good of humanity” cult values. You think they can’t keep a secret at the same order of magnitude of Cambridge analytica in Facebook, for less time?
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