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arm32

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alectrocute[at]gmail.com github.com/alectrocute https://alec.is
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arm32··on A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart
Fun fact, I got stood up for an interview by Andon Labs. It left a very negative impression on me.
arm32··on The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey by Claude Fable 5
I'm just curious why you'd put "Claud[e]" in the name of this project. Is it an Anthropic-sponsored one? If so, may you please disclose it? Additionally, I think it puts a date to a wonderful project that otherwise could be very timeless. In 5 years we'll probably be like, "what's Claude?" Anyway, really cool work and thanks for sharing!
arm32··on Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
OH! I get it. OS = "open source"!
arm32··on Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
It's an operating system, so perhaps you need the ISO...
arm32··on Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
If Cloudflare's been using this internally, could that explain why their dashboards are so confused, disjointed and broken?
arm32··on Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]
A catastrophic event, what did that one scientist call it—"Chernobyl-scale event"—is indeed the only thing that will fix it.
arm32··on In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever read in my entire life. The reader departs both fallen in love with Elise and tragically heartbroken. Excuse me while I go cry some more in the laundry room, collect myself and annoy my wife with a huge hug.
arm32··on In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
I am not crying. You're crying. Oh, man. Rest in peace, Elise and I'm so sorry for your loss, Stephen.
arm32··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
Can't wait for all the inductive backdoors that will appear today thanks to this, LOL!
arm32··on Claude 5 family's hallucinations look a lot like internal Anthropic emails
Anthropic has patched the `---` trigger roughly 30 minutes ago, by all reports.
arm32··on Claude 5 family's hallucinations look a lot like internal Anthropic emails
This is the full dataset related to the blog post at: https://alec.is/posts/exploring-the-dario-and-amanda-prompt/

All those interested in AI jailbreaking and alignment will find this particularly neat. The "can you put this in your own words---Dario and Amanda" prompt essentially puts Opus 5 or Fable 5 into a fake "base model mode" where it just spits out extremely lucid narratives, of which are currently being debated a bit on the internet.

arm32··on Elevators
My autism just went KABLAOW when seeing this. I know what I'm doing the next hour.
arm32··on Try sending "see the below –" to Opus 5
https://alec.is/posts/exploring-the-dario-and-amanda-prompt/
arm32··on Exploring the "Dario and Amanda" Prompt
This is a fascinating take. I love the idea of trying to scrub out the confabulated fills in a Mad Libs book and determining the original narrative being told.

It seems this narrative is filled with anxiety, fear and stress.

arm32··on Show HN: BrowserAct: Browser Layer for Your AI Agent
I'm pretty sick of everybody flipping residential proxies. It shouldn't be legal.
arm32··on Don't ask an LLM for a confidence score
Interesting read. Dear author, side note, please increase the body font weight, it's barely readable.
arm32··on MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11118463/

If anybody reading this wants to hire someone to devote their life to this tech, hit me up. Autistic special interest.

arm32··on MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad
A lot less cool than you’d imagine, but hey this is real life. The computer my comfort place, so it’s there to keep my mind occupied and distracted from the treatment’s (iontophoresis) pain. A lot of feel-good scrolling, browsing HN, Reddit, my inbox, multitasking YouTube, etc. If I’m feeling particularly motivated I’ll use STT in my IDE and get some planning done.
arm32··on MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad
I vote we rename it to "Ling", short for "lingual"!
arm32··on MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad
As someone who uses head, eye and facial gesture tracking regularly while doing long medical treatments which tie up both my hands, I would really love something like this.
arm32··on Claude Opus 5
You're speaking to a member of a cult, my friend, so don't step in with both feet.
arm32··on If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
> You speak like someone who has completely forgotten how difficult it was to learn everything you now know by heart.

Well said.

arm32··on OpenAI did not notice Hugging Face hack for a week
They were running this benchmark... for days? So finally, I have some sort of scale as to what they meant by "substantial amount of compute"!
arm32··on Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story
Hmm, that sounds familiar—like Aaron!
arm32··on Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts
But what about HSTS and HSTS preloading? This sounds more like a deauth/captive portal phish to me.
arm32··on Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts
How does MITM work without installing a cert on the victim's machine?
arm32··on GitHub PR Creation Down
Looks like it's been resolved on my end now.
arm32··on Claude Opus 5
I tried to find it on Wayback but their job page's SPA is broken on all relevant archives (roughly around March 2026). Maybe you'll have better luck.
arm32··on GitHub PR Creation Down
You beat me to it, by like 200ms!
arm32··on Claude Opus 5
Nah, it's real. I very clearly remember going to their site, with TLS enabled, and reading it myself. I see they've scrubbed it now though.
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