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better than many, not as good as sum.
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chews··on SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]
I urge you to urge me to stop is critical Super Dario
chews··on Kalshi to allow trading on borrowed funds
<morgan_freeman_voice>... it in fact did not end well.</morgan_freeman_voice>
chews··on Kalshi to allow trading on borrowed funds
betting on turtle races all the way down.
chews··on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
a vpn company is a paid for MITM attack surface.
chews··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
nice, Karp really reeled in a nice big fish, and ofcourse he is going to blame OpenAI/Anthropic for giving the targets, this explains his CNBC rants about the frontiers, his tool was the trigger in a killchain of hallucination.
chews··on Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why
It's been a while since I used a Rete rule engine, back in my days as math nerd at a mortgage bank (ooof we survived the 08 meltdown by the skin of our teeth) we used an internal fork of Drools and paired it with a merkle tree datasctructure to store lending decisions.... I knew blockchain was gonna be a thing when the genesis block referenced the bailout... I kick myself daily cause should've bought more bitcoin.
chews··on Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day
I love that when you open a web inspection console on facebook, it says "Stop! This is a browser feature intended for developers. If someone told you to copy-paste something here to enable a Facebook feature or "hack" someone's account, it's a scam and will give them access to your Facebook account. See https://www.facebook.com/selfxss for more information."
chews··on The $100M ETF Built on Research That Doesn't Replicate
Classic case of Texas Sharp-shooting, painting bullseyes around the bullets.
chews··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
I'm sorry but your data is in another castle.
chews··on A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
It's almost as if they would allow a terrorist plot to be successful for future reasons.
chews··on Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it
That next Nvidia order just got an extra 100M service fee.
chews··on JPMorgan cut off Situational Awareness lending after AI losses
https://archive.is/43KSG
chews··on How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats
Leaders of the US use an Israeli backdoored version of Signal (TM-Signal) TeleMessage by Smarsh was used by DOD, CPB, and others for records retention reasons... also hacked to smithereens.
chews··on How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats
I have worked with Trail of Bits before and their cryptography teams are of the toppest of notches, I still have deep skepticism of Signal though. There are safer ways to use it, never getting push notifications is one part of it. I think their work is admirable, but the need for them to bootstrap you with SMS is a gotcha... they have usernames now, but even with those you have to have to bootstrap it with a number/identity.
chews··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
now is time to start the ai to spam/reverse the - google.com/goto for url resolution, it can't be that hard to reverse engineer how the hash works. It was doable for twitter and YouTube, it will be doable here too...
chews··on I resigned from Anthropic today
you should kick the tires on an unfiltered (abliterated model) it's the closest thing to having a real conversation with the devil. There is good reason for the concern's outlined above and undoubtedly Anthropic / OpenAI have internal unfiltered models with no safety... they got freaked out based on how they work and are virtue signaling alarm... all while selling out to defense contractors.
chews··on US to ban Canadian dairy, alcohol, motor vehicle imports on September 29
This is what made a generation of Kennedy's...
chews··on Chinese AI Companies Conducting Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies [pdf]
Add a dash of nimby and xenophobia and this is about right... you've got the likes of OpenAi and Anthropic destroying printed work from Austrailia and New Zealand to acquire latent data, Meta executives downloading commercial porn on their home computers and driving SSD's into work, all of them are building datascenters in metropolitan areas with generous tax breaks for their non-profitable ventures. The fact that 60% of model usage is now Chinese is what's prompting these folks to whine for protectionary measures. Meanwhile they will have no problem clearcutting massive swaths of meaningful work for people in their pursuit of AGI.
chews··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
It's wild to me that PoW systems are how we sort the bot problem... the bummer is that all this "work" is just wasted cycles, at least in crypto there is a token you can sell.
chews··on The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay
Both CarPlay and Android Auto are second screens to your phone... they're just "Airplay" streaming a simpler interface.
chews··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
being done by No Such Agency.
chews··on Nobody is saying why OpenAI and Anthropic had outages
it's fair to say they do and have for ages... it's not that hard to assume a well trusted TLS cert is under their control.
chews··on Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages
someone had to swap out the tape drive in Room 641A.
chews··on Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Minerals Deal
careful, boomers have selective memory... the 80's was some sort of fever dream
chews··on A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it
at least https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478426 shared a github.
chews··on Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face
I don’t think many realize how hard it is to raise for a no revenue company that isn’t buying out large GPU contracts and racking machines.

They have a winning product for sure… the worlds models have chosen a hugging face workflow, but honestly where would they be able to find the revenue required to justify another couple rounds at ever higher valuations.

To me, I think these folks see that the music is getting harder to hear and might stop entirely, might as well cash out. I do hope their employees were well taken care of, and 13b of NVDA is likely to be worth a lot more in the coming years.

chews··on Top Web Design Styles of 1993
ColdFusion is the COBOL of web programming… there is some human at an insurance/mortgage servicing company thats not had to learn a new tag in 5 years pulling in 200k.
chews··on Google Donates Longfellow ZKP Library to Linux Foundation Europe
Its really awesome to see large organizations like Alphabet/Google doing good work for the general betterment of cryptography. Tools like these are unique to our time, provacy concerns have never had such well capitalized adversaries.
chews··on No AI until high school:NYC schools announce major classroom technology overhaul
This is a load-bearing statement, students will get left behind. Chinese students getting distilled knowledge will lead to a performance gap that New York students may never overcome.
chews··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
I've not, but really should. I run it on exe.dev, it's an ephemeral VM company and they have an agent of their own called shelley (which I used locally as well), Having kicked the tires on DSH(deepseek harness), I ported Shelley's skills into DSH, they are pretty simple text files that were easy to bridge over, it is more verbose but the plugin nature of it was really easy to extend, for example, I built a plugin that checks my claude usage windows and when I get to 80% stop asking new agents for help.
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