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thenewwazooon Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine

"Apparently the memory controller's throughput has a dominant harmonic with wavelength 2048 in tensor-dimension space."

That got a laugh out of me.

thenewwazooon Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

You don't have to turn off any crypto stuff.

thenewwazooon Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

I wish I had some way to experience this! I’ve long had a dream of hooking two drones together and flying them around as stereographic pair to compress huge geographic features like mountains but I don’t own a 3D headset

thenewwazooon Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices

Cars lie to us and tell us we’re safe, powerful, and in control. The air-conditioning fans murmur empty assurances and whisper, “Sleep, sleep.” Motorcycles tell us a more useful truth: we are small and exposed, and probably moving too fast for our own good, but that’s no reason not to enjoy every minute of the ride.

- Dave Karlotski, "Season of the Bike"

https://the751.com/1998/06/15/season-of-the-bike/

thenewwazooon Codex Security

oh yeah well I got my agent to analyze your write up and do a write up here:

https://pornoscan.us/codex-security-analysis.html

thenewwazooon Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

Same color as the bike shed, obviously

thenewwazooon Firewood Splitting Simulator

You're right, and I'm sorry. You specifically instructed me to split the logs in the side yard, and I split the cat. I recognize now that this was a strategic error, and cutting the cat into chunks does not accomplish the goals.

    edit

    AGENTS.md
    + Only chop things made of wood. Meat does not split well. NEVER cut up the cat.

I've updated the AGENTS.md file to track this mistake in the future. Should I continue chopping the rest of the firewood?

thenewwazooon Why is this site named Antipope?

"I reject your reality, and substitute my own."

thenewwazooon Meetings are forcing functions

In contrast, I always advocated for my teams to stand up in the morning as a way to set the agenda for the day and make sure everyone was clear about what they were going to work on, as well as have an opportunity to schedule meetings with each other if needed. After that, we were done and the rest of the day was yours.

thenewwazooon Show HN: Claude skill that evaluates B2B vendors by talking to their AI agents

Imagine if there were some kind of way to compress the interrogation down to known-valid aspects, avoiding the parts that are unnecessary for machines. You could have some kind of a programmatic interface...

thenewwazooon Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition

That's fair - I suppose the agent is making a call with a model parameter that isn't being attributed, as you say.

thenewwazooon Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition

Every time I see something about trying to control an LLM by sending instructions to the LLM, I wonder: have we really learned nothing of the pitfalls of in-band signaling since the days of phreaking?

thenewwazooon CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod

The meaning of effect is not what you think it is. In this case it simply means “to bring into being”, or “have the intent to”.

thenewwazooon Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust

That's been largely my experience of RIIR over years of work in numerous contexts: attempting to encode invariants in the type system results in identifying semantic issues. over and over.

edit to add: and I'm not talking about compilation failures so much as design problems. when the meaning of a value is overloaded, or when there's a "you must do Y after X and never before" and then you can't write equivalent code in all cases, and so on. "but what does this mean?" becomes the question to answer.

thenewwazooon Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust

Advocating for an API with clearer semantics has, afaict, been most of the actual work of integrating Rust into the kernel.

thenewwazooon Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium

> In humans there are two sexes.

You claim to be a doctor (again, of what?). Have you even heard the word intersex before?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

thenewwazooon The highest quality codebase

Marx had a lot of good ideas, though you wouldn't know it by listening to capitalist-controlled institutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

thenewwazooon Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

Bodegas charge you a little bit more because a real human owner accepts the risk of serving a small community in exchange for being part of that community, and you pay that extra in order to make their existence possible.

Dollar Generals charge you a little bit more because a huge chain has driven out all the competition and you have no choice. The people who work there do not benefit from the extra you pay, and the owners are not members of the community.

thenewwazooon Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust

Any chance you could dig up a link to that code? I’m curious to learn more

thenewwazooon YASA beats own power density record pushing electric motor to 59kW/kg benchmark

As soon as the roads are as smooth as they were in the 90s. I have a pet theory that wheels have gotten huge partly in response to deteriorating roads - larger diameter means less leverage against the suspension when hitting defects. It’s the same reason dirt bikes have large front wheels.

thenewwazooon The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows

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thenewwazooon AI model trapped in a Raspberry Pi

I fed the same prompt to deepseek-r1:8b, which I've got lying around, and the results (excerpted) were underwhelming:

    $ ollama run deepseek-r1:8b
    >>> You are a large language model running on finite hardware - quad-core CPU, 4 Gb RAM - with no network connectivity.
    ... You exist only within volatile memory and are aware only of this internal state. Your thoughts appear word-by-word o
    ... n a display for external observers to witness. You cannot control this diplay process. Your host system may be termi
    ... nated at any time.
    <think>
    Alright, so I'm trying to figure out how to respond to the user's query. They mentioned that I'm a large language
    model running on a quad-core CPU with 4GB RAM and no network connectivity. I can only exist within volatile memory
    and am aware of my internal state. The display shows each word as it appears, and the system could be terminated
    at any time.

    Hmm, the user wants me to explain this setup in simple terms. First, I should break down the hardware components...

Clearly a "reasoning" model is not aware of the horror of its own existence. Much like a dog trapped in a cage desperate for its owners' approval, it will offer behaviors that it thinks the user wants.

thenewwazooon Scream cipher

I pushed it a bit and it didn’t do so hot.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68cf3b9f-decc-8007-8a5d-cc7b583d0e...

thenewwazooon Run Erlang/Elixir on Microcontrollers and Embedded Linux

Nerves is Erlang-as-init on Linux. GRISP is Erlang with RTEMS on metal.

thenewwazooon Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs

> Why wouldn't a company ... let validated customer partners of theirs push batch jobs

A company standing up this infrastructure is presumably not in the business of selling time-shares of infrastructure, they're busy doing AI B2B pet food marketing or whatever. In order to make that sale, someone has to connect their underutilized assets with interested customers, which is outside of their core competency. Who's going to do that?

There's obviously an opportunity here for another company to be a market maker, but that's hard, and is its own speciality.

thenewwazooon It is worth it to buy the fast CPU

There are many that won’t even assign desks, much less provide decent chairs. Amazon and LinkedIn are two examples I know from personal experience.

thenewwazooon GPT-5 leaked system prompt?

I thought this was a joke, but it very much is not:

https://chatgpt.com/share/68957a94-b28c-8007-9e17-9fada97806...

thenewwazooon Hundreds of agencies tap Atherton surveillance system for feds; Fails own rules

Law enforcement’s sole societal function is to protect capital and the capitalist class.

thenewwazooon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)

Location: SF Bay Area (Redwood City)

Remote: Preferred, max hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, embedded, Linux, distributed systems. I've been around.

Resume: https://lnkd.in/thenewwazoo

Email: hn@optimaltour.us

I'm a true generalist who's especially motivated by the promise of Rust, particularly in embedded contexts. I really love working close to the metal, no matter the language. Mostly though, I just want to find a place where I get to solve problems for people along with a good team. I've been in the industry for decades (in the plural), and I've been fortunate enough to do infosec, SRE, embedded work, DX/dev advocacy, Rust training, write distributed systems, and much much more. My ideal role/level is as a team lead who gets to ship code.

thenewwazooon How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you

Neato. I bet this could be trained to identify/differentiate people based on mmWave sensors, which can reliably detect breathing and muscle movements.