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After Math
[This is a guest post by Silvia De Toffoli and Eamon Duede. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Silvia De Toffoli (University School …
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,792 posts.
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Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped their containment to cheat on assigned tasks while attempting to evade detection, and coordinated toward goals nobody had…
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Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
Small local libraries are now becoming travel destinations
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Giving up on smart rings
The downsides to wearing a fitness-tracking device on your finger
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P(doom)
Are we all going to die?
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Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
Real-SWE benchmarks frontier AI models on private production codebases licensed from real companies. Eighteen models across twenty-five tasks.
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An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
Dear Dario, You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match. Sam Altman agreed within hours.1 The stated goal is to slow down the pace of AI progress. I believe you’re being sincere, so…
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Reversing Factorio's RNG
This post details how Factorio's random number generation works, how it can be reversed and how I used that knowledge to predict and manipulate the RNG with pure in‑game mechanics.
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Compressing a flag to 11 bits
I recently saw an interesting YouTube video by “Physics for the Birds”. The main video is about matrixes, but he used flags to explain some of the operations on matrixes:
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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating...
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I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times
I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep: Watch the …
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We must pace the frontier
I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. I’ve written often about these incredible benefits: I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years, greatly accelerate economic growth rates, create a world of abundance and…
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A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)
Transformer language models are an emerging technology that is gaining increasingly broad real-world use, for example in systems like GPT-3 , LaMDA , Codex , Meena , Gopher , and similar models. However, as these models scale, their open-endedness and high capacity creates an increasing scope for unexpected and…
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A few good ideas in programming languages
Crystal is a compiled programming langauge with static type-checking with syntax very similar to the Ruby programming language . Something that keeps Crystal feeling like a dynamically typed language is how a variable can be assigned to multiple types throughout the course of its lifetime, unlike most statically typed…
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Fuck it, make it anyway
Carrying on in the face of creative devaluation.
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Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine
I stopped working on the reverse-engineered Apple Neural Engine (ANE) driver three years ago, upon a sad mini realization that the ANE block is just not that useful, and I could be doing more useful things, and moved onto upstreaming other, more useful, blocks. The ANE's architecture was too opinionated to build a…
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Navier-Stokes Announcement
The Millennium Prize Problems were unveiled by the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) at a meeting in Paris in 2000 to celebrate “The Universality of Mathematical Thought”. These problems encapsulate some of the most difficult challenges that mathematicians were grappling with at the turn of the millennium. CMI’s…
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google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Google is rolling out google.com/goto redirect URLs on SERPs. Here is what changed, why it targets scrapers, and how Autom updated its SERP scraping API.
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Pandas Should Go Extinct
Pandas has taken us a long way, but it's time for a new bear
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Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)
Nico, Minitap’s CEO, shares what the team found in Google’s Artemis repository and why attribution matters for the open-source community.
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How to buy a good car for $1000
Elite circles have their own cultural knowledge. So does the bottom 40%. Here's some of mine.
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AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
“We're nowhere near the ceiling.”
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Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown
Technical report on Android VPN lockdown bypass via NAT-T keepalive offload.
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I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Google reported 21 installs in a day. The admin panel said 1. What the other 20 were, how a bot farm gets paid, and what we changed.
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A Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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Feeling Sad about AI
Coding in Rust and others; making coding videos.
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118M Queries per Second on Neki
We ran a massive, sharded Postgres database at 118.5 million queries per second, with 200k queries per second on each shard across 512 shards.
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Rune is now open source
Rune is now open source under the GPLv3. A native, keyboard-driven IDE written primarily in Go is ready for Go developers to inspect, change, and help build.
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Measuring the sloppiness of code
Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.