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Anthropic investigates unauthorized access to unreleased Mythos cybersecurity AI

DarenWatson — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:52:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/22/what-is-anthropic-mythos-ai-threat-global-cybersecurity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867698

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by DarenWatson in "AI-conducted FRB study finds two emission regions at 9.2σ. ApJ halted it"

DarenWatson — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:05:29 +0000

Honestly it took me a bit to process. An AI system did the full analysis end-to-end hypothesis, clustering on 978 bursts, wrote the paper. Not assisted. Actually did it. Found a subpopulation at 9.2 sigma, interprets it as two emission regions in a magnetar. Passed 3 rounds of peer review at ApJ before the editor paused production over disclosure, not the science itself. MNRAS, A&A, arXiv all passed too, each for separate reasons.

What got me: they openly say 2 of 6 robustness tests didn't pass (alt algorithms, permutation). Right there in the methods. That's not what you do if you're trying to hide something. Honestly don't know where I land on the AI as author thing.

AI-conducted FRB study finds two emission regions at 9.2σ. ApJ halted it

DarenWatson — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:03:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blankline.org/newsroom/ai-frb-paper-apj-halted

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848217

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by DarenWatson in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

DarenWatson — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:19:27 +0000

It’s really fascinating electrons took 60 years to go from chip to a smart device and if photons follow the same thing then we just fired the starting gun. It’s really interesting to see tantala material takes a single laser color in and spits out to a full rainbow.

New comment by DarenWatson in "The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker"

DarenWatson — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:36:25 +0000

Honestly that footnote really stood out to me too! the spiral search detail makes the whole system feel a lot more alive than I expected like it’s actively hunting for the star rather than just pointing and hoping.

A systematic search for wormholes across all public astronomical data

DarenWatson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:55:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.blankline.org/research/hunting-for-real-wormholes-we-searched-every-available-dataset

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689539

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Proving Laderman's 3x3 Matrix Multiplication Is Locally Optimal via SMT Solvers

DarenWatson — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 07:58:24 +0000

Article URL: https://zenodo.org/records/18514533

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932298

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Why AlphaTensor Failed at 3x3 Matrix Multiplication: The Anchor Barrier

DarenWatson — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:21:34 +0000

Article URL: https://zenodo.org/records/18514533

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926695

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Dropstone – A Self-Learning AI IDE That Improves with Your Workflow

DarenWatson — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 08:11:25 +0000

I’ve been trying out Dropstone, a new IDE with a self-learning AI that actually adapts to how you code. Unlike Cursor or Claude, it runs locally, has no token limits, and gets better the more you use it. What impressed me is that it learns from your edits and naming patterns while keeping everything private on your own system. It even explains its reasoning for every suggestion and has quick undo and fallback options that keep you in flow. It genuinely feels like coding with an assistant that remembers you.

Hacker News: DarenWatson

Anthropic investigates unauthorized access to unreleased Mythos cybersecurity AI

New comment by DarenWatson in "AI-conducted FRB study finds two emission regions at 9.2σ. ApJ halted it"

AI-conducted FRB study finds two emission regions at 9.2σ. ApJ halted it

New comment by DarenWatson in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

New comment by DarenWatson in "The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker"

A systematic search for wormholes across all public astronomical data

Proving Laderman's 3x3 Matrix Multiplication Is Locally Optimal via SMT Solvers

Why AlphaTensor Failed at 3x3 Matrix Multiplication: The Anchor Barrier

Show HN: Dropstone – A Self-Learning AI IDE That Improves with Your Workflow

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