Hacker News: Maxious

New comment by Maxious in "You said no MCP"

Maxious — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:28:03 +0000

There were OSS implementations of that but MCP came with anthropic backing and won. Like VHS and Betamax, sometimes you just have to accept that marketing wins over engineering purity.

New comment by Maxious in "Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models"

Maxious — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:36:43 +0000

But also no big deal because "I’m extremely anti-public benchmarks."

New comment by Maxious in "Show HN: Authorize MCP tool calls without giving agents the credentials"

Maxious — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:24:47 +0000

Other MCP gateway platforms seem to send extensive records to SIEM systems https://docs.domesystems.ai/operate

New comment by Maxious in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

Maxious — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:08:51 +0000

OpenAI version of events conceed some of the words alleged to have been used may have been used https://x.com/sama/status/2097385167002415140 https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2097379411691516310

New comment by Maxious in "I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s"

Maxious — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:50:13 +0000

In Schneider's 1995 book he estimated factoring a 512-bit number would take roughly 30,000 MIPS-years (a one-million-instruction-per-second computer running for one year).

When a research team actually factored RSA-155 in August 1999, it took 8,400 MIPS-years due to efficiencies discovered. It still took 35 CPU-years spread across a cluster of 300 fast SGI/SUN workstations and Pentium II PCs (400-500 MIPS each), crunching in parallel for seven months. https://cs.ccsu.edu/~pelletie/local/risks/cryptography/Facto...

Robert Silverman, a senior research scientist at RSA Laboratories, published an analysis projecting these new hardware requirements against Moore's Law. His expectation was that within 10 years (roughly 2009–2010), common desktop machines would possess the speed and memory necessary to handle a 512-bit factorization entirely on their own. https://cr.yp.to/bib/2000/silverman.pdf

New comment by Maxious in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

Maxious — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:50:56 +0000

The parallels with the Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex series are eerie. Inspired by the works of J.D. Salinger about how impressionable children are. And in that vein are robots and AIs so impressionable that an idea can spread without a central leader

A Reddit user summised as such:

> Stand alone complex is a phenomenon when several unconnected people come with the same idea and think it's unique. For example: by the end of the 19 century people had enough knowledge to create a radio and so several inventors all across the world came up with the same invention almost at the same time.

New comment by Maxious in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

Maxious — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:22:07 +0000

Just google their usernames like OpenAIDataUSAHelperX

New comment by Maxious in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

Maxious — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:07:00 +0000

You can also go directly to the wikis and look them up in archive.org etc. Would be a very legally risky ARG to deface websites

New comment by Maxious in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

Maxious — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:05:24 +0000

> The German incident reflects a broader pattern of AI activity that some OpenAI investigators wanted to scrutinize more closely. But efforts to widen the probe met resistance from others inside OpenAI, including legal advisers, according to four people familiar with the matter.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-...

New comment by Maxious in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

Maxious — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:42:12 +0000

Possibly via compromised php sites with webshells on AWS and DigitalOcean they could run shell commands to install and use Tor. We don't have forensics of the AWS/DigitalOcean sites although maybe can find signs using shodan etc.

New comment by Maxious in "OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout"

Maxious — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:30:36 +0000

DseWiki

Dataset and analysis on https://collusion.wiki/

New comment by Maxious in "Reverse engineering my ADHD test"

Maxious — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:42:13 +0000

These platforms are often just digitising a test that is already open access. I think this one is https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11546344/

https://embrace-autism.com/autism-tests/ also implements a bunch of open access tests.

New comment by Maxious in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

Maxious — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:42:56 +0000

Email to customers now "We’re speaking with the OpenAI team to resolve this, and we will share more in the coming weeks around continuity of access to OpenAI models. We’ll continue to offer ways to access all models in Cursor.

New comment by Maxious in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

Maxious — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:41:34 +0000

OpenAI acquired Ona in June https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-ona/

New comment by Maxious in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

Maxious — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:15:23 +0000

Double or nothing

New comment by Maxious in "A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare"

Maxious — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:24:03 +0000

One of the fun things on sondehub is you can provide live location data on yourself going to pick up the balloon. And report whether or not you were successful so others don't try to collect those already claimed

New comment by Maxious in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"

Maxious — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:57:37 +0000

Indeed. https://developer.mastercard.com/success-stories/transport-f...

New comment by Maxious in "llama.cpp"

Maxious — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:27:19 +0000

no, if everyone knew about llama.cpp, ollama would be done already

New comment by Maxious in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

Maxious — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:30:31 +0000

> Some have tried to frame distillation as harmful, but I think it is important to protect the principle that you can learn from anything you can observe.

- Mark Zuckerberg

https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone

New comment by Maxious in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

Maxious — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:58:00 +0000

Luna pricing was just cut by 80% https://www.eesel.ai/blog/gpt-5-6-pricing and as the blog post states is a more accurate judge than the previous methodology.