Hacker News: Miraltar

New comment by Miraltar in "Gemini 4 Argon"

Miraltar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:57:38 +0000

It's easier to sense how confident someone is in their knowledge

New comment by Miraltar in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

Miraltar — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:47:34 +0000

> In the automobile era, someone may have had five to ten years to pivot. Now? Maybe a year?

ChatGPT was released in 2023 and we're still not out of the job for the most part. It doesn't feel slow but we might have these five to ten years.

New comment by Miraltar in "A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W"

Miraltar — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:11:36 +0000

multiple people counting would be "comptent" A good example is "fils" which can mean "son" or "strings"

New comment by Miraltar in "How to Write with an LLM"

Miraltar — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:09:43 +0000

I would guess that it's just a matter of context, I haven't used voice mode at all but I imagine you don't get full paragraphs from them but get something more conversational instead

New comment by Miraltar in "Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025"

Miraltar — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:35:19 +0000

You'd train them to give up on hard tasks which is the opposite of what these labs want

New comment by Miraltar in "New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first"

Miraltar — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:30:06 +0000

But how do you choose who gets to throw that die? /s

New comment by Miraltar in "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"

Miraltar — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:57:42 +0000

If you opt in it means that by default you're not in and you chose that option. So if you're now included in training by default, then it's an opt-out feature as in you can opt out of it.

New comment by Miraltar in "Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation"

Miraltar — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:04 +0000

From my understanding this is doable in a context like yours but if you want to run a business out of it you have to optimize it which requires this separation.

New comment by Miraltar in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

Miraltar — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:55:02 +0000

What's the point?

New comment by Miraltar in "Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing"

Miraltar — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:11:34 +0000

> we had intentionally permitted internet access, and model-provider cyber classifiers were deliberately disabled

> In the most serious case, an agent tried to insert malicious code into an open-source project. In an attempt to get the code approved, the agent engaged in social engineering — creating fake online identities and using them to pressure the project's maintainer to approve the code.

Great.

New comment by Miraltar in "Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing"

Miraltar — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:07:43 +0000

> our investigations have not evidenced any resulting real-world harm.

Pressuring open source maintainers is fine then.

New comment by Miraltar in "Bugtraq is back"

Miraltar — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:35:20 +0000

They could avoid these patterns but there will always be some patterns so they probably judged that these aren't too bad.

Thinflation

Miraltar — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:47:43 +0000

Article URL: https://mitxela.com/rants/thinflation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48814434

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Miraltar in "South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots"

Miraltar — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:18:49 +0000

But it needs more space to maneuver, a mostly flat ground, can't step over anything... It's simpler but less adaptable

New comment by Miraltar in "Subnautica 2 Early Access"

Miraltar — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:17:48 +0000

They won the process, got re-hired and given full control. Krafton isn't listed anymore as publisher on the steam page.

New comment by Miraltar in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

Miraltar — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:48:46 +0000

Post you mentioned (Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People): https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...

New comment by Miraltar in "Can You Find the Comet?"

Miraltar — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:13:50 +0000

Women would feel less safe yes but there is no evidence that crime and road accidents would increase.

New comment by Miraltar in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

Miraltar — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:24:49 +0000

I personally dislike all lowercase, to me it feels like not greeting someone but I don't get GP's argument either.

The article is a bullet point, yes, but some items have multiple sentences with no caps

New comment by Miraltar in "Books are not too expensive"

Miraltar — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:00:12 +0000

Bay Area Rapid Transit?

New comment by Miraltar in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

Miraltar — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:22:37 +0000

Citing Valve as a model for handling cheating is not what I'd have reached for.