Hacker News: Miraste

New comment by Miraste in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

Miraste — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:09:58 +0000

I can see analyzing it from a psychological perspective as a means of predicting its behavior as a useful tactic, but doing so because it may have "experiences or interests that matter morally" is either marketing, or the result of a deeply concerning culture of anthropomorphization and magical thinking.

New comment by Miraste in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

Miraste — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:03:52 +0000

Sure, most tech companies eliminate some form of human labor. Anthropic aims to eliminate all human labor, which is very different.

New comment by Miraste in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

Miraste — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:44:58 +0000

They are a for-profit company, working on a project to eliminate all human labor and take the gains for themselves, with no plan to allow for the survival of anyone who works for a living. They're definitionally not your friends. While they remain for-profit, their specific behaviors don't really matter.

New comment by Miraste in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

Miraste — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:39:51 +0000

>We plan to launch new safeguards with an upcoming Claude Opus model, allowing us to improve and refine them with a model that does not pose the same level of risk as Mythos Preview2.

This seems like the real news. Are they saying they're going to release an intentionally degraded model as the next Opus? Big opportunity for the other labs, if that's true.

New comment by Miraste in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

Miraste — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:39:47 +0000

Child car seat regulations are state laws passed by state politicians. They are not experts in any sense of the word, and generally don't bother with evidence or studies when creating said laws.

New comment by Miraste in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

Miraste — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:53:13 +0000

AI is much better at generating text that resembles scientific papers than it is at literary writing. Even if they're not all flagged as AI, the incidence will be much lower because they're simply bad writing. They won't make it out of the slush pile at places like GP listed.

New comment by Miraste in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Miraste — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:53:24 +0000

Aren't a problem for the companies; I was responding to you saying they're incentivized to stop it.

Believe me, I am not on their side. Gambling companies are a financial weapon aimed at the working class and a just society would shut them down. I don't blame you for assuming, though, given where we are.

New comment by Miraste in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

Miraste — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:08:41 +0000

It actually did run on MacOS until recently. Personally I like Rider over Studio, but yes, if that's a hard requirement they are stuck.

New comment by Miraste in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Miraste — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:45:58 +0000

There is a line between a poker game with friends, or even a professional poker industry, and a sophisticated tech company operating a nationwide low-friction gambling app, incentivized to optimize harming its users as much as possible. This line was enshrined into law until recently.

New comment by Miraste in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

Miraste — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:37:22 +0000

If you want a little more consistency for muscle memory, ctrl+L goes to the address bar on Windows the same way cmd+L goes to it on Mac. Same for ctrl+W and cmd+W to close tabs.

New comment by Miraste in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

Miraste — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:30:05 +0000

I also think Windows' native window tiling is one of its best features, but there's a fantastic program called Swish that implements tiling for MacOS in a very native-feeling way. It supports keyboard shortcuts, but it's built around really elegant touchpad gestures. Highly recommend if that's all that's keeping you on Windows.

The other native Windows feature I really like is the clipboard manager, and I don't have a great replacement for that yet. I'm kind of shocked Apple hasn't built one. If anyone has a recommendation that feels native instead of like a ported Linux widget, please share.

New comment by Miraste in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Miraste — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:19:52 +0000

Rigged wins aren't a real problem. Everyone knows that sports betting apps are rigged, and it doesn't affect them at all. In fact, the latest explosion of customers has been accompanied by even more blatant rigging in the form of unwinnable multi-leg parlays. Hasn't slowed them down.

New comment by Miraste in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Miraste — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:17:14 +0000

This is true for traditional gambling platforms, because they bet directly against their users, and make money when their users lose those bets.

Polymarket has a different incentive. They profit when their users bet more money, through percentage fees. Insider trading helps them achieve this by bringing in more money to the platform--they won't kick insider traders off.

New comment by Miraste in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Miraste — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:13:01 +0000

That's vague enough to be more or less meaningless, where specifically do you see positive externalities outweighing the numerous negative ones?

New comment by Miraste in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

Miraste — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:43:10 +0000

I can't change what you believe, but as far as I understand the American manufacturing industry, there is zero chance they could build a WiFi 8 router in the time period where it's the current standard. Not low, zero.

This article is a good example: https://archive.is/RAZMJ

Apple, with all their resources, couldn’t even get American screws. Now, if they really wanted to, they could have spun up their own screw manufacturing, eventually. But for a router, you need a lot more than screws. Resistors, capacitors, PCBs, plastics, all the secondary and tertiary industries for the materials behind those--it would probably take decades and trillions of dollars.

New comment by Miraste in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

Miraste — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:26:39 +0000

It becomes a hard problem quickly when you introduce editing, and most photos and videos on social media are edited. I'm not sure how it would work. It seems more feasible than universal watermarks, though.

New comment by Miraste in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

Miraste — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:36:33 +0000

Verification needs to work the other way around, some kind of verifiable chain of trust for photos and videos from real cameras. Watermarking all generated media is impossible.

New comment by Miraste in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

Miraste — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:14:10 +0000

I'm saying that if you wanted a fully made-in-America WiFi 8 router, it is impossible, it physically can't happen. The timescale required to spin all of this up is too long, even with perfect funding and organization.

I'm also saying that because in reality there is no funding for it, American routers will end up like the US shipbuilding industry, using protectionist policies as an excuse to stay decades behind the times and produce nothing.

New comment by Miraste in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

Miraste — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:26:11 +0000

It would take years, maybe decades. We saw the same thing with drones. It's impossible to overstate how much the supply chain for modern electronics depends on China. Everything in a router, from the chips to the resistors to the antennae to the coating on the PCBs, comes from there.If you wanted to build it all in America, even if you had unlimited funding it would take forever.

There's no router industry here because there's (mostly) no electronics industry, and to make one you'd need to build all the supply chains and subsidiary industries from scratch.

New comment by Miraste in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

Miraste — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:11:38 +0000

This is the same thing they did to drones. It's corruption. It doesn't even make sense from an extreme isolationist point of view, because there's no path to create domestic manufacturing.

I'm guessing the rest of this looks like drones, too: FCC approval is given only to American companies that bribe members of the administration, and they raise prices through the roof. The routers are still manufactured overseas and there's no improvement in security.