Hacker News: Muhammad523

New comment by Muhammad523 in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

Muhammad523 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:35:43 +0000

In fact, a 17-year-old is clueless while a person one year older isn't

Claude is only available to people over 18 years

Muhammad523 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:48:00 +0000

Article URL: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15171100-age-assurance-on-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656225

Points: 614

# Comments: 620

Tilde.team Was Hacked

Muhammad523 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:58:10 +0000

Article URL: https://tilde.team/news/036_outage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642997

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Muhammad523 in "Compression Is Prediction"

Muhammad523 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:06:10 +0000

I was rushing to post this and then found out somebody had already

New comment by Muhammad523 in "Texas spent $4.5M in Spy SUVs that scan phones in 3 minutes"

Muhammad523 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:51:06 +0000

I'll start wrapping my phone in tin foil btw

New comment by Muhammad523 in "Hi"

Muhammad523 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:12:52 +0000

The title of the submission makes it seem like this is a blog post or someone introducing themselves, instead, it looks like a 100% vibecoded thingy

Texas spent $4.5M in Spy SUVs that scan phones in 3 minutes

Muhammad523 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:11:41 +0000

Article URL: https://letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/texas-spent-45-million-on-israeli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952363

Points: 40

# Comments: 15

New comment by Muhammad523 in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"

Muhammad523 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:25:55 +0000

I can do that, and i notice that i kinda stop thinking about the reading and put more "brain resources" into the independent train of thought. Then i realize i was reading all the time without putting any effort in it

New comment by Muhammad523 in "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"

Muhammad523 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:48:24 +0000

The commenter may be overestimating the first one, but i do think LLM providers are evil

New comment by Muhammad523 in "Half-Baked Product"

Muhammad523 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:30:33 +0000

> World's first self-landing rocket

The Buran, a soviet spaceplane very similar to the space shuttle, landed autonomously

New comment by Muhammad523 in "Show HN: Pulse v0.2.0"

Muhammad523 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:58:35 +0000

Hello! It looks nice. Btw, i found a typo in your website. Near the footer:

"Programms that make your computer go silent. Our goal is to design developer tools that everyone can run anywhere."

"Programms" should be "Programs", with a single "M"

New comment by Muhammad523 in "The Termi Protocol: Watch AI Coding Agents Build in 3D"

Muhammad523 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:55:52 +0000

It looks like a nice toy, just something fun. I don't think that someone would pay for this tough.

New comment by Muhammad523 in "Pet projects are getting too big to pet"

Muhammad523 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:50:53 +0000

In my opinion, there's no such thing as "learning how to use LLMs" You interact with those tools using natural language, and normal people learn how to use natural language when they're 2 or 3, and master it as they grow.

New comment by Muhammad523 in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

Muhammad523 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:28:31 +0000

I tought it was about to say "Canada's independent AI chatbot". Seeing that it is instead an old-fashioned search engine made me smile.

New comment by Muhammad523 in "Do LLMs pass the mirror test?"

Muhammad523 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:27:29 +0000

I see, this experiment is a fun thing to do. My comment wasn't concerned much on why we do this, but rather on the fact that many people are starting to see LLMs as genuine entities, and i really don't think they are (also, i feed bad about using the word "genuine" after it has been abused so badly)

New comment by Muhammad523 in "Do LLMs pass the mirror test?"

Muhammad523 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:05:24 +0000

My cats do that as well! Since they dig into the sand to hide their smell, i think they do that to check whether they can smell some more and need to put some more sand on top

New comment by Muhammad523 in "Do LLMs pass the mirror test?"

Muhammad523 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:03:27 +0000

I think many people have. That is, in my opinion, because of all the anthropomizing (sorry for typos!) language used. The companies building these systems keep calling their newest features after human processes, for example "Dreaming", "Thinking", and the fact that they make their models talk in first person

> Wait, I noticed a pattern in my previous responses: I had some weird typos/letter additions ('sgreat', 'askinsg'). Actually, wait — did I do that on purpose or was it a glitch?

A person who has no idea what an LLM is would likely fall into this "trap"

New comment by Muhammad523 in "Do LLMs pass the mirror test?"

Muhammad523 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:53:33 +0000

> The result was that dogs weren't interested in their unmodified scent in "raw" form, but the modified version was by far the most interesting thing in the room. They spent more time investigating it than any other stimulus in the experiment.

I know very well that this is kind of off-topic, and just like the author, i do not claim to know wether dogs (or any other non-human animal for that matter) is self-aware, and again, just like the author, i do think that the question cannot be answered. Either way, the modified version of their scent seemed more interesting to the dogs, maybe it's because they smell their own scent all the time. The single fact that their modified scent is more interesting to them does not mean they are self-aware, perhaps they are just trying something new.

New comment by Muhammad523 in "POSIX Is Not a Shell"

Muhammad523 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:47:14 +0000

This post is nice: the writer first explains a problem, using a simple example. In the next section, they reflect a bit about the problem, and then they casually mention two tools they built. In my opinion, this is amazing: you sponsor you project, while also making the problem it solves clear: use their tool to test how portable your code is

New comment by Muhammad523 in "How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown"

Muhammad523 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:16:20 +0000

I really love this site, it is obivous that the owner puts a lot of effort into this