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New comment by codethief in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

codethief — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:20:55 +0000

You mean from ~8 months ago? https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6

New comment by codethief in "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock"

codethief — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:04:05 +0000

I would love to hear more about that, too!

New comment by codethief in "There are no "rogue" AI agents"

codethief — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:17:37 +0000

> You set a goal. Agent will do goal.

So if I say the goal is to do X while not doing Y (e.g. breaking out of the sandbox), the agent will do anything to fulfill that goal to the letter?

New comment by codethief in "Plan mode is dead"

codethief — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:06:17 +0000

Exactly. As someone much smarter than me once argued here on HN, the value of a software company is less in the software but much more in the mental map the team has built of the problem and of how the software solves it. Throw the team / mental map away and you'll have a very hard time maintaining the software.

New comment by codethief in "Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM"

codethief — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:41:38 +0000

Some OpenClaw/Hermes-like agents actually work like that. (Can't find the link right now.)

New comment by codethief in "How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy?"

codethief — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:17:33 +0000

What a fantastic article! Thank you for sharing it!

New comment by codethief in "Vinix – A modern operating system written in V"

codethief — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:28:35 +0000

> QEMU uses macOS hardware virtualization for the ARM64 desktop.

Huh, since when does QEMU support hardware virtualization on Apple Silicon? To the best of my knowledge, among all the VM managers available on macOS (VMware, Parallels, VirtualBox, …) only UTM currently supports hardware virtualization and that's through the Apple Virtualization backend, not through QEMU.

New comment by codethief in "Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce""

codethief — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:04:02 +0000

One could also phrase this principle in terms of entropy (in the information-theoretic sense): If I read some code and come across filter() and map(), I already have a pretty good idea of what the code is doing, without even looking at the filter criterion or the mapping function. Entropy is low. (There's only so many filter and map functions you could write for any given type or pair of types.)

Meanwhile, if I see reduce(), "anything" could happen. (Well, of course not anything but the set of possible reducers is surely much larger.) So entropy is high.

Avoid high-entropy constructs in your code. Try to keep entropy as low as possible. (For the same reason, code with a principled approach regarding side effects is a lot better than code where any function could mutate global state at any given time.)

New comment by codethief in "Will there be a 7G?"

codethief — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:46:45 +0000

> I had the chance to test it in Germany with Telefonica as it can be activated for free.

Interesting, where can I learn more about that?

EDIT: This looks promising: https://hilfe.o2online.de/o2-mobilfunknetz-einstellungen-zur...

New comment by codethief in "JetKVM Mini"

codethief — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:28:53 +0000

Well I came here thinking this would be about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine .

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

codethief — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:50:52 +0000

Agreed! Many people are saying AI isn't really intelligent yet because it can't come up with genuinely new things. Maybe finding a rigorous formulation of QFT / high-energy physics would be a great test for whether they are!

New comment by codethief in "Splash-free urinals (2025)"

codethief — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:26:48 +0000

Maybe an opportunity for a hydroelectric power source?

New comment by codethief in "Splash-free urinals (2025)"

codethief — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:22:13 +0000

> The “urine-no,” a hostile antiurination surface:

> Instead of minimising splash, it can instead be maximized by setting […], see Fig. 7a. Although not suitable as a commonly practical urinal, it showcases the design philosophy. Such a surface could be installed outdoors to deter public urination as the offender would fall prey to enhanced splash-back. This hostile surface may be dubbed as “urine-no,” as shown in Fig. 7b.

Love it!

New comment by codethief in "Asahi Linux on M3"

codethief — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 01:13:06 +0000

I spent this past weekend giving UTM w/ Apple Virtualization a shot and can confirm that it really does work fantastically well! The only downside seems to be that it's not possible to pass USB devices through to the VM guest yet?

New comment by codethief in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

codethief — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:49:04 +0000

> but the latter is eroding very fast and they're roughly the same.

Citation needed. Some politicians keep on pushing for data harvesting and secret backdoors and what not but most attempts have been blocked and we're still nowhere near the level like, e.g., in the US.

New comment by codethief in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

codethief — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:46:40 +0000

Because they are nowhere near the same magnitude as in the US?

New comment by codethief in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

codethief — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:47:44 +0000

GrapheneOS has support for eSIM management these days but IIRC they need to invoke proprietary Google libraries for that to work.

New comment by codethief in "Hy4 preview"

codethief — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:30:37 +0000

> Notably, Hy4 preview also contributed to its own development process, participating for the first time in the automated optimization of training methods, data strategies, evaluation frameworks, and low-level operators. The model proposed approaches, ran experiments, and iterated based on the results, with the resulting code, logs, and feedback feeding into subsequent rounds of exploration. This established an early-stage recursive self-improvement loop.

This reminds me of one of the predictions from https://ai-2027.com/ . Only that there it's "OpenBrain" doing this, not the Chinese. And the authors of that paper were also slightly wrong about "Mid 2026: China Wakes Up": China woke up already a while ago. And:

> But China is falling behind on AI algorithms due to their weaker models. The Chinese intelligence agencies—among the best in the world—double down on their plans to steal OpenBrain’s weights.

No need to steal anything, they have already caught up.

And then there's this prediction for February 2027:

> Officials are most interested in its cyberwarfare capabilities: Agent-2 is “only” a little worse than the best human hackers

I think we're past that point now, too…

New comment by codethief in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

codethief — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:19:25 +0000

> The 10 dropped the physical SIM slot

Not sure about the 10, but at least the 10 Pro still has one.

New comment by codethief in "Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'"

codethief — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:49:51 +0000

> laboratory tests to determine the source of the infections were not expected to be available for several weeks

Note that this about DNA tests & analysis to determine the origin of the malaria/the mosquitos, not about simple tests for the disease.