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New comment by foo12bar in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

foo12bar — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:30:17 +0000

From https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/activist-charged-wit...

> Tunick provided this code to an agent, who entered it on the phone, after which “the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart.”

New comment by foo12bar in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"

foo12bar — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:51:52 +0000

A creature capable of flying through a 3d environment, finding fruit through olfactory senses, walking about. You know, normal organism stuff.

New comment by foo12bar in "Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI"

foo12bar — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:55:17 +0000

I wonder if this would work for generating algorithmic code for a town of NPC's in a RPG or city sim. The problem the teacher would be tasked to solve, in this case, would be to score NPC algorithms on whether they would lead to happiness, health, and wealth for their character. This would allow the generation of NPC algorithms to run at faster pace then would normally be possible if you had to simulate their lives for a day, a week, or a month just to see if their algorithm would be a success or not. And since NPC's are competing against each other, they would naturally need more sophisticated algorithms to succeed.

New comment by foo12bar in "Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero"

foo12bar — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:46:38 +0000

No, this isn't what I mean. What does the word "literal" mean to you?

Because to me it means the opposite of figurative.

Ex., if I say "It literally costs an arm and a leg", that means I'm really paying in body parts.

Or if I say "Your book bag literally weighs a ton", it means I'm saying it's actually 2000 lbs. and would take heavy machinery to lift it.

Or in this case, you are saying the "slop" program or code somehow actually transformed into some mystery food melted into a gelatinous dish when you add "literal" to it.

New comment by foo12bar in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

foo12bar — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:11:19 +0000

Thanks, but I got downvoted, anyway. Oh well, the karma burn was worth it!

New comment by foo12bar in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

foo12bar — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:55:24 +0000

The CNBC article's source is "as reported by Reuters", and the Military Times article is just a reprint of the Reuters Article, if you look, immediately under the headline it states "By Reuters".

So there is only one news outlet reporting on it, Reuters, and the rest are just reporting on the reporting.

New comment by foo12bar in "BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising"

foo12bar — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:57:59 +0000

This looks like it, possibly. There doesn't seem to be a banner that you click on like it states in the consumer rights article, but rather an icon, so not sure.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Z8v2tsYdgRk

New comment by foo12bar in "Don't ask an LLM for a confidence score"

foo12bar — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:32:01 +0000

There was a post earlier on HN where they trained a probe which could give a realistic confidence score on an LLM, they claim with 81% accuracy. They used it to interrupt and switch to a smarter model if a dumber one had low confidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010782

New comment by foo12bar in "Our position on open-weights models"

foo12bar — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:54:08 +0000

And here I thought management picked the surface area.

New comment by foo12bar in "Our position on open-weights models"

foo12bar — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:17:59 +0000

He carefully avoids saying whether he approves or disapproves of banning models in general, only comes out and says he is against a "blanket ban" or "banning open-weight models as a category".

Crafty lawyer speak, saying nothing of substance.

New comment by foo12bar in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

foo12bar — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:49:24 +0000

The American's ally broke the MoU nearly immediately after the signing by continuing to attack Lebanon.

> Point 1: The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war, by signing this MOU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon and other provisions of this paragraph.

New comment by foo12bar in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

foo12bar — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:33:21 +0000

I feel extremely lethargic whenever I take even 5g of it. I also drink 2 - 3 liters plain water a day, so I don't think it's dehydration.

New comment by foo12bar in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"

foo12bar — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:46:16 +0000

What I'd like seen addressed is the insistence of every app trying it's best to include formatting information, even so far as to include table cells formatting data in the clipboard. I've found copying this format info useful maybe twice(?) in my 50+ year life and otherwise it is a huge PITA. Including having email clients crash or refuse to properly undo weird table formats that unintentionally get pasted over. Instead, I have to paste to an open editor in a terminal window and then do another copy and paste to the destination to most reliably disable this.

New comment by foo12bar in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

foo12bar — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:30:29 +0000

The models were built using copyrighted works, so why can't models be built using other models?

New comment by foo12bar in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

foo12bar — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:05:39 +0000

And the fact they used a Chinese model, because none of the frontier models from very highly valuated top US companies support their very common and essential use case.

New comment by foo12bar in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

foo12bar — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:04:07 +0000

From https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026 , this is frickin' hilarious:

> When we started the log analysis, we first used frontier models behind commercial APIs. This did not work: the analysis requires submitting large volumes of real attack commands, exploit payloads, and C2 artifacts, and these requests were blocked by the providers' safety guardrails, which cannot distinguish an incident responder from an attacker. We ran the forensic analysis instead on GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, on our own infrastructure. This had a second benefit: no attacker data, and none of the credentials it referenced, left our environment.

New comment by foo12bar in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

foo12bar — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:28:42 +0000

My thought is they might have set up the environment sloppily because they knew this could have led to something like this happening.

New comment by foo12bar in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

foo12bar — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:21:46 +0000

Because they are testing it and are expected to erect guardrails before releasing.

New comment by foo12bar in "AI makes programming differently difficult"

foo12bar — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:04:23 +0000

This article will apply for about 3 months until AI advances again and the assumptions made are no longer true.

You can't take a rapidly developing field and pretend progress is going to freeze at its current development level so you can decide how to handle it.

It's a coping mechanism to deal with rapid change by pretending change is going to stoo right here right now and you can get a handle on it.

New comment by foo12bar in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

foo12bar — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:29:27 +0000

Would anyone besides those within China themselves use a completely closed and hidden model from China for their critical business needs?