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Questions on Mythos's Capabilities

koushikn — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:27:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/comment-page-1/#comments

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859423

Points: 3

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New comment by koushikn in "Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?"

koushikn — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 05:12:36 +0000

Wouldn't all binaries be in the training data, rather than the context? And output context could be in pieces, with something concatenating the pieces into a working binary?

ChatGPT claims its possible, but not allowed due to OpenAI safety rules: https://chatgpt.com/share/68fb0a76-6bf8-800c-82f7-605ff9ca22...

New comment by koushikn in "Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?"

koushikn — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:27:01 +0000

Is it feasible that if we have a tokeniser that works on ELF (or PE/COFF) binaries, then we could have LLMs trained on existing binaries and have them generate binary code directly, skipping the need for programming languages?

New comment by koushikn in "Show HN: Pyproc – Call Python from Go Without CGO or Microservices"

koushikn — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:33:55 +0000

Hashicorp has go-plugin: https://github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin. It does similar with support for net/rpc and grpc. With grpc, you could have the external process in Python. Unix domain sockets and TCP are supported. The framework handles spawning the process and managing it. It is used extensively within hashicorp's products - nomad, packer etc.

New comment by koushikn in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

koushikn — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:28:44 +0000

The device maker controlling an app store made no sense always. Its like saying the browser maker controls what websites you can visit. We have so many efforts at keeping the web open, shouldn't we apply that to all platforms?

New comment by koushikn in "What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not"

koushikn — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:32:08 +0000

Good point on having developers in loop in a software business. Tesla might be a counter example, where it is often touted to be run like a "tech" company. Are developers in loop in the design of non-software stuff? (is chassis design an example? or maybe not?) The other point on triangular communication with middle managers I think is known problem that Musk has publicly spoken about..

New comment by koushikn in "AI Gahuku: AI Generator Will Turn Your Photos into Renaissance Paintings"

koushikn — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 04:43:30 +0000

Art Transfer from Google works similarly: https://artsandculture.google.com/camera/art-transfer

New comment by koushikn in "Magic Transit makes your network smarter, better, stronger, and cheaper"

koushikn — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:48:41 +0000

Why isn't Argo tunnels used here?

Posix OS on the browser

koushikn — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:04:54 +0000

Article URL: https://browsix.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18272943

Points: 3

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New comment by koushikn in "Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay"

koushikn — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:12:57 +0000

Isn't CHAOSS - https://chaoss.community/software/ that ?

Why isn't it very popular? Why don't people have it like the travis-ci badges?

Edit: https://cauldron.io seems to be a hosted version of GrimoireLab.

FSF Crowdfunding campaign to buy Facebook

koushikn — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:09:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-foundation-announces-crowdfunding-campaign-to-buy-facebook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16728983

Points: 3

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New comment by koushikn in "Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list"

koushikn — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:23:15 +0000

I thought the basic idea was documented clearly in 1984

New comment by koushikn in "NASA releases stunning photos of Earth at night"

koushikn — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:10:16 +0000

How bright should lights be to turn up on this? Why can't we see Aircraft carriers/Big merchant vessels or offshore oil wells or even research stations on the Antartic?

New comment by koushikn in "A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post"

koushikn — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:00:23 +0000

Is there a compsci oriented discussion forum with comaparable quality as HN in terms of discussions without the entrepreneurship bias? I would love to know and start following if a such a thing exists.

New comment by koushikn in "Raspberry Pi moves manufacturing to the UK"

koushikn — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:56:04 +0000

Since the dawn of globalization and the post-Cold war era, a number of countries are getting slot marked into particular sectors like: China for manufacturing, US for design, software, German auto mobile, India for outsourced services etc.

But to have a thriving and healthy society in a country, the variety is important so that people can pursue different interests and are not forced to migrate because there is no high-quality work in that area in that country.

Only way to do this is to protect the domestic market from foreign investment and give some time for high quality local players to grow. Then open for competition. But if a second world government does it, it is blamed for not allowing reforms and accused of denying progress to its citizens

So now another way is opening up.

So it is good for China too if such things happen. If a bunch of high quality companies open up in stuff that UK is traditionally known for (financial services?) then the balance will be stuck.

I hope financial institutions like IMF, World Bank take such things into count and come up with measures to increase variety in every country. It will make life a lot better for a lot of people.

Samsung finds an use-case for NFC

koushikn — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:16:07 +0000

Article URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2012/06/13/how-a-samsung-intern-may-have-cracked-one-of-the-mobile-industrys-biggest-problems/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125854

Points: 2

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New comment by koushikn in "How 3D Printing Will Save American Manufacturing"

koushikn — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:28:50 +0000

When will a 3D printer print itself?

Should the first world bother about Africa?

koushikn — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:53:10 +0000

Article URL: http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/first-world-problems-and-the-crisis-in-africa/

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Questions on Mythos's Capabilities

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Posix OS on the browser

New comment by koushikn in "Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay"

FSF Crowdfunding campaign to buy Facebook

New comment by koushikn in "Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list"

New comment by koushikn in "NASA releases stunning photos of Earth at night"

New comment by koushikn in "A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post"

New comment by koushikn in "Raspberry Pi moves manufacturing to the UK"

Samsung finds an use-case for NFC

New comment by koushikn in "How 3D Printing Will Save American Manufacturing"

Should the first world bother about Africa?

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