Hacker News: literalAardvark

New comment by literalAardvark in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

literalAardvark — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:21:40 +0000

It's much easier to use something with all the edge cases already handled as a starting point.

New comment by literalAardvark in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

literalAardvark — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:27:30 +0000

You could only somehow sell it. If you tried to enrich that you'd get flagged so fast your head would spin.

New comment by literalAardvark in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

literalAardvark — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:24:08 +0000

This knowledge needs to be published

New comment by literalAardvark in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"

literalAardvark — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:56:55 +0000

Nah, that's different

New comment by literalAardvark in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

literalAardvark — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:12:11 +0000

Honestly, while I love having access to this grade of AI, yeah, it's been too dangerous for a few releases now.

And Fable is cracked. Way better than anything, and the biggest improvements are on the scariest subjects.

So given the state of the world at the moment, and the number of software patches we're barely keeping up with... I'm thankful that they're not making it worse.

New comment by literalAardvark in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

literalAardvark — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:04:51 +0000

It's not entirely bullshit, but they're continuing to be a terrible company with great products.

New comment by literalAardvark in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"

literalAardvark — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:57:55 +0000

Blindsight and Starfish are both awesome.

Blindsight in particular will also blow your mind.

It'd say Starfish is a great read but it doesn't quite get to mind blowing.

They will, however, drain your trust in humanity to deeply negative levels.

New comment by literalAardvark in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"

literalAardvark — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:56:07 +0000

Doubly worth doing as aside from writing some of the best modern hard Sci-Fi half of them are released for free on his page.

New comment by literalAardvark in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"

literalAardvark — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:54:11 +0000

Hmm. I don't remember that, maybe it's time for a re-read.

New comment by literalAardvark in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"

literalAardvark — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:18:34 +0000

I've read his works, in general all his first books are awesome, the sunflowers series is all awesome, and the rest can get a little hard to read (but I still liked them)

New comment by literalAardvark in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"

literalAardvark — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:02:41 +0000

Chimp is very much not ASI, by design. Humans have ASI but the risk of value drift was too great so they downgraded him to 4.8

New comment by literalAardvark in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

literalAardvark — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:20:52 +0000

Anthropic seems to me to have consistently been the baddie despite everyone's posturing.

Not that I expect better from openai but at least they're not pretending to be good.

New comment by literalAardvark in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

literalAardvark — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:15:12 +0000

Nothing really stopping an agent from getting a key

New comment by literalAardvark in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

literalAardvark — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:59:41 +0000

There are some advantages, but the main one is probably that it stops everyone from using NoScript and breaking tracking.

New comment by literalAardvark in "Claude Fable 5"

literalAardvark — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:36:16 +0000

It's been obvious for at least 2 years, anyone who doesn't see the writing on the wall simply hasn't learned how to use these well or has severe exponential blindness.

"But it doesn't do well when writing my undertrained language" - yeah, fine. Yet. Reasonable code in that is probably one RAG + verification scaffold deployment around Mythos or maybe mythos+1. Just like it was for you learning it, because you knew how to _program_.

New comment by literalAardvark in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

literalAardvark — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:31:38 +0000

The original meaning of hacker

New comment by literalAardvark in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

literalAardvark — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:10:06 +0000

I sincerely wonder why. Chinese censorship is only really relevant if you're doing anti China stuff, which is to say never, while the Western kind of model censorship ( a combination of copyrights and general fairness ) are something everyone's had to work around at least once, even if just for writing an interesting story.

New comment by literalAardvark in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

literalAardvark — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:24:55 +0000

I think this plays a part, but the truth is that Google doesn't need to do that, Chinese open models are already doing that by themselves.

So perhaps another part is just Google showing that they can indeed play at the big boys table.

New comment by literalAardvark in "ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks"

literalAardvark — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:33:30 +0000

I believe it's likely that you could train an auditor model. Might even be doable in RL.

As in real life it wouldn't be any good at doing anything but it'd be able to see fault in others and deny actions.

New comment by literalAardvark in "It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle (2004)"

literalAardvark — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:34:52 +0000

Bicycles are stable. In fact you need zero neurons to run a bicycle, all it needs is "power" and a large enough circle to run in.