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New comment by maevyn11 in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

maevyn11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:05:49 +0000

Yea I think if you read the actual design of the test they are presenting as evidence it shows that what these small models are doing is not the same as what Mythos did. They isolated the vulnerable code down to the vulnerable subset of the function and provided hints in the prompt about all of the key contextual factors that matter to finding the vulnerability. That makes the problem significantly easier.

I realize they are trying to prove that an agentic harness running small models can ultimately achieve the same thing as what Mythos did, but they are handwaving away the steps it takes to construct the context Mythos handled in model and using a misleading test result to prove small models can handle the key step.

Poor evidence of a premise that logically wouldn't even be proven if the their evidence was valid. If they could find these types of vulnerabilities with the same effectiveness they would have done it already.

New comment by maevyn11 in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

maevyn11 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:38:32 +0000

No idea why anyone would buy a Windows machine over a mac unless in this day and age unless they can't afford one, Microsoft's OS dev philosophy has been trash for years.

New comment by maevyn11 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)"

maevyn11 — Mon, 02 May 2022 16:54:58 +0000

GridPlus | Remote | Software Engineer | Full-Time | (https://gridplus.io)

GridPlus is a crypto hardware security company. We produce the most advanced hardware wallet on the market, the Lattice1, and we're working to develop the Phonon, a layer zero protocol providing novel solutions to issues of blockchain privacy, scalability, and compatibility.

I'm currently hiring for the phonon team but the company is looking for other roles as well. I'm Looking for a backend software engineer to work primarily in golang as well as a Javacard engineer to work on the secure JavacardOS applet.

For more about phonon check out https://phonon.network/

For more on available roles check out https://gridplus.io/pages/careers or email careers@gridplus.io and mention the position to apply.

New comment by maevyn11 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)"

maevyn11 — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:59:25 +0000

GridPlus | Remote | Backend and Full Stack Engineers | Full-Time | (https://gridplus.io)

We're a Crypto security company working on building cutting edge tools for securely storing and using cryptocurrency. Earlier this year, we successfully launched our first product, the Lattice1 hardware wallet, which utilizes a novel hardware design and software architecture to provide cold storage like security guarantees while allowing always online "hot storage" usability. We're also developing a layer 2 blockchain scaling and privacy solution called Phonon.

Looking for full stack engineers to further enhance the capabilities of the Lattice with web based features and integrations, primarily in React, and more backend focused engineers to improve the cloud infrastructure and assist with developing the phonon client, primarily in golang. Open to both junior and senior candidates.

Check out https://gridplus.io/pages/careers or email careers@gridplus.io

New comment by maevyn11 in "Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress"

maevyn11 — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:30:34 +0000

No man, that's just one line of thinking. I'm not religious in the least, and I love spending time alone and unoccupied. I know about existential angst and have indulged in it in the past, but my mind just wanders to other more pleasurable things when it's undistracted.

New comment by maevyn11 in "Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims"

maevyn11 — Sat, 23 May 2020 22:24:48 +0000

ha, nailed it dude.

New comment by maevyn11 in "MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?"

maevyn11 — Fri, 22 May 2020 16:53:02 +0000

I've had a similarly painful experience upgrading last week. Though it doesn't seem quite so bad as the posters above, and after making a few fixes most everything is back to normal.

My one remaining serious annoyance is that my external monitor color settings are screwed up and there appears to be no fix. Reds are purple and everything is just a little washed out, which is a shame for a 4k monitor that was beautiful with Mojave.

Strangely, right before the computer restarts, or if booted in safe mode the color starts to look perfect again, but I can't seem to replicate that in normal operation.