Hacker News: maxall4

New comment by maxall4 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

maxall4 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:58:40 +0000

> We have reviewed the report and validated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5), and is used every day by the defenders who keep systems safe. We will share more details over the next 24 hours.

So much for all of the rhetoric about Mythos supposedly far surpassing GPT 5.5 (edit: in cybersecurity, in particular). Of course, the AISI benchmarks also showed this, but it is amusing that Anthropic is saying it now that it is to their advantage.

New comment by maxall4 in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

maxall4 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:09:11 +0000

Indeed, according to METR, Mythos only achieved an 80% success rate with 3 hour tasks. https://metr.org/time-horizons/

New comment by maxall4 in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

maxall4 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:37:48 +0000

I’m very aware of this as well.

New comment by maxall4 in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

maxall4 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:17:26 +0000

As someone who works in bioinformatics, and, as such, does a great deal of machine learning, this makes Fable unusable for me as well.

New comment by maxall4 in "Claude Fable 5"

maxall4 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:11:51 +0000

These safeguards are ridiculously sensitive: a prompt as simple as “ Why is an infinitely slow process reversible?” gets flagged as a ToS violation.

New comment by maxall4 in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

maxall4 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:05:36 +0000

“The strait of Hormuz is open so long as Iran does not fire missiles at ships.”

We're All One Crisis Away from Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides

maxall4 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:08:48 +0000

Article URL: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/we-re-all-one-crisis-away-from-taking-unlicensed-research-peptides

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422953

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

I led the U.S. CDC response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic

maxall4 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:05:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/06/ebola-outbreak-us-aid-response-tom-frieden-action-plan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422933

Points: 21

# Comments: 2

The Causes of Long Covid

maxall4 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:04:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/causes-long-covid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407451

Points: 169

# Comments: 118

Nafion

maxall4 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:01:49 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403868

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Bacteria Solved the Mystery of Inheritance

maxall4 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:30:49 +0000

Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-bacteria-solved-the-mystery-of-inheritance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365660

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by maxall4 in "Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows"

maxall4 — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:03:48 +0000

Paper: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2605555?query=fe...

Losing My Religion [Libertarianism]

maxall4 — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:31:18 +0000

Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/losing-my-religion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338019

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by maxall4 in "The most unlikely school bag"

maxall4 — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:32:55 +0000

Only an LLM could liken a first-grader to a scholar: "In a stratified society where the imperial family sat at the symbolic center, that gesture mattered. The randoseru moved, almost overnight, from battlefield to classroom, from soldier’s kit to scholar’s gear." This is an interesting topic, but this kind of AI writing gets very, very grating. Additionally, though this is somewhat unrelated, I feel like LLMs tend to argue points through gaslighting, rather than actual argumentation; they prefer to stack a bunch of tangential, or parallel, evidence and then assert that it proves their point when, in reality, it does not have any logical coherence—unless, perhaps, one reads it at 2am, in which case it might make sense.

New comment by maxall4 in "Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop"

maxall4 — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:14:01 +0000

Well, what else are we going to do while waiting for the bench scientists to finish collecting data?

Wolfram Language

maxall4 — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:51:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wolfram.com/language/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231045

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by maxall4 in "OpenBSD 7.9"

maxall4 — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:19:28 +0000

Is OpenBSD actually more secure than Linux? I have not been able to find any data to support this—only some vague opinions.

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

maxall4 — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:32:45 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165329

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by maxall4 in "Dark Star (Film, 1974)"

maxall4 — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:53:20 +0000

It’s fairly overt: „The film was just starting. It was science fiction, of all things; called Dark Star.“ (pg. 111 in the mass market paperback)

New comment by maxall4 in "Dark Star (Film, 1974)"

maxall4 — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:36:54 +0000

I stumbled across a reference to Dark Star while reading the novella The State of The Art by Iain M. Banks.