Hacker News: mkatx

New comment by mkatx in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

mkatx — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:10:08 +0000

I wonder if wfh creates any loopholes here, and they just select areas where there are no real candidate pools.

New comment by mkatx in "Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s"

mkatx — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:10:58 +0000

Does anything else support Pascal gpu's though?

New comment by mkatx in "Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields"

mkatx — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:01:23 +0000

Nice, a lot of fun!

New comment by mkatx in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

mkatx — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:12:09 +0000

And the enumeration via fuzzing leads to reverse engineering.. so I argue it was a pretty smart path, both short term and long term.

New comment by mkatx in "Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models"

mkatx — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:57:37 +0000

> Snowden 2.0

"NSA ... AI Models"

New comment by mkatx in "Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August"

mkatx — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:33:06 +0000

Definitely noticed this before, but this parti6 time was very noticeable. I'm convinced it's to get the benchmarks in, then lower cost and prepare for the next release to look better relatively to users.

New comment by mkatx in "English: A vs. An"

mkatx — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:54:31 +0000

I always wondered if some uses of the word 'and' I notice on occasion might have similar explanations, or if they were the result of misspelling, mistyping, incorrect autocorrect, etc.. anyone know?

Examples from published articles: "Barely half and hour was on the clock" "the hospital, which is in and area of central Homs" "spiraled into and armed uprising and civil war" "During and interview with ABC in July"

New comment by mkatx in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

mkatx — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:13:03 +0000

This is the way to go! Cut the cat and mouse, win win ish.

New comment by mkatx in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

mkatx — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:29:34 +0000

You don't think they used their own AI, or Claude, to help build the sandbox, and that is where the failure lies?

New comment by mkatx in "1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer"

mkatx — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:56:08 +0000

Yep. Reading some of the earliest written stories really shows how little we have changed socially since then, and I imagine that goes back a lot further.

New comment by mkatx in "DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp"

mkatx — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:30:13 +0000

I would say, try without thinking on. I find reasoning on any rag type request seems to increase hallucinations, probably due to the thinking tokens taking attention away from the, in this case, vision tokens.

I'd recommend non-thinking for any non-prompt input, and leave the thinking where it has to actually reason.

New comment by mkatx in "Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds"

mkatx — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:01:22 +0000

Nice! I haven't tried Merlin, but I been meaning to set it up in the yard.

I've been using Seek on my phone, which is part of inatural. Similar thing, but pictures and most life, not just birds. That is totally Pokemon for non-pokemon peeps.. gotta bust out my phone every time I find something I haven't 'caught' yet.

New comment by mkatx in "AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?"

mkatx — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:21:24 +0000

Their rate limits are incredibly generous..

Edit: spelling

New comment by mkatx in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

mkatx — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:52:10 +0000

Just did a quick search.. dunno the vid quality, but the point being "'I Remove This Mysterious Tiny Chip Before Using The Phone!' Edward Snowden"

https://www.bitchute.com/video/QqQmHy6aqlLe/

I'm not sure how realistic this is, but conversations like this always remind me of this procedure.

Edit: maybe should have responded to the OP directly.

New comment by mkatx in "The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude"

mkatx — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:08:05 +0000

So instead of reverse engineering.. an llm/agent/whatever could simply produce custom apps for everyone, simply implementing the features an individual might want. A more viable path?

New comment by mkatx in "Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta"

mkatx — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 02:50:57 +0000

Damn.. I just learned about this.

New comment by mkatx in "Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business"

mkatx — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:52:56 +0000

Aw shit.

*drawing-board

New comment by mkatx in "My 16-month theanine self-experiment"

mkatx — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:54:04 +0000

Look into something like flexwatt tape. Maybe run it during the day when your not sleeping. In my mind, they probably use something similar inside heated blankets with some kind of limiter/thermostat.

Do your research though!! I'm not sure if flexwatt tape could ignite your mattress, but you would definitely want to know for sure yourself beforehand!

There are ways to control heat though; I'm familiar with using flexwatt tape with reptile enclosures, hooked up to a thermostat with a probe in the habitat for temp control. Maybe some math, like desired_temp = watts_supplied * feet_of_fw_tape, where the watts_supplied is the independent variable you adjust based on the required feet_of_fw_tape for your mattress to get the dependent variable desired_temp. Probably include a fail safe, but I'm no electrician, proceed at your own risk.

They do sell self contained fire extinguishers you can hang on your ceiling that deploy automatically at a certain temperature, ideally putting out fire sources they are hung above. Nice to have around for things like this.

New comment by mkatx in "Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working"

mkatx — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:42:26 +0000

I do agree that changing policy is a separate, yet complimentary, step. But maybe the poor are disproportionately audited because the IRS doesn't have the funding to effectively target the rich and succeed? Maybe with better funding, they could successfully extract more tax dollars from the rich, incearsing the ROI of funding the agency?

I don't think further funding the agency is a completely nutty idea. Although if you truly believe the agency is broken, and that being broken isn't related to their funding, then I could understand your perspective. I lean more towards the idea that at least some, maybe even most, of the issues they have might be due to a lack of funding. That makes more sense to me than most of the criticisms I've heard of the IRS, which seem to mostly be on partisan idealism framed as otherwise.

New comment by mkatx in "20 years of Google Scholar"

mkatx — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:14:16 +0000

You mean public, documented API's? Everything is/has an API.