Hacker News: neuronexmachina

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

neuronexmachina — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:55:39 +0000

Is there any reason they couldn't also apply export-control to older models, just to screw with Anthropic?

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

neuronexmachina — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:07:50 +0000

From reading the post, I think it's more likely that anti-jailbreaking is going to become much more strict and prone to false-positives.

> We received the directive from the government today at 5:21pm (ET). The letter did not provide specific details of its national security concern. Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or “jailbreaking” Fable 5. We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all appear relatively simple, and we have found that other publicly-available models are able to discover them as well without requiring a bypass.

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

neuronexmachina — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:06:05 +0000

Based on this, it seems like the Trump admin would have targeted them even without the "scaremongering":

> To date, the government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak, which essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix any software flaws. Our understanding is that one potential jailbreak was shared with the government. 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.

New comment by neuronexmachina in "First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas"

neuronexmachina — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:31:14 +0000

The Texas Tribune is generally regarded as a reputable news source. Which quote are you referring to?

New comment by neuronexmachina in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

neuronexmachina — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:31:43 +0000

For GPT-2 and GPT-3 it seems like the concern was that they hadn't yet figured out how to properly write safeguards for it yet:

> The company believes making its API generally available was made possible due to its progress with safeguards, and that opening up the API to all developers will help see applications developed faster. ...

> A large emphasis has been placed on safe use of the tool, which in the past has been criticised for a range of shortcomings, including racism and prejudices against specific genders and religions.

New comment by neuronexmachina in "Local Git remotes"

neuronexmachina — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:10:45 +0000

From your earlier comment it sounded like there was a "heist" simply based on having a similar name. Looking into it though, it seems like the ARDC non-profit did a pretty reasonable job of proving they were the same folks who'd been managing the IP block for decades. Also, has there been any sort of allegation that they've misused the funds? From what I understand they've pretty consistently used the funds to support amateur radio.

New comment by neuronexmachina in "Local Git remotes"

neuronexmachina — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:52:04 +0000

Do you have a source for your claims about the ARDC?

New comment by neuronexmachina in "Ripgrep AI Policy"

neuronexmachina — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:12:28 +0000

Was curious and astral put up their AI policy a couple weeks before the acquisition. Of course, it's quite possible they already knew it was happening: https://github.com/astral-sh/.github/pull/1

That said, I'm kind of surprised ripgrep hasn't been acquired by anyone, considering all the major AI agents use it pretty heavily.

New comment by neuronexmachina in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

neuronexmachina — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:04:19 +0000

> If AI labs saw a lot of potential there, they'd surely be bragging about it non-stop?

Google seems to pretty regularly post about how their TPU and algorithm advancements have been decreasing energy costs for both inference and training.

New comment by neuronexmachina in "Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews"

neuronexmachina — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:56:58 +0000

TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieko_Kodama

> A memorial message dedicated to Kodama was included in the end credits of the Sega Genesis Mini 2, which was released on October 27, 2022.[16] Addressing inquiries by IGN and Famitsu, Sega confirmed that Kodama had died on May 9, 2022, aged 58,[17][18] and initially refrained from a public announcement to respect her family's privacy

New comment by neuronexmachina in "CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude"

neuronexmachina — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:55:33 +0000

CVEs:

* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28952

* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28942

New comment by neuronexmachina in "Blind Waymo Users Revel in the Joy of Riding Alone"

neuronexmachina — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:51:48 +0000

> keeping the external costs (congestion, danger, pollution, noise, etc)

Are there actually self-driving car services that aren't EV-based? Just that helps with several of those criteria, and they're substantially less dangerous than human-driven vehicles.

New comment by neuronexmachina in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

neuronexmachina — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:50:30 +0000

Do you have a reference for that? At least based on this, it seems like China's trying to increase collaboration and funding for joint research projects with non-Chinese researchers:

* https://www.nsfc.gov.cn/english/site_1/international/D2/2018...

* https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260107-overseas-scho...

New comment by neuronexmachina in "Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us"

neuronexmachina — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:38:55 +0000

Can you elaborate? That just seems to be a Cloudflare's announcement from May 2025 that they'd be supporting MCP servers.

New comment by neuronexmachina in "Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?"

neuronexmachina — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:23:52 +0000

Altadena is part of unincorporated LA County, they don't vote in the City of Los Angeles elections.

New comment by neuronexmachina in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

neuronexmachina — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:04:33 +0000

The design files and firmware are open source, so you hypothetically produce your own: https://github.com/ploopyco/bean-pointing-stick

New comment by neuronexmachina in "The Zulip Foundation"

neuronexmachina — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:57:14 +0000

Which part was defensive?

New comment by neuronexmachina in "RISC-V Router"

neuronexmachina — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:00:25 +0000

Since this has a foreign-made processor and WiFi module, would this be blocked by the Trump FCC's foreign-made router ban?

New comment by neuronexmachina in "Claude for Small Business"

neuronexmachina — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:39:16 +0000

I think it's essentially this plugin? https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/ma...

New comment by neuronexmachina in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

neuronexmachina — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:17:13 +0000

> So is this thing talking to Google's servers all the time for the AI integration? So it won't work if you're not connected to the internet?

I assume they're using on-device Gemini Nano: https://developer.android.com/ai/gemini-nano