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At the beginning: Basic, Z80 machine code, Z80 assembly; Logo, Forth, and asm implemented; Turbo and Apple Pascal, 68K, 80386, and C.

Then came C#, JS, Python, and PLCs.

Industrial control/hindering the baddies/too much more.

Will work for pizza.

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But what is quantum computing? (3blue1brown 2025)

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Games Between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition

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Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (2026)

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Self-replication requires a minimum amount of information plus machinery. Consciousness may have a similar threshold: below some level of self-modeling, nothing; above it, degrees.

If priced like other Anthropic models, Mythos will make vulnerability discovery a lot more accessible.

The author compares it to AISLE, ZeroPath, and OpenAI’s Codex Security. AISLE and ZeroPath are much more expensive. OpenAI’s Codex Security is gated.

Most people don't care about the first two and don't complain about the latter's policy because they are all specialized models and/or harnesses.

Mythos will be available to all.

A post by dang about related posts:

A Technical Blog Post by a Big Name Expert - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 - March 2013 (189 comments)

A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219556 - Feb 2025 (112 comments)

A Hacker News thread where every comment describes itself - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451203 - Nov 2023 (74 comments)

A request for others to add to the list.

Probably the key to eventual clarity is at PJRC's forum. PJRC makes Teensy. Imho it's a great product, and the owner, Paul Stoffregen, a great engineer and person from my experience using their products.

https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/open-source-teensy-...

My summary:

1. SparkFun and Adafruit are in conflict 2. SparkFun manufactures Teensy under license from PJRC 3. SparkFun cuts off Adafruit as a reseller 4. Adafruit can no longer sell Teensy 5. Adafruit posts on PJRC forum announcing an open-source Teensy competitor 6. Paul posts that it's outrageous in terms of etiquette that they're announcing a competitor on his forum. Adafruit's own forum only allows discussion of Adafruit products.

He's allowing it despite mixed feelings.

Almost none of the domain knowledge came from Claude. This is something I did by hand 40+ years ago (an assembler and a disassemble/debugger, which is in parts similar to the emulator)

This time it was almost as fun : 1/8 of the mental effort per line, x 8 the speed.