Only thing I can remember is a blue 3½ floppy with "trek4" handwritten on it so it must have been "found" by my relative that owned the st at the time.
Manus has been the best agent for turning text into work --useable slides, code, extracting data from websites, etc. that I've seen. There are better tools for specific cases like coding, but for one tool that could handle agentic workflows with minimal oversight and configuration, it's the best.
It's not ready for orchestration yet, but most fundamental layers are already working great.
Create your agents using the LLMs of your choosing, directly from your smartphone of you want full privacy, and with no ads, no paywall, no sign up required.
Manus was ahead of its time. But the directions are parting ways.
We are a sandbox provider company and we have a manus like agent deployed to "showcase" our capabilities. You can build one too -- maybe we will open-source it. For now, you can try it for free at https://showcase.instavm.io/
Interesting, I hadn’t see the Knowledge Navigator before. I would argue that we’re very close to the capabilities shown in that video.
Isn’t this already that? A new business model? Something like OpenAI’s search or Perplexity can run on its own index and not be influenced by Google’s ranking, ads, etc.
In areas where there is a simple objective truth, like finding the offset for the wheels on a 2008 BMW M3, we have had this capability for some time with Perplexity. The LLMs successfully cuts through the sea of SEO/SEM and forum nonsense and delivers the answer.
In areas where the truth is more subjective, like what is the best biscuit restaurant in downtown Nashville, the system could easily learn your preferences and deliver info suited to your biases.
In areas where “the science” is debated, the LLM can show both sides.
> Everything sounds like it's just a bunch of hackers
It is! This is run by George Hotz, aka geohot, aka the kid who cracked the iPhone SIM lock at 17yo, released the 1-click jailbreak for iOS before he was 20, and then went ahead and cracked the PS3 shortly after and released Sony’s private key (used to sign all PS3 software) for all the world to see.
He’s a beast. Now he’s doing Tinygrad and Comma. You won’t be seeing Corpo-speak from this guy or his team lol.
Cool to see him doing well and doing it his own way.
The next message in the thread gives specifics about the PS3 crack referenced in the parent:
> Disclaimer: I have personal experience with him when he took the PS3 ECDSA fail research I and the other fail0verflow folks presented at CCC, and a couple weeks later released the PS3 metldr keys obtained using our method, with zero credit or reference to us. Then Sony sued us all because they assumed we were working with him, even though we'd been careful not to actually release any crypto keys precisely to avoid giving the lawyers excuses to sue us.
> So yes, I was named as a defendant on a lawsuit with him, thanks to his antics. That wasn't a fun few months.
So, it sounds like the individual is complaining that he didn't mention them, but also complaining about Sony sueing them, and somehow manages to blame him for Sonys actions? Like Sony gave them credit they didn't want, but they want to complain about not getting the credit they didn't want?
It's as if you gave an academic lecture on a casino's vulnerability to being robbed, and then someone actually went and robbed the casino. You can be mad at the asshole who robbed the casino for two reasons; A: he's put you in hot water that you would have avoided without the robbery; B: he took credit for discovering the vulnerability (or at least didn't correct people who assumed he must be a real hotshot at casino security design)
The worst part of this critique is that it's not even true, and marcan knows better. He clearly dislikes me so much that he is willing to lie.
The symmetric half of the metldr key was obtained with a novel exploit I found. Then the asymmetric half was derived from that with the fail0verflow method.
But who really still cares about any of this, it was 13 years ago.
He was only at Twitter for a few weeks, maybe a few months before quitting because it turns out things are A Bit More Complicated Than That TM. This is one of the reasons why I would feel weird about entrusting my life to Comma.ai. I'm not that keen on Move Fast and Break Things when the things are my bones.
I made a Tron lightcycle game: https://new.af/tron
Now that AI accelerates dev so much, I suspect we'll get to see a lot of cool throwbacks.
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