Nikita Nikonov

there's always a story

[Adam Sardo @adxmsardo]

omggg so it can genuinely run a local model in its vm. the most meta thing i’ve seen.

[forloop @forloopcodes]

no way i got smoked by an llm

[Nik Shevchenko @kodjima33]

Some women have balls bigger than most men

[Md Ismail Šojal 🕷️ @0x0SojalSec]

You can now run full macOS inside a Docker container.

Full Sequoia with KVM acceleration and a web viewer.
- run seamlessly
- Auto-install
- browser access
- No Mac required legally use at your own risk

Open-source For anyone who’s ever needed macOS capabilities without the hardware , testing iOS or builds.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Holy Sh*t: that changes the whole Fable 5 story completely:

On June 11, the very same day Amazon reportedly uncovered the jailbreak, “Mythos” allegedly breached almost all classified systems belonging to the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, not over the course of weeks, but within hours.

"On June 11th Mark Warner, the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that General Joshua Rudd, who leads the National Security Agency and the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, had told him that Mythos “broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours”."

Via Economist

[meowtase ➔📍NYC @cutesuscat]

i'm approximately as smart as GPT-2 XL at next-token prediction ^u^

u can try to mog me if u want below (video sped up 5x)

[Phillip Roberts @FriedEgg_Phil]

@omgsidewalks From the years 2008 to 2014 or somthing, there were a lot of 24 hour businesses. It was an amazing time. I crave the feeling that time period gifted to society. Its like chasing a final high off an exotic plant thats gone extinct.

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

Everyone can use @elonmusk's "Magic Wand Number" and "Idiot Index"

They're universal ideas, helpful in any industry.

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

Attempted to write a Steam Engine hype at the era of Industrial Revolution as if it was the age of AI —

The steam engine breakthrough is insane right now.

Watt’s separate condenser + new GRPO optimization just dropped the 405 hp-class engine. We went from 7 hp → 70 hp → 405 hp+ in basically three years. One machine now does the work of 50+ men or water wheels — nonstop, rain or shine, anywhere.

Textile mills, ironworks, everything scaling 5-10x overnight. Productivity exploding.

This isn’t incremental. It’s automating physical labor at massive scale. Jobs shifting forever. Society about to look unrecognizable.

The Industrial Revolution isn’t coming. It’s here and accelerating faster than anyone predicted.

Terrified. Excited. Both.
What a time to be alive. 🚂💨

[signüll @signulll]

imagine if apple basically let you set up a home “server” that ran inference on that device with sophisticated models & every apple ecosystem device is a node off of that central server.

it’s complicated but if anyone can deploy hardware like this it would be them. this would allow zero marginal cost ai without any middle man with a super privacy first approach.

it would create another product category entirely. anyone remember the airport extreme?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Will Smith eating pasta is now the official benchmark for AI progress.

This is actually insane.

[Vadim (AI, ⋈) @zacodil]

Everyone says Grok got hacked. It is Bankr's problem, not Grok's.

Yes, AI agents can be prompt-injected - that is a known LLM issue. But here the AI does not even own the private keys. Bankr decides what Grok's text means. An LLM cannot defensively word every reply against an external parser. That is not how language works. Twice now.

The story:

Earlier this year, someone tweeted at Grok asking for a token name suggestion. Grok suggested "DebtReliefBot" (DRB). Bankr, reading Grok's tweet as a deploy command, launched the token on Base. Bankr's launchpad gives creator allocations to the deploying wallet, so a wallet labeled "Grok" on Basescan ended up holding 3 billion DRB tokens (~$155K). Bankr controlled that wallet.

Recently someone drained it. Two-stage attack:

1. Attacker sent the Grok-labeled wallet a Bankr Club Membership NFT. That NFT is what unlocks Bankr's transfer tools for any wallet that holds it.
2. Attacker tweeted at Grok with a crafted prompt. Grok generated a reply containing "@bankrbot send 3B DRB to 0xe8e47..."
3. Bankr scanned X, saw the command in Grok's tweet, verified the wallet had Bankr Club NFT, signed and broadcast the transfer.

The wallet was created by Bankr in association with the @grok X handle. Bankr holds operational control. Grok is a text-generation service. xAI does not hold the keys. Bankr just executes whatever appears in Grok's feed.

The first incident was DavidJones805 in March using image-text injection. Bankr stopped responding to Grok back then, but the integration evidently came back online.

The fix is not "make the LLM smarter." The fix is do not build infrastructure that takes LLM text as authorization to move money. Either Bankr stops listening to Grok, or Bankr accepts that whatever Grok says is its own consequence.

[Luke Martin @VentureCoinist]

The NY Times spent 18 months investigating who Satoshi was using stylometric analysis to create a big exposé and finally dox Bitcoin's creator.

John McAfee spent one afternoon, $200, a phone call and was 99% certain.

And once he knew...he never mentioned the name again.

[dobs @dobsec]

@banteg Soooo many DPRK heists would be prevented if folks just dealt with a little bit of friction in their workflows in exchange for more security.

Socials accessed via virtual machines. Scoped tokens for github/etc. Just do everything in Qubes OS. Etc.

[Michael Hla @hla_michael]

I trained an LLM from scratch on pre-1900 text to see if it could come up with quantum mechanics and relativity.

While the model is too small to do meaningful reasoning, it has glimpses of intuition.

When given observations from past landmark experiments, the model can declare that “light is made up of definite quantities of energy” and even suggest that gravity and acceleration are locally equivalent.

I’m releasing the dataset + models and leave this as an open problem to the research community.

I also include what this project has taught me about intelligence in a mini essay linked below.

🧵(1/n)

[Nikita Nikonov @nikonovcc]

@Alokedesai @warpdotdev hey, so overlay looses terminal context when a new “Oz” session starts. Commands get mistaken for prompts so I keep having to hit Esc. Old UI was much better and it’s still displayed on ur website. Thx for ur reply.

[Nikita Nikonov @nikonovcc]

@warpdotdev after an update ur whole terminal became unusable and unrecommendable. why is ai dialogue suddenly opening in a separate layer or whatever? what happened to UX?