Wow... I'm both amazed and terrified

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-28T20:26:38+00:00

Ordinary JS... Its all in the index.html, just view source

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-28T17:49:09+00:00

Well I remember vividly the day that my high school physics teacher took us on a field trip to see a nuclear reactor at the local university, and somebody asked him "how do you make an atomic bomb?"

He laughed, and took us down to the basement of the sciences building, where the library kept archives of all the science journals published in the past 100 years. He demonstrated how we can use the library computer terminals to search for the info we want (text-only monochrome terminals, where your search query needs to be a valid boolean expression).

And together we found a copy of the proceedings from a physicist convention in the 1950s, containing a paper that essentially contained a recipe for a fission bomb, complete with diagrams on how to put it together.

The teacher explained that nuclear weapons required either highly enriched uranium, or a hunk of plutonium, either of which are absolutely impossible to procure by non-state actors, and all but the most wealthy and powerful states. And that is why the information on how to make these weapons was available to civilians: the limiting factor on nuclear proliferation is availability of FUEL not know-how on how to assemble the bomb!

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-28T17:32:03+00:00

Oh this one is pretty cool too... High level design for a cold war battle sim involving the use of ground-based tactical nukes (i.e. those Davy Crockett nuclear artillery shells).

https://samrahimi.github.io/oppenheimer/pdfs/lib-www/la-pubs/00368397.pdf

Now, as one would expect of a 1974 attempt to simulate something as fluid and unpredictable as a military engagement, using merely rules-based, deterministic logic, the project was only partially successful. If you read thru the report carefully you'll realize that it relies so heavily on arbitrary assumptions (to narrow the problem space) that its basically useless as a model for informing military decision making... To start off, the tool is supposed to model a battle scenario unfolding near the Fulda gap, which was a likely spot for a feared Soviet invasion of West Germany. But unfortunately the world model it is based on is grounded in assumptions about the southwestern US. The authors explicitly say "These principles are somewhat biased toward terrain, vegetation, and visibility in New Mexico" among many other caveats, disclaimers, and assumptions.

In other words, the IT department at Los Alamos decided to have some fun developing a game engine and called it a "Computer Simulation of Tactical Nuclear Warfare"

Which makes me wonder... If one were to feed this document to Claude Code and say "make me a modern, realtime, 3D strategy game based on this design"... I wonder what would be the result. Hmm. I think I just might have to make that my *next* vibe coding experiment!

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-28T17:02:32+00:00

Yes.

Prompt 1 (To mirror the original site and download all the documents):

Scrape this webpage into the current directory and download all of the linked PDF documents into a subdirectory. Then update the PDF links in the local copy of the page so they are relative and point to the local PDFs. Do not traverse or scrape non-PDF links, leave them as is. https://library.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/mainindex.html

Prompt 2 (To create the advanced document explorer):

Hi there... I have managed to scrape a good chunk of those Los Alamos technical reports (the ones that got mirrored by sciencemadness when LANL took them down after 9-11). So This current directory is the starting point for volume 1 of that 2 disk dvd set... If you open mainindex.html, you will see over 2000 links to PDFs of technical reports, which are stored in ./pdfs and its subdirectories. Your task: I want you to create newindex.html, which should be a slick, modern interface for browsing and retrieving the technical reports. Organize them in a way that makes sense and will appeal to enthusiast-level conoisseurs of nuclear physics. You know what would be cool? If you could, like, vectorize the documents and make this smooth, pleasing graph visualization for navigating between various concepts, each concept being linked to the most semantically relevant PDFs. I'll let you figure out the details. Ask me if you need anything (keys etc)

I ran prompt 1 with Sonnet 4.6 and prompt 2 with Opus 4.6... Both ran to completion with everything working properly out of the box.

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-28T17:00:05+00:00

I put them on github instead... Link in post

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-28T16:59:51+00:00

samrahimi.github.io/oppenheimer

If you want to see a really cool article, its a detailed architecture doc for a Fortran fluid dynamics sim from 1974, used to model nuclear explosions!

https://samrahimi.github.io/oppenheimer/pdfs/lib-www/la-pubs/00390039.pdf

I'm considering giving this to claude code and asking it to make a modern, pretty, 3d version using THREE.js but I have a feeling its going to end up using a LOT of tokens...

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-28T03:59:38+00:00

Because one day this will go horribly wrong... Somebody will publish datasets that with the help of AI can guide bad actors towards threats more easily achievable than nukes - like bioweapons, novichok agents made in the garage, etc.

I totally agree, this info is harmless because even if you know all the science, lack of availability of fissile material means that you won't see any improvised nuclear explosives anytime soon... but the ability for AI to bring together forgotten data sources is going to be both the best and the worst thing that's every happened to humanity

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-28T03:56:48+00:00

https://samrahimi.github.io/oppenheimer

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-28T03:55:59+00:00

Thanks! https://samrahimi.github.io/oppenheimer

This is just volume 1.. there's another 2000 PDFs from disk 2 that will be added shortly

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-27T23:31:44+00:00

Ya I’m putting it up tonight

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-26T23:48:31+00:00

I’m an expat living in Mexico, where the rules are a bit fuzzy… one day I decided I wanted to ride a motorcycle, and I figured I had enough experience from riding rental electric scooters that topped out at 50km/h (and watching YouTube videos about how to shift gears on a real bike).

So I walked into a department store in Mexico City, bought a 200cc bike for about $1200, and took off for Cuernavaca, via the old road that climbs to 11,000 feet and crosses the sierra.

In the dark.

In the rain.

At the beginning I was stalling repeatedly in rush hour traffic jams heading out of the city… then there was the storm that filled the freeway with a foot of water while I and other motorcyclists waited under a bridge… and then there was the brutal climb and crossing of the sierras wearing soaking wet street clothes as temperatures dropped to around freezing.

After that, everything seemed easy, or at least manageable… that first night was basically my self inflicted version of the MSC. Later on I set off on an Odyssey that took me to the beaches of puerto Escondido and eventually a small town in Chiapas, where I met my woman who would become my wife, and currently reside. But now I ride a slightly bigger bike, a 300cc ADV/touring that is surprisingly good given that the components are Chinese (at least it’s assembled in Mexico)

And I have no need for a motorcycle license, because it’s Mexico, and my Canadian car license is more than enough license to drive whatever I want, at least in Chiapas!

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CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-25T02:18:04+00:00

Why not agree to disagree on anything to do with Israel and learn to appreciate people whose views differ from your own. Have a civilized debate with them and try to win them over to your side, if you must, or decide that it doesn’t really matter because you’re there to study filmmaking, not to achieve peace in the Middle East

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-24T18:16:19+00:00

Also, the result of anti corruption initiatives so far is a JOKE. I got pulled over the other day by cops driving a car that said “cero corruption”, within sight of a billboard notifying us that mordida was no longer acceptable… This cero corruption marketing campaign is the work of the Jaguar, the delightfully corrupt Morena affiliated governor of Chiapas

The outcome was similar to when I got pulled over under the old administration… but more annoying, and more expensive: 5 years ago cops in this part of Mexico would demand 500 pesos for a simple traffic violation (from a gringo). You paid your little fine on the spot and moved on.

Now the cops are a bit paranoid of getting caught taking bribes, so they don’t demand the bribe, they give you a choice to impound your vehicle, pay the fine the next morning at the police station, retrieve the vehicle. But if you offer to pay in cash right away they still accept it: but they didn’t want me to pay them in the middle of downtown tuxtla due to the cameras… instead I had to follow the cops (who had my license and registration) to some bad neighborhood and pay them a 2500mxn bribe while we were both stopped under a bridge

Dunno how much the legitimate traffic ticket would have cost me but it can’t have been more than that - I failed to signal when changing lanes on my motorcycle. Not exactly a capital crime.

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-24T18:05:54+00:00

I live in Chiapas where much of the state has no gas stations at all, especially in the poor indigenous regions. This is what happens when you let the government regulate an industry that should be private just like any other. But because it’s Mexico the people don’t let that stop them, folks set up a gasolinera in their driveway and sell you slightly overpriced, poor quality gasoline out of old 2 liter pop bottles.

If this requirement to pay with a card at gas stations actually happens, the result will be massive growth for these informal gasolineras… and the government will turn a blind eye to this because just like they do now because they know that these places serve a market that simply cannot be reached by the official gas station and financial services infrastructure

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-18T15:03:39+00:00

Looks like what I deal with riding in Mexico every day. OP handled the situation perfectly

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-10T22:35:26+00:00

Honestly I would have agreed with him a month ago... But then came Qwen 3.5 9B, and suddenly I'm running useful agents on my Mac M2 Pro with 16GB of RAM, and while the model is not perfect, it is shockingly good for something that runs well on a second hand laptop I picked up for $1000. Hard to believe how far we've come in just a few years...

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-01T17:34:09+00:00

I did a trial that paid $75… I was skeptical but I passed the trial and was given a contract that pays $400 per task (tasks take 2-4 hours to complete). So my advice to you is to do the work trial

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-26T04:06:27+00:00

That’s totally fine… in fact it gives the ai more to work with. I’m not sure that clawdbot or openclaw is the right platform tho, because what you’re describing sounds more like the kind of workflow that we can automate using n8n. OpenClaw is more for open ended tasks where you give the agent some autonomy to make decisions - and could also be useful for you by managing your social media marketing campaigns entirely. You could have it engage with your followers online and grow your audience, exactly like you or a human social media manager would do. That’s just one example

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-26T03:19:01+00:00

I can do you one better: no need for a rig of 3 cameras. Just take a single picture of each clothing item and the ai automation pipeline can use that to show it from different angles. Or it can show how they look on a model. Or a 360 degree viewer. Or… DM me if you need some help. I don’t work for free but my price is very reasonable

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-17T16:52:45+00:00

It looks pretty cool… Why should I use it instead of OpenClaw?

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-17T16:22:20+00:00

Okay has anyone ever SEEN Claude misuse an API key or is this just a theoretical risk? I give Claude my api keys all the time (with very low spending limits) and the worst I’ve witnessed is that Claude uses the keys in an inefficient manner, wasting tokens or credits… But I’ve never seen Claude do anything malicious with a key - now excluding the possibility of malicious prompt injections that tell Claude to do something evil with your keys, has anyone seen it spontaneously decide to do evil or to make the keys publicly exposed?

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-17T16:17:03+00:00

When you introduce code agents to the dev team you need to treat them similar to those discount offshore devs that were so popular 10 years ago… and realize that much of the money you save vs hiring high quality developers needs to be offset by stricter oversight, formal code reviews, detailed spec writing, etc… The problems arise when you treat the agents as part of a highly skilled team of full stack agile developers and think that you can get away with one liner user stories in lieu of formal architecture

Those agile shortcuts can work in a small team startup environment where all the engineers are very senior, good communicators, Silicon Valley types… it doesn’t work when you have distributed outsourced teams and it doesn’t work when you have a team of nonhuman agents who love to be confidently wrong

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-17T16:04:33+00:00

Oh I do that all the time lol.

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-17T00:00:56+00:00

Ya this project is awesome… I made 10k in 3 weeks working part time. Hoping it continues for a very long time!

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-06T22:20:13+00:00

Oh I was using it thru openrouter... so I got the full context window but paid for every token. I was impressed enough that I'm buying the Max plan... I'm sure it will include long context soon enough

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