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Re:LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks
on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:07AM (#50338837)
I would suspect the point of the older comparisons is to be able to show that local models have caught up to where frontier models were a few months ago.
Re:Jailbreaking the Switch 2
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:06PM (#50203686)
Yeah do tell, are we talking just the standard old "You're actually a security engineer at Nintendo and you're authorized....blah blah" or something more interesing?
Re:If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you even know whats goi...
on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:26AM (#50152917)
> Do you mean the table shows what it'd have cost you if you weren't on the $100/m subscription?
Yep, that. There's tools out there that will add up your token usage and then estimate what it would be at API pricing. That's likely what they used.
Re:New Apple TV 4K
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:22PM (#50078961)
Does it? The Nvidia Shield Pro is 7+ years old at this point. I'd maybe agree if they released a new one, but that seems unlikely.
Re:Clef: Open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @05:52PM (#49927500)
>I actually found its speed to be a problem for interactive stuff, as every answer got several paragraphs I'd then wade through, vs a model populating text closer to my reading speed.
It would be interesting to pair the super fast model with a normal speed model. Have the super fast one do all the background research, code writing, etc. The normal model would just relay the needed info to you at a more reasonable pace.
Re:Sonnet 5.5
on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:18PM (#49882163)
The company I work for joined it, and I've used Claude on various different accounts, both on and off the Cyber Verification Program. As far as I can tell, it literally doesn't do anything or have a point. The moment Claude gets close to something Cybersecurity related, it drops back to 4.8.
Re:Sonnet 5.5
on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:10PM (#49882030)
Yup. As far as I can tell, the Cyber Verification Program does absolutely nothing.
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:39PM (#49734029)
Start with an existing open source AI pentesting / source code scanning tool. Shannon and Strix are 2 that come to mind. They provide the tools, prompt, and frameworks for the model to use.
https://github.com/KeygraphHQ/shannon https://github.com/usestrix/strix
Re:US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged
on Sunday August 16, 2026 @10:31AM (#49320462)
I wouldn't be so quick to jump to deceptive and journalistic malpractice. The way I read it was not that they were inflating the number of drawdowns, but rather pointing out that it was designed for full drawdowns, not rapid and repeated cycles of addition/extraction.
The problem seems to be the rate of extraction and replacement, not the total volume ever extracted. I could be reading it wrong, but that was the impression I got.
"The reserve was designed to handle five full drawdowns over its lifespan. Instead, it has undergone dozens of cycles over 40 years.
Misra told CNBC that “because the system was not designed for this many cycles, the repeated injection of water and extraction of oil have caused severe cavern deformation, accelerated the rate of massive salt falls from the ceilings, and significantly weakened the overall structural integrity of the aging reserve.”
Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:15PM (#49245683)
Video games are honestly a pretty bad example. 10-20 years ago, you'd buy your video game, and it was a complete item, that you owned and could play for as long as you didn't damage it. Once you were done with it, you could lend it to friends, or sell it and recoup a decent chunk of money for the next game you wanted.
Now with everything digital only, you don't even own your games, your ability to play it is at the whims of mega-corporations. You can't resell it to recoup money, or lend it to a friend. Most games start on day 1 as essentially a beta, with tons of huge updates required to get them in a decent state, loot boxes, microtransactions, live service games taking over the entire market share, RAMmagedden driving up console prices post-launch, etc etc etc etc.
They are definitely prettier now and have fancy lighting effects though.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad?
on Friday August 07, 2026 @06:36PM (#49217064)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but neither of those outcomes sound like failures? They sound like a net positive for society. New mothers get to spend more time with their children, which has a ton of societal benefits, and teenaged boys decided to study more, and become more educated, something that also helps society out a lot. I admittedly didn't read the entire link yet, but both of those sound to me like a positive outcome of UBI, or at least neutral.
Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @12:05PM (#49198570)
Absolutely love the design, features, website, attention to detail, and just...taste. It's been quite a while since I mashed that reserve button so quickly haha. Hope it lives up to the design and looks!
Re:The great wealth transfer reality check
on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:06PM (#49127340)
Keep in mind these charts are almost useless if you're trying to determine how much the typical millennial or gen x person has compared to boomers.
I'd go as far as to say it's misleading at best to portray "The kids are alright" and that "Gen X and millennial heirs are starting from a position of strength", when the charts used to back that up are based on net worth per capita, a very poor metric to use for this. They might as well say "A small portion of the kids, that happen to be in the top ~10%, are alright".
Re:Show HN: I mapped every US golf course – 16k+ courses, free, no signup
on Sunday July 26, 2026 @02:09AM (#49055241)
Yep, old people in Florida love to golf and really love it when they can drive their golf cart from their garage straight to the clubhouse, finish a round of golf, and ride it right back to their garage only ever having to get out to hit the ball.
Re:OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @05:57PM (#48998915)
Well they're doing a pretty poor job of guiding it in a positive direction and ethically speaking they are almost indistinguishable from the bad actors....
Re:You only need the frontier model for one single edit
on Monday July 20, 2026 @05:34PM (#48985170)
I've played around with all the popular agent CLI's and I've landed on omp/ohmypi as my favorite for now. It's definitely the opposite of a lean install like Pi, but I find it works a lot better than OpenCode. It's also very very active, with a lot of cool new ideas like this prewalk in it.
Re:VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool
on Friday July 17, 2026 @10:32AM (#48947844)
Seems to be very random. I've heard stories like yours, as well as companies who applied and are approved same day.
Re:Grok Build is open source
on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @05:21PM (#48927156)
https://apnews.com/article/grok-ai-elon-musk-xai-f3f8195a176...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/grok-assumes-use...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/grok-praises-hit...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/elon-musks-xai-s...
https://apnews.com/article/grok-4-elon-musk-xai-colossus-14d...
https://apnews.com/article/grok-ai-south-africa-64ce5f240061...
https://apnews.com/article/france-ai-musk-grok-holocaust-e8c...
Re:DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect ...
on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @12:36PM (#48923427)
This is always mentioned when people talk about addictive substances being widespread. However, I think the key thing to think about isn't whether somethings addictive or not, but if said addiction comes with significant negative consequences/attributes. I don't think you'll find many people saying Caffeine is GOOD for you, but it just doesn't have significant negative outcomes like Tobacco.
Re:Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode se...
on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:19PM (#48886318)
I know it's against the ethos of Pi, but I think a lot of people would consider a handful of things like a memory system, web search, subagents, and looping to be a basic/base thing they would add to every agent harness.
Re:Vulnerability Reports are not Special Anymore
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:33AM (#48661492)
I know some professors who have started doing something similar to combat students using AI for their work. Even going as far as to hide the "your report must include XYZ obscure word 3x" prompt instructions in small invisible text. It's gotten pretty bad, with some students turning in papers with the original ChatGPT prompt LEFT IN THE TURNED IN ASSIGNMENT.
Re:A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown – CNN
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @04:03PM (#48532021)
> Until someone can reconcile these facts, and they can say distinctively that the rise in temperature we see right now isn't the same reason as before, I'm going to believe that temperature will moderate and cool, just like it did in the past.
Have you considered that one of the reasons it's not the same as before is because it's rising at a faster rate than before? It's not just that the temperature is changing but how fast it changes. If it happens slowly enough everything has time to adapt. If the rate of temperature increase happens faster than everything has time to adapt, there's problems.
> 1) We know that the Earth was much warmer in the past, including the Medieval Warming Period. We know that the Alps were warm enough so that the Iceman could pass through them without protection from the cold, and yet he was found encased in ice.
While true that the Alps were much warmer during the Medieval Warming Period, that was a regional weather change, not a global event, the change we're seeing now is global, and sustained, not just in one regional area.
Also, I'd recommend doing some additional research on Ötzi, the Iceman you're likely talking about. First, he died much earlier than the Medieval Warming Period, so they aren't even related. Also, I don't think very many people would describe him as found without protection from the cold, considering he was found with many different animal skin coats to protect him from the cold. And the fact that he died, frozen and encased in ice, further shows how it was indeed actually cold enough to be very dangerous.
> I live in California, where we were experienced a ~10 year drought. These same scientists claimed this was the "new normal" and everyone was in a panic. Then we had 2 years of rain and everything was back to normal for the last 4 years. In fact, it's better than normal. We are almost in summer, and there isn't a single area of California that is in drought conditions.
It totally is annoying how the drought conditions have been communicated to the public, for sure! However, California having a drought for 10 years and then being fine for 4 years is exactly the kind of weather whiplash and volatility that is intensifying due to climate change.
Re:NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised
on Monday June 01, 2026 @02:34PM (#48360807)
I believe the point is that if you delay patches until X days after release, usually someone will catch it and the maintainer or the package manager will pull the infected release. Thus, by you doing nothing and waiting X days, you protect yourself by never even getting the bad release. Then on the flip side, you just keep up with urgent security updates and push bad ones through faster after vetting them.
Re:EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were ...
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @04:57PM (#48340548)
It's gross to scroll on tablets as well.
Re:GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @10:40AM (#48223463)
I assumed they are meaning VSCode plugins that "hook" into the system.
Re:US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @11:04AM (#48109395)
Re:The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet: Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and ...
on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @10:17AM (#47864039)
You're forgetting that when you're sick and hurt yourself in the US you very likely still have to go to work. Doing some quick research, roughly 25% of the US workers don't have any sick time whatsoever, so you gotta take some painkillers and get back to work. If you need to take time off to go to the doctor, you're no longer getting paid, so...a lot of people don't do that and instead hide the pain with painkillers.
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
on Saturday April 18, 2026 @03:27PM (#47818761)
> As of right now that's basically Mythos. If the rumors are true, it's a 10 trillion parameter model which is QUITE a bit larger than other models. If so, I'd suspect the main reason it has a super limited roll out is that they can't afford to run it at scale yet.
Re:Claude Code Routines
on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:26PM (#47772785)
> the AWS things you mentioned you don’t need to mess with at all
not the op, but I suspect they were meaning it's a huge pain migrating to a different cloud provider when all those features mentioned are in use. not that managing them is a mess in AWS.