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Re:Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:14PM (#49569685)
Ooh I never realized FLT and Code book were the same author. Yes, both great!
Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Thursday September 03, 2026 @01:42AM (#49546321)
If that's not art, I don't know what is.

https://scosman.github.io/pelicans_riding_bicycles/

eww?

:r !curl?

Re:OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally on Monday August 31, 2026 @01:42AM (#49506037)
This was useful for the 1-2 months where models were good enough to use all their newfound tools but not good enough to vibe code them themselves.

Now, just install codex (or claude code or whatever) on a vps, tell it to make a way to email it, then email it to make a way to text it etc etc. takes a few minutes and when you need another bridge just have codex make it.

Re:Creepy Crawlies on Monday August 31, 2026 @12:45AM (#49505695)
Woah, went from > 1 min on git.ffmpeg (difficulty 6) to instant. Thanks!

Edit: after some more analysis; Average with extension disabled is 90 seconds, with extension enabled it's .3 seconds

Re:Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:41PM (#49468436)
Hermes is close
At least AI is not depressed all the time and trying to make everyone lose their money
I think there's still a ton of secret sauce needed for serving them economically
More RLVR. Give it verifiable problems, if it doesn't find a solution move on, if it does, use that as a reward signal.
Re:Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent on Thursday August 13, 2026 @07:18PM (#49292937)
They shoot through walls!
Re:"AI" will never become conscious on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @06:58PM (#49190207)
Would be nice if we can take the bat's sonar encoder, train a projector and fuse it into our NN
Re:Ask HN: What's Next for LLMs? on Monday August 03, 2026 @02:35PM (#49159714)
Yeah, so it's a spectrum. In general if you want to feel the power of the latest and greatest, you should just not look at the output, give it full access (not on your computer - a server, or old machine you don't use is best) and give it a big audacious goal and let it work.

That might not be ok for your work / hobby / whatever, but if you wanna see the differences between models that's probably the best way.

Re:Show HN: Alfa. Killing AI hallucinations with resonance on Monday August 03, 2026 @02:26AM (#49151926)
> If we represent the operation of the Random Number Generator (RNG) as a time-series graph, the system can be applied to decrypt the bitcoin seed-phrase.

Big if true

Re:Ask HN: What's Next for LLMs? on Sunday August 02, 2026 @09:39PM (#49150271)
If you can't find a difference between Haiku & Opus, something's going wrong
Re:U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123% on Friday July 31, 2026 @12:09PM (#49124943)
Everyone hates regulations until they realize every regulation actually does something. Everyone hates spending until they realize the money goes towards something.

None of this will get solved until a crisis

Subliminal Learning: language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data

https://arxiv.org/html/2507.14805v1

"In our main experiments, a “teacher” model with some trait T (such as liking owls or being misaligned) generates a dataset consisting solely of number sequences. Remarkably, a “student” model trained on this dataset learns T. This occurs even when the data is filtered to remove references to T."

I had to butcher the title due to length
Re:Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API on Monday July 27, 2026 @11:21PM (#49078893)
**reflects** the cost...

Not the **literal** cost

Re:Our position on open-weights models on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:22PM (#49078471)
Whatever, doesn't matter. The point is a model should be able to exist and be used even if it goes against whoever got 270 electoral college votes
Re:Paged Out #9 [pdf] on Monday July 27, 2026 @05:14PM (#49075610)
> In our experience, C has proven to be a pleasant, expressive and versatile language for a wide variety of programs. It is easy to learn, and it wears well as one's experience with it grows.

The C Programming Language K&R

Re:MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH on Monday July 27, 2026 @03:06PM (#49074236)
It looks to me very similar to pi - Suleyman's last venture
> “We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big NVIDIA computer will let us do so,” said Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and CEO of SSI.
Re:Latest Airbus Single Aisle Aircraft Innovations on Friday July 24, 2026 @11:53AM (#49037483)
I don't get this attitude. The seats are meant to recline, as soon as takeoff is finished I recline. If you want more space, you should too.
> and *successfully* found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation.

Emphasis mine

Re:SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @06:15PM (#48838107)
I know you didn't mean this but have you ever seen Meta's model which plays (the game) Diplomacy? really cool

https://ai.meta.com/research/cicero/

Re:We Got This Wrong. and We Are Fixing It on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @08:09AM (#48830879)
Star player traded to serious contender
Re:How Kalshi Infects the News on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:49PM (#48807254)
I'm sure, I was just trying to help with

> I can't even figure it out as a thought exercise.

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