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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:09PM (#50321142)
It's like fast food vs healthy food.
Re:5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:51AM (#50305687)
Sounds like a hypothesis to me.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:31PM (#50279556)
I think the top models on that one have minimum goodwill and rejects refunds.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:28PM (#50279515)
AA published their article on Carbon now at the same time so it's absolutely coordinated.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:24PM (#50279445)
AA updated their index version yesterday. For sure Google waited for that update so they could be #1.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:22PM (#50279410)
1. "Building on Gemini 4 Argon". 2. Same price. 3. Relatively short time between releases.

Makes me think it's further post-training of the same model.

Re:Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:35PM (#50212603)
It's broken for me in Firefox, worked with Chrome.
Re:Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:30PM (#50212538)
Their benchmark result table is broken in Firefox.
Great benchmark!

I believe effort can mean both "solve harder problems" and "produce more stuff". I mostly don't want more stuff than I asked for, so a capable model at lower effort can indeed be the wiser choice. Faster response too.

Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:43AM (#50129490)
I believe it's Astra quantized. It was briefly named astra-lite.
When you see these absurd numbers, they are re-counting cached input for every turn. So a simple tool call when your context size is at 500k counts as another 500k to the sum.

Total Opus 5.5 token usage on OpenRouter last week is 5000B, presumably not counting cached input.

Re:Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:25PM (#49998996)
How do you validate the functions are correct? I did something similar, letting it (mostly deepseek 4.1) translate from assembly to C but it commonly made mistakes, some really hard to discover and fix.
Can you provide any examples for us interested?
Re:Decisions API is in public beta on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:48AM (#49989606)
And "system one".
Re:Decisions API is in public beta on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:43AM (#49989577)
Specifically, it happened over a year ago. Jev just hyped it up.

https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/

Re:Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:38AM (#49989549)
The new OpenAI Decisions API calls it "predicate". Also calling the API "decisions" rather than "system one". Usually I don't like inventing new standards but I hope the OpenAI schema takes over. We don't need this hype terminology.
Re:GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:29PM (#49899974)
There will be massive cyber incidents when bad actors start using these models.
The model is only 0.3B params so probably not much.
I tried calculating historical "intelligence per cost" recently but stopped when I realized intelligence is not linear. For any meaningful "x per y" you can just double "y" if you have a half as efficient system to get the same result but so-called intelligence doesn't work like that.
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:40AM (#49709545)
It works if you neglect code quality and understanding. I've done a few vibe coded projects on my free time but I would feel shame for submitting that kind of code at work where I use LLMs more responsibly.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter on Saturday September 05, 2026 @10:23AM (#49576786)
Likely because it uses fewer thinking tokens (that you don't see anyways).
Re:Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2 on Saturday September 05, 2026 @08:15AM (#49575806)
Give a task you have to 3 different models and see what actually works for you. There are no good benchmarks.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Friday September 04, 2026 @06:17AM (#49562660)
This is like saying mass production is "cheating" against handcraft.
Re:OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:23AM (#49561563)
Once it figures out a puzzle it could probably be instructed to design a specialized harness for Luna to be able to solve other instances of the same puzzle. Minimum wage workers are not solving novel problems.
Re:OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:42PM (#49557497)
They explain it here: https://openai.com/index/how-two-settings-tripled-our-arc-ag...

TLDR: The official ARC harness throws away old context and reasoning. No real-world harness is this bad, the model has to re-learn the game repeatedly. OpenAI basically just added standard compaction. Their harness is still "general".

Re:Muse Spark 1.3 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:20PM (#49541899)
With the contributor pricing being more than 10x cheaper than the standard, that would make it best and cheapest on the DeepSWE leaderboard! It feels fast in my experience too. LLMs keep improving at an insane pace.
Re:Muse Spark 1.3 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:54PM (#49541545)
I'm party using 1.2 to reverse engineer and re-implement an old game binary and it has been quite good and fast. The contributor pricing is very attractive, excited to try 1.3 and see if I feel a difference. 1.2 can get stuck outputting similar sounding thought summaries with no apparent progress when asked to solve bugs. Then I've switched to GLM-5.3-Flash which for this use case has been clearly better at finding suspected causes and following tracks.
Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:43PM (#49539748)
3.7 high and 3.8 medium are essentially the same on AA intelligence and cost. Output tokens on DeepSWE gives the same picture. So there might be something to it but they have done other things as well. At least the tokens are really fast.
Re:Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches this Sunday on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:09PM (#49499947)
If their platform allows any kind of processing as it sounds then anyone could just dump the data. So I don't see why they would not allow downloads for local processing.
Re:GLM-5.3 is now open-weight on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:37PM (#49484527)
Then use other providers hosting open models. Companies and individuals already put their whole code base on the cloud. I'm genuinely interested in privacy-oriented use cases where ZDR is not enough.

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