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They will write "research" articles that demonstrate it's possible to plant bad stuff inside open weights model. Or probably already did it?
Re:11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:17AM (#50071244)
It's fascinating that this kind of bug is exactly you can't really avoid even when rust is supposedly to guard against. Rust mitigated this problem a lot in practice, but you can never be certain because of issues like this in practice. This is similar that a math proof that's already been peer reviewed and accepted as truth, may still be possible to be wrong, although the chance is very small but it's not zero. Epseicially when the complexity gets higher.
isn't this only counting russian origin already?
Deepseek v4.1 flash is my baseline model to use at original provider's api. The issue is, for my personal use, it's cheap enough that i don't need it to go cheaper compare to the time I spent using it. And it's already a very capable model in dealing everyday simple things. For sure, for research level questions or large scale coding projects, I would want to use frontier model. But more and more daily tasks can be done now just using pi with deepseek api directly without thinking about much.
Re:The Mathocalypse on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:27AM (#50006237)
This is with the unreleased model, which is probably significantly larger (thus costlier) than astra.
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:23AM (#49643320)
This is definitely not on par with GPT-6 astra. Not with GPT-5.6 sol either. But probably will set as a new baseline for modern API based LLM because it's so cheap.
Re:Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:57AM (#49488179)
It's one of the things you need to do if you want your company to later become the only company in the world. They also promised that they would treat you nicely afterwards after they get what they want.
Re:Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B) on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:15PM (#49436485)
You probably meant Qwen3.8-35B-A3B. But judging from some of the words from their team, it seems unlikely unfortunately.
Re:DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:38AM (#49388853)
That would've been a very strange arrangement.
Re:Why Did OpenAI's Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar Leave? on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @11:02AM (#49259528)
It's unlikely HugginFace colluded given they specifically cited they used open models to save them from the hacking.
Re:How Claude marks AI-generated content on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @07:57AM (#49256866)
My guess is that they will later "reveal" some "violations" but provide little evidence citing proprietary algorithm.
Re:AI's top startups are barely publishing their research on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:02AM (#49109421)
Top startups in China publish a lot?
Re:PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works on Monday July 27, 2026 @06:56AM (#49067719)
I assume this is done with the help of AI? I have done similar vibe project that explaining catastrophic forgetting with the help of AI. It's just so satisfying now that if you really want to learn something, you can always do it with the help of AI. Before, it's hard to find good resources, now it's not a problem, the issue now becomes one's own focus and agency.
U.S. policymakers believe that even if the gap is small—like six months to a year—whoever reaches AGI first (whatever that means) could gain such an overwhelming advantage over their perceived adversary that it would effectively kneecap them. (You can look at the kinds of things they mention—cyber, WMDs—to get a sense of what they mean.) Jensen Huang disagrees and has said AI is a marathon.
Re:Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989 on Thursday May 07, 2026 @06:12AM (#48047572)
Maybe I should start a project rewriting pctools 5.0 in rust!
Yeah, this seems like a personal choice, which does work out given the current result.
Re:From 0% to 36% on Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3 on Friday March 27, 2026 @02:01AM (#47539501)
Harness is fine. I think people here are arguing what provided here to take the test is not harness.
Re:Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks on Monday February 23, 2026 @05:50PM (#47130134)
This violates the ToS, but I don't think it's distillation. Distillation requires knowing the logits, which current API does not provide. This is just synthetic data generation. Anthropic definitely knows the difference.
Google has gigantic power over its users. Consider that for some reason, Google banned your gmail account, which you are using for large number of logins for different essential services.
I think diffusion makes much more sense than auto-regressive (AR) specifically in code generation comparing to chatbot.
Great article. To me, this highlights a key question in the era of rapidly advancing machine intelligence: if we know machine intelligence is progressing, what is more valuable to build for? As humans, we still find many tools useful even when doing knowledge work. For instance, a calculator. Sure, a smart person can perform calculations in their head, but it’s much easier to teach everyone how to use a calculator, which is 100% reliable in its intended domain.

In this era, we should build these kinds of tools for problems we know are straightforward ones you can’t get smarter than, even as intelligence continues to advance. Using tools like "bash" or command-line interfaces originally designed for humans is a good initial approach, since we can essentially reuse much of what was built for human use. Later, we can optimize specifically for machines, either accounting for their different cognitive structures (e.g., the ability to memorize extremely long contexts compared to humans) or adapting to the stream-based input/output patterns of current autoregressive token generators.

Eventually, I believe machine intelligence will build their own tools based on these foundations, likely a similar kind of milestone to when humans first began using tools.

Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:06AM (#46999124)
Yes, agentic-wise, Claude Opus is best. Complex coding is GPT-5.x. But for smartness, I always felt Gemini 3 Pro is best.
Re:Prism on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:13AM (#46794907)
OpenAI has a former NSA director on its board. [1] This connection makes the dilution of the term "PRISM" in search results a potential benefit to NSA interests.

[1]: https://openai.com/index/openai-appoints-retired-us-army-gen...

Rust's `serde_json` recently switched to use a new library for floating string conversion: https://github.com/dtolnay/zmij.
A market maker needs a premium to provide liquidity. If all else is equal, why would they take on execution time risk? This is a universal feature of continuous-trading Central Limit Order Books (CLOBs), not something unique to prediction markets.
I guess I am asking how we know Gemini and Claude relies on the additive residual stream. We don't know the architecture details for these closed models?
How do you know "GPT-5, Claude, Llama, Gemini. Under the hood, they all do the same thing: x+F(x)."?
I have a similar experience when I found out that claude code can use ssh to conect to remote server and diagnose any sysadmin issue there. It just feels really empowered.
I think it's likely someone already discovered this. It's just that info is not broadcasted to people who want to comment on this thread.
I can't find the source. Anyone can point to it?

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