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Re:Anthropic's growth just flattened (really) on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:03PM (#50347491)
This is fine. Not only are we happy with growth now, but we want growth of growth?
Re:Claude Duet on Thursday October 22, 2026 @06:39AM (#50193569)
Well, I guess it is like OpenClaw which is always on and doing tasks based on timers, your prompts, hooks or its own decisions
> AI has destroyed a major source of "life's meaning" for many people who pursued mathematics.

That captures how I feel, and I just don't know what do with that emotion. Mathematics is now like chess, gardening, crochetting, dancing, etc

Re:Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:50AM (#50071758)
Will this kick off a wave off bankruptcy of companies with morally bankrupt ideas?
Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:07AM (#50066561)
Well, someone with experience might be more expensive to hire.
I am as upset as the slew of math slop from OpenAI as the next guy, but I do not understand this article. Are they saying that this was not a true improvement because the algorithm is _galactic_? Human algorithm researchers have been publishing those sorts of results for decades now
I use the VPS mainly to route traffic from my in-house server.

I am sure there is a way to avoid tailscale, but I like putting it on everything I can. It is pretty easy to use.

I use such a computer to expose services from my home server. You can do this using tailscale or even rathole. (Sadly, I don't have access to the router to port forward packets to my home server directly.)

Things I like to host: Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Karakeep, Deluge, Tailscale (for exit nodes, among other things)

Other stuff I want to host but not yet: Immich, Vaultwarden, Hister, Archibebox, CopyParty

Re:OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:32PM (#50014427)
Very well written summary of the current situation

Imagine being someone who is working on one of these problems. You have no good guarantee that the problem was solved, but you will have the horrible homework of reading the AI slop. Also, if you do have something interesting to say about the problem, people will have less enthusiasm about it now

Re:Cleo (Mathematician) on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:16AM (#50002748)
Granted this is an interesting curiosity, but Cleo hardly qualifies as a mathematician.

Also, didn't Cleo post the problems themselves?

Re:AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:31AM (#49993415)
The readme has no figures :( describing the packing?
Re:All I wanted was a custom domain email on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:47AM (#49963173)
How about NameCrane? They have a lifetime plan for $75

https://namecrane.com/store/email-hosting-deals

Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:17PM (#49903589)
I am reading "The Last Contract of Isako" by Fonda Lee. Finished reading her Green Bone Saga earlier. She does phenomenal world building.

Also, "Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto"

Re:What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:30AM (#49888666)
I like these design ideas. However, the shortcomings that the author is pointing out are not contingencies of incompetence, they are part of the marketting as well as the ideology of the AI shops.

> which means it is a dark pattern which subtly encourages the “author” to offload this work to their code reviewer without ever looking.

> Most chatbots prefer to give an answer, rather than a citation.

These dark patterns are part of what the AI shops are selling.

Re:MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:41PM (#49887004)
Yeah, or a μLM
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:20AM (#49765158)
I think this is a misdiagnosis of the problem. The AI posters are just fine, perhaps even pretty good.

The problem is that using AI to create the posters show a lack of willingness to put in effort, and it makes you question whether the producer cares about the product and whether they care about the large scale societal problems related to the usage of post-2022 transformer based neural networks.

Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:13AM (#49724302)
TLDR: Like an LLM, the input is a string, but the output is not a completion. The output is a ranking of elements from a certain enum (e.g, [Yes/No], [A/B/C/D]). They use a technique called Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions (RLCD) instead of RLHF. Also, inference is a lot faster.

https://docs.typesafe.ai/primitives has a much better explanation

Re:Muse's Social Media Handle Is Stolen by New Meta AI Tool on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:08PM (#49636959)
Great! Can't wait until a few billion dollars are wasted on a new Meta product which becomes a nothingburger even before it starts
Re:Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:45PM (#49619263)
> I didn't realize that open math problems were a finite resource.

That is exactly what Tao is explaining in that tweet.

TLDR: Open Problems are infinite, but those which are at the boundary of easy and hard problems and are interesting are far more scarce

Re:My Feed, My Way on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:33AM (#49605882)
I read the first sentence and thought: what is the government of Albania doing in Australia?
Re:A/I shuts down – Stay human on Sunday September 06, 2026 @09:38PM (#49592815)
Is it related to reticulum?
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:49AM (#49461330)
So only PR applications are affected?
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:05PM (#49458104)
Are H1Bs still being processed? They are dual intent visas as far as I know
Re:JIT Compiling Code in 5μs on Sunday August 23, 2026 @06:45AM (#49407735)
I recommend Russ Cox's articles on implementing a regex engine: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/

It is very relevant

Re:Don't Paste the AI, please on Thursday August 20, 2026 @08:53AM (#49373973)
Related:

Don't Be a Meat Proxy: https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/

No Meat Proxy: https://nomeatproxy.com/

How to Passive-Aggressively Shame People Who Use LLMs Selfishly: https://joshmoody.org/blog/selfish-ai/

AI;DR: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read

Re:OpenRouter is joining Stripe on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:40PM (#49369484)
"to power the next wave of GDP growth" is a wonderfully shallow but impressive clause.

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