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Re:Scaling Git at OpenAI on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:21AM (#50348719)
Naive to think you can tell whether a human or their unreleased model wrote this
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:31PM (#50211617)
They found the PHP?
Re:Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out on Monday October 19, 2026 @09:19AM (#50152110)
Nobody knows what it means, but it's provocative. It gets the people going
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:19PM (#49983525)
> Do you have any evidence to the contrary?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_disclosures

Re:Sites in ChatGPT on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:17PM (#49937380)
something that solves a real problem for businesses, that you are uniquely positioned to execute on well. If you target the lowest common denominator, or consumers, or build something really quickly - good luck
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:04PM (#49701214)
New Siri is not available in the EU. And no plans to change that.

I'll probably switch to Android once my phone and watch batteries degrade enough to annoy me

Re:Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work on Saturday September 12, 2026 @08:10PM (#49678568)
Replicad is another frontend to the same cad kernel. But can run in browser or via bun or whichever js runtime you want. I've found llms to be better at writing typescript than python code for things like this.

Using Replicad, I've successfully iterated on a 3d printed enclosure for my electronics project. It's fantastic to get everything parameter based and version controlled from revision 1.

Re:>10x More Efficient Pretraining on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:40PM (#49647548)
> What does that get you?

Cheaper model training runs? Ability to scale training to larger model sizes without extending training time?

"The scenario has been explored in fiction" doesn’t mean "everything in fiction will happen." Your reply conflates familiarity with inevitability.

Science fiction is relevant here because it has explored the problem of humans losing control of what they create. Whether that could happen with AI needs to be assessed on its merits. Pointing to other fictional things that haven’t happened neither answers that question nor rebuts the original point.

Re:The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:13AM (#49622473)
AI companies use heuristics to filter sessions, then llms to further filter, then use various techniques too anonymize the session, then process it and add it to various datasets for further selection and refinement. they don't need huge storage for this.
Re:Pigeon, a signed Pass for what a sub-agent may do on Sunday September 06, 2026 @07:37AM (#49585516)
A trivial problem solved in a very complex way
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:47AM (#49535452)
It's only theft when people pay Anthropic for inference in order to improve their own datasets. It's not theft when Anthropic grabbed basically all ebooks and web content on the internet to build their own dataset, without paying anything to anyone
Re:Death to px, long live ch on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:19AM (#49409526)
I will not take CSS advice from a website that looks like such utter crap on mobile
Re:Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified on Friday August 14, 2026 @08:22AM (#49297795)
Imagine a person who does not want social media companies to shape their reality, yet does not want their perception of reality to be compromised by hallucinations. Or perhaps you would be fine with being snuck LSD on your way to work, or court, or picking up your kids from kindergarten? Most people do not seek out hallucinations
Re:Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast on Friday August 14, 2026 @05:37AM (#49296482)
the easier way to do this, with any harness, is to use an expensive main agent that is told to delegate all code reading, writing, exploration, research etc to weaker subagents to conserve tokens. It's an inversion of the pattern but the resulting split is the same
Re:Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified on Thursday August 13, 2026 @04:37AM (#49283186)
The large majority of people want absolutely nothing to do with hallucinations
Oh, so starting Siri on my iphone is the exact same experience as having a voice conversation with a SOTA LLM?
Re:The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @04:18PM (#49263864)
Title implies people will flock to a pill that makes them shed gray matter
1. You can't just press a button on your phone to instantly start an ai voice conversation

2. You can't bring your smart speakers with you everywhere, also same as 1

3. See 1 and 2

Re:Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era on Saturday August 01, 2026 @03:20AM (#49131939)
Different charting backends support different kinds of charts. Being able to easily switch between "ECharts Sunburst" and "Vega-Lite faceted bar" - one of the examples on the project website - seems like a super useful ability.
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @01:51PM (#49039310)
Doubleplus benchmaxxed
Re:HMD Touch 4G on Sunday July 19, 2026 @01:41PM (#48970116)
> Currently only available in India

Closes tab

Re:Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now on Sunday July 19, 2026 @07:36AM (#48967168)
Faster package manager

Faster startup

Typescript support out of the box

Better stdlib than node

Stdlib includes yaml, sqlite etc so you need to pull in fewer deps, so you can avoid the left-pad/is-even node_modules explosion problem to a greater extent

Re:Designing emoji for the way we communicate today on Friday July 17, 2026 @03:05PM (#48951092)
oh, are they going to adjust the eggplant emoji to match modern usage? And perhaps the peach emoji as well?
This is maybe only tangentially relevant to the linked study, but I've noticed I can read aloud from a book on autopilot while thinking about other things or even thinking back on past conversations. I could not do this a few years ago, but now it happens on its own. I wonder how that relates to attention and speech streams
Re:Successful Companies Go Blind on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:36AM (#48860594)
The article starts with a pretty weak simile and is structured in a way that reminds me of llm output. Made me stop reading pretty quickly.

I’m wary of essays that take a genuinely complicated organizational problem and explain it through one dominant lens. Life isn't that simple.

what the brain needs is Default Mode Network, not more stimuli
Re:Phosh 0.56.0 on Sunday July 05, 2026 @09:59AM (#48794370)
Seemed interesting until I read that Phosh pulls in GNOME - gnome-settings, gnome-session etc. Seems like a very strange bundle to bring in for an extremely power constrained device, where every % of increased battery drain is noticed by the user
Decaf is typically not 100% free of caffeine, and coffee contains other minor stimulants as well
Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 on Saturday June 27, 2026 @12:01PM (#48699377)
> There are now Asian models coming , optimized focused on cybersecurity defense at a high level, so I suspect this will be a relatively moot point soon.

Source?

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