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Couldn't find the reference but I remember some time ago a first generation automated gun killing the audience at an army show. Was the gun maker convicted of manslauther?
Re:iPhone Duo on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:36AM (#49639301)
Lots of people in non-tech jobs are dropping their laptop/desktop for their phone for all work-related tasks. They love having more screen real estate, plus their company pays for the premium.
Re:Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @12:03PM (#49260369)
A natural next step is to use the reasoning traces to jailbreak the stronger models (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.12277)
Re:As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program on Saturday August 08, 2026 @02:39AM (#49219394)
Maybe the correct UX could be to list the locations of settings data, their size and ask the user whether they want to leave them, put them aside in a dedicated folder ("the attic", "the basement" or whatever), or remove them
Re:The Session You Cannot take with you on Friday July 31, 2026 @10:57AM (#49124018)
What matters for this injection strategy to work is to follow quite closely the style of the reasoning. It's particularly effective if you copy reasoning from the same context. If you cannot see the reasoning, you cannot duplicate it's style.

That said, including instances of the attack in training is already a good countermeasure.

Re:The Session You Cannot take with you on Friday July 31, 2026 @07:05AM (#49121641)
People will keep hiding reasoning because it allows prompt injection https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.12277, in addition to facilitating distillation (you don't pay the full cost of RL)
The next step is to build software without bugs
Re:How many of the 170k English words do you know? on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:47AM (#48607531)
Longest definition and semi-columns are strong biases for right answer. Also, my run contained a lot of adjectives for which it is pretty obvious that noun definitions do not match.
It may be a clever move. By using the same models as android (contractually?), they can compete on the user experience which they typically handle better than android phone providers.
And papers on bias amplification in ML predate LLMs. I remember this specific one which was a spotlight paper at EMNLP:

Men Also Like Shopping: Reducing Gender Bias Amplification using Corpus-level Constraints, Zhao et al.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09457

Re:Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid on Friday May 15, 2026 @06:13AM (#48146760)
Does changing the date fix it?
Deployed it to a huggingface space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/benoitfavre/needle-playground

You can check the very simple docker file there.

Re:Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @03:19PM (#47868026)
Here is llama-bench on the same M4:

  | model                    |       size |     params | backend    | threads |            test |                  t/s |
  | ------------------------ | ---------: | ---------: | ---------- | ------: | --------------: | -------------------: |
  | qwen35 27B Q4_K_M        |  15.65 GiB |    26.90 B | BLAS,MTL   |       4 |           pp512 |         61.31 ± 0.79 |
  | qwen35 27B Q4_K_M        |  15.65 GiB |    26.90 B | BLAS,MTL   |       4 |           tg128 |          5.52 ± 0.08 |
  | qwen35moe 35B.A3B Q3_K_M |  15.45 GiB |    34.66 B | BLAS,MTL   |       4 |           pp512 |        385.54 ± 2.70 |
  | qwen35moe 35B.A3B Q3_K_M |  15.45 GiB |    34.66 B | BLAS,MTL   |       4 |           tg128 |         26.75 ± 0.02 |
So ~60 for prefill and ~5 for output on 27B and about 5x on 35B-A3B.
Re:Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:38AM (#47865140)
I get ~5 tokens/s on an M4 with 32G of RAM, using:

  llama-server \
   -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M \
   --no-mmproj \
   --fit on \
   -np 1 \
   -c 65536 \
   --cache-ram 4096 -ctxcp 2 \
   --jinja \
   --temp 0.6 \
   --top-p 0.95 \
   --top-k 20 \
   --min-p 0.0 \
   --presence-penalty 0.0 \
   --repeat-penalty 1.0 \
   --reasoning on \
   --chat-template-kwargs '{"preserve_thinking": true}'
35B-A3B model is at ~25 t/s. For comparison, on an A100 (~RTX 3090 with more memory) they fare respectively at 41 t/s and 97 t/s.

I haven't tested the 27B model yet, but 35B-A3B often gets off rails after 15k-20k tokens of context. You can have it to do basic things reliably, but certainly not at the level of "frontier" models.

Re:Making RAM at Home [video] on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @02:50AM (#47859956)
I miss the comment tagging system: insightful, informative, interesting, funny. It would make sense for hn.
Re:Simplest Hash Functions on Sunday April 12, 2026 @03:09AM (#47736889)
I just realized that a hash function is nothing less than the output of a deterministic random number generator xored with some data
No, the failure is the human written prompt
Re:What if the browser built the UI for you? on Sunday April 05, 2026 @02:42AM (#47646767)
The author emphasizes accessibility and coherence as a benefit but another interesting one is composability which does not emerge naturally in the world of UI. Create a UI for a pair of websites like a command line for grep and wc. LLMs already provide that but under the natural language interaction primitive. UI could allow for branded experiences, ad delivery and whatnot in ways that natural language doesn't.
"That allows us to license the open source project under the more permissive MIT license."
I would say:

- decomposition: discover a more general form of Fourrier transform to untangle the underlying factors

- memorization: some patterns are recurrent in many domains such as power low

- multitask: exploit cross-domain connections such as weather vs electricity

Ollama is a user-friendly UI for LLM inference. It is powered by llama.cpp (or a fork of it) which is more power-user oriented and requires command-line wrangling. GGML is the math library behind llama.cpp and GGUF is the associated file format used for storing LLM weights.
Maybe they quantized a bit too much the model parameters...
This is the worst lay-people explanation of an AI component I have seen in a long time. It doesn't even seem AI generated.
Re:Arm AGI CPU on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @03:49PM (#47508071)
This reminds me of Intel talking about faster web browsing with the new Pentium
Re:Prompt Injecting Contributing.md on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:54PM (#47443273)
The real question is when will you resort to bots for rejecting low-quality PRs, and when will contributing bots generate prompt injections to fool your bots into merging their PRs?
Re:Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:19AM (#47439961)
Reminds me of "Universal pre-training by iterated random computation" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20057, with bit less formal approach.

I wonder if there is a closed-form solution for those kinds of initialization methods (call them pre-training if you wish). A solution that would allow attention heads to detect a variety of diverse patterns, yet more structured than random init.

Re:Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:17AM (#47333342)
Time to start zig++
Re:AI and the Ship of Theseus on Friday March 06, 2026 @02:22AM (#47272020)
It's funny that real value is now in test suites. Or maybe it's always been...

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