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Re:The question we should all be asking about AI on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:20AM (#50325957)
I worry they’re going to destroy the chips they can’t afford to deploy to keep them from being used for local inference
Re:We Won't "Just Hang Out" on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:45PM (#50293962)
The corpus AI is trained on is everything leading up to now, so my guess is it will keep doing that stuff.
Re:When the Term "Heatwave" Is No Longer Enough on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:24PM (#50211518)
We should name them after oil company execs
Re:High-Priced Chips in Warehouses: Nvidia's Big Con? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:27PM (#50186231)
Come on bullwhip!
Re:What I learned from six months of being stupid on purpose on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @12:54PM (#50184057)
Somehow I doubt it’s entirely written by a human
Re:Neckbeard – a DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:04PM (#50093184)
Can this be used with the ponytail skill? https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/tree/main
Re:Ask HN: Many SWEngs out there are considering re-training on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:18AM (#50086526)
I’m a data engineer at a massive bureaucratic institution. Working on full stack so I can build cool stuff for people
I’ll opt-in to working at Apple
Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:20PM (#50063880)
You don’t have to make any decisions then you have to decide if what it made is correct and communicate that. For all levels of detail that matter
Re:Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later on Monday October 12, 2026 @01:32PM (#50059825)
Google’s main product was and continues to be ads
One of my main investing goals is to not support highly finalized nihilistic slop factories that target children
They don’t look very professional in the Folding Ideas video. They look like a bunch of 20 something friends with outsized resources bumbling their way to content production. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0dwagg5wYY4&ra=m
It’s so hard to find drivers for those
They’re using tech invented for fracking, so very conventional. The application for geothermal is what’s new.
This is extremely impressive, but at the same time it has some pickle Rick plays chess vibes
“The web is now 5 websites all filled with screenshots of the other 4” - Cory Doctorow
Re:macOS 27 is so buggy on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:05PM (#49925005)
Clearly this is sabotage, someone alert the judge of the change
Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:03PM (#49902016)
ChatGPT will be full of ads soon. No one should go to FreeTaxUSA.com when they are trying to go to the IRS
Re:ChatGPT Pro 500 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:56PM (#49897555)
Tired of their investors saying that
Re:ChatGPT Pro 500 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:54PM (#49897531)
Move fast and bill things
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:49PM (#49897440)
People who are bad with money is a big market. Maybe they’re using the Burts Bees strategy
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:44PM (#49897343)
You need to hire better assistants
Hard to bribe satellites, easy to bribe NJ inspectors
There’s a town in Russia with only one road to get there. Outside of town there’s a stoplight always on red. This is so the police can stop anyone in town for running a red light.
Where would the luxury market go? Asking for a friend
Re:The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:11PM (#49759597)
Someone should train an LLM on a corpus without the concept of lies. I wonder if there’s enough data
Re:FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities on Thursday September 17, 2026 @11:24AM (#49742206)
I’m interested in Lora for when They turn off the internet. I assume they will also jam the relevant bands? Does anyone else have this in their threat model?
Re:Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Panopticon on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:32PM (#49700720)
Emphasis on the adversarial

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