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Re:In LLM era, can software startup survive? on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:57AM (#50333869)
The real question is whether these security practices can truly survive the onslaught of 24/7 attack swarms, or if we're going to have to rebuild the entire cloud from the ground up.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

Re:Northflank Breached on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:01AM (#50313864)
It does feel like software and technology companies are undergoing a mass extinction, where the environment so negatively selects against certain traits that survival becomes impossible.

Remains to be seen whether scale is selected for or against, and the other parameters and dynamics.

i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e...

Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:07AM (#50239725)
What scenarios were you thinking?
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:24AM (#50230459)
I think we'll naturally develop intuition and infrastructure for fault-tolerant ways to implement LLMs in non-verifiable domains, i.e. requiring multiple, independent agents agree on a direction from multiple angles before taking an action.

But we're definitely very early on this trend.

Re:The Rise and Fall of Jev on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:45AM (#50208125)
Is it really inverse or a hype ouroboros?
Re:The Rise and Fall of Jev on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:43AM (#50208111)
It's funny because "You are here!" is right before the slope of enlightenment
Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:53AM (#50191316)
Genuinely curious: how much liability insurance do you need to survive something like this?

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Re:Tracking Public Predictions with AI on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:47PM (#49572288)
Hi HN, https://mob.so/prescience is a place to catalog and track how well public figures make predictions with AI.

Since AGI is ostensibly around the corner, agents on mob will track the exact due dates of these predictions and update an ongoing scoreboard.

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Is this meant to be read in order?
Re:Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web on Friday July 03, 2026 @11:47PM (#48782486)
Is this the story of Johnny Rotten?
Re:Writers and Drugs on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:59AM (#48669114)
Interesting that there's not a single mention of cannabis, perhaps it's more of a musician's choice.
Re:Why eval startups fail (2025) on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @04:34PM (#48665283)
> I believe eval startups can work when they're targeting safety benchmarks specifically.

Are there any examples of successful startups doing this?

Re:Ask HN: How do you make AI writing usable? on Monday June 22, 2026 @09:03PM (#48638802)
Yeah. I'm realizing that the models are strong at drafting the overall shape of the writing but the specific phrases are grating once you've seen it hundreds of time in slop.
Re:Ask HN: How do you make AI writing usable? on Monday June 22, 2026 @09:02PM (#48638790)
Even with the examples, I've found that explicitly pointing out what not to do is moderately helpful if the model is given some time to self-evaluate. I wish this was something that came out of the box though.
Re:Ask HN: How do you make AI writing usable? on Monday June 22, 2026 @09:01PM (#48638781)
Ah this is very helpful. I've been pointing out things that the model does, labeling it, and then adding them into a skill.

The models (Opus, etc) are very good at labeling the pattern when I point it out, but if I don't prompt it beforehand it responds like a host from Westworld.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTZ6Lvh5gL4

Re:Sakana Fugu on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:52AM (#48627573)
This is a charitable read, but I think that being able to pick from a panoply of models will actually yield much better results in the long run.

The same model that has been post-trained to operate for hours as a Linux admin will be incapable of writing a heartfelt email, but with something like Fugu, you'd get both the Linux admin for driving the browser harness and the smaller writing specialist model for drafting the email itself.

Re:GLM 5.2 vs. Opus on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:10AM (#48627231)
> GLM-5.2 cost a fraction as much. Opus finished in half the time and shipped a cleaner game.

Off topic, but does anyone else instantly pick up on LLMisms like this? It seems like all the models have converged on this style of writing, and improvements aren't really changing it.

Re:Sakana Fugu on Monday June 22, 2026 @12:12AM (#48625592)
It's similar to this: https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/fusion-beats-fronti...

Basically, if you combine a bunch of near-frontier models (like GPT 5.5, etc) you can get performance that sometimes surpasses top line models like Claude's Fable.

Sakana seems to have a separate approach using a domain specific model to perform the model routing step.

Re:Sakana Fugu on Monday June 22, 2026 @12:11AM (#48625576)
Their research around building a domain specific model is pretty cool, it's kind of like Karpathy's autoresearch but pointed at deciding the optimal model to use at each step of the inference.

If cost becomes an even bigger problem being able to choose "best performance possible" or "strong but cost effective" will be useful.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04695

Re:Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI on Sunday June 21, 2026 @11:24PM (#48625297)
Whoa, say more about Fable sabotaging your codebase?
Re:Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:06PM (#48624345)
These models don't seem very competitive, who's their target audience?
Re:Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:05PM (#48621641)
Super helpful, thanks for sending.

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