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Re:Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf] on Friday January 30, 2026 @07:22PM (#46831843)
> but google is stock in the academic bias of Stanford and MIT and can't think outside the box

Can you clarify what you mean? I am not sure I follow.

Re:Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:07PM (#46356761)
Highly recommend using agent based hooks for things like `[review & test]`.

At a basic level, they work akin to git-hooks, but they fire up a whole new context whenever certain events trigger (E.g. another agent finishes implementing changes) - and that hook instance is independent of the implementation context (which is great, as for the review case it is a semi-independent reviewer).

It seems that perhaps neither are inherently 'good models'? What would an ideal alternative look like?
Re:Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @05:22PM (#46306396)
> it’s more performant than Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT 5.2 extra high

...and all of that done without any GPUs as far as i know! [1]

[1] - https://www.uncoveralpha.com/p/the-chip-made-for-the-ai-infe...

(tldr: afaik Google trained Gemini 3 entirely on tensor processing units - TPUs)

Re:GPT-5.2 on Friday December 12, 2025 @07:01AM (#46243327)
they 100% are unless you provide a RUBRIC / basically make it ordinal.

"Return a score of 0.0 if ...., Return a score of 0.5 if .... , Return a score of 1.0 if ..."

Re:Claude Is Down on Friday October 31, 2025 @02:46PM (#45775322)
Very similar usage duration / window for me (US Pacific) - no availability issues.
To put some numbers to trying to develop a single therapy (where candidates etc. will fail as you try them)

- Plan to sink $180-500M+ just in R&D

- Factor in failures, regulatory, clinical, recruitment, phase 1/2 trials and you arrive very quickly around $1.3-2.1 BILLION USD per therapy approved.

...there is a 90% chance that you will spend that $1B+ - and it will fail completely.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-020-00043-x

https://greenfieldchemical.com/2023/08/10/the-staggering-cos...

fwiw towards your theory, I believe that the US Govt actually considers cloud providers - by way of specific services offered "dual use" systems for mil or civil use.

E.g. you will find references in AWS docs to Bureau of Industry/Security rulings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology

https://www.bis.gov/

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/global-export-compliance/

OTP protected flow verification
Really good call out re: email and other 'side-flows' - hopefully there is integration with something like Mailosaur.

https://mailosaur.com/email-testing

Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @12:04PM (#45734659)
> nor are they...able to mutate themselves to gain new information on the fly

See "Self-Adapting Language Models" from a group out of MIT recently which really gets at exactly that.

https://jyopari.github.io/posts/seal

Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:15PM (#45465987)
...not monetized yet: Can't find the post, but a prev. HN post had a link to an article showing that OpenAI had hired someone from Meta's ad service leadership - so I took that to mean it's a matter of time.

edit: believe it was Fidji Simo et al.

https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2025/openai...

Re:Markov Chains Are the Original Language Models on Thursday September 25, 2025 @05:13PM (#45379161)
Ahh thank you for catching - apologies I didn't see this in time to add a correction.
Re:Markov Chains Are the Original Language Models on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @02:42AM (#45357070)
Related:

KingJamesProgramming [1] - a mashup of Knuth books [2] and the King James Bible with a Markov chain, is still one of my favorite reads for a laugh.

It was also the first place I was really exposed to probabilistic-based methods for generation of novel content.

You get gems like:

"they smote the city with the edge of the sword. 22:20 And one of his main motivations was the high cost of proprietary software houses."

and

"37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and leave it for an inheritance unto the children of Gad according to the number of steps that is linear in b."

[1] https://www.tumblr.com/kingjamesprogramming

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

Re:A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture on Thursday September 04, 2025 @02:57PM (#45130931)
I'm typically pretty critical of PM oriented pieces, but I found this to be a decent overview of how to reason about building these systems from first principles + some of the non-tech pain points + how to address them.
Re:Another YC company was acquihired today by OpenAI on Thursday September 04, 2025 @02:43PM (#45130753)
Very good catch. For all my interest this space, it's embarrassing that I did not remotely see this coming...
Re:Another YC company was acquihired today by OpenAI on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @05:10PM (#45120439)
> Expect to see a lot of ads 2 years from now

I think I am just slow today - but could you please elaborate?

Very curious about this as well.

Though I would say the fact that they were not involved with OpenAI on gpt-oss is not a good sign.

(OAI partnered with Databricks, NVIDIA, Dell, bunch of MSPs. etc.)

Colorado Water access law is truly crazy and arcane in some cases (such as this, it would seem).

Source: Had a friend in college that interned for a group of attorneys in Western, CO whose entire practice was around water access rights.

She explained to me some of the ridiculous things that neighbors requiring common water access could do to each other - based purely on who was using the water first.

Can you clarify which tooling you are using? Is it cursor-stats?
Re: on Thursday July 10, 2025 @08:36PM (#44527269)
If there were a toy or other public implementation of this, I would love to see it.
Re:O3 Turns Pro on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:41PM (#44302386)
It's a tough question and I do things the same way.

I feel like we are in awkward phase of: "We know this has severe environmental impact - but we need to know if these tools are actually going to be useful and worth adopting..." - so it seems like just keeping the environmental question at the forefront will be important as things progress.

I also relate - but have not received a formal diagnosis other than ADD.

- I remember feeling sorry for cars in a car dealership on a hot summer day as a child: "they must be miserable in this heat!"

- I frequently to this day personify my childrens stuffed animals & dolls & action figures: "They must feel so lonely not being played with anymore!"

- I was inordinately attached to my own stuffed animals / toys as a kid. I remember when one got taken away during a schoolday, that I felt like someone had kidnapped a family member - and I was inconsolable.

It's fantastic to see that this is now being investigated in the literature.

Re:Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @09:40AM (#42865376)
Did you already exercise regularly?
Oh man, FXP, couriering (the original “currying”!) and 0day drops…

This thread is such a solid shot of nostalgia, and why I love HN.

Re:A story on home server security on Monday January 06, 2025 @11:14PM (#42619142)
Heh. We also got treated to the digit thing. That topic alone was about 30 mins of mtg. time with a vp of eng and 2 seniors in the mtg.
Re:A story on home server security on Sunday January 05, 2025 @09:31AM (#42601958)
I feel this. Recently implemented a very trivial “otp to sign an electronic document” function in our app.

Security heard “otp” and forced us through a 2 month security/architecture review process for this sign-off feature that we built with COTs libraries in a single sprint.

Re:A Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O'Brian on Thursday January 02, 2025 @06:00PM (#42579961)
My father did say I had better gear up for this when i told him haha.
Re:A Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O'Brian on Thursday January 02, 2025 @11:42AM (#42575999)
I just got the first book on Audible, and it does sound like it’s going to be a real treat!
Also according to the EU:

Natural gas is now green in some circumstances. I'm not sure what to make of this.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/06/europe-natural-gas-nuclear-a...

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