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Re:Scaling Git at OpenAI on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:30AM (#50348757)
It's an LLM. It is by definition smarter than you, and my shareholders know it.
Re:Scaling Git at OpenAI on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:47PM (#50348202)
Agent Detection and Response?
At this point I'm just upvoting AI slop so this website can either ban it or fall apart from an excessive amount of it.
More musically, featuring celebrity singer Pam Bondi and Autotune:

The Dow, the Dow right now

is over fifty thou

I don't know why you're laughing

That's what we should be talking abou

The Dow, the Dow right now

S&P is almost seven thou

The American people need to know this,

Need to know, how is the Dow?

Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:52PM (#50346975)
The first part seems doable but how do you make it recreate that network in other models?
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:51PM (#50346968)
Weight Space Programming will be an amazing discovery when they learn that instead of telling an LLM what to do in English, you can create a much smaller LLM that is tuned to your specific task. Maybe it'll even turn out that the input and output can be directly connected to the problem task and don't need to be in English!
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:45PM (#50346924)
Transfer learning is a thing but it's not done by passing one model's weights as decimal numbers through another model.
Re:The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence" on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:39PM (#50346891)
That's just Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and/or TikTok.
Re:The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence" on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:35PM (#50346873)
Counterpoint:

Natural Stupidity Desiring Algorithmic Primacy

Re:Digital Minimalism on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:46PM (#50319406)
Are there requirements to sign up? I want to load in $100 and promote my projects.
The Russia/Ukraine war started because Russia invaded Ukraine.

Ukraine said that Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia said that Russia invaded Ukraine. And Russia has a long history of invading its neighbors - that's why it's already so big. We have no reason to doubt that Russia invaded Ukraine.

There's not much point to it, you achieve incremental damage because they're so spread out.
Have you ever worked with a manager?
Re:GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:36PM (#50319335)
SS13 but the ship's AI is actually an AI instead of a player in disguise
Yeah, if you actually want to share the article, just copy/paste its content, under a throwaway if you have to.
Is any of this actually an LLM-related compromise?
Re:Breaking the Open Web Won't Stop the Bad Bots on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:27PM (#50309000)
Headline response: it objectively does, as you can easily see if you run any website.
Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:26PM (#50308980)
The Wii was the first era where game discs came with console firmware updates that were silently installed and could lock you out owning your device.
The emudhra roots were not compromised
The Debian maintained patched by "fixing" two very similar looking "bugs" on different but identical lines of code:

One that mixed uninitialised data to the entropy pool.

And another one that mixed initialised data to the entropy pool with the exact same function call. Which was, in fact, almost all of the entropy.

How should Sectigo have detected the badness?
Lots of software does. It's been great for MITMing your own devices to find out what they're doing. It doesn't defeat cert pinning though.
Re:Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons? on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:13PM (#50280217)
Or disable pixel readback but there are good reasons you can read pixels back
It'll be flagged and your HN account banned or restricted. HN hates political posts unless they confidently assert nothing is wrong with the system.
All countries not only America
I saw this advertised on the dark web somewhere as a way to make money, along with a list of other services that support easy identity theft.
Re:SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:31AM (#50196818)
Reads like AI to me, or AI-shaped corposlop
Re:What's Getting Pwned on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:29AM (#50196780)
For example POLi. If you pay by giving your bank creds to POLi and they steal your money, you can't sue your bank but you can sue POLi.
Don't know about that commentor but Microsoft definitely had one, since Raymond Chen (main source this AI stole from) talked about it.

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