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Re:Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:30PM (#50356086)
It can, as long as you can give it benchmarks. What it can't do is optimize general intelligence without any external validation.

You can optimize a model by randomly changing its weights and validating results on your task. A monkey can type a book given enough attempts.

Re:Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:16AM (#50350562)
> will find new areas that have a need for absolute frontier

And they will keep it to themselves to extract the value for as long as possible.

Re:Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:13AM (#50350538)
Unless you have very strict requirements, it does not make any sense to invest in hardware. Most companies just rent it. Also, it's pretty hard to get the hardware.
Re:Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:53AM (#50323502)
I’m pretty sure more than 90 percent of their audience never heard of Claude.

They are regular users, not developers.

Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:02AM (#50285049)
I don't think this should be celebrated, even though they had a bad attitude.

We are losing communities and human communication to LLM chats.

What do you find interesting about ffmpeg and git ports? Why do you need to know about them? Porting them is trivial, but maintaining them is not, especially a better version. It's not rocket science. Everyone can prompt "rewrite it in Rust" and abandon the project in a few months. There is no novelty.

If there is something novel in the port, people usually write an article about that or at least mention it in the README.

The ones that I have seen were90% slop. Bitcoin in Rust, 10 new agents in Rust. Zero explanations on why a project exists and how it is better.
Reddit struggles with AI submissions, there were like 20 AI oss projects per day in /r/Rust at some point. Most of them are slop and it’s hard to find something valuable.

X uses recommendations, so you don’t see all the projects and small accounts. You consume curated content.

Re:Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:56PM (#50212018)
How? Compilators eliminate unused code.
I have been running my dev setup in orb machines before agents. Very convenient when you have 50 Python or nodes deps.
Re:Canary Tokens on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:30PM (#50186283)
> given it's vibecoded

I've been using it since 2015

Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:44AM (#50182929)
That's why I mentioned vendors. They patch it before announcements.

Also, sandboxing makes automatic exploitation harder. There is no FS persistence, so some checks simply do not pass.

Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:18AM (#50181445)
This reminds me of the old days when PHP was such a vulnerable language.

By simply searching for websites that used local includes to load other pages, you could get RCE.

At this point, running webapps in JS workers/sandboxes sounds like a good idea. Vendors take care of patching.

Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:51AM (#50168249)
In think in the future, they will charge users for posting anything more than x times a months.

Generating slop content is cheap now, but you need to store it and very few people will see it, so you can't show more ads.

Re:Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:57AM (#50167397)
They train on conversations which pull data from web.
Re:Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:37AM (#50167121)
I'm not sure you get my point. Just ask ChatGPT, "What are the top 10 xxx," and see which sources it cites. Oftentimes, it's complete garbage with LLM tells.
Re:Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:26AM (#50166957)
This is a known problem, when ChatGPT uses web search tool, top 10 results are often LLM generated sources as well.

They now train on their own content.

Eating your own d̶o̶g̶ f̶o̶o̶d̶ poo.

Re:Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:27AM (#50152936)
Well, imagine that 90% of the comments on HN are generated and it's very hard to spot it. Would you read them?
Re:Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:11AM (#50152755)
Why would you support this sort of projects? LLM text should be spottable for as long as possible, otherwise human communication and expression on the internet will be killed.
I have it, was just curious.
This website is so hard to read on a 15" retina screen.

The text content occupies like 20% of the screen, the rest is empty. Resizing the window helps.

Re:Mitos editor is a fork of Helix on Sunday October 18, 2026 @05:55PM (#50145875)
Yeah, and these features are very needed. People have been asking for a new release for half a year. There haven't been a lot of changes in the past 8 months, majority of them are grammar and theme updates.

BTW, if you compile helix from the main branch, source code indentation will be broken.

Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:29AM (#50131970)
For me GLM thinks too much for no reason. It takes a 2-3 turns for DS where for GLM it takes up to 10.

I like giving precise instructions,”update function xx to support input yy, add tests”. There is no reason for 10 turns and 5 minutes of waiting.

Some customers are smart too, they just use their own agents to flood support agents until the problem is resolved.
Re:Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:08AM (#50084597)
I think the author gave up posting new stuff because of it. The work isn't as appreciated as before.
Re:Fable Took My Job on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:37AM (#50053754)
Am I the only one who's having a hard time reading white text on a brown background?

It makes me think about how many people just stop reading because it's not comfortable, and they don't bother turning on reading mode.

Re:Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:32AM (#50052139)
He can read and think.

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