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Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:51PM (#50225132)
no signs of mega tsunami damage outside of the shore - "News reporter says in the 50km radius shadow of a tsunami large enough to block out the sun"
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:28PM (#50212506)
They are going to run out of vulns eventually when the code is rewritten in memory safe lang & the rest are found.
ASPD perhaps which would also explain his fast life type strategies of high risk high reward low impulse control decisions. Which in this case led to success.

Reminds of the veritassium video where it said being persistent is more valuable than being consistent in the sense that you only need to win the lottery once to be rich forever. Whereas you can consistently work a job for an indefinite quantity of time and never be rich.

denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
Re:AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It? on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:38PM (#50134362)
kek
they're finished
Re:Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @05:30AM (#49976168)
anything but bun?
Re:Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:01AM (#49891728)
this is a good idea ngl an unpopular one but very effective
Re:Coding Is Not Solved on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:39AM (#49879757)
Coding is literally solved with current models. It's just a matter of inference cost at this point. Imagine if Astra 6 Max was $0.00001 per 1M ouput...

I can't think of a single example apart from perhaps the 99.9th percentile difficulty of work that wouldn't be solvable with that configuration.

Re:Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:26AM (#49877610)
I just rewrote it on my device in ratatui using codex in 16 minutes and it uses 10x less RAM 150MB -> 15MB

the binary file is 10MB

Re:Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:02AM (#49877306)
why not use ratatui
Re:The new CC, an AI agent built for families on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:25PM (#49810523)
it's ridiculously bad
Re:Claude is no longer available for minors on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:56PM (#49666559)
Why don't we have privacy respecting ZKP Age IDs yet (at least in the EU)? Could someone tell me what the hold up is.

I wish I could paste this as a prompt into a Codex Swarm and have it solve the government...

At least that would have more immediate impacts that the naiver stokes equations

Re:Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:38PM (#49647515)
This was my first thought after they disallowed LLM contributions.

They may not use AI to check for vulnerabilities but attackers are going to which puts themselves at the disadvantage.

Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:16AM (#49622500)
you can get another LLM to verify / if the lean doesn't have `sorry` used to skip certain parts of the proof etc. It's much easier once it's in lean4 because checks like that can be done computationally.
Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:55PM (#49615005)
there is a proof in lean4 it's correct by construction
Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:01PM (#49614107)
I think it's over guys
Re:Mistral raises €3B on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:15AM (#49606143)
I get worried when thinking about Mistral because they make mediocre models and I don't think they will be able to defeat their competition.
Re:Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:25PM (#49580324)
I don't have $2M
Re:Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:25PM (#49578643)
ok for this CVE exactly it wouldn't have worked but the general pareto 80-20 rule stands regarding the rest of the memory safety vulns
Re:Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:05PM (#49577873)
Google has the means and ability to rewrite Chromium ; bug for bug in Rust from C++ using Astra & Fable.

Same for the Linux kernel. Considering the Fermat's Last Theorem lean proof was 13MLoC and cost $300,000 it would cost $2M to rewrite Chromium & Linux in Rust going purely of combined LoC.

Re:The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:04PM (#49541689)
The same people who would petition against ZKP Internet IDs complaining about the unregulated internet.

You can't have your cake and eat it too...

Re:AI Policy on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:31PM (#49539561)
Now imagine he were a mathematician instead of a software engineer. The post sounds rather backwards in this scenario.
Re:GLM-5.3 is now open-weight on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:51PM (#49481270)
glm 5.3 flash is the best model I have ever used
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:13PM (#49425931)
I was thinking about this anti AI sentiment and how it is related to American individualism. In socialist countries like China there has never been a protest related to data centres or job loss etc. unlike in the USA. Because the large scale impact of AI on the country is exclusively a net positive. The reduction of the individuals cost of labour by also reduces perceived egalitarianism which is the mental model used by ultra capitalists to allow themselves to sleep at night whilst homeless people beg for food on the streets.

The long term impact of AI on society is exclusively a net positive if utilised in the correct way. But most of the westerners lack faith in government fiscal policy and think that they are going to be left destitute when they can no longer provide for themselves. When in fact UBI is going to be the most likely outcome.

They are myopically focusing on the short term labour market effects of AI on their own profession instead of realising the long term utopian societal outcome.

"We need to ban AI because I'm going to lose my job!" - This is only said by someone who is winning in their society and wants to maintain the status quo not by those who slipped through the cracks.

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Re:We never use AI. For anything on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:13AM (#49417651)
I was thinking about this anti AI sentiment and how it is related to American individualism. In socialist countries like China there has never been a protest related to data centres or job loss etc. unlike in the USA. Because the large scale impact of AI on the country is exclusively a net positive.

The reduction of the individuals cost of labour by also reduces perceived egalitarianism which is the mental model used by ultra capitalists to allow themselves to sleep at night whilst homeless people beg for food on the streets.

The long term impact of AI on society is exclusively a net positive if utilised in the correct way. But most of the westerners lack faith in government fiscal policy and think that they are going to be left destitute when they can no longer provide for themselves. When in fact UBI is going to be the most likely outcome.

They are myopically focusing on the short term labour market effects of AI on their own profession instead of realising the long term utopian societal outcome.

"We need to ban AI because I'm going to lose my job!" - This is only said by someone who is winning in their society and wants to maintain the status quo not by those who slipped through the cracks.

Re:DiffusionGemma Technical Report on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:12AM (#49374833)
there's still JEPA to be integrated before AGI.

Would DiffusionGemma be suitable candidate for DFlash 2?

there's still ego & competition against other humans which is what I do to distract myself