krupan
Re:LLM Voice
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:14PM (#50299467)
Remember when ChatGPT first came out and the coolest thing you could do with it was ask it to say something in pirate speak, or in the style of Tolkein, or Obama, or whatever? Maybe that should still be a thing ;)
And yet you remain aggressively pro AI? Why?
Re:Giving chat feedback gives Anthropic your data
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:41PM (#50264662)
You realize they are aiming to replace you, don't you? You are paying them to do so, and giving them information they need do do it. For free.
Re:Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:30PM (#50000178)
It's the method they used to create the proof that's in question here. They claim their amazing product did it, and therefore you should buy their product because will do amazing things for you too!
Re:Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
on Friday October 02, 2026 @02:23PM (#49936803)
Yes, I understand all that. The original author points out that completely ditching sha-1 will be a huge pain, very costly, and won't meaningfully improve security. You responded by saying we aren't completely ditching sha-1, which seems to lend credence to the argument that sha-1 is still safe enough to use. That's where I'm confused. Having two hashes for each object in a git repo, a sha-1 and a sha256, is not the same as wholesale deleting your rsa-1024 keys and replacing them with rsa-2048. If I'm only looking at the sha-1 and all my tools only look at that, then the sha256 isn't helping me. Is it?
Re:Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:21PM (#49935309)
If we are changing to sha256 because sha-1 is broken, how can we trust all those mappings and signatures?? This makes it even more confusing as to why this change is being made
Re:GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:49AM (#49929944)
A proprietary LLM developed to run these proprietary tools might just maybe have guards in place to prevent it from telling you any details about what it's doing, lest you learn enough to not need that LLM
Re:GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:47AM (#49929935)
You are absolutely correct. The whole reason LLMs kinda suck at chip design (compared to say, writing react apps) is because chip designers are and have always been hyper paranoid about protecting their designs. The tools from Synopsis and the like are also very heavily protected. Nobody even feels safe discussing tips and tricks or problems and solutions for using the tools in public forums, we're all pretty sure that's forbidden in the software license agreements.
We don't even have any cloud solutions for chip design because of this paranoia. Nobody trusts anyone else with their chip designs. Instead we all build private compute farms to run our simulation and synthesis jobs. Every new company that wants to build chips has to reimplement the infrastructure to do it from scratch. It's kind of ridiculous.
Re:GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:36AM (#49929885)
So they are working with OpenAI to create an LLM that is trained on how to "expertly" use Synopsis tools. This is:
- Synopsis admitting that their tools are very difficult to use (not a flex)
- Synopsis doubling down on keeping their tools as expensive and proprietary as possible (not letting all LLMs train to use their tools, just this GPT-Synopsis LLM)
- OpenAI announcing a new (very not open) business model where you can pay them to create an exclusive proprietary LLM that can help people use your crappy product
Just amazing :-|
UPDATE: just realized that this LLM can also suggest that you buy more licenses of Synopsis tools since that will be the limiting factor to your productivity once this LLM makes everything else better. Yay.
Re:Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:15AM (#49929782)
If we don't need to migrate repos to sha256 them why do we need to change git to use sha256?
Re:When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:20AM (#49909395)
The wording, "Where does the money go," strongly suggests a fix supply of money, which not true.
Re:Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:18AM (#49866850)
LVT is just another form of attempted centralized control of the market and it will be just as susceptible to government corruption, cronyism, lobbying, etc.
Re:Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast...
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:03AM (#49826457)
Is this the same project, or a different project that does the same thing. I took a quick glance at both and the descriptions are very similar
Re:Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast...
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:02AM (#49826443)
The idea here is you get to work, but you don't have to work.
Re:Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:24AM (#49788484)
That is such a long reply telling me about the show I watched and you didn't watch, lol!
Re:Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:23AM (#49788472)
You should certainly try to do the least amount of harm possible. We don't really understand what harm is in all cases. We don't fully understand the lived experience of a chicken or the lettuce plant we cut up or the rabbit that died because we ate his lettuce. You could really tie yourself in knots trying to figure out what is less harmful overall.
Re:I don't like passkeys
on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:17AM (#49788408)
I'm not even sure what your point is anymore. If Google decides they don't want you to log in anymore, you can't log in anymore. It doesn't matter if you try to log in with a passkey, a password, your fingerprint, or sending a secret code in with carrier pidgeon. This has nothing to do with passkeys vs passwords vs anything else.
If Google does want you to be able to log in then they will work with you to make that happen, whether you forgot your password, lost your passkey, or your carrier pidgeon died.
Passkeys are not special in this regard at all. What does make them special is that nobody can use a phishing attack to steal your passkey and log in to your account. Nobody can guess your passkey and log into your account. Nobody can intercept your passkey in flight and log in as you. That's the important distinction.
Re:Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psyc...
on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:10AM (#49788310)
Do you understand that this is a classic manipulation tactic? Say the false/provocative/attention grabbing thing loudly then retract/explain/apologize later for it quietly.
Re:Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:02PM (#49778260)
Thankfully they will be greatly outnumbered among general society. Most humans are good people.
Re:Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:59PM (#49778234)
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-nutrients-you-cant-ge...
B12 is generally the biggest concern. Vegans need to take vitamin supplements to get it. The B12 in those supplements is produced in factories doing bacterial fermentation
True herbivores have stomachs that can ferment B12 from the plants they eat. We do not
Re:I don't like passkeys
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:43PM (#49778077)
No it's not. Google flips a bit in their database and no matter what kind of authentication you set up with them, you get denied
Re:Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psyc...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:42PM (#49778069)
How have you missed the many times that Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have said exactly that??
Re:Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psyc...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:39PM (#49778042)
I won't because it's all so opaque and proprietary and driven by an insane need for OpenAI and Anthropic to provide a return on MASSIVE investment. There is absolutely some smoke and mirrors involved. How much? We don't know. But it sure is exciting to imagine their product is now smarter than humans and they are totally benevolent corporations. I want that to be true as much as anyone, but I have lived too long on this earth to believe it wholeheartedly
Re:Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psyc...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:36PM (#49777998)
The original article already attempted to do that but I'll take another stab. Humans tend to believe what they want to believe. They gain confidence when a confident person (or LLM) they work with exudes confidence. Where they might have hesitated or got stuck in analysis paralysis alone, the aid of a con (short for confidence) artist will get them moving. They then attribute the solution and praise for it solely to the confident person (or LLM) that nudged them along. Did the "psychic" who understands human motivation better than the cops actually help? Very likely. Did the psychic end up getting far more credit than they deserve (it's magical! You'll never believe! Well worth the money I spent!)? Absolutely.
The amount of real help vs. confidence/manipulation the LLM or con artist provides varies in each situation and scenario and mix of people (and LLMs) involved. It's something to strive to be aware and analytical about.
Re:Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psyc...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:27PM (#49777916)
It's not even clear that the actual LLMs have improved. It could be all the non-LLM software (harnesses), the system prompts, the sheer amount of compute hardware, etc. that makes them better. We could be quickly running up against a wall. The complete package of technology that is OpenAI's and Anthropic's products are completely opaque and proprietary. The psychic/con artist communication both from the LLM and the humans like Sam Altman only muddies the water further
Re:Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psyc...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:23PM (#49777888)
It does, and maybe I'm apologizing for the author a little too much by ignoring that needless tangent because I feel like the con artist point, and/or the point about the human tendency to believe what we want to believe are the most important points.
Re:Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psyc...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:21PM (#49777863)
You have just word smithed their claims into something palatable. Good job. Why do you feel the need to do that for them?
Re:Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psyc...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:19PM (#49777842)
Absolutely true and the comments here are mostly in one of those two categories, sadly
Re:Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psyc...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:19PM (#49777830)
I agree that "don't use it for anything" might be too extreme a position to take, but I worry greatly that these proprietary opaque tools that are being provided by at best people with extreme conflicts of interest and at worst sociopaths need to be adopted with extreme care