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Re:Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:38AM (#50071580)
These people are playing on a completely different league
Re:An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @07:36AM (#50070039)
Pretty cool application of an embedding model
Re:Ben Affleck on Machine Learning and Computer Vision on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:47AM (#50004210)
This reads like a bunch of random sentences from ML stitched together very much similar to random physics paper title generator
Re:Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:27PM (#49996860)
I think the 2.5 times cost but actually pays off in terms of intelligence compared to jev and the general capability of using it beyond classification
I think Opus 5.5 is now fast enough with the inference stack improvements that they did. Sonnet 5.5 is around 140 tokens/s when I had measured it last time. A $20 subs on claude and using only sonnet 5.5 will last a lot
Re:Show HN: Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:56AM (#49943869)
I just tried to play around with it on my RTX pro 6000 setup, it spends way too many tokens on overthinking stuff even if it’s able to catch the correct approach

Its speed is pretty good on the other hand with only 3B active parameters I am getting around 170 tkn/s on fp8

I think maybe they have enough compute to try out all the promising directions at a smaller scale first and then port them to larger run

They also have incredibly smart people that can understand which improvements and directions are even worth pursuing for, I think these people are being paid in millions

Re:Solving Factorio Quality on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:12AM (#49918265)
I am nerd snipped
Re:LLM Agents Can Easily Tamper with Their Own Traces on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:48AM (#49864672)
Isn't this trivial? Any coding agent can and will perturb/modify it's own trace/session files if provided the right incentive structures, sometimes I just ask claude code to remove sections from it's own session that didn't contributed anything and were unnecessarily bloating the context
Re:Anthropic: The Situation Report on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:35AM (#49843132)
I don't care if this is a PR stunt or a highly exxaggerated contribution of claude in the entire ebola tracking scenarios, I feel very optimistic about the future around how these models are just becoming a daily life tool for everyone and not just programmers or tech bros
Re:Prism Inference on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:12AM (#49841607)
> Input Output

> Kimi K3 $3.00 $15.00

> Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B $2.00 $6.00

Why is kimi priced at twice that of qwen 3.8? If I remember correctly both of them are of the same 2.5T param family. I wonder kind of optimizations or hardware they have that make such pricing differences for the same sizes of models

Re:OpenAI expects to burn $280B by 2030 on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:00AM (#49763452)
Where is all this money even going??
Would be great if there were before and after comparisons of some outputs in the README, makes it more easier to understand how much value this will be adding If I want to use it
Re:A Story About Joe on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:55AM (#49549354)
Now imagine there are 2 futures from here on, either joe becomes so much mature and internalizes so much context around the product and your team that your boss realizes it's faster and much cheaper to remove you as the middle man and promote joe to your level and your boss will directly work with joe or either joe starts asking for more money per PR because joe realizes how valuable he is to you and your company
Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:11AM (#49463463)
This actually seems awesome, just going through the video on their site made me burst out with 100 different ways in which I would tinker with it, spend time in learning different gaits, some RL or some tricks to have it jump or do a back flip

I can see some parallel between how arduino gave hobbyist a mini computer they can use in any way imaginable, I can see this kind of thing being used to solve unimaginable problems by hobbyist or RL computer scientist or heck any UG student with claude subscription

Re:Ask HN: What's your biggest regret in life? on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:12AM (#49446946)
Investing in people early
Re:Reduce Claudish: Paul-Graham-writing-style-in-Claude.md on Thursday August 20, 2026 @06:55AM (#49372931)
> Thinking, tool calls, code, etc. remain completely unconstrained.

I wonder how much of these tricks actually work? As a side effect does it make the model produce thinking tokens to remember not to do that, “ohhh wait the user instructions says I should not use PG style in my thinking switching back to my …”

Re:A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:40AM (#49361475)
Slightly unrelated but I have no idea how wind speed predictions are made up high in the altitudes, is it just interpolation of data that are get from various radiosonoids across various timestamps and finding a regular or seasonal pattern?
Re:ARC-AGI Leaderboard on Saturday July 25, 2026 @02:59AM (#49045169)
It's actually crazy to see the difference between opus 5 and the next best model on ARC AGI 3 when you actually look at the ARC AGI problems
Re:Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:09AM (#48814931)
I am very much skeptical on the joint optimization of the harness and the model weights, I mean we can argue that claude code itself was a joint optimization of the claude, they released the first claude model and then the claude code harness then improved claudes performance on the harness then improved the harness after the model improved, but this was a process managed by humans all the time, it would be interesting to see claude improving it's own weights or harness in the future (or it might already be happening at anthropic right now)

I just didn't find the SIA paper to be testing this out rigorously or either provide sufficient evidence that it works

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