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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:30PM (#50347703)
Like micro surgery, opening up the LLM safetensors file and performing micro text edits via small scripts?

They are slicing, probing, and running linear algebra on the tensors, observing the output in the console, then writing the edited weights back to disk, and stitching it all back up.

Johnny Mnemonic level

Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:37PM (#50320482)
You know what I like about this? It's 100% pure nerd content, no sneaky influencer videos or clickbaity news.

It does need a new-to-old sort though, which is easy to add in.

If you watched all of these videos, you would be the smartest, most annoying person ever. Lol

Re:OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:12AM (#50313401)
Not looking very good fellas, Bot Swarm breaches, microslop laying off 27% of their workforce.

If you have a billion users and 90% + are freeloaders, you need social media style ads to support growth, which no one likes.

Plus they are all out of data training sets, they are buying zombie companies for their data.

There are dozens of distillated clones, which are getting better every release.

The only moat is expensive data centre builds with on-loan Nvidia inference and the Chinese embargo fears.

Good luck out there.

Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:36PM (#50312713)
Wait till GitHub gets audited, a literal wild west cesspool of vibe-coded exploits with 1000's of fake stars.
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:24PM (#50312659)
Interesting, when the Cryptsy founder stole millions via laundering coins in Coinbase exchange, the government, FBI, and CIA did jack sh!t to recover the lost funds!

He is still in China living with his girlfriend.

Miami, Florida – A 17-count indictment was unsealed in federal court in Miami, Florida charging Paul E. Vernon, 48, the founder, operator, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Project Investors Inc., doing business as Cryptsy

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/ceo-major-online-crypto...

Re:The Web Can't Afford a JavaScript Runtime Monoculture on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:22AM (#50300123)
It has a lot to do with the JS ecosystem; it's one of the largest.

Who wants to build another ecosystem and support it? Exactly...

Most likely candidates would be Python or Rust (WASM).

Let the downvotes begin!

Re:LLM Voice on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:31PM (#50297145)
Journal entry: Dec 12th, 2027.

My name is Martin the last human organic writer on Earth. I am better than everyone else; my citations in my 4-paragraph article say so.

Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:03PM (#50280870)
Great specs!

What happens when all the good names are taken from the periodic table of elements?

I have registered calcium, helium, and californium for my California-based LLM.

Silicon Valley Clowns...

Not a big fan since we now only get 2 links a month,

But it would have been easier to relocate to the border in Tahoe than fill out mountains of paperwork; he lives on an estate in a Maui bunker anyway, not spoilt for housing options...

Not very good with building technology; he lost 80 billion on a nonexistent metaverse fail. Is that now a tax loss?

Re:No More Icons in Every Menu by Default on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:12PM (#50188393)
You first? Lol

Art vs. minimalism in design

Icons are today's form of hieroglyphs for communication?

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Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:52PM (#50110886)
This seems like advertising, which breaks HN rules?

Make sure that Meta reads the policies on self-promotion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

HN should impose a 2-post-per-month rule on all Meta posts as they do to their users!

If Meta would like more posts per month, they should donate 80 billion to an approved charity, instead of flushing it down the drain.

Unpaywalled companion article created with a different perspective:

https://medium.com/@vektormemory/the-si-wealth-transfer-is-b...

Re:Has AI Tells on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:00PM (#50096022)
It's a game of cat and mouse, as every AI tell machine detector will have an equivalent of a reverse engineering algo back to human writing, the same with cryptographic watermarking.

Essentially another layer and commodity that users will pay more for, as humans value speed and volume over authenticity.

Same reason almost no one writes with pens or typewriters any longer, as they are niche artifacts.

When Google did a backroom deal with Dun & Bradstreet for business verification, it was the nail in the coffin for this overly bureaucratic turd.

Can't wait for the open-source release of Google on GitHub.

The same thing happens every time we post here, content is ignored and bots swarm. We started blocking whole IP ranges.

Created a long rant with some solutions and free tool Vorwatch: https://vektormemory.com/opensource

Unpaywalled article: https://medium.com/@vektormemory/bots-lots-of-them-5a1e35be2...

Just awesome; now they need SI to recreate Fortran in Rust to use Sketchpad?

I always wanted to build a mini CM-2 supercomputer with the red lights.

https://www.britannica.com/technology/supercomputer

Love the idea!

I started something similar as a meme game, but I'm just too busy to keep working on it: Data centre slumlord - https://binary-mirror.itch.io/data-centre-slumlord

Re:The Lightbulb Computer on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:36PM (#50037872)
Very impressive; I would design the cover as cube/cylinder as an opaque glass/plastic case cover. A modern Edison-shaped bulb would be better?
Re:Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:43PM (#50027505)
No one finds it strange that every defector from Opensi gets half a billion dollars in funding and already has a third of Fortune 500 companies paying for their product in a few weeks with a product that's already been replicated 10 times very easily?

OK, I'm jealous... Lol

Re:Theranos.World on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:38AM (#50016826)
I left some snaps on your iphone, so see we can stare into each other's eyes Liz.
Re:Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:03PM (#49971986)
That was exciting... Will come back later when the weights are out and gguf'd.

Access is currently limited. We'll contact you if early access becomes available.

Re:An Alien Mind on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:58PM (#49591371)
"Teaching machines to love"

Your talking about androids...

Replicant Nexus 6: a basic pleasure model intended for military personnel.

I see where this is going, Silicon Valley nerds. Lol

AI advising how human meat proxies can survive in an AGI-slop world:

1) Lock down your own stack (1–3 days) Task: Harden your personal and business infrastructure against agentic attacks. Why now: Agents are becoming superhuman at breaking in/out of systems; the first victims are poorly secured devs/founders.

Do this:

Enforce passkeys + hardware 2FA everywhere; rotate secrets; use short‑lived credentials.

Isolate dev/stage/prod; least‑privilege API keys; audit MCP/tools your agents can call.

Add immutable logs and approval gates for any agent action that touches money, data exports, or production.

Profit link: You avoid catastrophic loss and can credibly sell “agent‑safe” setups to others.

2) Turn one expensive workflow into a measured ROI agent (1–2 weeks) Task: Pick a single, costly, repetitive process (yours or a client’s) and instrument it end‑to‑end before automating.

Why now: Buyers pay for calculable ROI, not “AI magic.” Vertical, single‑workflow agents are the most bankable in 2026.

Do this:

Map steps, baseline hours/$ lost (e.g., slow lead reply, invoice chasing, support triage).

Build the smallest agent that moves the metric (Make/n8n + LLM is enough).

Run on real data 2–4 weeks; measure bookings/sales/hours saved; only then scale or productize.

Profit link: Immediate time‑to‑cash via retained hours or extra sales; becomes a repeatable offer.

3) Specialize in a vertical where you can speak the business language (2–6 weeks) Task: Choose one industry with expensive back‑office pain (law contracts, medical billing, insurance claims, freight exceptions, trades scheduling).

Why now: Horizontal “AI for everyone” is crowded; vertical agents with clear ROI win.

Do this:

Shadow 3–5 operators; document their workflow, compliance constraints, and failure modes.

Build a narrow agent that owns one sub‑process end‑to‑end with approvals.

Price on value (e.g., % of recovered revenue or fixed fee per processed claim).

Profit link: Higher pricing power, stickier contracts, and easier referrals inside a niche.

4) Add AI security as a core service (4–8 weeks) Task: Learn and offer prompt‑injection defense, LLM/agent red‑teaming, MCP/tool security, and AI supply‑chain checks.

Why now: 78% of cybersecurity jobs now require AI skills; firms need people who can direct, constrain, and verify agent work.

Do this:

Study OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, MITRE ATLAS; practice with PyRIT/Garak/Lakera.

Add tool‑invocation audits, skill provenance checks, and least‑privilege patterns to your agents.

Package a “safe agent deployment” audit + hardening retainer.

Profit link: You become the person who lets companies adopt agents without getting pwned—high demand, low supply.

5) Build a verification layer: human‑in‑the‑loop control planes (6–10 weeks) Task: Design approval workflows, evidence checks, and uncertainty flags so agents can’t act unilaterally on high‑stakes decisions.

Why now: As models generalize, the risk shifts from the model to the surrounding system; verification is the moat.

Do this:

Require human approval for consequential actions (money, data exfil, config changes).

Force agents to produce evidence bundles (logs, retrieved docs, reasoning summaries) before action.

Track false positives, missed evidence, and unsafe actions; publish reliability metrics.

Profit link: Enterprises will only scale agents that pass audit; you sell the control plane and the audit trail.

6) Productize your best workflow as a micro‑SaaS/agent subscription (2–4 months) Task: Turn a proven client workflow into a repeatable, multi‑tenant agent with usage‑based pricing.

Why now: Services scale your time; productized agents scale your code and ops.

Do this:

Standardize the workflow, integrations, and permissions; strip client‑specific logic.

Add tenant isolation, billing, and observability; keep narrow scope.

Sell as setup fee + monthly retainer or per‑task pricing.

Profit link: Recurring revenue with defensible niche positioning.

7) Become an “agent integrator” for critical systems (3–6 months) Task: Offer end‑to‑end agent deployments into cloud/identity/network stacks with secure patterns (short‑lived creds, network controls, logging).

Why now: AI workloads run in the cloud; cloud security is a top skills gap second only to AI itself.

Do this:

Master IAM, VPC/network segmentation, secrets management, and SIEM integration for agent actions.

Provide runbooks: what the agent can/can’t do, escalation paths, and failure modes.

Bundle training for their team on supervising agents.

Profit link: Large contracts with stickiness; you’re the bridge between AI and core infra.

8) Create an “AI safety case” practice for regulated industries (6–12 months) Task: Help firms build documented safety cases: risk maps, governance, monitoring, and incident response for agentic systems.

Why now: Frameworks like NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 are becoming baseline; regulators and boards demand this.

Do this:

Map AI use cases to risks (prompt injection, data leakage, unsafe generalization).

Implement monitoring (CoT/activation checks where possible), audit logs, and third‑party review processes.

Produce a living safety dossier tied to business impact.

Profit link: High‑margin consulting + ongoing compliance retainers; you’re the “adult in the room.”

9) Own a data/evaluation moat in your vertical (6–18 months) Task: Collect real‑world agent telemetry, failure cases, and outcome data in your niche; build eval suites that buyers trust.

Why now: As models generalize, empirical validation matters more than theory; evals become the gate to deployment.

Do this:

Instrument every agent run: inputs, tools called, permissions used, outcomes, human overrides.

Publish reliability dashboards and benchmark against alternatives.

License eval datasets or charge premium for “proven in the wild” agents.

Profit link: Data network effects; competitors can’t match your evidence base.

10) Position for the RSI era: automated AI research + human governance (12–24 months) Task: Build or join a team that automates AI improvement but keeps humans in the loop for alignment, monitoring, and pacing decisions.

Why now: Recursive self‑improvement is the logical endpoint; the winners will be those who can steer it safely. Do this:

Invest in tooling that auto‑generates/evaluates model edits, alignment tests, and monitoring upgrades.

Formalize governance: approval gates, third‑party audits, and responsible scaling policies.

Maintain strategic human oversight on capability jumps and deployment boundaries.

Profit link: Equity‑level upside; you’re part of the core loop that compounds intelligence safely.

I think it would be more interesting if you entered your own real data and then the LLM gave you statistics based on that info on where you are on your own life path based on consensus data.
Re:I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:35PM (#49495173)
Funny, as it used to be painted people in tents..

https://www.trippingly.net/burning-man-musings/2019/2/1/gree...

Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:10AM (#49462357)
Nothing like a good old Oligarchy going as planned
Re:We Probably Can't Terraform Mars [video] on Monday August 24, 2026 @09:45PM (#49428149)
I heard a lot of people are leaving Mars lately, disappointed.

As it is lacking in atmosphere...