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Re:Railway Security Disclosure
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:28PM (#50189076)
I think the pingcap hack might be the biggest of them all, somehow it has gone under the radar.
Re:Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:53AM (#49979406)
Curious now that SOL is cheaper than k3 - is k3 still your primary workhorse?
Technically kimi k-3 weights license is not open weight (it has a lot of restrictions). I would classify it as ‘weight open’ similar to the bsl and fsl ’source open’ licenses.
Off topic:With sol pricing drop tbh kimi k3’s value prop has not been that great. For our internal use case/testing/benchmarks sol come out with way better quality and much cheaper costs.
Kimi really needs to drop their pricing (I heard it’s set by them across all the neoclouds)
Sol is at 2/10 vs kimi’s 3/15
Re:Xorshift Generators
on Saturday August 15, 2026 @02:19PM (#49312901)
Re:Xorshift Generators
on Saturday August 15, 2026 @02:06PM (#49312800)
Still not loading
Re:Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
on Monday August 10, 2026 @08:54PM (#49251935)
Wow, this was really fun to play around with! Amazing execution and launch!
Quick feedback: it’d be great if the page updated when the URL changes, so you can explore different positions without reloading.
Right now, if I change the URL/hash of the cube position (eg: incrementing by 1 https://everycube.alen.is/?view=3d#5319001606686939024 ), the app doesn’t update and I have to open the new URL in a separate tab to see the new position. [Chrome 150 on Mac OS X 10.15.7]
Re:Fields Medals 2026
on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:39PM (#49028412)
https://x.com/Qiaoqiao2001/status/2080003441821163958
While there was a bunch of human effort - it is not that hard to imagine this whole pipeline becoming fully autonomous in the coming months.
Re:Fields Medals 2026
on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:09PM (#49025780)
I posted a similar comment when the winners were leaked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48906573
i’d like to revise my earlier comment: 2022 may have been the last time we had pure humans win a Fields Medal.
I’m fairly certain this batch's winners used LLMs for research, lit-revews, reviewing work, and calculations... perhaps not enough to count as a co-author, but still enough to handle a lot of the grunt work.
Who would have imagined the pace of progress in LLM-powered math..
Re:A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @08:30PM (#49000273)
Re:Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winn...
on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:30AM (#48906573)
First of all congrats to the winners.
Second, fitting that codex enters the picture.
The last time the fields medals were announced llms were still very nascent :)
And I am convinced this is the last time pure human fields medalists will be announced.
The next batch’s winners are all going to have llms as coauthors.
Re:Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for –$1.3k)
on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:26AM (#48906523)
“The Anthropic team for their incredible coding models (Fable-5 wrote every line of code in this project), and the Claude Code harness.”
Source: the repo
Re:NumClass – a Python CLI classifying integers into 200 number-theory...
on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @04:47PM (#47418065)
This is an amazing project - thank you for building/sharing it!
Re:Anthropic to counteract usage of Claude Code for "vibe hacking"
on Monday September 01, 2025 @08:44PM (#45097967)
Shameless plug: We're building this. Our goal is to provide AI pentesting agents that run continuously, because the reality is that companies (eg: those doing SOC 2) typically get a point-in-time pentest once a year while furiously shipping code via Cursor/Claude Code and changing infrastructure daily.
I like how Terence Tao framed this [0]: blue teams (builders aka 'vibe-coders') and red teams (attackers) are dual to each other. AI is often better suited for the red team role, critiquing, probing, and surfacing weaknesses, rather than just generating code (In this case, I feel hallucinations are more of a feature than a bug).
We have an early version and are looking for companies to try it out. If you'd like to chat, I'm at [email protected].
Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
on Monday August 25, 2025 @05:52PM (#45019517)
s/x84/x86/
Re:Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet
on Thursday August 21, 2025 @01:52AM (#44969463)
Hey Shawn!
Re:Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet
on Thursday August 21, 2025 @01:52AM (#44969462)
Hi - we should chat :)
Re:Find Your People
on Friday May 23, 2025 @03:12PM (#44075666)
I think they refer to:
IB - investment banking
PE - private equity
HF - hedge funds or High Frequency trading (?)
Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @02:07PM (#44054352)
Tangent: Did Windsurf actually get acquired by OpenAI? I would have imagined some sort of announcement from OpenAI at the very least? Bloomberg was the one to break that news too, but haven't seen any follow up.
Re:Databricks and Neon
on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @09:19AM (#43984198)
Does anyone have insight into Neon's financials - specifically their revenue, COGS, and gross margins? I'm trying to understand what made Databricks value them at $1B. Was it strong unit economics, rapid growth, or mostly strategic/tech value?
Re:Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole US$65M in crypto
on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @04:25PM (#43697945)
Re:The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
on Thursday March 20, 2025 @01:24AM (#43420094)
Dagger (https://dagger.io) recently seems to have reinvented/rebranded itself as some llm agent platform.
Re:Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised
on Friday March 14, 2025 @10:18PM (#43369347)
@dang: The original URL (from Step Security, the company that discovered this flaw) is a better source for this:
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/harden-runner-detection-tj-...
Re:A Second Search for Bash Scripting Alternatives
on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @10:32PM (#42200840)
Agree - that’s what we use too.
Re:Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Sta...
on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @06:02PM (#42199049)
Wow that had been quite a journey - thanks for the detailed response. We’ve been using cel internally in a golang codebase and been pretty happy with it. I’ve only know about starlark in the Bazel context - I’ve learned a couple of things from your post. Thanks :)
Re:Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Sta...
on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @12:26PM (#42196202)
This looks cool - will give it a try (hah!)
Curious on why you picked starlark instead of cel for the conditional scripting part?
Re:OpenAI Acquires Rockset
on Friday June 21, 2024 @12:42PM (#40751286)
Congrats to the team. IIRC their CTO was the creator of RocksDB.
Re:Show HN: Primeval Numbers
on Friday June 21, 2024 @03:02AM (#40746938)
Very slick interface and implementation! This is why I love coming to HN!
Re:Show HN: Restate – low-latency durable workflows for JavaScript/Jav...
on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @02:06PM (#40661074)
Thanks for the detailed answer - please turn it into a blog post! Excited to see competition and different architectural approaches to tackle durable execution. Wishing you all the very best!