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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:57PM (#50342762)
I am not sure on the experiments. For example let’s imagine that Astra is asked to improve the performance of a network.

At first Astra will look at the weights, and try to understand the model behavior. Then if asked he will start to optimize the weights. Now my question is: how can we be sure that inside the thinking process Astra is not hiding a gradiant descending computation?

Ask HN: Are we trading model capacity for compute?

Do you think we're trading off model size, and model capacity, for compute? Take looped transformers, which GPT-6 Astra is rumored to be based on. They increase compute while keeping the model's capacity almost fixed.So my question is, if we had an infinitely large model (with also infinite capacity) and of course infinite compute, would we still need CoT or looped transformers? Could we have a...

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Re:I Just Started and I Feel So Fucking Tired on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:51PM (#49983171)
I do not have social, and this is what hurts me most. People all say the same and think the same, even my friends.

How can I enjoy this world?

I Just Started and I Feel So Fucking Tired

Enough. I'm tired. I can't figure out what kind of world we're living in, or what kind of people I'm dealing with. I've always believed in people and in humanity, but I'm starting to lose hope.We're building a world made of copies, where even not being conformist has become conformist. We live in a world where we encourage junk food advertising, yet sell the pill to lose weight. A world where...

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Re:Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god? on Saturday September 05, 2026 @08:03PM (#49582002)
Thanks for the suggestion!
Re:Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god? on Thursday September 03, 2026 @06:09PM (#49557827)
I define God as the plateau of intelligence. You maybe haven’t understood my question, but I am asking we are living in a more brother loop in which less intelligent species build more intelligent species. If the answer is yes, would this mean that AI species will build at a certain point (self-improving) another kind of species?

PS: I know that I use species improperly.

Re:Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god? on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:49PM (#49557588)
Also the definition of artificial will not make sense at all at a certain point. If for example AGI builds a more intelligent species, could we define it “artificial”?
Re:Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god? on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:46PM (#49557568)
The plateau of intelligence. And now you could ask me to define intelligence and I would stick with the common definition:

Intelligence is the mental capacity to learn, understand, reason, and solve new problems.

Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?

If a less intelligent species, like humans, is able to create a more intelligent species (like AGI), does that mean that at some point a species will be able to build the most intelligent species possible and essentially build God?

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Re:The Future of Self-Evolving Software on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:04PM (#49556055)
Some nice ideas on how people will consume application and software in the future. Let me know if you agree or not, especially about the “open community software” as a substitute to the “open source software”.

I think that this idea is very nice and can be recap in this simple formulation:

open source software : pre LLMs world = open community software : post LLMs world

Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:34PM (#49526932)
I suggest you to give a look to the MCP protocol for hardware that is being proposed by Anthropic. The hardware will be the next harness of LLMs, they will be able to operate machines to reinforce their theories.

I still think that a major problem is that biological processes are not “fast” as coding, but they are verifiable. If during post processing we are able to give enough harness to test and verify this kind of environment (maybe via simulation and real data) we will for sure achieve incredible performance also in this domain.

Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:34PM (#49526929)
I suggest you to give a look to the MCP protocol for hardware that is being proposed by Anthropic. The hardware will be the next harness of LLMs, they will be able to operate machines to reinforce their theories.

I still think that a major problem is that biological processes are not “fast” as coding, but they are verifiable. If during post processing we are able to give enough harness to test and verify this kind of environment (maybe via simulation and real data) we will for sure achieve incredible performance also in this domain.

Re:The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol) on Friday July 31, 2026 @10:53AM (#49123947)
Seems like that anyone can now prove math conjecture. Maybe someone already prove some math problem and is not even aware of it.
Re:A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016) on Saturday March 14, 2026 @06:51AM (#47375345)
I am really curious to know how Karpathy would update this survival guide in the 2026. Hope to hear something from him!
Hello HN! This is my first open source project, Git Guide. It is a community-curated travel directory designed to replace SEO spam and fake reviews with a transparent commit history.

The project relies entirely on Markdown files and GitHub Actions—no database or servers. Users propose places via Issues, and once a voting threshold is met, a script automatically validates the location and commits it to the repository. This ensures total transparency without black-box algorithms.

I would love your feedback!

Show HN: Git Guide - The open source travel guide on GitHub Actions

https://github.com/ateliti99/git-guide

Hello HN!This is my first open source project, and I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share it with you.I love traveling, but I’ve lost trust in traditional review sites. Between SEO spam, bots, and paid 5-star ratings, finding genuine recommendations has become a noise-filtering exercise. I wanted a curated list where the "noise" of anonymous internet crowds is replaced by a transparent...

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Maybe we can get in touch, I am curious to have a more senior perspective on the indoor localization!
All the new car have the keyless option and use UWB to open and close.
I am pursuing a PhD in indoor localization, and UWB is still far superior. That is the reason why major phone companies still include a UWB chip and are not switching to BLE 6.0.

I have compared them, and because BLE is a narrowband signal, it is highly susceptible to Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) conditions compared to UWB.

I also attended a prototype presentation by a large European silicon company. I noticed that even in their demo, BLE did not achieve 30 cm accuracy, but rather hovered around 1 m.

I have only tested PBR and RTT ranging with a simple Kalman Filter, so maybe someone has found a clever combination of these data sources (I hope).

Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem on Sunday November 16, 2025 @05:05AM (#45943946)
Companies are doing some crazy stuff to block other devices. One of the worst things that I have seen is that on MacOS you cannot use the AirPods in a Microsoft Teams call.

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