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Re:Scaling Git at OpenAI on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:25AM (#50349810)
> I almost consider committing generated code a caching step in some sense

What about user testing though?

Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:52AM (#50303903)
if a CVE drops at 23pm, attackers have at least 8 hours before someone in the office has a possibility to take a look at it. nowadays, that seems to be plenty.

i don't have a solution.

Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:30AM (#50303009)
It sounds to me like they're saying it wasn't an Anthropic employee which decided to drop an SSH backdoor.
wdym? ai is great at explaining things; it's one of the primary use-cases outside of programming.
> if an advanced theorem is proven, and no one alive is competent enough to comprehend it, does it even matter

For any applied mathematics: of course it matters if I can use a better algorithm for $PROBLEM. Yes, even if I do not understand it (I'd like a LEAN certificate tho)! As for pure mathematics, it can be argued that it never mattered in the first place.

Re:Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:28AM (#50241639)
I disagree. What might be "a few prompts in claude code" for you, could be a lot of work for someone else. Not everyone is comfortable setting up a domain name and hosting etc... and if you provide value, why not ask for something in return?
Re:Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:43AM (#50178728)
I can think of many reasons.... "we were using python to quickly explore the space and rewrote to rust once we figured out the interface and started to focus on speed and safety", or "the original authors wrote this software in smalltalk but we'd rather it be golang because this simplifies deployment"

> You prefer a changing codebase over something that has evolved and is being tested over a long period of time?

As long as the test-cases are there, why would I care what language software is written in?

Re:Lean Now Ships with Verified Kernels on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:27PM (#50145157)
Re:Illustration Beyond Proof on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:42AM (#50053316)
Suppose you are a maths researcher and you come across a problem, ... most likely, you will feed it to an AI. There are two possibilities: either the AI solves the problem or it does not.

If it solves the problem, you can ask the AI to explain it you. But if it does not solve it, will you really wager 30 years of your life on the possibility that you might be smarter than the AI?

I keep hearing about people spending their entire career on a single problem. And I think that time has ended. I think in Mathematics will be like chess.

Re:Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:01AM (#50052963)
I suspect most of these projects are started by people who get Claude Code at work, and just want to make sure that they spend all of their tokens before the weekly reset. In that case, cost is not relevant.
Re:A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:50AM (#49963642)
This is still true in JavaScript and many other modern languages.

Well, it's close in JS: 3 - 3.01 = -0.009999999999999787

navier stokes is not the only example of an open problem in maths that was solved by AI (eg the counterexample to the jacobian)
Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:02AM (#49906242)
> humans can be held accountable and learn from their mistakes

bad bots can be retrained or shut down far more easily

Re:How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:22AM (#49892823)
I'm not sure what that percentage means, but power-cuts in Belgium are extremely rare.
Re:'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:35AM (#49830377)
Where do you live? Ipad kids here need to be explained what files and folders are. They've never even used a mouse.
Re:Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after navier-stokes on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @04:26AM (#49723535)
I don't understand this comment. We use AI for prototyping all the time. We write ERP software. Client wants to know how process XYZ could be automated? Send them a prototype UI (sans the three A's) so they can play around with it. Takes 30 minutes.
If it wanted to: total war using nukes, followed by a nuclear winter. Satellites and drones track and exterminate remaining pockets of anthropic activity.

It doesn't need to have a habitable earth, it just needs atoms.

I heard the following analogy which made a lot of sense to me: suppose you're playing a chess match against Stockfish. Stockfish will win. Even if I cannot tell you what moves it will play, I can tell you with certainty how it will end.

Similarly, we cannot predict what AI would do.

Re:How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:32AM (#49624729)
> While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from [Buckmaster and Alpöge’s] usage of our products helped improve our models.

Well yeah, if you use the free product they train on your data, ... I thought this was widely understood?

Re:We have a year to fix security everywhere on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:26AM (#49607293)
This is because to build a pipe bomb you need difficult to source materials. This is not the case for other types of threats (cyber / bio).

I personally have no need for an LLM which will readily explain how to cut up the genotype of smallpox into small chunks which can pass the screening at the bio-labs, and can be readily assembled into the real thing by a second year lab-student.

Re:Can AI design circuit boards yet? on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:29PM (#49578700)
In your opinion, do you think ai can make eutorack modules by now? This is what I am waiting for: explain an idea to an ai, and sending the files to jlpcb to receive a complete working module (minus some THC soldering)
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Friday September 04, 2026 @06:48AM (#49562848)
Humans are famously horribly aligned, plenty of examples in history.
Re:Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:07AM (#49561896)
For us it's pretty much a standard request from our clients now: that they are able to use their chatbot to interact with the ERP systems.
Perhaps it depends on your previously saved memories, because over here if given the choice it's always reaching for either TypeScript or C.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:41AM (#49561711)
I can also recommend this channel to get a sense of where AI is in frontier maths.

https://www.youtube.com/@easy_riders

Re:LLMs and Self-Referentiality on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:23AM (#49547361)
I would be extremely offended if I heard someone claim they "prompt" me. It's very disrespectful.
Re:Fable 5.1 World Modeling on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:13AM (#49547275)
$33 is expensive? Compared to what?
Re:Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:05AM (#49520841)
It made an additional $23 million after the first month.
Re:Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:57AM (#49519273)
The premium version of Dwarf Fortress made over $7.2 million in its first month alone.

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