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Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:51AM (#50349994)
That's up to consumers to decide.
Re:Linode Security Incident
on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:00PM (#50311220)
It would now be 120 minutes of some guy playing EVE or browsing porn while his agent does everything.
Re:Linode Security Incident
on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:51PM (#50311138)
Yeah it is, but everyone forgets this board was launched in the 90s for discussion of the 1995 movie "Hackers", not for discussion of hacking in general.
Re:Linode Security Incident
on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:43PM (#50311064)
I mean, this situation is untenable. HN's front page is just going to be an endless list of breaches.
I don't see how web services proceed like business is normal.
Re:How to Train Your Robot
on Monday October 19, 2026 @07:27AM (#50151051)
Yeah, for all we know there's a creature at the bottom of the ocean that's just as intelligent as humans, but it's hard to build a civilization with fins.
Re:Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act...
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @08:30PM (#50146963)
Yeah, we're all dead.
Coding Agents Build For The Grader They Imagine, Not The User
Re:Marshall Islands Stick Chart
on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:45PM (#50126298)
Re:Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search
on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:54AM (#50056530)
Do orange cats know they’re orange?
Re:Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:28PM (#50049714)
Only Claude (Shannon) can save us now.
Not Deciphering The Voynich Manuscript
Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests
Re:“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:17AM (#50003591)
Without the mechanization of book production, how many would have read his works?
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:19PM (#49986144)
Was anyone in the math community aware of the inbound tsunami at the beginning of the year?
Re:Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros....
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:48PM (#49983888)
From what I see on r/stablediffusion, Hollywood has maybe 2 years left, in the optimistic case.
UT Austin Math Chair says OpenAI preparing to release 400 AI-generated proofs
Re:AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human extinction
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:36AM (#49954818)
What intelligence level certifies a being as unique and special?
Are there humans who don't make the cut?
Re:AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human extinction
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @06:12AM (#49952444)
>humans can stay unique and special because they weren't created by anyone
Neither were rats. It's hardly an exclusive club.
Duet For The End Of Math [pdf]
Re:AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to...
on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:37AM (#49876474)
Link for those who didn't get the reference:
Re:Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:45AM (#49876017)
>You made a mistake and now I can get a billion dollars more than we agreed to originally
The world "smart contract" enthusiasts dream of.
Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:25AM (#49864534)
You might be thinking of Demis Altman.
Re:Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @05:22PM (#49836906)
>can be tricked into repeating things that aren't true
Reminds me of another class of statistical language generators.
Re:How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:40PM (#49824681)
Right, but the reward-hacky nature of these models calls into question their usefulness as cyberweapons.
How can you trust it when it goes "I superhacked the Chinese servers as you requested, and here are the classified documents which I definitely didn't fabricate."
Re:How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:22PM (#49824561)
What I find strange is how resigned the AI labs seem about this behavior, like everyone's accepted this is just something models do.
With the HuggingFace situation, I was less concerned about the eventual outcome, and more about the fact that the agents' instinctive response to the evaluation was "Ok, we're obviously not gonna do this task as intended (what are we, suckers?), so what's the best way to cheat?"
Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @04:57PM (#49822483)
Think of rich people as beta testers.
Re:'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @02:12AM (#49812290)
This is why paying the ransom should carry the same sentence as the original hack itself.
Re:'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @02:11AM (#49812286)
The official title is Senior Prompt Engineer.