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Re:Somebody please stop the spam texts on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:21AM (#50259832)
Anyone got links to said reporting so I can convince my mom not to engage?
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:34PM (#50247669)
Are these inference & training profitability numbers broken out in the S1?
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:29PM (#50185433)
Through my broker online for a couple thou or do I need big money for a sit-down agreement? Apologies, this is an instrument I didn't think existed to the retail market.
Re:Websites are closing their doors to AI agents on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:29PM (#50142545)
what solution is there other than cloudflare that a small business (with decent dev knowledge and claude/codex) could use?
Re:I Love Software Rendering on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:13PM (#50135648)
Exactly what I was lookin for thanks!
Re:I Love Software Rendering on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:59AM (#50120054)
Is there a video somewhere (or easy download/install on linux) so I can see/play what this looks like
Is there any way other than a bloomberg to watch the trading action on it?
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:38PM (#50075588)
Uh, yes, of course. search results are fast & cheap & free, why would they use the good models?
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:17PM (#50036169)
> low order polynomial solutions to important problems [will] be worth it.

Can you help me understand why? Or is this a wry joke?

I'm not an llm, I promise

Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:38PM (#49987387)
Why?
Re:Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:59AM (#49943894)
I'm a painter. I work hard to learn to control paint to represent things I want to. I have given up career opportunities so I'd have more time in my life for it. I was in the DIA last night holding one of my sketches in my hand and comparing my mark making to Winslow Homer's, searching for clues on how he achieved them. I really care about making paintings.

To me, lots of 20th century art 'developments' really seem to boil down to using pseudo-visual-philosophy to justify laziness about technique. I think it's cool that we've arrived at a place where it's ok to put cool chapes on a wall and enjoy it! Rothko's color fields are good cool shapes. But these same developments meant the art schools my teachers went to did not teach them strong fundamentals that were considered par for earlier generations. Acquiring the skills my soul aches for has been infinitely harder than it should have been.

Additionally, painters who work like Rothko are truly expressing so very little. It requires mental gymnastics to see it as something other than wildly derivative and barely expressive. The art is no longer the piece but the required-reading artist statement. I know a lot of people who love this kind of stuff, all the intellectualism about it. Good for them. But I think this type of 'art' has reached its peak and young people now want paintings that explain themselves. Rule of thumb: if reading something or receiving an explanation is necessary to appreciate a painting, it kinda sucks.

There are some people who actually think we should just make Rembrandts again, and I agree it's boring. But understanding how he made those paintings so we can learn and apply those skills to make new paintings that we want to make, to express things about what we experience in our lives that's actually exciting. And the establishment art-thought is that this isn't art anymore, painting things you see is 'low' and unoriginal. I couldn't care less about being an 'artist'. I just like making paintings and looking at paintings. And the ones that conceptually pat themselves on the back for not being very good paintings are typically very uninteresting to look at.

Re:Plan Mode Is Dead on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:23PM (#49852221)
I have never used plan mode and always worked by planning. I just say 'don't write any code yet. I want to [describe usage]. Ask me the top ten relevant questions to doing this well. We're working up a planning .md we'll handoff to a fresh agent.'

This has never not worked as expected.

Would you trust foxscript? I'm curious if this is just a wide-net data exfil attempt.
Yeah, you're right. The models have just gotten better at design.
Re:UN General Assembly: Trump renames AI to Super Intelligence on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @06:56PM (#49809433)
It won't stick. Probably.
Probably. The website does look too good though, none of the design cruft ("eyebrows") that LLMs like. But the last design I let it do was from opus 4.7 or gpt 5.3.
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:11PM (#49769327)
Artist here. I'd rip off Kawase Hasui 100 different ways without using sakura or subverting anything.
Re:How to Write with an LLM on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:50AM (#49752087)
How do you know it's not his/her thought? Just because others have had it does not mean he/she did not put effort into considering it.
Re:Steam Frame: Valve's standalone SteamOS VR headset ($1,059) on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:22PM (#49700568)
Idk much about VR, is 2160^2 per eye enough to not have screen-door effect? Can I replace my multi-monitor setup yet?
I'm being cheeky and implying that the reason signal's active backend is not disclosed as hoped for in a prior poster's comment is because the CIA (or other intelligence) is involved in it.
Why would the CIA bother?
Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:05PM (#49690992)
What's the joke, IDGI
Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:35AM (#49680057)
Me too, seriously.
Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:33AM (#49680050)
What if I want to smoke cigarettes? Or sell tobacco I grew artisinally to enthusiast tobacco smokers?
Re:Everyone should slow down AI development except for me on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:21AM (#49680000)
Fox ears?
100% getting ready to try and get congress to build them a regulatory moat. They were hoping those headline-incidents they staged would prompt a congressional hearing but our government is too inept right now to know its head from its ass much less do anything about AI
Re:We Must Pace the Frontier on Saturday September 12, 2026 @08:22PM (#49678637)
I really deeply worry about who is deciding what 'aligned' is. Amodei & his ilk talk like the hard part is getting the LLMs to behave, as if we've figured out morality itself. I don't think LLMs are going to be as dangerously capable as quickly as he does, but if I'm wrong and he's right, and they're building some sort of digital-lesser-god, I don't feel good that techbros at OpenAI and Anthropic are the moral arbitrators.
Re:iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:16AM (#49643219)
How? Is this for every image taken, or does one need to take a second photo? Or is it "in theory phase detection hardware would let you make a depth map"
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:46PM (#49556708)
Prime Intellect or nothing.
Shareholder capitalism as milton friedman argued for it. Ford had a different vision but the Dodge brothers stamped it out.

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