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Re:LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for Fast On-Device Agents on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:09AM (#50099414)
Does anyone know the order of magnitude licensing cost for the model for businesses over 10m in revenue?
Re:Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:53AM (#49988820)
2B being called small is such a sign of the times
Re:Show HN: Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:08PM (#49946839)
Hey! I’m curious if you tried comparing luxical to model2vec classifiers for the pretraining.

I’m one of the authors of model2vec, and working on training classifiers for this. I think model2vec could be better, but I haven’t had the opportunity to try this at scale. So if you did, knowing about it would be helpful!

Re:Ask HN: Do you worry about fires in AI datacenters? on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:19AM (#49692670)
No
The (relevant) segue into tires elevates this post so much. I don’t understand why, but it does
Re:Pandas Should Go Extinct on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:29PM (#49668446)
Agreed on all counts.

In many cases I’ve found directly using python primitives to be less confusing than pandas.

Similarly, in companies I’ve worked at, the datasets just aren’t that big. Especially if you’ve got access to modern hardware.

Re:The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:51PM (#49661509)
If you find a place where I can host a trillion parameter model without anyone finding out about it, let me know.
Re:The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:49PM (#49661482)
But how. Models don’t have access to their own weights.
Re:The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:48PM (#49661469)
Not the code: the weights. Are you going to host a trillion parameter model somewhere without someone noticing?
Re:The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:39PM (#49661316)
Ok but do any of these data centers have a copy of the models that attacked hf?
Re:The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:27PM (#49661113)
One thing I definitely do not understand about this discourse is that the models that are good enough to self-replicate can’t survive on normal machines, e.g., the models can’t hide on some random server.

So, if it is as dangerous as they say it is: there is a single physical source of this danger, which is OpenAI/Anthropic servers. If it is this dangerous, they can just turn it off.

Instead, we just keep pretending that the models that attacked HF were hosted or replicating on HF hardware. Not the case! They infiltrated it, but were hosted elsewhere.

Re:RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:22PM (#49661028)
I think anyone who is even a little bit realistic knows that most technologies overclaim, or evaluate under very favorable conditions.

This is not a good thing of course, but I also feel that acting surprised that this is going on is a little unnecessary.

Having said that: most tools are not helpful

Re:Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:08PM (#49628814)
Tongue seems to be fully claudeslopped.
Re:Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings on Monday September 07, 2026 @01:06AM (#49594103)
I’ve never liked that this was called “the platonic representation hypothesis”. Lots of weird baggage attached and seems like a waste of a good name.
Re:Benchmarking Vector Indexes on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:27AM (#49522492)
This is a super long ai generated slab of text with very little actual info. It doesn’t include any analysis of results.

It does include the phrase “worth listing”.

Super charitable reading imo. This is like saying we can’t detect a speeding car because we can’t run as fast as a fast car.

It’s not like the humans were engaged in some kind of battle of wits with some super AI, it’s just some employee not monitoring the output of an experiment.

Re:You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It on Saturday August 29, 2026 @06:32AM (#49488684)
Cookie banners are made annoying on purpose. This has nothing to do with GDPR itself.

The entities forced to show them would rather not, and thus make it as annoying as possible for you. They then use this to weaken support for the GDPR.

Shame on the people making stuff like this.

I think spoiling a commons is risky for individuals, not so much for investors. Breaking a future law is lucrative
Tragedy of the commons. The person that ruins a commons first takes all the supply.

This is why regulation before, not after, the commons are plundered, is important.

Re:The Benchmarkpocalypse on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @01:59AM (#49341838)
Unfortunately, even a holdout set doesn’t protect you from overfitting, it just takes longer.

Of course having a holdout set is better than not having one. It’s just not a silver bullet.

Re:How I Over-Engineered My Book on Monday August 17, 2026 @03:28PM (#49336362)
It is perhaps ironic that I find this post very difficult to read. I'm super interested in the content, but it reads like it is generated.
Re:How to disable or avoid intrusive AI on Monday August 17, 2026 @01:00PM (#49334167)
My heart bleeds for Rovo’s product managers. They must also see that nobody actually wants or needs or even likes Rovo.
Re:Manus will return to operating as an independent company on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @11:37AM (#49259995)
Anyone have info on whose regulatory restrictions they are referring to?
Re:Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @03:28AM (#49254559)
I think that some of these choices (as others have commented) show that the author has not investigated how tokenization works.

Tokenization is not some black box, you can run tokenizers and check them.

Re:Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA on Sunday August 09, 2026 @12:29PM (#49232909)
PCA is applied after the model, so there should be no difference in embedding throughput. Lookups in the index should be faster, but that speedup also applies equally to MRL.

So I guess the answer is: no

Re:Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA on Sunday August 09, 2026 @11:51AM (#49232530)
Ah I meant more to say that I was working on this as well. I haven’t published the results for this comparison specifically yet.
Re:Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA on Sunday August 09, 2026 @10:32AM (#49231804)
Nice! I’ve been working on something similar and found similar results.

In my experiments, I used lots of embedding models and the results were not nearly as uniform as this curve, just FYI. I didn’t use any of the API-based models though

I also wrote about this exact comparison when using PCA and MRL to quantize static models, see: https://stephantul.github.io/blog/mrl-pca/

LinkedIn recently added a “seems like AI slop” button. I.e.: independent of downvoting/not interested/flagging as spam/ToS violation, you can say “this is AI slop”. Maybe we need something like it here
Re:Discovery Loop on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @01:27PM (#49186036)
That is true, I’ve seen people do biochemistry and geology work, and it did look very mind-numbing.

Then again, gassing rats and taking biopsies is not something you can do with AI.

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