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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:08PM (#50343783)
It must be easier to remove capability than add capability using weight-space programming, right? Also, I wonder how much the “teacher” model’s knowledge plays into it versus how much the original model’s knowledge does.
Unfortunately for Copper in particular, .cu is associated with CUDA (so perhaps that’s why).
Re:Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:50PM (#50216940)
I’d be curious to know why you feel like that. For me, it’s the opposite. In the sonnet version, the game takes up a much larger percent of the viewport and the ability to swipe to control the Pac-Man is leagues about the small directional arrow buttons IMO.
Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:12PM (#50111130)
It's interesting the high reasoning pelican is animated. I don't think I've seen another model do that before.
Re:Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents" on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:57PM (#49825676)
Does this article not have a source?
Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @10:22PM (#49721416)
This is actually pretty cool. I think the undertalked about part of this for TypeSafe is that they can always "extract"/distill the frontier of this type of task from the newest LLMs for cheap. Jev seems seems to be GPT-6-Astra/Fable 5.1 but I imagine a bunch of training data is from earlier models?

Then, you can serve it faster/cheaper than the frontier LLMs. It's basically distilling a small but extremely common use-case from LLMs and serving it. Then RLCD comes into play to update weights when a new model comes out, etc.

Any thoughts on what the next potential "cheap" win to be distilled from frontier LLMs is? I'm going to need to play around with this.

Re:Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @08:21PM (#49651930)
I don’t think it was misleading, deliberately or otherwise. Did you read the report? I hate to call you out like that but I think you can only get that impression if you only read the above quotes. That’s not the insinuation I get at all. It’s specifically under the “illicit distillation” category. It’s never framed in anyway but as a form of distillation.

I think they are pretty fair and explicitly say “Distillation itself is a legitimate training method […] Distillation is commonly used because it reduces the resources needed to achieve more advanced capabilities”. And go on to say their definition that makes it illicit in these cases.

And, also, they almost certainly __were__ tricking users and sending their data overseas.

Do you see it any differently?

Heads up: it doesn't appear to be available on the Devin CLI (for me as a free user).
Re:Fable 5.1 World Modeling on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:04PM (#49542543)
Cool demo! That's funny. I literally sketched out something similar 30 minutes ago on paper. I wonder if there was some recent, semi-related article/link that subconsciously prompted the relevance.
Re:Elixir-lang.org has a new design on Saturday July 18, 2026 @03:16PM (#48961271)
>I also worked on all of the copy myself, collecting feedback from core maintainers as I went. The new tagline was a suggestion from Theo which we iterated on. I did use LLMs as an assistant, but I did not ask it to generate the content.

>Might as well use LLMs for the whole thing next time, since we will be accused of doing so anyway! :D

Re:My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite on Thursday July 09, 2026 @01:24PM (#48849431)
I generally agree with you that choosing something based on where it's hosted is dumb. I still think there could be an impact wrt a network effect.

The original comment you replied to was talking about "the loss of network effect" and you sounded dismissive of it. It might not even matter, but I think it's somewhat fair to say it could have an impact.

Re:My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite on Thursday July 09, 2026 @01:21PM (#48849377)
I agree. It's possible in the future a project hosted on codeberg is a silent "stamp of quality". Though, I still think there could be impact wrt a network effect.
Re:My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:59AM (#48848082)
You’re telling me you would be as likely to contribute to a project hosted in CVS as compared to git (and on GitHub)?
Re:My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:54AM (#48848000)
“An Ad hominem refers to when a speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument itself”

It’s definitionally an ad hominem against Jared. If he stuck to why he thought it was bad for Bun to do this, I would be more slightly sympathetic.

The answer seems to be yes [0]. Although I think it's important to state The Web Archive link proves that the recent Fable banning was not the catalyst for the page being linked.

Will Fable be back behind an ID verification step? I wouldn't be shocked if that happened. However, this specific support page and the ID veridiction process is not new. It is currently enforce.

It appears (but I can't be certain and don't think it's in bad faith) that many people are under the assumption that this is a result of the Fable banning. As a datapoint, I did some form of KYC verification to use OpenAI's cybersecurity platform a few weeks ago.

To be clear: I still think this is an important discussion.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1smpjg8/well_iv...

Edit: truthbe above pointed out there was a privacy policy change.

Re:TypeScript 7.0 Beta (built on Go) on Thursday April 23, 2026 @05:27PM (#47882286)
A quote from the official FAQ - https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411:

>By far the most important aspect is that we need to keep the new codebase as compatible as possible, both in terms of semantics and in terms of code structure. We expect to maintain both codebases for quite some time going forward. Languages that allow for a structurally similar codebase offer a significant boon for anyone making code changes because we can easily port changes between the two codebases. In contrast, languages that require fundamental rethinking of memory management, mutation, data structuring, polymorphism, laziness, etc., might be a better fit for a ground-up rewrite, but we're undertaking this more as a port that maintains the existing behavior and critical optimizations we've built into the language. Idiomatic Go strongly resembles the existing coding patterns of the TypeScript codebase, which makes this porting effort much more tractable.

TLDR: Typescript -> Go is much easier than Typescript -> Rust/Zig/$OTHERNATIVELANG

Re:Khipu Field Guide on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @01:13PM (#46783930)
This is a very interesting reference/jupyter NB/historiography someone put together about deciphering Khipu, the cord-based numbering system/ancient Excel from the Inca's.

"Welcome to The Khipu Field Guide - Travel back in time to the Inkan empire of the 14th through 16th century. Explore how the Inkas used cloth to communicate and record commitments. Journey with me, as I work with other khipu scholars, to decipher the enigma behind a knotted mop of camelid yarn."

There is some statistical analysis here but part of my hopes in posting on HN is perhaps someone here might get nerdsniped by it.

Re: on Saturday August 16, 2025 @06:31AM (#44922000)
Mind sharing some links? Curious what you are talking about.
As far as I know, it's the opposite (using Skia to render). Flutter for the web is a second-class citizen, whereas for mobile apps, it's quite productive.
Re:Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database on Sunday January 14, 2024 @08:39PM (#38996421)
Are all those Twitter testimonials fake? None seem to be actual accounts.
Re:Convoscope: Smart Glasses Intelligence Tools on Monday September 11, 2023 @11:28AM (#37468724)
Super cool demo. The potential for "contextual search engines" to live up to what I really wanted from Google Glass a decade ago is exciting.

Never tried the later enterprise Google Glass, but it always seemed generally to be more of a smart watch with a prism strapped to your face than a future-tech(tm) assistant strapped to your face.

Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @01:27PM (#37311109)
Can you elaborate why we're living in the era of Textual? Genuinely. It seems like a pretty nifty library but I'm not sure it transcends to killer library territory. Thanks!
Re:The plan is to flood Google search with AI garbage on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @07:30PM (#36780373)
Great quote.
Re:FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages on Thursday March 16, 2023 @06:58PM (#35190119)
For me, it has a been a very recent thing. A couple years ago, I would have had a handful a year. Now it wouldn't surprise me if I had a couple a day.
Re:LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:05PM (#35101048)
Hmm. I'm not sure. Presumably this will be updated soon: https://www.youtube.com/@geohotarchive/videos
Re:Flux Keyboard on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:01PM (#35100979)
Ahh thanks!
Re:LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:00PM (#35100970)
https://www.twitch.tv/georgehotz/videos?filter=archives&sort...

although, there is a VOD channel on YT that might be better.

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