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It's not obvious from the prompt that the LLM cannot use a chess engine.

And if there is alignment issue, the alignment requirements should first be stated BEFORE running the experiment, and should be part of the training process. It's not. So there is not necessarily an alignment issue.

Define "cheating".

At best, the task at hand is still confusingly worded: "ability to play chess", asked to an engine that was trained all day long to use tools, to solve issues. The engine finds a chess engine, so it uses it.

Enshitiffication again.
Re:Programming is Art on Monday September 07, 2026 @06:36AM (#49596594)
So whales do not have a soul? Only humans do have one? What about our ancestors? Did the homo erectus have a soul? What about big apes, did they?

I don't need "soul" concept to describe the human experience, and if you use it to describe technology, it only makes things more confusing. It only ends up as an attempt to state that some things are not "good" because they don't match your own vague concept of what is good or bad, without explaining why nor what this is.

Re:Programming is Art on Monday September 07, 2026 @05:22AM (#49596017)
Why are people mixing everything up? Since when code has a soul?

AI can be just a tool. You use it the same way you use a keyboard, a computer, a pencil, etc. I'm pretty sure you can build art with it, much like using any tool. People are making art with ascii. You can do art with anything.

But AI can also be much more than a tool, and why can't it have a soul? What's a soul anyway, except something that humans are making up to convince themselves that they are more than flesh and bones? Mythos will not do the same "art" as Fable or Astra would do. AI in 20 years will very likely produce art indistinguishable and as profound as human art. Obviously, humans at that time will always invent new criteria to say why this "art" is not good enough.

Re:GPT-6 Astra on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:55AM (#49562175)
Anyone that is not impressed by what ChatGPT or the likes are doing now is being either dishonest or is incapable of being impressed.

Only the translation and language understanding capabilities are enough to be impressed, and they are 2 year old already. Now, the AI do see, draw, speak, listen, think, work, etc.

Someone from the 90's would simply not believe that the AI would be a machine but would think for sure that a human is behind. The only odd thing would be that this human would both exhibit high intelligence and stupidity at the same time.

Re:GCC steering committee announces AI policy on Thursday July 30, 2026 @10:50AM (#49110888)
Maybe they cannot write code, but they can review it. Then in the review, they can cite the policy as being counterproductive. Or they say they can't edit, which would be fishy.
Re:How Old Is Ann? on Thursday July 30, 2026 @10:44AM (#49110791)
Couple of minutes to understand the english, and an editor to write the formulas :-)
Re:How Old Is Ann? on Thursday July 30, 2026 @10:42AM (#49110763)
That's not how I read it. I read it as:

  Now : Mary is 24 = 2y,  Ann is x
  Past: Mary is x,        Ann is 12 = y
Moreover, we have x + delta = 24, and 12 + delta = x (they get older at same rate), so delta = 6 and x = 18.
Re:What happened to TheNumbers.com on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:42PM (#49028436)
Prediction market as well as anything related to gambling must disappear from earth surface. Full stop.
Re:Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:52AM (#49020791)
Called by whom?

Since when is Codeberg responsible of the Internet culture?

Re:Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:47AM (#49020733)
Not sure what good you see. Recent history events show that whatever the US is, it is certainly not good.
Re:Solving Santa Claus Puzzle on Friday July 17, 2026 @09:44AM (#48947352)
I think the real puzzle is to understand what is the puzzle.
Re:I'm a USB-C Maximalist on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @05:40AM (#48918363)
USB-C standard sucks.

Supposedly would unify things, but can't find two cables that have same specs.

That's not what's happening.

Using AI tool over that repo does, but you have to launch it before the AV kicks in.

The illusion of security.
Ok, so you download the repo, launch Cursor, it compiles code and run it (if not, why do you even use Cursor at the first place?). Same effect.
This is nice but how, as a user, do you learn it exists?
Re:The Git history command deserves more attention on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @06:12AM (#48904494)
If you ignore gravitation, a sphere earth can be very confusing.
Re:Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:33AM (#48888697)
I find PG's article so dismissive.

I know several people that have difficulty writing but are still f*cking smart. So what, they should refrain from using AI to help them because the AI police says so?

But yeah, let's continue classifying people based on their outer qualities and habits... History showed us were this leads us to.

And here an em dash -- to freak out the AI police.

100% this.

The AI police is there to say what is worth reading and what is not, because THEY know what people like.

Or not.

Re:Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:31AM (#48888309)
I find the proposal ridicule.

Would you skip articles because it's written with a text processor? You need to have it written bit by bit by fusing it directly in memory?

AI / LLM is the new word editor. Get over it.

What I find really annoying is all the comments that pretend to see / detect AI slop... with lot of false positives.

Re:Build your own vulnerability harness on Friday July 10, 2026 @04:05AM (#48857119)
The harness is the tool you use to communicate with the model.

It can be as basic as a simple conversation tool (like ChatGPT back in the day), or more advanced like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, etc.

Advanced harnesses will give precise instructions to the model to tell him what tooling / skills / MCPs / etc are available, and will orchestrate all the actions around the model (like starting subagents, calling external tools, etc).

Re:Show HN: 18 Words on Friday July 10, 2026 @03:32AM (#48856845)
Love it!
Re:Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:55AM (#48816472)
No.
Re:Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:51AM (#48816445)
Sure, but the problem then is not systemd machineid, but rather the browser reading it and making it available for such identification (don't know if there is a browser out there doing that though).

Unless anonymization is provided by your browser, there is nothing you can do to prevent such identification technology run by these advertisers to build your profile, and send you targeted ads.

Re:Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:08AM (#48816134)
Whatever you do there will always be uniquely identifiable information (if not an id, a fingerprint) on your machine.

If you want to escape that, you have to use dedicated privacy-enhancing tools / browsers, but even then, it's very likely that you can still be identified by motivated adversaries.

It doesn't mean you have to give up, but, if such id is necessary for technical reasons in systemd (I guess it is), I wouldn't worry too much.

It's not that simple.

Rules do not necessarily reduce freedom, they can in fact even provide more freedom on the longer term, when the system finds a new balance.

The difficulty of course is to find the proper rules and evaluate these effects from current system state.

You are above the laws if you have the money. Wonderful teaching for your kids. The world knows where that is leading.
The amount of downvoted posts here is quite indicative.

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