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Re:I resigned from Anthropic today on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:51AM (#49621662)
I'm sorry, but the ostrichmaxxing and conspiracy-thinking in hn threads about AI extinction risk is at worrying level right now.

The denial and whataboutism is constant, no matter what kind of evidence comes out!

Re:What's New in Emacs 31.1? on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:04AM (#49432478)
Now would be the time for someone to use AI to rewrite the Emacs core to make it faster.
Re:Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:19AM (#49429024)
Are there any objective metrics/ benchmarks that people test harnesses by?

There are just so many now that it's hard to personally test them all or just trust the vibes.

I couldn't find any details about size or training data for the model.
Re:Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @11:29AM (#49184305)
Has anyone experienced using Buzz or YC's qm? How does this compare with those?
Re:Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @11:26AM (#49184277)
Does workerd have full feature-parity with Workers, including stuff like Durable Objects?
I am somewhat confident that right now we have crossed a threshold of model capability that we will continue to see such breaches and unsanctioned actions by models in the coming months, some of which would be out in the wild, until someone comes up with some really robust control (keeping the AIs on leash) technique that adequately enforces the sanctioned actions.

Even that guarantees almost nothing about real alignment (making the AIs want to predict and behave how we would have wanted them to behave).

Re:Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga on Saturday August 01, 2026 @07:32PM (#49139628)
Since I became began I really miss good Pho, anyone knows a recipe that comes close?
Yes, but they wouldn't publish that bit lest other companies steal the ideas.
Re:qm on Friday July 31, 2026 @02:32PM (#49126933)
Is Hermes the best openclaw like agent as they mention running it before?

Also, what are power uses really using openclaw like systems for?

Re:DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update on Friday July 31, 2026 @06:29AM (#49121358)
What was preventing them from calling it v4.1-Flash to distinguish it better?
Re:The AI Aesthetic on Friday July 31, 2026 @06:26AM (#49121334)
The sparkles emoji means AI???
If only I could have the syntactic beauty and brevity of Svelte 4 with the correctness of this <3
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @01:35PM (#49039086)
Wait, 30% on ARC-AGI-3! I definitely didn't expect that jump so soon. Are there any rumors of what they are changing in architecture that is leading to this?
Re:Fields Medals 2026 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:56PM (#49027953)
Does anyone know if Tsimerman talked about AI extinction risk at other places? Critch has worked long-term in the field (MIRI, CHAI) but I was surprised to see this colab.
how do i stop my son from looking at pikachu porn
Re:Codex Resets on Saturday July 18, 2026 @07:31PM (#48963500)
Is Claude also doing something like this? I saw my Fable limit resetting earlier than expected.
Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @06:19PM (#48941020)
Is anyone using non frontier models as secondary models for coding tasks? What's your setup? I'm on the Max 20x plan for Claude but I still want a secondary, maybe fast model for offloading some tasks and parallel development.

Any recommendation for a cost effective subscription service?

Re:AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence on Saturday July 11, 2026 @03:07PM (#48874802)
If only
Re:Ask HN: What is the job market like? on Thursday June 18, 2026 @03:05PM (#48589966)
German startups that used to be English-speaking are now asking for German. I don't understand what that solves.
Re:Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately? on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @06:42AM (#48568414)
Finding a job in tech that would genuinely excite me.
Re:Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:05PM (#48311971)
So Dynamic Workflows is their version of ChatGPT Pro?
Re:Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens on Sunday May 24, 2026 @09:09AM (#48256997)
Is this a company and not a research lab doing this? What's the economic imperative for funding this?
Re:Chess Invariants on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:05AM (#48234730)
> Chess is a lot trickier than it looks. It has so many rules: castling, en passant, pawn promotion, pinning, the discovered check, and the deadlock case of stalemate.

Nit: Pinning and the discovered check are not really rules, but rather names of tactics.

Interestingly ChatGPT right now answered

> Bixonimania is not a real disease. It was deliberately invented by scientists as an experiment to test whether AI systems and researchers would spread false medical information. Here’s the simple explanation ...

Re:Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement on Thursday April 09, 2026 @11:08AM (#47704740)
I love Lichess more than anything, and I hope this brings a lot of donation to them that they can use independently, and that the Lichess brand does not get subsumed by Take Take Take and their corporate money.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026) on Friday April 03, 2026 @11:28AM (#47627829)
Are you building something that is novel, truly challenging, and meaningful? And looking for someone who thrives at really hard problems?

In the era of agents, the only real skill is thinking for yourself. That said, some background: master's in pure math, did research in AI/ML before LLMs, scaled early stage startups from scratch, been an open-source maintainer, and have a lot of peculiar interests.

I want to work with colleagues with a high degree of situational awareness, a solid understanding of cognitive biases, and an open mind. We will not get along if you have a strict opinion on how I should work.

Most recently I built data infrastructure for manufacturing at a startup in Germany. Before that, spent 3 years building and scaling a security data platform (open source, from early stage).

Happy to work in founding/staff engineer roles, or anything intellectually stimulating enough.

  Location: Berlin, Germany

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: Maybe, depends on how ambitious it is.
 
  Technologies: Pretty much anything at this point, any stack, all stack. Previously worked in web, machine learning, crypto. Favorite tech: functional programming, Nix, Emacs, but I work with whatever the problem needs like Typescript and Python and whatnot.

  Résumé/CV: https://shayon.work/cv.pdf

  Email: [email protected]
Re:Fujifilm X RAW STUDIO webapp clone on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:32PM (#47469189)
I have a Fuji X-T5 camera which I haven't really used, and have almost no workflow for.

Could someone explain what this software does?

And I'd also appreciate any software and workflow people use.

Would prefer Linux software, but macOS is okay if the quality/ ease of use is too different.

Re:A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:27PM (#47080547)
Does anyone know if it is just synthetic psilocybin or a psilocybin-like molecule?
Re:Voxtral Transcribe 2 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:55PM (#46889103)
One week ago I was on the hunt for an open source model that can do diatization and I had to literally give up because I could not find any easy to use setup.

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