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Comment · 3 days ago
Claude Code burning a large amount of tokens for no good reason is a headline we've seen more than a few times now.

Time to start questioning the motivations of model providers shipping their own harnesses.

Comment · 1 month ago
How useful is this without weights?

Isn't the mote that Nvidia has is they work with studios to generate the training data from the game, then they ship a model per game?

Or is my knowledge outdated here and they're just using a single generalised model?

Comment · 1 month ago
Generally the idea is that regions of memory that aren't being used are swapped out to disk, then other more useful things are brought into memory.

For example: you have a background program that you're not using and in the foreground you're crunching data from disk. In this scenario the most efficient use of your memory is to swap the background program out and pull the disk data into RAM.

Comment · 1 month ago
The first field field has fallen to AI.

I wasn't convinced until the mathematics community started responding, openly, with severe distress.

What will be next?

Comment · 1 month ago
The more we treat HuggingFace and RubyGems incidents as technological curiosities the closer we are to cementing a dangerous precedent where operators of AIs cannot be blamed.

LLMs do not desire, they hacked websites because OpenAI/Anthropic let them.

We know some of the models that hacked HF were those that hadn't gone through all training stages and were intentionally misaligned or had guardrails turned off, others were research previews.

This isn't "wow isn't it interesting LLMs do anything to achieve a goal" it's "why isn't anybody punishing these labs that are clearly acting without due care or regard".

We should be outraged and OpenAI/Anthropic should be (and in my mind, are) legally liable for the crimes they've committed thus far.

Comment · 1 month ago
That's just so extremely difficult to believe.

Before December 2025 they were still intelligent code autocomplete or Stack Overflow bots, then they started one-shotting serious long horizon tasks. Now they've just solved a millennium prize problem.

In less than a year.

Comment · 1 month ago
>It’s a beautiful Saturday morning with my family here in the East Bay. While I hope we have many more years, I don’t know how many more Saturdays I’ll be able to play outside with my kids in the sunshine so I’m going to make the most of the time we have.

Is there a social media training programme at Anthropic/OAI where they teach you to hint at some vague end-of-the-world scenario? They all sound the same.

Comment · 1 month ago
>and every other app I check shows it.

Other apps have a different government?

Comment · 8 months ago
You've been copying and pasting directly from Claude to reply to comments that ask how this works. You also realise you've been caught and are now replying in a completely different style.

You've thrown away all credibility.

Comment · 8 months ago
OP seems to self promote this project and other similar vibe coded works every few weeks under two different HN handles.

Edit: for me this post appears on the front page of HN. OP this is mission success - add this project to your résumé and stop spamming.

Comment · 10 months ago
Tab complete is completely broken on Firefox mobile (Android)
Comment · 11 months ago
They have nothing to do with mathematics but everything to do with being extremely popular books.

Most people that have read a mathematics textbook have also read and enjoyed Harry Potter.

Given you have enjoyed drinking water and breathing in the past, there is a high likelihood that you will enjoy watching the Star Wars films.

Comment · 1 year ago
I've long suspected it's got to do with office real estate.

You spent $10m or $100m on a building that's now half empty.

Either you downsize or commit to enterprise scale sunk cost fallacy and enforce RTO so your real estate investment isn't "wasted".

City centres also thrive on RTO, with high street shopping on a generational decline it's up to office workers and their employers to prop up the economy of the CBD one overpriced lunch at a time.

Comment · 1 year ago
I've started learning (in 2025!) and using Perl lately as shell++

It's extremely stable, installed almost everywhere, and has much fewer insane idosyncrasies than shell.

I can write some Perl and confidently hand it to a colleague where it will almost certainly work on their machine.

It's a shame it's so dead, for a scripting language there's nothing else that ticks the same boxes.

I would never write systems software with it, of course

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