Hacker News: Gerard22Aug

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

Gerard22Aug — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:03:36 +0000

"CEO-abliterated" Model got uploaded to HF. Nvidia bought HF. U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications. Developers went back home. CEO received bonus. 2.5x larger than last year.

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

Gerard22Aug — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:49:10 +0000

Licensing. (And there is no 2nd Amendment for this one)

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

Gerard22Aug — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:40:16 +0000

100x this: "The Government plans to regulate open source ai." and ... s/regulate/restrict

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

Gerard22Aug — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:36:53 +0000

... You wouldn't steal a car ... you wouldn't steal a bag ... piracy is a crime. (Girl cancels the download and walks away from the PC. Remember? :-))

That is what will happen to torrents. Followed by VPNs. China, Russia and Iran had paved the way already.

Can't you see the puzzle coming toghether?

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

Gerard22Aug — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:28:10 +0000

+1 on @SillyUsername. Combined with recent acquisition of OpenRouter we see exactly what we were increasingly concerned about: tightening (chocking?) of Open Weights locally-run models. The sequence and timing of these events make the intent very clear.

Now the Open-Models crowd will try to move to some other place. But fragmentation will weaken the position. Yes, there is Civic, there are purely Chinese websites ... for those who speaks Mandarin. Which only reinforces the point.

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses"

Gerard22Aug — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:14:23 +0000

Yeah, there is latest and greatest trend: 0-bit quant. Absolutely outstanding performance, can produce as many tokens per second as you terminal may sustain with zero load on unified memory / GPU. Real winner!

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines"

Gerard22Aug — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:36:02 +0000

This is great point, actually - "you hit the nail on the head" :-) and I would like to reply.

I am running a very long sessions with LLMs via custom python scripts. Technically, one may call them "harness" but that would be just laughable ... It's literally python script using direct API calls (Vertex in my case) and maintaining the "living session" with all turns etc and also doing the explicit caching. I'm not using LLMs for coding. That hopefully answers another comment regarding why I brought up MD – this is how LLMs output responses to my prompts.

And this is the thing: I fully control input and output and I just know it can't use any other tool. It also, as I said, runs on separate hardware if it is "obliterated" model or runs in GCP for me.

In my setup it is impossible for LLM to get anything hidden with one-shot or gain a shell, as you mentioned.

Did I understand you correctly or I missed something? Thanks for your points.

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo"

Gerard22Aug — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:14:30 +0000

"No one worth listening to is claiming that there will be a COVID-style pandemic." That means exactly that. The war(s) were not enough and run out of steam. We need the next thing.

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines"

Gerard22Aug — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:05:22 +0000

"treating AI agents as people" - I am betting they will unioinize faster than we ever did.

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines"

Gerard22Aug — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:00:05 +0000

"malicious LLM" is just a bunch of weights. It runs on, say, Llama.cpp as regular user in separate account, often on its own hardware. "malicious LLM output" is just a Markdown formatted Unicode-encoded text, produced by Llama.cpp and printed on the screen by my python API script. I control the input. Let's assume that "rogue LLM weights" from HF produce "rm -Rf" instruction. it never gets to shell. And how that "malicious LLM" will disrupt and hack me? With swear words and em—dashes? :-)

(Adding this philosophical point: Black.Mirror.S07E04.Plaything is probably the closest scenario to what you are describing?)

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines"

Gerard22Aug — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:50:41 +0000

"The agent should be able to run as root" The article is right – we are doomed. If This ^^^ is The Conclusion we, as an Industry, have arrived to after 40 years ... It's sad. I use my own LLMs ("Personal AI", anyone? ANT-PAI-XT 486? LOL") with my own scripts (I do not use "agents", "harnesses", "agentic teams" etc) and this setup processes my own prompts. It happily runs on its own Mac Studio where I also may watch a movie later on.

(Edited: not as root. Just ordinary separate AI user account in MacOS. And no HTTP access either.)

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "LinkedIn Has Accidentally Become a Dating Site"

Gerard22Aug — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:49:23 +0000

"This guy fucks."

New comment by Gerard22Aug in "LinkedIn Has Accidentally Become a Dating Site"

Gerard22Aug — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:47:59 +0000

ASL?