Hacker News: acters

New comment by acters in "Claude Sonnet 5"

acters — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:47:50 +0000

I've been seeing LLMs act lazy from the very beginning. They got a little better but smaller models really only want to have a single task given to them. Mythos at least does work. RIP

New comment by acters in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

acters — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:34:53 +0000

Would the new upcoming AMD AI ryzen halo desktop be a better value offer? or dgx spark?

You would have to get a third party reseller/scalper or refurbished mac mini to get 64gb of ram ever since apple stopped selling it.

New comment by acters in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

acters — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:06:50 +0000

I am finding Chinese models are introducing more guidelines against cyber. Especially Kimi k2.7 code seems to have extra training against cyber security capabilities. Last one, k2.6 was a lot stronger at cyber but obviously the Kimi team improved over time, so this is not the best they can do but no one will be able to get the best anymore.

I expect future Chinese models to introduce even more of this type of bogus "safety" training.

Looks like if you are a white hat, then you will be fighting an uphill battle. Black hats will be fine, they will not care, they can just run a heretic model or specialty trained model.

New comment by acters in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

acters — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:57:18 +0000

I believe it is because GLM 5.2 has extra anti-cyber training instilled in it. Similar to Kimi k2.7 code.

Deepseek v4 pro being in preview with less "safety" training makes it stronger for that reason. Thinking will be different and in the end, it will actually try to be useful. Just expect future Chinese LLMs to further push out "safety" guided LLMs. The future is bleak for open weight models. Prepare to have "guidelines" enforced unceremoniously to all.

New comment by acters in "Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack"

acters — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:29:12 +0000

Which is silly because they seem to struggle with maneuvering around the little plastic tab to have the battery detected as rechargeable.

New comment by acters in "Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf]"

acters — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:07:23 +0000

I am guessing they are trying to make a distinction from mental horny vs physical horny

New comment by acters in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

acters — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:40:50 +0000

Yes tokens used (input and sometimes output) are always charged. You likely get charged for the preloaded system prompt, too.

New comment by acters in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

acters — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:19:39 +0000

AI consistently places animated objects behind a blur object which causes the browser to constantly repaint. Google's ai mode introduced one, some other websites clearly vibe codes included them too.

At first it confused me why my GPU usage spiked and fans started blowing harder, but now I see it is a common mistake that AI makes but no one tests properly. It is possible a human can make this mistake but I sheldom experienced this ever in my life until now.

I run 240hz monitors, and that meant the browser was trying to do 240 repaints per second. Blocking it with unlock origin is the only way. Ridiculous

New comment by acters in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

acters — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:12:07 +0000

They will also prefer subscription or free-to-play than actual offline gaming. This is going to be a disaster

New comment by acters in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

acters — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:49:21 +0000

Fascinating, kimi k2 has good clock too from my limited time being on the site.

New comment by acters in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

acters — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:13:09 +0000

When ctf organizers attempt to make a challenge "harder", I find they push the challenge into a more "guessy" state. Instead of proving skill, you basically need to guess some obscure or random step in the puzzle that the challenge is meant to give you. It is one of the most common problems with any puzzle based challenge system.

New comment by acters in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

acters — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:27:15 +0000

Yeah, but we have AI now, we don't need our blog posts to over explain or state what it all means to general audiences. The author name-drops a bunch of CTF events hosted by a variety of independent organizations and name-drops well-known teams.

To help everyone, this Capture The Flag is specifically Cybersecurity adjacent, there is a Wikipedia article on it as the top Google search result for me when searching "CTF". This is why the acronym is used, because searching for the full will get you to the wrong "sport" vs the cybersecurity one.

I don't want to explain what a CTF is. look at the Wikipedia article. It is there for a good reason.

New comment by acters in "TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough"

acters — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:36:18 +0000

Just look at deepseek V4, this preview model uses only 8 GB for 1M token KV cache(the context). It's insanely efficient already. It's just that most models that are coming out are barely catching up with technical breakthroughs. Deepseek are pioneers.

Unfortunately V4 is not trained for most real world usage, it is mainly for world general knowledge.

New comment by acters in "Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference"

acters — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:06:48 +0000

Man can't wait for AI in my brain. And then intelligence will be pay to win.

New comment by acters in "LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work"

acters — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:50:20 +0000

Instead of telling the LLM that "run"works like a cli, maybe just tell the LLM that "run" will execute sh/bash/zsh/etc scripts?

New comment by acters in "How to run Qwen 3.5 locally"

acters — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:34:21 +0000

I have a 1660ti and the cachyos + aur/llama.cpp-cuda package is working fine for me. With about 5.3 GB of usable memory, I find that the 35B model is by far the most capable one that performs just as fast as the 4B model that fits entirely on my GPU. I did try the 9B model and was surprisingly capable. However 35B still better in some of my own anecdotal test cases. Very happy with the improvement. However, I notice that qwen 3.5 is about half the speed of qwen 3

New comment by acters in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

acters — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:04:50 +0000

I have personally seen a rise of LLMs being too lazy to investigate or do some level of figuring out things on their own and just jump to conclusions and hope you tell them extra information even if it is something they can do on their own.

New comment by acters in "Good Riddance, 4o"

acters — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:10:00 +0000

I'm partially fascinated by their reliance on this model. I do miss the models before gpt 5. Openai is quietly locking it away into some vault as we just need to accept whatever model is current. I think I can sympathize with these people on only one merit and that is nostalgia and entertainment. I still load up old versions of software. I still watch old shows. I still play old video games. Under the lens of entertainment, I will never be able to be entertained by the objectively worse models. Old chats are kind of still there but not really, the UI is obviously different and probably will get deleted when I stop paying for the subscription and try to claw back some of my life away from chatting with these stupid models. It's dangerous to hold any meaningful memory with these cloud LLMs. Not to mention the social media traps people fell for, that I was proactively avoiding. I did get some part of me attached to gpt 4o. I quickly realized it and moved away from it. This post is a mixture of complex emotions but it is just what I felt like posting. It's fine to ridicule people for wanting to be that deeply attached but these cloud LLMs show how easily it is to start a social habit and lose it in an instant. We need more healthcare push to prevent (and treat the) social attachment from happening to LLMs.

New comment by acters in "The Day the Telnet Died"

acters — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:20:56 +0000

If it's alright to be pedantic, anyone with programming knowledge can do the same without these tools. What these offer is tried and tested secure code for client side needs, clear options and you don't need to hand roll code for.

New comment by acters in "The Day the Telnet Died"

acters — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:14:29 +0000

So basically the same as censorship because that is the exact same thing blocking ports does.