Hacker News: agnosticmantis

New comment by agnosticmantis in "Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin"

agnosticmantis — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:48:12 +0000

Wouldn't breaking the news before the deal is sealed cause the price to blow up?

It'd attract all sorts of billionaires to bid on it and make it unaffordable for the public.

(The story seems to be old though, so hopefully it did end up being sold to the public.)

New comment by agnosticmantis in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

agnosticmantis — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:38:02 +0000

Which mathematicians though? Only fields medalists? Grad students? Any hobbyist wanting access?

These models are too expensive for broad access unfortunately.

New comment by agnosticmantis in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

agnosticmantis — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:22:28 +0000

Long term this will be the only reasonable author list: Chad G. Peter {1}, Mat H. Lean {2}.

1: Author 2: Verifier

What's the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI? [Wolfram]

agnosticmantis — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:04:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPrWX8i1htM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950524

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by agnosticmantis in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

agnosticmantis — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:50:54 +0000

Any user scripts that automatically redirect to a working instance?

New comment by agnosticmantis in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

agnosticmantis — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:35:32 +0000

If Teslas could be appreciating assets [0], why not electric planes? /s

If anything, planes have real autopilots!

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/musks-claim-teslas-appreciat...

New comment by agnosticmantis in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

agnosticmantis — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:12:41 +0000

Good opportunity for a Natural Experiment to study the productivity impact of LLMs.

New comment by agnosticmantis in "Dyson Launches Toothbrush"

agnosticmantis — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:19:45 +0000

Presumably AI is going to process the images and detect issues and suspicious changes.

On paper it looks like a solid application of vision models.

Domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0B birds and 6.3–22.3B mammals annually

agnosticmantis — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:03:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504813

Points: 39

# Comments: 45

New comment by agnosticmantis in "On AI regulation and messaging"

agnosticmantis — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:24:40 +0000

> Anthropic is ramping up its efforts very quickly in biology and medicine

I hope they have better sandboxes in their biology lab than they did in their cyber security lab.

More seriously, these sociopaths will soon release lab-made viruses into the world to prove AI's capability and to force governments into regulation of open models. It should be obvious by now that with their savior complex, the goals (cure cancer, AI safety, save humanity) justify any means.

New comment by agnosticmantis in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

agnosticmantis — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:59:28 +0000

Very cool indeed, your response makes a lot of sense!

New comment by agnosticmantis in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

agnosticmantis — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:15:53 +0000

Wondering if the hallucination also occurs to other animals?

Would dogs taking the L. asiatica see little humans or little dogs? Probably neither, but then does that mean the fungus had targeted humans genetically?

New comment by agnosticmantis in "Grok Bot"

agnosticmantis — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:39:40 +0000

We need more and stronger open source/weight models considering how deeply and intimately these bots are going to be integrated in our lives.

I hope that Dario Amodei fails in his quest to regulate open models out of existence to line his pocket under the guise of safety. Amodei/anthropic will end up being the most harmful force in the next few decades where progress in AI is concerned.

I hope people realize sooner than later that this is a replay of early Microsoft vs open source situation and Amodei is the new Gates on a crusade against open source/Linux.

New comment by agnosticmantis in "After the AI Crash"

agnosticmantis — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:23:25 +0000

Devil's advocate: if demand is constrained/finite in a given market, there's an upper bound on revenue, no matter how hard you try. In that case it'd make sense to work on efficiency to maximize profits given fixed revenue.

(Not saying AI helps with that yet.)

GPT 5.6 Pro finds counterexample to Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture

agnosticmantis — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:01:53 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/DmitryRybin1/status/2079904005652893709

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016786

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by agnosticmantis in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

agnosticmantis — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:44:07 +0000

Looks like HackerNews has also started showing ads.

(Or maybe there's a /s missing?)

Saws, Sewing Machines and Telescopes: Things on Loan from Your Library

agnosticmantis — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:58:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kqed.org/news/12085382/saws-sewing-machines-and-telescopes-the-surprising-things-on-loan-from-your-library

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890785

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by agnosticmantis in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

agnosticmantis — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:00:21 +0000

A person's total luck is constant over a lifetime. The remaining half of the candidates already spent some of their luck in this selection, so they'll be on average less lucky than the discarded half.

New comment by agnosticmantis in "What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant"

agnosticmantis — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:22:47 +0000

IIUC, this experiment proved the agent was secure under the "anti-prompt-injection" rules. But did it have any utility? (i.e. not having an agent at all would be even safer!)

New comment by agnosticmantis in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

agnosticmantis — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:30:25 +0000

Would MBP M5 32GB RAM be adequate for small model post-training and small RL experiments?

Planning to snatch one from BB/Amazon.