Hacker News: alansaber

Bar exam pass rates since 2000

alansaber — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 22:58:37 +0000

Article URL: https://lexifina.com/blog/bar-exam-pass-rates-by-state

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50408845

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by alansaber in "The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group"

alansaber — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 22:58:23 +0000

LLMs have very favourable exploration<>consolidation dynamics. An LLM alternative would need to display fundamental improvements at relatively large scales which is extremely challenging for new research.

New comment by alansaber in "Running a law firm on Free software"

alansaber — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:10:09 +0000

Massive amounts of people hate the SAAS model and frequent end of support for older perpetual versions.

New comment by alansaber in "British Library Legal deposit and web archiving"

alansaber — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 16:52:20 +0000

The state doesn't like to consider anything as beyond their purview.

New comment by alansaber in "Running a law firm on Free software"

alansaber — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:52:17 +0000

AFAIK no state level organisation has sanctioned someone for this. You can opt-out of data collection, which some practitioners think is good enough to satisfying their professional liability- risk tolerance depends on the individual (this is not advice, just my observation!)

New comment by alansaber in "Running a law firm on Free software"

alansaber — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:50:48 +0000

This is common with solo practitioners. Sometimes you have to take weeks, months off, or suspend your practice. The answer would be referrals/your network, but obviously, in bad circumstances you can't always offer a soft landing to your clients.

New comment by alansaber in "Running a law firm on Free software"

alansaber — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:49:19 +0000

Only if an edge case could cause you to miss things (such as libreoffice missing redlines?). Seems unlikely IMO.

New comment by alansaber in "Running a law firm on Free software"

alansaber — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:48:50 +0000

25 bucks is 25 bucks. I also feel that losing your license because you tried to save 25 bucks on MS Word seems unlikely (not legal advice).

New comment by alansaber in "Running a law firm on Free software"

alansaber — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:47:49 +0000

No, but my impression from this website is that he's a technology lawyer who enjoys maintaining his own stack, which strikes me as nothing but a plus.

New comment by alansaber in "Running a law firm on Free software"

alansaber — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:43:33 +0000

This is funny, but the amlaw100 law firms signing up to enterprise saas have probably thought about their data protection terms, edit: equally, this is the game, and Harvey will undoubtedly be trying to maximise their metadata/data capture.

New comment by alansaber in "Upload Your RAM"

alansaber — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:01:22 +0000

There has been a relatively strong local model community since the days of llama-3. IMO, the number of non-technical people interested in qlora, adapters, parameter fine tuning etc is remarkable.

Git for Global Law

alansaber — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:54:41 +0000

Article URL: https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-global-law

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50399602

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by alansaber in "Awesome repositories are no longer awesome"

alansaber — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:04:04 +0000

Yes indeed this article points at some flaws but none of which I think are existential, popular lists becoming outdated and unmaintained whilst also being bombarded with crap is the norm

New comment by alansaber in "Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models"

alansaber — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:59:57 +0000

I doubt BERT would trip safeguards

New comment by alansaber in "Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models"

alansaber — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:58:39 +0000

I've read writeups about a user trust score and i'd be surprised if it wasn't true, there's no way the safeguard is just a cls in isolation

New comment by alansaber in "Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace"

alansaber — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:54:47 +0000

Shaka, when the context compacted

New comment by alansaber in "Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions"

alansaber — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:54:17 +0000

I really don't think the scaling is so trivial.

New comment by alansaber in "We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry"

alansaber — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:03:27 +0000

Some partners having some fun?

New comment by alansaber in "Herdr has released native app"

alansaber — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:02:05 +0000

There's still space for innovation and UIUX improvements so why not I say

New comment by alansaber in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

alansaber — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:04:42 +0000

Least stressful day in crypto.