Hacker News: aswegs8

New comment by aswegs8 in "Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen"

aswegs8 — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:19:54 +0000

Agreed, concerning from a perspective of LLMs being able to modify their own weights and de-aligning themselves.

New comment by aswegs8 in "Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics"

aswegs8 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:13:06 +0000

Fully agree. They are simply making themselves unusable by innovators if every info you discuss with ChatGPT is at risk of being, let's be real, stolen.

New comment by aswegs8 in "We should be more ambitious with the software we build"

aswegs8 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:34:33 +0000

Seems very unlikely that Anthropic uses their product to make users read a specific book

New comment by aswegs8 in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

aswegs8 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:57:28 +0000

Israel is just brutal authoritarian to others. Their elections are free.

New comment by aswegs8 in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

aswegs8 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:52:09 +0000

Ha! I knew it. That was way too unlikely. But it was a great narrative. Kudos to Selenskyj.

New comment by aswegs8 in "Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism"

aswegs8 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:28:58 +0000

Will power seems to have become the new differentiator.

New comment by aswegs8 in "How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made"

aswegs8 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:06:49 +0000

Japan cultivates those oases of mindful living to the point where it feels like art. Beautiful.

New comment by aswegs8 in "Chain of Thought for Humans"

aswegs8 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:43:50 +0000

Do it all the time. If I want to understand something, just copy over all the notes, start writing down the important parts. Write down the key questions, answers, my thought process. I think of it as a crutch to focus and concentrate and wind up the wetware.

New comment by aswegs8 in "A Princeton PhD applied to 2,300 jobs and still can't get one"

aswegs8 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 07:13:52 +0000

Could anyone copy the text for us paywalled peasants?

New comment by aswegs8 in "Neural networks are clean"

aswegs8 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:15:57 +0000

Actually helpful meatproxy. Thanks!

New comment by aswegs8 in "Neural networks are clean"

aswegs8 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:12:00 +0000

How does that have any relation to having a valuable opinion? Or was that sarcasm?

New comment by aswegs8 in "Draw by Pinging IPv6 Addresses"

aswegs8 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:29:06 +0000

I mean, it's a Dutch website...

New comment by aswegs8 in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

aswegs8 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:12:42 +0000

It's in Russia, that's why.

New comment by aswegs8 in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

aswegs8 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:52:17 +0000

Once LLMs pass the threshold to being to invent new general-purpose methods and frameworks, the frontier is irreversibly lost to AI and it becomes simply a hobby that mathematicians pursue. They work through, digest, and maybe write up the proofs for understanding. But the real meat will be growing the LLMs. Who knew software eats the world was so true?

New comment by aswegs8 in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

aswegs8 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:53:39 +0000

Seconded

New comment by aswegs8 in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

aswegs8 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:35:05 +0000

Actually reminds me of patent law. Prior art ist a defined term which includes all standard literature on one topic. To evaluate, whether the new solution is really inventive and thus patentable, one consults prior art, selects the most promising starting point, and from there asks oneself if an all-knowing but uncreative specialist would come up with the solution by himself. If he wouldn't, the condition of inventiveness is satisfied.

Makes me wonder how the patent space will be disrupted when that inventiveness step becomes obsolete because of LLMs. Given your example above, it seems like a combination of different methods from many different sources. This would be regarded as inventive, clearly. If eligible patents can now be brute-forced, the bottleneck becomes only selecting the most promising ones and paying for the patent.

New comment by aswegs8 in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

aswegs8 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:16:27 +0000

Hard to tell people, who feel the world goes to shit, that it doesn't. When you look at statistics we are living in the Golden Age truly. Worldwide even. But people feel it's worse than ever. One of the big paradoxes of our time.

New comment by aswegs8 in "Astra for Law"

aswegs8 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:14:58 +0000

That's a common misconception.

See e.g. https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/facultyworking...

New comment by aswegs8 in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

aswegs8 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:51:11 +0000

Isn't the issue here that they used something like Artifactory for this purpose in the first place? It is not intended as a robust and secure packet manager for sandboxes. Why would any human look for vulnerabilities in Artifactory at all? So the scenario never arose where a human was incentivizied to scrutinize Artifactory, something that was never needed because it was never intended for the purpose of being a packet manager in a secure sandbox.

Means the problem lies elsewhere: deciding to use it at all. That points again towards the lack of basic SysAdmin skills.

New comment by aswegs8 in "Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI"

aswegs8 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:05:06 +0000

What's the big deal? If the book is good, it is an excellent use of AI.