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New comment by bryan0 in "Building an Advanced Agentic Harness"

bryan0 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:59:11 +0000

I (like presumably many others) have built something similar. My main difference though is that the critics operate on each stage of development before it can move onto the next. The stages are defined by deliverable artifacts: issue, plan, pull request. Critics must approve each artifact before you can move onto the next. So the process is defined by a DAG which defines how to transition successfully from one artifact to the next. It's been fun to work on and I would like to open source it soon, but I assume many others are working on similar systems.

New comment by bryan0 in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

bryan0 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:39:40 +0000

What’s even more puzzling is that line of reasoning was one reason why trump was elected in the first place: increase domestic oil supply and get out of foreign wars

New comment by bryan0 in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

bryan0 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:29:56 +0000

Thanks for the pointer to lesswrong. The relevant article on this topic appears to be here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pQYEPitFqztcRvBsS/openai-s-u...

Just glanced at it and it looks pretty good!

New comment by bryan0 in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

bryan0 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:44:05 +0000

this gets more nuanced because "the sigmoids won't save you": https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-you

New comment by bryan0 in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

bryan0 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:20:21 +0000

I think there's another interesting story here about how this was apparently moderately flagged and triggered the flame-war detector which kept the story off the front page of HN 2 days ago[0]. I think people are having a hard time processing this information rationally(?)

What can we do to make conversations around these incredibly exciting and important topics more constructive? HN is where I expect to read expert comments on these topics, has this style of conversation moved elsewhere?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157930#49132926

Some initial thoughts, and a complicated mix of feelings

bryan0 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:47:17 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/henryquantum/status/2083623695436623915

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139301

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Why one of the best mathematicians is joining OpenAI

bryan0 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:35:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/jacob-tsimerman-math-fields-medal-openai/688120/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131347

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop

bryan0 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:52:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/podcast/flocks-ceo-wants-zero-wrongful-stops-i-wasnt-the-first

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114097

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

We're giving 100k academic researchers free access to our frontier models [video]

bryan0 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:14:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLehRytu9Zo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104307

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New Fields medalist, Jacob Tsimerman, leaving research math to work at OpenAI

bryan0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:58:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15787

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083992

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

The deadly experiment that could save the American elm

bryan0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:29:32 +0000

Article URL: https://grist.org/solutions/the-deadly-experiment-that-could-save-the-american-elm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083568

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by bryan0 in "Our position on open-weights models"

bryan0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:13:46 +0000

> Yeah, this is anthropic advocating for a ban on open weight models.

This is an ungenerous take, and I think it's important to to recognize it's reasonable to support models that are both open and safe. How this would actually be achieved is unclear though. Dario is at least proposing a solution a solution, which is the model needs to pass safety testing. This is reasonable and I wouldn't conflate this with wanting to ban open weights.

I think the deeper problem might be though that once you have safe open-weight models, it will be much easier to make them unsafe. And to be specific, unsafe means proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons knowledge and similar information.

AI-Native Companies Have Tiny Staffs and Fewer Bosses

bryan0 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:20:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-companies-staffing-c9029343

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976754

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Zureka: A way forward to solving the thorniest issues in quantum mechanics

bryan0 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:59:19 +0000

Article URL: https://deivondrago.substack.com/p/zureka-a-way-forward-to-solving-the

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929554

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bryan0 in "AI 2040: Plan A"

bryan0 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:08:53 +0000

From TFA

> Plan A is primarily a recommendation, not a prediction.

That sounds nothing like “religious fervor”

The fact that technology can increase existential risk for civilization is not fantasy. It’s a risk that should be reasonably discussed.

Unfortunately, You Need to Know What the Jevons Paradox Is

bryan0 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:12:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/a6sYYrLTOjQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823060

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

2021 Florida Condo Collapse. NIST Investigation Concluded

bryan0 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:32:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71731922/surfside-condo-collapse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738076

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by bryan0 in "The Doom Justifies the Valuation"

bryan0 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:31:47 +0000

Those words come directly from TFA:

> It’s all just nonsensical hype

And he’s referring to completely real and reasonable warnings in anthropic blog posts about the exponential rate of AI development.

New comment by bryan0 in "The Doom Justifies the Valuation"

bryan0 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:26:41 +0000

I agree. There are 2 groups of people:

1. Those, like OP, that believe AI danger and disruption is all hype to boost valuations.

2. Those, like myself, that believe AI danger and disruption is very real and presents dilemmas (but also opportunities) for society, so we must tread carefully.

The first position is not logically consistent with reality. The danger is real: we have already seen hints about how this will impact everything from jobs to warfare to mental health. that danger does not increase valuation, in fact it does the opposite because of the need for government regulation.

New comment by bryan0 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

bryan0 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:58:19 +0000

I think this is a reasonable point, but a better comparison might be to nuclear energy. I think the frontier labs sincerely believe that AI can be developed at great benefit to humanity, and they clearly want to lead that push, but they also sincerely believe there is a real catastrophic risk.