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New comment by gordonhart in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

gordonhart — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:20:05 +0000

Appreciate that you made account just for this. I was well aware of Yudkowsky but even so couldn't parse this "EY" initialism

New comment by gordonhart in "You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)"

gordonhart — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:45:55 +0000

Linux is "falling apart" because it's the highest-profile open source project people can point LLM agents at to find CVEs. It'll come out the other end of this hardened by all of the attention it's getting, but the next few months/years will be... bumpy.

New comment by gordonhart in "You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)"

gordonhart — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:44:04 +0000

AI assistance was explicitly disclosed on yesterday's. Today's has Claude as one of two contributors on this GitHub Pages site at least so it's also very likely.

Agents are capable of finding this kind of stuff now and people are having a field day using them to find high-profile CVEs for fun or profit.

New comment by gordonhart in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

gordonhart — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:28:31 +0000

Learned this one the hard way during the last major CloudFlare outage. I don't use them, but their outage bricked my app for hours anyway because the Auth0 public keys used to verify JWTs were served behind CloudFlare, breaking the entire auth chain. Fun!

New comment by gordonhart in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

gordonhart — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:39:42 +0000

> I don't understand why we would turn the models into law enforcement officers

It's a simple corporate risk minimization strategy. Just look at how universally despised Grok is on HN. Not because it's a bad model, but because it has less aggressive alignment which means it can be coaxed into saying things that get Xai pilloried here and elsewhere.

New comment by gordonhart in "Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months"

gordonhart — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:09:12 +0000

On the OpenAI side, GPT-5.5 generates spend at a prolific rate that's even faster if you use it through an ACP connection in a tool like Zed. I used to never think about Codex rate limits and now I'm hitting mine every 5 hour block and spending ~$100/day on top of that in adhoc credit purchases.

New comment by gordonhart in "After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber"

gordonhart — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:23:26 +0000

This is a surprisingly concrete and defensible definition of AGI.

New comment by gordonhart in "DeepSeek v4"

gordonhart — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:10:53 +0000

Robin Hood, famous for spinning his acts into a $220M ARR SaaS business (as of mid 2025 [0], likely >$1B by now) and using charity as a marketing mechanism.

[0] https://sqmagazine.co.uk/deepseek-ai-statistics/

New comment by gordonhart in "DeepSeek v4"

gordonhart — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:29:25 +0000

True, and they're being tried in a federal court of law for it. NYT v. OpenAI is still very much alive, these things just take a while. Can the same be said about DeepSeek or any other open-source model provider performing distillation?

New comment by gordonhart in "DeepSeek v4"

gordonhart — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:11:39 +0000

Since it's open weights it'll be available on AWS Bedrock soon(ish), likely at a higher price than the official API but still coming in under those GPT-5-mini prices.

New comment by gordonhart in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

gordonhart — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:17:23 +0000

Depends on who's making the call for who gets cut. A key part of decimation was that the doomed soldiers were beaten to death by their comrades to give the remaining 9 a bloody, lasting impression of their dishonor. If Meta makes everybody sit in a group with their ten closest coworkers and debate until they decide who gets cut it's a lot closer to decimation than if management suddenly shuts off 10% of employee computers.

New comment by gordonhart in "GPT-5.5"

gordonhart — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:17:23 +0000

Yes, once benchmarks get saturated they get replaced by harder ones. You don’t see GSM8K, MMLU, or HellaSwag anymore because they’re essentially solved. It takes constant work to make benchmarks hard enough to show meaningful model performance differences but easy enough to score higher than the noise threshold.

New comment by gordonhart in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

gordonhart — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:12:25 +0000

Truly. People are calling for Palantir employees to be targeted by foreign militaries right here in this comments section!

I'll ride this thread with you to the bottom of the page.

New comment by gordonhart in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

gordonhart — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:40:50 +0000

Wouldn't surprise me. The best model you can get on AWS GovCloud is still Claude Sonnet 4.5.

New comment by gordonhart in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

gordonhart — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:38:46 +0000

If you're trying to run repeatable workflows, stability from not changing the model can outweigh the benefits of a smarter new model.

The cost can also change dramatically: on top of the higher token costs for Gemini Pro ($1.25/mtok input for 2.5 versus $2/mtok input for 3.1), the newer release also tokenizes images and PDF pages less efficiently by default (>2x token usage per image/page) so you end up paying much much more per request on the newer model.

These are somewhat niche concerns that don't apply to most chat or agentic coding use cases, but they're very real and account for some portion of the traffic that still flows to older Gemini releases.

New comment by gordonhart in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

gordonhart — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:49:07 +0000

It's frustrating how cavalier they are about killing old Gemini releases. My read is that once a new model is serving >90% of volume, which happens pretty quickly as most tools will just run the latest+greatest model, the standard Google cost/benefit analysis is applied and the old thing is unceremoniously switched off. It's actually surprising that they recently extended the EOL date for Gemini 2.5. Google has never been a particularly customer-obsessed company...

New comment by gordonhart in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

gordonhart — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:26:29 +0000

The impact of a few more network calls and decreased privacy is basically never felt by users beyond this abstract "they're spying on me" realization. The impact of this telemetry for a product development team is material.

Not saying that telemetry more valuable than privacy, just that it's a straightforward decision for a company to make when real benefits are only counterbalanced by abstract privacy concerns. This is why it's so universally applied across apps and tools developed commercially.

New comment by gordonhart in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

gordonhart — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:55:41 +0000

I just bought an M5 Macbook from an electronics retailer because they actually stocked it, whereas ordering the same machine for the same price from Apple would have been a custom build delivered mid May.

New comment by gordonhart in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

gordonhart — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:52:45 +0000

Apple has an enormous global footprint. Their devices are made in China, India, and Vietnam, and source parts from basically everywhere. More than half of Apple's revenue comes from outside the US and there are 1.5 billion iPhones in use across the world (somewhat larger than the population of the US).

New comment by gordonhart in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"

gordonhart — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:20:45 +0000

> the government forces you to do this, else you go to prison

You'll never guess what happens if you choose not to pay taxes.