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This fancy computer runs Wall Street [video]

helloplanets — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:59:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP6g_3iZDro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951988

Points: 1

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New comment by helloplanets in "What's Behind the AI Panic"

helloplanets — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:30:21 +0000

The doomer philosophy has been there since the inception. OpenAI was created from the fear of Google gaining a monopoly over superintelligence. Could've been just a recruiting strategy from Sam Altman's perspective, but maybe not so much from the people who got recruited. Dario has been around the Effective Altruism circles from way before Anthropic, and the company as a whole has always been about that line of thinking.

Automating eval design and hillclimbing with Claude

helloplanets — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:39:49 +0000

Article URL: https://claude.dev/blog/automating-eval-design-and-hillclimbing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889097

Points: 2

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New comment by helloplanets in "Sonnet 5.5"

helloplanets — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:33:34 +0000

Wouldn't make sense to use anything below 5.5 from Anthropic at the moment. But pretty sure this is just an awkward transition phase of at most a week or two until Fable 5.5 is out.

New comment by helloplanets in "Grok 4.7"

helloplanets — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:04:53 +0000

And most LLMs have been multimodal for years at this point.

Even if the input is in plain English, the model never sees any words, tokens or glyphs to begin with. It's vectors all the way down.

Infinitely Recursive of Game of Life

helloplanets — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:24:58 +0000

Article URL: https://oimo.io/works/life/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783675

Points: 2

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Inside Meta's AI Infrastructure Lab in Menlo Park [video]

helloplanets — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:39:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okSHoVPrf8o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728721

Points: 2

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Timeline of Computer History

helloplanets — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:21:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1933/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49723936

Points: 1

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Duping Delight

helloplanets — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:45:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.paulekman.com/blog/duping-delight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700914

Points: 1

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New comment by helloplanets in "How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Federal Disclosure)"

helloplanets — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:44:54 +0000

Rhetorical question, not really self defeating.

New comment by helloplanets in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

helloplanets — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:47:29 +0000

Yes.

OpenAI could have done this same experiment with GPT-4, with possibly even worse results, depending on the quality of the sandbox. Even if the techniques used were not as sophisticated, the natural language output could still easily contain more unhinged sequences of words that lead to the techniques being used.

If the system generates strange conclusions as to when the task is done, or should be stopped, it wouldn't speak to the intelligence inherent to the system.

Not that the techniques used by the LLMs in the actual incident weren't unexpectedly sophisticated, but the outputs of each and every one of these processes could've been read at any time during the run. They just weren't.

New comment by helloplanets in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

helloplanets — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:15:00 +0000

The system that solved Navier-Stokes certainly was not about OpenAI engineers just typing and telling it what to do.

New comment by helloplanets in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

helloplanets — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:09:14 +0000

The whole latter part of the post is exactly about that.

New comment by helloplanets in "We must pace the frontier"

helloplanets — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:36:33 +0000

This comment reads like Dario's a random tech blogger who's personally submitting these to HN

New comment by helloplanets in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

helloplanets — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:40:48 +0000

5% is insanely generous for the YouTube example.

New comment by helloplanets in "OpenAI shares they have made substantial progress on another Millennium problem"

helloplanets — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:37:30 +0000

Quote from OpenAI in the NYT article: "In addition, since the completion of Navier-Stokes, we have made substantial progress on another Millennium Prize problem."

OpenAI shares they have made substantial progress on another Millennium problem

helloplanets — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:32:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/science/tristan-buckmaster-openai-math-navier-stokes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646478

Points: 17

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Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

helloplanets — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:06:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine

Hacker News: helloplanets

This fancy computer runs Wall Street [video]

New comment by helloplanets in "What's Behind the AI Panic"

Automating eval design and hillclimbing with Claude

New comment by helloplanets in "Sonnet 5.5"

New comment by helloplanets in "Grok 4.7"

Infinitely Recursive of Game of Life

Inside Meta's AI Infrastructure Lab in Menlo Park [video]

Timeline of Computer History

Duping Delight

New comment by helloplanets in "How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Federal Disclosure)"

New comment by helloplanets in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

New comment by helloplanets in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

New comment by helloplanets in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

New comment by helloplanets in "We must pace the frontier"

New comment by helloplanets in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

New comment by helloplanets in "OpenAI shares they have made substantial progress on another Millennium problem"

OpenAI shares they have made substantial progress on another Millennium problem

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

New comment by helloplanets in "Escaping Containment"

OpenAI Computer Using Agent Sample App