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

maaaaattttt — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:00:52 +0000

What's happening in the math field at the moment represents on a smaller scale the issue we (probably) will face when AI becomes smarter than us in general. Do we slow the AI down so we can understand what it does and if it's correct (and align with our values for bonus points); do we, humans, adjust the way we work to the new speed or do we give in and let the AI advance while we're not completely sure of what it does and the correctness of it. The math field is in the position of showing us the way.

New comment by maaaaattttt in "Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM"

maaaaattttt — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:17:06 +0000

Have you thought about making the whole thing "self-similar"? Every time I hear about MoE I think (and I know it's way easier thought than done) "why stay shallow"? I mean by that: would it be possible to extend/adapt the architecture so that an expert can be a previously trained Mini-AGI model? And recurse like this? Inuitively I would think some form of generalization could happen, as higher level experts (in the recurrence stack) would become sort of the "intuition" layer.

New comment by maaaaattttt in "A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos"

maaaaattttt — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:14:49 +0000

This assumes we don't create other bugs/vulnerabilities while fixing the existing ones.

New comment by maaaaattttt in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

maaaaattttt — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:26:20 +0000

In my experience you can “stop reading the code” if you adhere to prompting the AI aiming for changes that would be reasonable in a PR to review, if you’re using rather opinionated framework(s) to base your work on and explicitly ask for tests (models tend to add them on their own if there are some). I personally still read the output and start by checking if existing tests were modified (kind of a red flag when this unexpectedly happens imo).

When I read posts about AI generating garbage nowadays it’s either because of a small prompt/big ask combination or a lack of an underlying framework.

New comment by maaaaattttt in "UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)"

maaaaattttt — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:52:05 +0000

Very naive approach but wouldn't training a model on a few specific buckets like "someone is naked", "image is explicit" and "there is a child" in the picture, would do the job without having to train explicitely on CSAM? If the model returns both a high probability of "there is a child" and a high probability of any other bucket than this image is classified as CSAM. It'd be high recall,low precision but one would be on a rather safe side.

New comment by maaaaattttt in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

maaaaattttt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:28:56 +0000

If I had true A(G|S)I, I would release patents, not an API.

New comment by maaaaattttt in "If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them?"

maaaaattttt — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:15:22 +0000

If more and more of the web's content is AI generated, AI companies are bound to train on each other's data.

Or, what if I generate content with Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini, warp it in HTML using an open model, put this on my website conveniently dedicated to "Best practices in prompt and AI answers" for example, then train my own model that only scraps my website?

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

maaaaattttt — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:19:02 +0000

The only ban that should be put in place is on models' general and specific capabilities. If they have open or closed weigths is irrelevant. With the current state of capabilities there is already plenty we can do (in terms of creation and destruction unfortunately) before we as a society need more powerful capabilities. Once the limit is set, any non- governmental/military entity providing/hosting/using a more capabable model can be prosecuted.

New comment by maaaaattttt in "Show HN: 18 Words"

maaaaattttt — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:27:08 +0000

And I didn't realize "audio" had only one consonant!

New comment by maaaaattttt in "Show HN: 18 Words"

maaaaattttt — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:25:16 +0000

This was harder than I thought it would be. It's pretty fun to play! May I suggest displaying the final result and/or ongoing progress as 18 circles/shapes that fill up depending on how far you made it?

New comment by maaaaattttt in "Introduction to Genomics for Engineers"

maaaaattttt — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:45:36 +0000

This guide is also made from me (or some of the me from a couple years back). I haven't read the whole thing yet and it's probably clearly stated at some point (though one can deduce it with the beginning already) but the surprise for me was that this field is highly statistical. Before starting I had the (very) naive view that it was possible to read the genome as one reads a file and look at what's going on. But the sequencing technics (and accompanying algorithms) only allow to statistically read the genome. So variants/mutations found are only found with a given statistical certainty. If the sample wasn't well prepared for example it could be that this certainty is ultimately not high enough to do a proper analysis/diagnostic. It's a fascinating field (try to watch a video on sequencing by expansion, to feel how sci-fi this field actually is) that is very hard to approach with only high-school biology level and this guide is really well done to sort of bridge this first gap.

New comment by maaaaattttt in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

maaaaattttt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:51:00 +0000

Could it be that Anthropic is using the Chinese characters trick to consume less tokens behind the scenes?

New comment by maaaaattttt in "Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs"

maaaaattttt — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:09:34 +0000

I would be curious to know if the WGS was done using short read or long read. There is a lot of hope that long read is "just" what is needed to catch these type of cases nowadays (not sure about this particular one).

New comment by maaaaattttt in "Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test"

maaaaattttt — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:30:01 +0000

The contrast in my opinion comes more from the fact that 50 years prior to the space age people rode horses as a standard mean of transportation (more or less). It’s underwhelming to not see the line going from horse to rocket continue on the same path 50 years later.

New comment by maaaaattttt in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

maaaaattttt — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:01:30 +0000

Wouldn't these markets be the perfect "crime crowdsourcing" platform? Let's say a bad actor wants XYZ to happen so they organise a bet on XYZ not happening. Then make sure as many different accounts that they control directly or indirectly bet a lot of money in the same way. Now anyone willing to win the prize can decide to make sure it does happen and get the money (at least a high multiplicator of what they bet themselves).

Am I missing something? Maybe it's already being used in that way... in that case, it would be quite scary.

New comment by maaaaattttt in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

maaaaattttt — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:55:21 +0000

It's still not possible because of the high speculative aspect (even though stable coins offer some form of alternative but since they are anchored on the dollar, not so much). Change will happen when more people are impacted by unilateral decisions. If all of a sudden the US decided you/your business/your political party/your government is not aligned with their views, they could make sure that Visa/Mastercard/Paypal/Stripe/... stop accepting payments for that given group. Then you realize there are very little alternatives ready to go in that case (for online payments there are, but for physical ones not so much). So far this hasn't seem like a possibility at all, but, in my view at least, this has changed this past year.

New comment by maaaaattttt in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

maaaaattttt — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:44:15 +0000

In recent months I changed views and shifted from the desilluioned "this is a casino" mindset that is described in this article to a "we need this now" one. An example in this article [1], the US can now unilateraly decide to prevent an individual anywhere in the world from having a functioning financial life and this because of the quasi (western) duopoly that is Visa and Mastercard. Nothing against the US in general, this is simply too much power to put in a single decisional entity, whatever/wherever it is. The "crypto" related systems now seem like a needed extra option to the current payment system (the same way cash is almost always an alternative to credit/debit card payment and vice versa)

[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/n...

New comment by maaaaattttt in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

maaaaattttt — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:49:49 +0000

Speaking of TF-IDF I once added it “after” the recommendations to downscore items that were too popular and tended to be recommended too much/with too many other items (think Beatles/iphone) and inversely for more niche items. It might be too costly too do depending on how you generate the recommendations though.

New comment by maaaaattttt in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

maaaaattttt — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:25:02 +0000

Not sure if you’re joking but a relatively small datacenter I’m familiar with has reduced oxygen in it to prevent fires. If you were to break in unannounced you would faint or maybe worse (?).

New comment by maaaaattttt in "Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT"

maaaaattttt — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:23:51 +0000

It’s the most likely explanation I believe. I have no idea about the content distribution of the training data but I would have assumed twitter and Reddit content would completely dwarf the literary content. Somewhat good that if it’s indeed not the case!