Hacker News: mlazos

New comment by mlazos in "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs"

mlazos — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:52:27 +0000

Except you paid for the words of the conversation..

New comment by mlazos in "Muse Code Sends Codex and Claude Instructions to Meta by Default"

mlazos — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:07:16 +0000

Codex literally reads Claude.md, this isn’t even news. Companies send literally of their context to these ai models..

New comment by mlazos in "Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300"

mlazos — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:54:56 +0000

The models are open source, it’s never been a requirement for someone to document the entire process of creating something to be “open source”. Just sharing the source, in this case, the weights, meets the criteria. Software engineering’s obsession with precise terms is actually one of the things I’m glad is dying with ai automation.

New comment by mlazos in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

mlazos — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:45:15 +0000

Google and Amazon are Anthropic investors right?

New comment by mlazos in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

mlazos — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:42:53 +0000

Yeah I fully expect companies with lots of GPUs but not a good model like Microsoft and Amazon to just take these open weight models and make money, the GPU expense is the only moat at this point.

It’s classic commoditize your complement, nobody can replicate the cloud providers, everyone can replicate the models with open weights.

New comment by mlazos in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

mlazos — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:44:19 +0000

How can you be hitting cache on what I think are novel LLM prompts …

New comment by mlazos in "Qwen 3.8"

mlazos — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:09:37 +0000

Yeah but we still don’t have execution vans! I’m not even being sarcastic. China is unequivocally worse even with our recent slide into towards totalitarianism.

New comment by mlazos in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

mlazos — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:34:17 +0000

In the 2010s all of my exams were still hand written and I went to Brown.. has everything really been computerized that much?

I think the tricky part here is essays, but maybe they should be replaced with an oral exam + essays? A lot of the humanities and classics courses I took were pretty small.

Overall I don’t think these problems are that hard, I just don’t know if the incentives of universities align with fixing them. If their reputation is all that it’s for, grades don’t really matter as long as the $$$ is coming in.

New comment by mlazos in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

mlazos — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:21:55 +0000

Wtf? What a joke, but I mean the best way to become a billionaire is convince someone with a billion dollars to give it to you. This is actually insane, wow. I guess Qualcomm is desperate? Nobody was bidding for this, but congrats to the team at modular?! I’m actually salty about this because like I don’t feel like mojo was even good after trying it out.

New comment by mlazos in "CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)"

mlazos — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:44:08 +0000

I work on PyTorch torch.compile and it’s a tracing compiler as well. Perhaps this domain is very narrow though; it is also a very not conventional compiler, you’d probably be deeply offended by some of the stuff we do! ;)

New comment by mlazos in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

mlazos — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:01:10 +0000

The idea of them purposefully wasting my time by having the model act dumber and me having to argue with it without knowing if it’s the prompt or the model was just such an idiotic product decision I can’t believe they shipped that without getting any feedback from users first.

New comment by mlazos in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

mlazos — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:56:42 +0000

Ah, the ever present “nothing to see here” take. What this government is doing is worse than it’s ever been. At least before when you had your grant it wouldn’t be randomly cancelled at any time.

New comment by mlazos in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

mlazos — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:41:16 +0000

I believe them to some degree but this trend of posting stuff when it can’t be verified actually needs to end. I’m so tired of this bs marketing.

New comment by mlazos in "More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions"

mlazos — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:25:47 +0000

Oh weird, everything must be fine then, I still see snow sometimes even!

New comment by mlazos in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

mlazos — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:45:24 +0000

I think one day later the guy got his refund? You all need to chill I feel like. HN is a bubble sometimes

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262#issue...

New comment by mlazos in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

mlazos — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:17:26 +0000

By the letter of the law the guy fixing his car should be prosecuted, but like nobody is going to know and it’s not going to happen. In this case it’s pretty obvious the law was broken.

New comment by mlazos in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

mlazos — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:26:13 +0000

Look! A guy built 95% of slack in 2 weeks! Very skeptical of that btw, but also an organization that justifies every single team by exactly how much $ value they’re generating sounds like hell. How would you ever innovate or try out new ideas? It’s important to quantify what impact your team is generating but there are some cases (e.g. UX) which are really hard to quantify in $ but are still very important for the product

New comment by mlazos in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

mlazos — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:01:24 +0000

Idk I think they kind of do, tackling climate change is a good idea and at this point I’m ready to lie if it will make ppl do something

New comment by mlazos in "CC leak: skills are better than I thought"

mlazos — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:17:52 +0000

Honestly people spoke like this before, just on LinkedIn. Now that ai trained on it we have LinkedIn.. everywhere. Welcome to hell.

New comment by mlazos in "Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?"

mlazos — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:59:44 +0000

I read the tests, it also is really really good to have Claude verify that removing the changes in question break the tests. This brings the quality way way up for me.