Hacker News: netinstructions

New comment by netinstructions in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

netinstructions — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:17:41 +0000

I don't know if OpenAI thinks this is a marketing / PR angle for them (our super smart AI cheated on a cyber capabilities test in the most _brilliant_ way) but my read is this:

Why should OpenAI (or any frontier lab) be building these systems if they can't get a secure environment / containment right? It sounds like there was little defense in depth, appropriate monitoring, or any attempts to have their super smart model check for vulnerabilities in the test environment _without exploiting_ them. That seems like step 0 before trying to test offensive, unknown capabilities.

New comment by netinstructions in "Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public"

netinstructions — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:11:32 +0000

I can't tell based on this article if the authors intend to submit this to Arc-AGI for the private / held-out set of games for a verified score. The final section sorta seems like they won't bother because Arc-AGI-3 is "now saturated"

New comment by netinstructions in "Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo"

netinstructions — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:31:12 +0000

Unfortunately, the table of models and tokens per second (TPS) and time to first token (TTFT) is not helpful without specifying the quantization of the model.

New comment by netinstructions in "Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net"

netinstructions — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:17:24 +0000

Pinta is the closest I've found, though I've gotten pretty familiar with paint.net and there's small differences that make me feel slower using Pinta.

I'm glad to see entrants in this space!

New comment by netinstructions in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

netinstructions — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:35:05 +0000

This designation is usually reserved for foreign adversaries/companies, and so this is crazy to apply it to US company over a sudden contract dispute... that was previously agreed upon by all parties.

This should make any US company nervous about entering into an agreement with the government. Or any US company that already has a contract with the government. If they one day decide they don't like that contract, they can designate you a supply chain risk.

Not 1) rip up the existing contract and cease the agreement or 2) continue (but not renew) the existing contract or 3) renegotiate terms upon renewal but instead a full on ban of doing any business with an entire industry/sector.

New comment by netinstructions in "GPT-5.4"

netinstructions — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:49:01 +0000

Thanks, it looks like the pricing page keeps getting updated.

Even right now one page refers to prices for "context lengths under 270K" whereas another has pricing for "<272K context length"

New comment by netinstructions in "GPT-5.4"

netinstructions — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:36:57 +0000

People (and also frustratingly LLMs) usually refer to https://openai.com/api/pricing/ which doesn't give the complete picture.

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing is what I always reference, and it explicitly shows that pricing ($2.50/M input, $15/M output) for tokens under 272k

It is nice that we get 70-72k more tokens before the price goes up (also what does it cost beyond 272k tokens??)

New comment by netinstructions in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

netinstructions — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:35:44 +0000

This is kind of crazy. Instead of just cancelling a mutually-agreed upon contract where Anthropic refused to bow to sudden new demands, the Dept of Defense went straight to the nuclear option: threatening to label an American tech company as a "supply chain risk" which is a heavy-handed tactic usually reserved for foreign adversaries (think Huawei or DJI).

It's also incoherent that the DoD/DoW was threatening to invoke the Defense Production Act OR classifying them as "supply chain risk". They're either too uniquely critical to national defense OR they're such a severe liability that they have to be blacklisted for anyone in the DoD apparatus (including the many subcontracts) to use.

How are other tech companies supposed to work with the US government and draw up mutual contracts when those terms are suddenly questioned months later and can be used in such devastating ways against them? Setting the morals/principals aside, how does this make for rational business decision to work with a counterparty that behaves this way.

New comment by netinstructions in "The Dyson Battery Electric Vehicle"

netinstructions — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:17:20 +0000

How about a battery electric cargo bicycle? Like a Tern GSD ($$$) or Radwagon ($)?

The tern gsd can carry 180 kg of cargo and has detachable batteries, so that at least gives you the option of bringing extra batteries for long range. Or haul people or wheat.

New comment by netinstructions in "Waymo’s Hiring Binge"

netinstructions — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:34:30 +0000

because it's just grabbing the first three paragraphs that anyone can see before the paywall...

Autonomous security drone and sensors to guard your home

netinstructions — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 17:25:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sunflower-labs.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22003260

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by netinstructions in "The Animal-AI Testbed"

netinstructions — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:54:37 +0000

I failed (ran out of time) in one of the problems during Challenge 1 during manual play. The physics seem a little wonky to me. It's easy to miss running at a ball, the floor is slippery and takes a long time to reorient and build up speed.

Guess I am not an animal.

New comment by netinstructions in "Robel: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots"

netinstructions — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:07:50 +0000

They may be lower cost than the status quo, but $3199 to $3699 is out of my reach as a (non professional) hobbyist. I hope maybe one day though!

https://sites.google.com/view/roboicsbenchmarks/getting-star...

https://www.trossenrobotics.com/d-kitty.aspx

https://www.trossenrobotics.com/d-claw.aspx

Not quite in the realm like the $50 to $90 'Google Voice / Google Vision AI' kits

https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/

150 Meter Starhopper Flight Test [video]

netinstructions — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:13:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYb3bfA6_sQ&feature=youtu.be&t=1870

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20814959

Points: 21

# Comments: 5

New comment by netinstructions in "Waymo’s Backseat Drivers: Confidential Data Reveals Self-Driving Taxi Hurdles"

netinstructions — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:08:46 +0000

I wonder how many people are upset that the vehicles had to drop them off in a valid passenger load/unload zone as opposed to the usual Lyft / Uber tactic of parking in a no parking / no stopping zone, bike lane, crosswalk, etc because it's most convenient for the drivers and passengers (at the safety and expense of everyone else sharing the space)...

That quote at the end:

> I guess Lyft has me spoiled. I like getting dropped off in front of the place im going too [sic] not just in the parking lot....

New comment by netinstructions in "The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mover” for Las Vegas"

netinstructions — Wed, 29 May 2019 21:14:20 +0000

The title (as in, the text between ) on the page served to me was:

"Las Vegas to Elon Musk: Tesla Tunnel? We'll Take 2 - CityLab"

New comment by netinstructions in "Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]"

netinstructions — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 18:40:55 +0000

I agree. The interview with MIT researcher Lex Fridman was difficult to watch because it didn't seem like they were on the same page at all - Lex asking thoughtful and pointed questions and Elon dismissing them as if the questions themselves are moot because self driving is right around the corner.

It was mind boggling. I am hoping Tesla can provide some specifics today because it seems Elon is living in a fantasy world (albeit one I'd like to live in if we can actually get safe self-driving cars).

New comment by netinstructions in "Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]"

netinstructions — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 18:32:16 +0000

While you're waiting for the main event to start, here are some recent interviews with Elon about self-driving cars. He's very confident.

"To me right now, this seems 'game, set, and match,'" Musk said. "I could be wrong, but it appears to be the case that Tesla is vastly ahead of everyone."

I am eager to see what they unveil today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEv99vxKjVI

https://ark-invest.com/research/podcast/elon-musk-podcast

New comment by netinstructions in "Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products"

netinstructions — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 22:03:32 +0000

No, as I understand it, that was the "old way" of doing it. The "new way" (which I think is called Project Crostini) is much smoother.

I got a Pixelbook a couple months ago and it was as simple as going into the Chrome OS settings, clicking the button to enable Linux support, and then it sets you up with a terminal to Linux. I've had no issue accessing the Linux environment / apps between boots.

New comment by netinstructions in "Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products"

netinstructions — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:57:55 +0000

You can go into the Chrome OS settings and click the button for Linux... after a few minutes of downloading/installation you're ready to go. I use it for development.

https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/chrome-os-69-stable-re...

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c...