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New comment by novaRom in "'Breathtaking,' 'Devastating': Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release"

novaRom — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:54:40 +0000

I wonder how many chat logs they did use in model's training data? If model consumes human’s reasoning (the chat logs) and then presents results as its own, it's a kind of parasite right?

Harvesting collective output of human consciousness to build AI that then replaces the very people who provided the input.

OpenAI projected to bring in $20B less in revenue than expected

novaRom — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:48:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/09/openai-forecast-revenue-gap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019173

Points: 5

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New comment by novaRom in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

novaRom — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:43:20 +0000

Mac's German keyboard was always pain for writing code. This is less relevant today because most of the input has become natural language so no need for brackets and other non alphanumeric symbols (which are terribly painful key combinations on Mac German keyboards).

New comment by novaRom in "Aleph Alpha and Mistral launches fuel Europe's sovereign AI push"

novaRom — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:35:55 +0000

I did use Mistral Web Chat a lot in the past years, but somehow went away because their UI become messy and default model has become a bit stupid in comparison with alternatives. Yesterday I tried it and compared with all other alternatives: Gemini, Mistral, Grok, Claude, ChatGPT (mobile apps, no subscriptions, default models), same prompt (a problem required sophisticated thinking and web searches), and surprisingly it worked better than any other free app. Closest was Grok which felt faster, but Mistral provided best solution.

New comment by novaRom in "Bengio: 'If you prioritize safety, leave frontier AI companies'"

novaRom — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:30 +0000

If AI tech is so critical, then we have to do it completely open: any frontier AI company should become completely transparent - full public access to training data and recipes.

New comment by novaRom in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

novaRom — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:17:11 +0000

Aggressive marketing (including daily posts on HN). Many people simply don't know about alternatives, there are many people who never heard about pi and opencode and live comfortably in claude-codex bubbles.

New comment by novaRom in "What should we tell our students?"

novaRom — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:01:30 +0000

> Mathematics has very little to do with the real world

But it's a construction based on very basic properties of the real world, at least on those properties we accept and perceive as very general and we use them as building blocks.

New comment by novaRom in ""Software is over": Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones"

novaRom — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:36:06 +0000

It will not just affect big software monopolies, but also hardware designer companies, cloud and streaming services. What the point to buy or pay subscriptions if you can reimplement it in a matter of days if not hours? A lot of business opportunities for small (even solo) enterprises. That's the power of AI revolution.

New comment by novaRom in "Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser"

novaRom — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:19:41 +0000

even with 256 bytes: https://dosasm.com

New comment by novaRom in "Mistral Large 4"

novaRom — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:10:46 +0000

When one player tries to monopolize AI tech and market by all means, others are those who don't want to be hooked to a foreign will in the future. I think this is the reason in doing open research, and it's likely positive for all of us.

Drones hit two ships off coast of Bulgaria, sinking one

novaRom — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:38:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/06/drones-hit-two-ships-off-coast-of-bulgaria-as-government-calls-emergency-meeting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975401

Points: 4

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New comment by novaRom in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

novaRom — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:47:29 +0000

Yes, it happens quite often recently. I think, their approach is "dominate and tolerate" in a controllable way, so they know quite a bit about who is actually using NewPipe, yt-dlp, etc. and they tolerate it in order to have a kind of leverage to preserve their monopoly. Then if number of out-of-official-app views becomes like above certain point, they aggressively block with "bot detected" message.

Germany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045

novaRom — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:55:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/23/germany-commits-for-first-time-to-phasing-out-fossil-fuels-by-2045

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819972

Points: 15

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It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, its our minds

novaRom — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:30:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/20/bodies-ai-minds-history-technology-humans

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371527

Points: 2

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New comment by novaRom in "How Compaction Works in Pi"

novaRom — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:42:03 +0000

Compaction is painful if you run just one local LLM, the best way to avoid it is to keep context as small as possible.

One trick I find useful is to have one model with two KV caches running and while first cache has produced tokens, second cache immediately summarizes them during input tokens are being generated (tools time), then harness switches to the second KV cache which takes newly produced input tokens while KV in first cache is getting replaced with compacted summary tokens. This is a kind of ping pong, so we trade more space for less time. Still experimenting but it looks it works, and nice bonus it improves GPU utilization. Btw I have my own harness and model serving code, but it can be easily implemented in any other harness and model server.

New comment by novaRom in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

novaRom — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:26:04 +0000

it said me it is llama 4 1.5B

New comment by novaRom in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

novaRom — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:15:57 +0000

Not just you. Hassabis in a recent interview looked a bit nervous when talking about AGI is rather sooner than many expected.

New comment by novaRom in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

novaRom — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:11:36 +0000

But so is German industry - every day in the news either insolvency or workforce reduction and moving production to Eastern Europe - main reason often stated "expensive Energy". I wonder what are the stats for industrial production in 2025 or total energy consumption in Germany?

New comment by novaRom in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

novaRom — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:46:46 +0000

> It clearly memorized the code

This code could appear many times in training data; but I wonder what decoding params did you actually used, because that effect appears likely with close-to-greedy way. Also, if it is a coding assistant model, chances are this skill was increased by additional sampling from that domain during training? Or maybe RL has teached model to provide verbatim answers for certain questions? So it was rewarded if that kind of answers is really helpful (I guess it was?).

New comment by novaRom in "SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading"

novaRom — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:44:05 +0000

Big shift will happen after their Q2, 20% of eligible shares release; directed-share (friends & family) participants may sell for the first time.

Q2 call is expected in a month or so? But they also state Aug 21 is 37% of shares will go public.

https://spcx.capital/spacex-stock-lockup-dates