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New comment by nxtfari in "Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone"

nxtfari — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:08:22 +0000

Sure, then you should allow that they are also tools for transforming sequences of questions into answers. Language models are based on compression of information, using them as a knowledge base is entirely within capability.

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

nxtfari — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:44:30 +0000

Surprisingly incoherent for Anthropic and Dario (cue peanut gallery — “always has been!” No, I don’t think so. I think this is new).

It seems to me like there is just no good answer to how one could possibly stop open weight models from being used for nefarious purposes. How are you going to enforce guardrails on open source? The only way is to turn the USA into a 1984-type totalitarian surveillance state (even more so than it is). Unable to say that, we just get this floundering instead. How long is not giving them chips going to slow them down? Until we RSI? Then what? Just because RSI runs off the exponential doesn’t mean that the eventual open-weight Moonshot Mythos won’t be able to make bioweapons. Genuinely what is the endgame.

New comment by nxtfari in "Show HN: LiquidBrain – Unlimited Tokens. Unlimited Context. One Fixed Price"

nxtfari — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:23:06 +0000

They must have done the math to show even if you peg Kimi K3 generating 24 hours a day for an entire month it doesn’t exceed 10k in opex? Very interesting.

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

nxtfari — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:34:00 +0000

Jagged frontier is not the same as being benchmaxxed. Benchmaxxed is à la Goodhart's Law "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Jagged frontier is about how models that seem superhumanly intelligent at one category of tasks (e.g. coding web applications" can seem toddler level or worse at another category (spatial reasoning) because the training corpus doesn't generalize to there.

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

nxtfari — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:28:48 +0000

Haha, this is awesome. Hadn't heard of it, thank you for the link.

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

nxtfari — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:06:14 +0000

If you haven’t been really running and testing these models yourself, they are all benchmaxxed. No matter how close they score to frontier on whatever metric, they always fall apart in real world tasks and their token efficiency is ridiculously bad. Fireworks has incredible incentive to make this claim in a headline, because Fireworks hosting K3 for you is pure profit for them, unlike when they host closed source models.

New comment by nxtfari in "Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs"

nxtfari — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:39:48 +0000

Very high quality and info-dense article. Cheers.

New comment by nxtfari in "You only need the frontier model for one single edit"

nxtfari — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:18:07 +0000

This is really smart, like the author said, old idea but cleverly applied.

In case anyone wants a summary: don’t one shot, don’t use plan mode and hand off the plan to cheap executors, ask the frontier model to explore, create a todo list, and then start when it feels confident; stop it after first code edit, then prefill the context to cheap executor to continue.

New comment by nxtfari in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

nxtfari — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:35:42 +0000

Everyone using Claude Fable to verify this proof is so funny. If you read the definition of the Jacobian Conjecture and (I am not exaggerating this) have passed a college Calc 3 class, you can just verify the proof yourself in 30 seconds. The problem was very hard to solve but the counterexample is very easy to verify!

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To summarize it, the conjecture says if you have any multi-variable polynomial function that maps an input to an output in the same dimensional space (take for example: F = (x+2, y+2), which maps 2D space into another 2D space), AND that function has a constant-valued non-zero Jacobian determinant, THEN the conjecture is that the polynomial has an inverse, meaning basically you can find a polynomial that turns the output space back into the input space.

Fable provided the example polynomial (which was very hard to do) and the coordinates which if you plug into it, results in two points being mapped to the same output point. This means that the polynomial can't be inverted, because if you have that output point, how do you know which input point it came from?

You can just plug in the two coordinates it gave into the equation and verify that you get the same output point from both. That's the contradiction of the conjecture and it takes 30 seconds.

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Something something outsourcing of thinking something.

New comment by nxtfari in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

nxtfari — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:07:13 +0000

Eh, Minimax M2.7 also took a similar amount of time (actually longer) between availability and weights release.

New comment by nxtfari in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"

nxtfari — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:46:05 +0000

you could live (100k a year) with the interest of 0.004% of that in the bank.

New comment by nxtfari in "Apple's rumored M7 Ultra targets 1.5TB and Blackwell-class AI performance"

nxtfari — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:47:19 +0000

Apple (and the ARM ecosystem as a whole) has never really needed massive GPU compute before, it’s always been about power efficiency and just enough GPU oomph to make UI fluid. Even historic Mac Pro workloads never really needed tons of GPU prowess, the heaviest power users were primarily taxing video encode/decode and 2D raster effects (Adobe Suite etc) so that’s what they focused on. By contrast NVIDIA’s entire game has been raw GPU power for decades. M1 Max was really prescient in hindsight and has set the stage for, all things considered, Apple to be not as far behind as it could have been today.

New comment by nxtfari in "Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper"

nxtfari — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:51:49 +0000

I think we should make it illegal to not specify the quantization in the headline for these types of posts.

New comment by nxtfari in "crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C"

nxtfari — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:35:07 +0000

this is really cool but it seems very unlikely that someone targeting an exotic system not supported by rust (mostly embedded and ancient mainframe targets) would be willing to trust a beta transpiler to not inject any bugs or leaks in the process of turning rust to c. nevertheless, very cool.

New comment by nxtfari in "The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing"

nxtfari — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:11:19 +0000

An important idea I’ve observed true across industries is “prices rise like a rocket and fall like a feather,” meaning that even though price rises are usually genuinely driven, you can bet that once they’re up the involved parties are doing whatever they can to keep them up. Humans are greedy.

More formal reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_price_transmission

New comment by nxtfari in "Claude-real-video － any LLM can watch a video"

nxtfari — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:06:20 +0000

this is really clever, props

New comment by nxtfari in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

nxtfari — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:55:20 +0000

Location: NYC / LA

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7 YOE in shipping robots to customers, lots of safety critical stuff, looking to move into urban autonomy (self driving cars, delivery bots, construction bots, humanoids, etc). Looking for a startup with a mission I can get behind.

New comment by nxtfari in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

nxtfari — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:57:45 +0000

they’re doing m7 on the intel 18a fab, which is exactly that

New comment by nxtfari in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

nxtfari — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:26:40 +0000

One of the stupidest things about this is we talk all day along about how frontier models don’t just interpolate distribution, then can extrapolate out. Then something like this comes along and a model can generate gore or CSAM so therefore there must be gore or CSAM in the training data. Eye roll.

New comment by nxtfari in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

nxtfari — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:11:50 +0000

My honest read is that, having everything — the data centers, the compute, the models (however misaligned they might be), the only thing xAI is missing is users. They don’t have any users because the only people who use Grok are essentially Elon’s fanboy club, and all they pretty much do with it is ask it to generate arguments to win their Twitter threads or nonconsensually unclothe people. Cursor gives xAI a captive audience of users; most sophisticated users don’t use it anymore, so anyone left is unlikely to be opinionated when models are shifted to Grok. Marriage made in heaven.