<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: oli5679</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=oli5679</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:09:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=oli5679" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oli5679 in "The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You need a set of Evals, which catch enough of the mistakes your llm makes following your baseline prompt, so you have an equal or lower error rate than humans.<p>This can be determined by offline benchmarks if you build a system that takes small sequences of actions, and requires live ab test for long sequences of actions.<p>The more your human ops team work from documented standard operating procedure, rather than tacit knowledge, the less you need Evals except to capture edge cases</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:01:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869756</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oli5679 in "The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I build ai systems for ops automation and don’t understand the author’s pessimism.<p>I agree with that Evals are a scarce commodity rn. A business needs to define what good looks like. This is a laborious, and sometimes politically controversial, process.<p>Given good Evals, frontier llms are a magical tool that can automate tasks and do them more accurately than human ops teams.<p>Exactly which llm to use depends on the mixture of speed, cost and quality of the output.<p>Jev makes a claim to expand some regions of the Pareto frontier. I look forward to testing if this is true.<p>There are many areas of work we can’t automate rn. We cannot create good Evals either because time horizons are too long, or it’s too difficult to create good Evals.<p>That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with building good ai engineering systems in areas where it works magically.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:12:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869245</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oli5679 in "Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI and others made illegal agreement on AI slowdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if you could pursue an antitrust cases in eu against Claude code refusing to use fable to work on some deep learning problems and downgrading to an inferior model.<p>Would this ever be viewed as an abuse of dominant market position, aiming to disadvantage potential entrants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:08:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769309</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oli5679 in "Prompt Injection as Role Confusion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would llms be more robust to this prompt injection if the tags used in fine tuning are sanitised from user input?<p>E.g. map <think> -> THINK <user> -> USER <tool> -> TOOL<p>If they learn something specific in the chat finetuning stage, this might show LLM its user input text not these tag references.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:57:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633573</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of Information Request – Chat GPT Conversations – UK Science Secretary]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foi2025-00120-plain-text-copy-of-peter-kyles-chatgpt-history/response-plain-text-copy-of-peter-kyles-chatgpt-history">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foi2025-00120-plain-text-copy-of-peter-kyles-chatgpt-history/response-plain-text-copy-of-peter-kyles-chatgpt-history</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838626">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838626</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:33:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foi2025-00120-plain-text-copy-of-peter-kyles-chatgpt-history/response-plain-text-copy-of-peter-kyles-chatgpt-history</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghostty – Terminal Emulator]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://ghostty.org/docs">https://ghostty.org/docs</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206009">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206009</a></p>
<p>Points: 863</p>
<p># Comments: 359</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:13:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://ghostty.org/docs</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206009</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oli5679 in "How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe</a><p>This is a really nice open source coding agent implementation. The use of async is interesting.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.state.gov/nicolas-maduro-moros">https://www.state.gov/nicolas-maduro-moros</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476716">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476716</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.state.gov/nicolas-maduro-moros</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476716</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open AI Europe terms of use]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://openai.com/en-GB/policies/eu-terms-of-use/">https://openai.com/en-GB/policies/eu-terms-of-use/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359761">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359761</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:11:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://openai.com/en-GB/policies/eu-terms-of-use/</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Code for mistral vibe – Mistral's open-source CLI coding assistant]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe">https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262574">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262574</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:29:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oli5679 in "Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This ties directly into the superposition theory.<p>It is believed dense models cram many features into shared weights, making circuits hard to interpret.<p>Sparsity reduces that pressure by giving features more isolated space, so individual neurons are more likely to represent a single, interpretable concept.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123">https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45802497">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45802497</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:30:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45802497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45802497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oli5679 in "The case for the return of fine-tuning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The OpenAI fine-tuning api is pretty good - you need to label an evaluation benchmark anyway to systematically iterate on prompts and context, and it’s often creates good results if you give it a 50-100 examples, either beating frontier models or allowing a far cheaper and faster model to catch up.<p>It requires no local gpus, just creating a json and posting to OpenAI<p><a href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/model-optimization" rel="nofollow">https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/model-optimization</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:01:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633395</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oli5679 in "One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One interesting anecdote about this bill was that the European Commission allegedly funded digital advertisements promoting it, targeting specific political demographics, which is something that could possibly be prohibited by their own regulations.<p><a href="https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaint-against-eu-commission-over-targeted-chat-control-ads" rel="nofollow">https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaint-against-eu-commissio...</a><p><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/transparency-and-targeting-of-political-advertising.html" rel="nofollow">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/transpare...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 19:40:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45519805</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45519805</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45519805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-Replicating NPM Package Supply Chain Worm 'Shai Hulud']]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-again">https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-again</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45316053">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45316053</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:40:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-again</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45316053</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45316053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oli5679 in "Are we decentralized yet?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>HHI is a pretty interesting metric. It’s calculated by taking each firm’s market share, squaring it, and summing across all firms.<p>This gives the probability that two randomly chosen customers belong to the same firm.<p>In one micro models of oligopoly, Cournot competition, it lines up directly with the markup firms can sustain.<p>Outside of theory, it’s an intuitive way to average together the market power of all firms, with increases in market share for bigger players being weighted more heavily.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:55:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083627</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oli5679 in "Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here is gpt 5 thinking posting all 20 questions verbatim. Appreciate I might get better results one question at a time.<p><a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/6897a21b-25c0-8011-a10a-85850870daea" rel="nofollow">https://chatgpt.com/share/6897a21b-25c0-8011-a10a-85850870da...</a><p>Pretty interesting - some contamination, some better answers, and it failed to write a sentence with all 5-letter-words. I’d have expected it to pass this one!<p>Simple example:
“Every night, dreams swirl swiftly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:35:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44849427</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44849427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44849427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Lehrer, RIP]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/07/tom-lehrer-rip.html">https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/07/tom-lehrer-rip.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705070">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705070</a></p>
<p>Points: 6</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:53:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/07/tom-lehrer-rip.html</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic hires back Claude code creators, 2 weeks after joining cursor]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://medial.app/news/anthropic-hired-back-two-of-its-employees-just-two-weeks-after-they-left-for-a-competitor-a5f1ee0dea6e5">https://medial.app/news/anthropic-hired-back-two-of-its-employees-just-two-weeks-after-they-left-for-a-competitor-a5f1ee0dea6e5</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44586786">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44586786</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:07:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://medial.app/news/anthropic-hired-back-two-of-its-employees-just-two-weeks-after-they-left-for-a-competitor-a5f1ee0dea6e5</link><dc:creator>oli5679</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44586786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44586786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mystery of Richard Posner]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://lawliberty.org/features/the-mystery-of-richard-posner/">https://lawliberty.org/features/the-mystery-of-richard-posner/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404983">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404983</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
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