Hacker News: prng2021

New comment by prng2021 in "An Alien Mind"

prng2021 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:48:36 +0000

In your opinion, what are the top 2 positives and top 2 negatives of humanity inventing AGI?

New comment by prng2021 in "An Alien Mind"

prng2021 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:27:55 +0000

Although many share your mindset, I’m glad there are also many that don’t. Otherwise we’d still have countries in a race to keep building up their nuclear weapons for the same exact reasons you just described.

Anthropic's distillation battle turns to the dark web as China concerns swell

prng2021 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:11:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/anthropic-distillation-battle-turns-to-dark-web-china-concerns-swell.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548961

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

OpenAI's ring-shaped smart speaker will reportedly cost between $300 and $400

prng2021 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:39:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/2232108/openai-s-ring-shaped-smart-speaker-will-reportedly-cost-between-300-and-400/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203612

Points: 7

# Comments: 5

New comment by prng2021 in "Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample"

prng2021 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:51:22 +0000

What is this conversation even about? I can’t understand any of it.

New comment by prng2021 in "Grok 4.5"

prng2021 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:45:55 +0000

xAI had $2.5B in operating losses in the past quarter. What savings are being passed on?

New comment by prng2021 in "Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models"

prng2021 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:22:57 +0000

Thanks for the irrelevant comment. I’m criticizing these Chinese companies because these aren’t accomplishments. Where did I praise Anthropic?

New comment by prng2021 in "Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models"

prng2021 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:57:40 +0000

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New comment by prng2021 in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

prng2021 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:43:18 +0000

“That unlocks something beyond energy savings: the possibility of eliminating water consumption entirely.”

They’ve made this claim numerous times in the article and I really don’t understand it. The building has tons of water being recirculated through it. That water came from somewhere in the surrounding natural world. How is that 0 water consumption?

New comment by prng2021 in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

prng2021 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:04:06 +0000

We’ve got a company of several thousand employees serving hundreds of millions of people arguably the best AI model in the market. Meanwhile you’re asking for a handkerchief for your pool of tears because their product is struggling to do your daily job functions for you, with much of that due to being limited by the worlds supply of silicon, electricity, water, and other resources. Cry me a river.

New comment by prng2021 in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

prng2021 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:58:11 +0000

Yes but my original reply was to someone that seemed to imply that this founder was dumb not to verify that Railway’s API key that should have been limited to managing custom domains, truly was limited to managing custom domains. I’ve never used Railway but my pushback is that no one in the real world exhaustively verifies a key is scoped properly against all 3rd party endpoints. We trust vendors to document how they’re scoped and to actually do that.

New comment by prng2021 in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

prng2021 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:43:40 +0000

“why would you not do the same for APIs you integrate with?”

Who does that? Jira and Salesforce have hundreds of endpoints each. AWS has hundreds of services, and each may have hundreds of endpoints. Who on your team is testing key scopes of every endpoint? Do you do it for each key you generate? After all, that external system could have a bug at any moment in managing scopes. Or they could introduce new endpoints that aren’t handled properly. So for existing keys, how frequently do you re-validate the scope against all the endpoints?

New comment by prng2021 in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

prng2021 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:41:27 +0000

Sorry but are you implying that for every system you integrate with, you verify the scope of an API key by checking each CRUD operation on every API endpoint they provide?

OpenAI reportedly plans to double its workforce to 8k employees

prng2021 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:05:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-reportedly-plans-to-double-its-workforce-to-8000-employees-161028377.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472912

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

OpenAI to create desktop super app, combining ChatGPT app, browser and Codex app

prng2021 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:06:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/openai-desktop-super-app-chatgpt-browser-codex.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448951

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by prng2021 in "Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers"

prng2021 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:02:21 +0000

How is anyone predicting timelines for AGI when these systems can’t do basic addition of 2 arbitrary numbers with 100% accuracy?

New comment by prng2021 in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

prng2021 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:53:20 +0000

“I think the decision was made because the people making this decision at Anthropic are well-intentioned, driven by values, and motivated by trying to make the transition to powerful AI to go well.”

Every single one of these CEOs happily pirated unimaginable amounts of copyrighted content. That directly hurt millions of real human beings. Not just the prior creators but also crushing the future potential for success of future ones.

https://www.susmangodfrey.com/wins/susman-godfrey-secures-1-...

New comment by prng2021 in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

prng2021 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:37:46 +0000

“You never needed 1000s of engineers to build software anyway”

What is the point of even mentioning this? We live in reality. In reality, there are countless companies with thousands of engineers making each piece of software. Outside of reality, yes you can talk about a million hypothetical situations. Cherry picking rare examples like Winamp does nothing but provide an example of an exception, which yes, also exists in the real world.

New comment by prng2021 in "Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models"

prng2021 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:50:10 +0000

This was a great article. The section “Training for the next state prediction” explains a solution using subagents. If I’m understanding it correctly, we could test if that solution is directionally correct today, right? I ask a LLM a question. It comes up with a few potential responses but sends those first to other agents in a prompt with the minimum required context. Those subagents can even do this recursively a few times. Eventually the original agent collects and analyzes subagents responses and responds to me.

New comment by prng2021 in "In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks"

prng2021 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:22:01 +0000

Hard to tell how widespread it is but it’s not just 1 company. https://www.webpronews.com/silicon-valleys-2025-ai-boom-revi...