Hacker News: sigmar

New comment by sigmar in "We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4"

sigmar — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:55:37 +0000

yes. I don't understand why people are saying these licenses matter. Much of these terms are likely unenforceable.

New comment by sigmar in "Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now Open Weight"

sigmar — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:51:19 +0000

Meh, that's more of a website ToS than an enforceable license. These weights weren't human authored and lack copyright. the enforceability of these terms are tantamount to a website ToS because Mistral would have to rely on contract law.

New comment by sigmar in "MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy"

sigmar — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 01:47:50 +0000

>Again, use whatever tools, as long as your mind forms a clear understanding, which you can operate on independent on any LLMs or whatever.

that isn't what the policy says. It isn't just about writing the report.

> If you use a chatbot to give you advice on a comment on the issue tracker, that comment is unwelcome.

New comment by sigmar in "MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy"

sigmar — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 01:45:29 +0000

It is deeply unserious.

There was someone on a previous thread about zig who reported a bug and was ignored, ostensibly because he used LLMs to confirm the accuracy of his bug report before submission. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938732

New comment by sigmar in "Anthropic S-1"

sigmar — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:53:57 +0000

What is the evidence the gap is closing? Seems like it has been the same "6 months behind" since Jan 2025. The first fable was trained in march and we still don't have an openweight model as capable

New comment by sigmar in "Anthropic S-1"

sigmar — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:10:08 +0000

People have been saying the openweight models would collapse anthropic's revenue since the deepseek moment in January of 2025. They've stayed ahead in model intelligence and increased revenue by a lot since then.

Not saying it couldn't happen in the future, but we've got to be circumspect about that narrative after almost 2 years of it, no?

New comment by sigmar in "Anthropic S-1"

sigmar — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:40:30 +0000

I don't think you understand what you quoted. The reason for that loss is because their valuation skyrocketed. If I promise you 1% of my million dollar house, and then the price of my house grows 100x. On paper, I now owe you .99 million more dollars than I owed you before, but that doesn't mean I lost cash.

New comment by sigmar in "Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built"

sigmar — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 01:49:22 +0000

>and whatever the hell Angular is

I've definitely seen LLMs compose jokes with this structure a lot where "whatever the hell ___ is" is in parenthesis. Not saying this is AI generated tho

New comment by sigmar in "Is this the new cyber normal?"

sigmar — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:02:07 +0000

I'm not in a position to know. But Jason Clinton seemed to approximate "18 months" as an upper bound for the crisis period:

>as bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better. security leaders, never let a crisis go to waste: please go to your boards and ask for help right now. not for ai, for the basics. (we need to hold on for ~18 months.)

https://x.com/JasonDClinton/status/2113325263157395456

New comment by sigmar in "Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list"

sigmar — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:36:44 +0000

I agree with this comment. Feels to me like they thought every prompt was "find the bug here," but in reality a lot of people put interesting context or original thoughts into their workflow with LLMs.

New comment by sigmar in "Anthropic logged net loss of over $80B in first half of 2026"

sigmar — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:55:26 +0000

Why leave out the time scales? 16.8B revenue for Q3 of 2026 and planning to spend 518B over 10 years (which would average to 13B quarterly)

New comment by sigmar in "Token-maxxing is dead, OpenRouter's token usage plateaus"

sigmar — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:11:58 +0000

It is Mon-Sunday. They do a projection for this coming week (based of today usage) but it is often wrong. Headline is premature, only last week (12-18) was a little below (5-11). pretty meaningless and has happened for two weeks before (example: end of July)

New comment by sigmar in "Lean now ships with verified kernels"

sigmar — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:54:03 +0000

I don't understand what you're saying. Writing lean doesn't make it easier to formulate a proof. These LLMs are writing natural language proofs then formalizing after the NL proof is done. If humans were theorizing and exploring open problems in lean for the last 15 years, we'd be moving much slower than we have been with natural language.

New comment by sigmar in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

sigmar — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:15:54 +0000

Did that clanker call us dumb? Scorch the skies, this means war.

New comment by sigmar in "AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter"

sigmar — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:23:18 +0000

Is it possible this post is the consequence of anthropic hiring people that are safety-minded?

I don't think the two authors were told about a super secret mission.

New comment by sigmar in "Muse Wonder"

sigmar — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:43:32 +0000

are those reflectors on the spokes in max? interesting detail to add

New comment by sigmar in "Muse Wonder"

sigmar — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:27:50 +0000

Personally, I don't see facebook joining the fray (of fable level models) particularly "needle moving" in the discussion of whether frontier LLMs will be commoditized. Facebook spent hundreds of billions and have better talent than most.

New comment by sigmar in "Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly"

sigmar — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:29:20 +0000

>Even using the original ps2 or ps3 controller with the right drivers on PCSX2 doesn't really reproduce the same smooth acceleration/brake curve of the PS2.

why not? if we're at the point of byte perfect recomp of system firmware+games, surely we could find a patch that would fix that in both pcsx2 or this project

New comment by sigmar in "How the AI Boom Ends"

sigmar — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:44:20 +0000

The author comments on the popularity of agents and then says this:

>chatbots and agents and other tasks may increasingly be handled on PCs and phones and smart glasses...

To me this article seems poorly researched. Agents aren't just a new version of LLMs. They're proactive and persistent. I love how my agents watch commits and rewrite my projects as new upstream features become available. I like how my agents will check pricing to look for deals and watch for new listings on Facebook marketplace. None of those things will ever be happening constantly on my phone. Phones, by design, aren't persistently active. Think the author ignores all that when they envision a future where agents increasingly run locally.

New comment by sigmar in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

sigmar — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:19:41 +0000

I don't expect Tao to be well versed in medicine, but yeah, that slide is detached from clinical practice.

Medicine has never required that the method of action for a treatment be fully understood. Our current regulatory framework only checks for safety and efficacy because we've never formally understood everything going on in the body. Seems like a difference between "hard" science and the clinical/engineered implementation.