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New comment by spidersouris in "Claude Opus 5.5"

spidersouris — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:28:15 +0000

But at the same time, nothing specific was asked in the prompt, so the boring result may arguably be what is the most aligned with the original request. Personally, I wouldn't want a model to add fuss to something while I never asked for it.

OpenAI won't go public this year

spidersouris — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:33:15 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/09/12/sam-altman-openai-ipo-delay-ill-advised-moment-safety-concerns/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676297

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by spidersouris in "We must pace the frontier"

spidersouris — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:52:30 +0000

The more I read about everything that has been written regarding AI regulation since the OAI/HF incident, and the more it reminds me of the nuclear arms race (although the potential consequences would possibly be very different). Surely, we managed to negotiate a Non-Proliferation Treaty with most of the countries of the globe. Cannot we take inspiration from that for AI?

New comment by spidersouris in "Show HN: Nightshift – Your code gets better while you sleep"

spidersouris — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:34:50 +0000

That's a nice idea but I hate how every instruction step in the README is just "Ask your agent to do it". Not only does it make it harder and more time-consuming to understand how the general system is implemented, but it also dumbs down users. Do you think people checking your repo wouldn't be able to copy/paste a few commands or find an equivalent on their system?

New comment by spidersouris in "AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200"

spidersouris — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:20:54 +0000

> Once the AI starts applying to jobs

I guess that's already a reality? [1-2]

[1] https://github.com/jaimaann/LangHire

[2] https://github.com/adrianhajdin/job_pilot

(among many other similar projects)

New comment by spidersouris in "AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200"

spidersouris — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:16:41 +0000

The recklessness is moot though. We don't have direct access to how the models were prompted and asked to respond to certain events, so they could well have been incited to commit fraud or other illegal actions, in which case the persons in control should be held accountable as perpetrators.

New comment by spidersouris in "Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush"

spidersouris — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:42:58 +0000

On the same topic, it's been a while since I have tried to find the best product to treat canker sores, but I have never found anything better than solutions composed of carboxylic/mineral acid and alcohol, and even then, it hardly suppresses the pain and I have found the treatment time to be about the same whether I apply something or not. The dream would be to have something that make them disappear near instantly.

New comment by spidersouris in "Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush"

spidersouris — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:35:45 +0000

But dental scalers don't offer the advantages water flossers do for gums, do they? Plus, from whet I've read online, it seems that these devices need to be used after brushing, as opposed to water flossers which are used before brushing. And for dislodging food (especially with braces), water flossers remain the best tool.

New comment by spidersouris in "Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude"

spidersouris — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:17:11 +0000

The whole article screams Claude-written.

New comment by spidersouris in "Show HN: Tesana – An AI game engine that builds quality games end-to-end"

spidersouris — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:50:28 +0000

Interesting. Are there any other services lie this or is it the first of its kind?

New comment by spidersouris in "The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)"

spidersouris — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:11:25 +0000

It is both amazing and saddening to me how you can have such an arrogant view of a whole field with just taking a 101 course.

New comment by spidersouris in "Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)"

spidersouris — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:08:35 +0000

You don't have to be in school to learn!

New comment by spidersouris in "Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?"

spidersouris — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:00:13 +0000

Would also be interested in an invite, if anyone has any. Email on my user page.

New comment by spidersouris in "Speculative Speculative Decoding (SSD)"

spidersouris — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:54:05 +0000

Note that a similar idea had already been suggested by Shen et al. (2025) in Speculative Decoding via Hybrid Drafting and Rollback-Aware Branch Parallelism (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01979), but with lower performance.

New comment by spidersouris in "This time is different"

spidersouris — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:08:41 +0000

> Gen AI reached 39% adoption in two years

Source?

New comment by spidersouris in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

spidersouris — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:55:03 +0000

I'm not sure what you'd call a "pioneering scientific advancement", but there is an increasing amount of examples showing that LLMs can be used for research (with agents, particularly). A survey about this was published a few months ago: https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.895.pdf

New comment by spidersouris in "Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together"

spidersouris — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 10:26:25 +0000

If you want to bind Tab to Accept suggestions:

Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Chord "Tab" -Function AcceptSuggestion

Understanding Conversational AI: Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of LLMs

spidersouris — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 07:54:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ubiquitypress.com/books/m/10.5334/bde

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334365

Points: 2

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New comment by spidersouris in "Show HN: Pulse 2.0 – Live co-listening rooms where anyone can be a DJ"

spidersouris — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:27:54 +0000

And plug.dj!

New comment by spidersouris in "Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?"

spidersouris — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 09:11:41 +0000

What we also learned after GPT-3.5 is that, to circumvent the need for new training data, we could simply resort to existing LLMs to generate new, synthetic data. I would not be surprised if the em dash is the product of synthetically generated data (perhaps forced to be present in this data) used for the training of newer models.