Hacker News: stared

A Single Neuron Is Sufficient to Bypass Safety Alignment in LLMs

stared — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:03:34 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08513

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158690

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ukrainian drone strike on fuel depot prompts Latvian prime minister resignation

stared — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:54:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/05/11/ukrainian-drone-strike-on-empty-baltic-fuel-depot-prompts-top-level-resignation-in-latvia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147986

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

ICLR 2026 – Institutional Affiliations Dataset and Analysis

stared — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:50:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/DmytroLopushanskyy/iclr2026-affiliations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142312

Points: 15

# Comments: 2

GBA Eval - Build a Game Boy Advance emulator in WebAssembly from scratch

stared — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:12:32 +0000

Article URL: https://gbaeval.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141958

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by stared in "Traces Of Humanity"

stared — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:08:25 +0000

Is there some important context I am missing?

New comment by stared in "Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA"

stared — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:52:10 +0000

Thanks!

To be clear, I use AI for editing all the time. Actually, diagrams are nice.

Just some pieces like that look like copy-paste (I mean, empty lines before, code get no special typography, etc):

  If we write the boundary information for a packed batch as:
  
  B = { lengths, cu_seqlens, max_seqlen, mask structure }
  
  then every transformer layer in that forward pass consumes the same B.
  
  If the model has L layers, rebuilding or re-synchronizing on B once per layer is not new work. It is the same information being reconstructed again and again.
  
  In other words, the useful work is:
  
  build B once, use it L times.
  
  The wasteful version is:
  
  build B + build B + ⋯ + build B (L times)

New comment by stared in "Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA"

stared — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:10:06 +0000

While I do admire Unsloth (especially their https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF binarizations), the linked blog post looks like written by AI from notes (unless a human author acquired this taste from interactions with chatbots).

Reasoning compresses. Factual knowledge doesn't

stared — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:42:12 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/bojie_li/status/2049314403208896521

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959449

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by stared in "Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs"

stared — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:54:50 +0000

Then the way to go is to use Pareto frontier, e.g. https://quesma.com/benchmarks/binaryaudit/#cost

If you want to avoid using Opus 4.7 them why GPT-5.4 (unless with a disclaimer that it is low reasoning setting, or check that on medium its price is comparable with Haiku/Flash).

Also, usually it is good to look at the newest model. Gemini 2.5 Flash is quite dated. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the new one (https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview).

Robot dogs with Musk and Zuckerberg heads roam around Berlin museum

stared — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:45:11 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-robot-dogs-beeple-bezos-digital-art-4a2be2a4a4490553ad68c27beedfe83a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951802

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

All in All, Another Brick in the Motte (2014)

stared — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:32:25 +0000

Article URL: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-brick-in-the-motte/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951609

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by stared in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

stared — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:31:49 +0000

Online age verification is an example of the Motte-and-bailey fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy, https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bri...).

It is easy to defend on the motte hill (protection of children, protection against abuse and heinous crimes), and easy to expand and farm on the bailey (universal surveillance, mass data collection, and the erosion of privacy).