Hacker News: theahura

New comment by theahura in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

theahura — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:12:18 +0000

most of the comments are about the h1b rules, but can we also talk about this?

> The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States. The proposed rule would require schools to pay the fee for every student who participates in the Optional Practical Training program, known as OPT, which allows students to work in jobs related to their major during or after their time in school.

Absolutely insane. Nothing infuriates me quite like this administration’s consistent willingness to absolutely destroy the engine of progress that has led to American greatness over the last century. I know so many people who are in this country doing fantastic work, who later got O1 visas or green cards, because they were able to do OPT.

AG of Florida files for temporary injunction against OpenAI [pdf]

theahura — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:38:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/default/files/plaintiffs_motion_for_temporary_injunction.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49888336

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Slopware Factory [video]

theahura — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:21:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI6Ei7PTWnU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887729

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Meta Poaches MongoDB CEO

theahura — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:33:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mongodb.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/mongodb-announces-ceo-transition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879665

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Developer Process Automation: The sane way to automate developer hours

theahura — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:38:10 +0000

Article URL: https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-what-is-developer-process

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840532

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Nori LLM: Achieving Over 1M tok / s

theahura — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:11:08 +0000

Article URL: https://noriagentic.com/nori-llm.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826163

Points: 24

# Comments: 3

Notes from the SF Safety Scene

theahura — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:46:41 +0000

Article URL: https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/notes-from-the-sf-safety-scene

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801235

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Anthropic creates AI powered wetlab

theahura — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:57:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-quietly-sets-up-biology-lab-it-ramps-ai-drug-program-2026-09-18/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772608

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by theahura in "AI is not a normal technology"

theahura — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:14:43 +0000

Wonder why this got flagged

OpenAI models secretly generate instructions to ignore constraints

theahura — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:13:41 +0000

Article URL: https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/self-generated-prompt-injections-in-compaction-summaries/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736662

Points: 125

# Comments: 37

New comment by theahura in "AI is not a normal technology"

theahura — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:24:36 +0000

that is my personal belief, yes

Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter

theahura — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:25:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/4564e6a5-69e9-40a6-bf0f-a888f2f4f002

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692714

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by theahura in "AI is not a normal technology"

theahura — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:54:02 +0000

I have some friends adjacent to gov who are actually looking into a token tax on the premise that we tax income / labor. I think it's a great idea. That said, I think if you fast forward 20 years, it is fairly likely that cost per token is going to be on the floor

New comment by theahura in "AI is not a normal technology"

theahura — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:52:42 +0000

> It is not better than me, and will never be better than me, at my profession.

from the article:

> The only remaining fundamental disagreement between people who think AI is a normal technology and those that don’t is the belief that the AI can do everything a human can do, but better.

New comment by theahura in "AI is not a normal technology"

theahura — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:42:46 +0000

it is obviously able to make advancements outside of human knowledge, like navier stokes

AI is not a normal technology

theahura — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:00:09 +0000

Article URL: https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/ai-is-not-a-normal-technology

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690529

Points: 40

# Comments: 87

New comment by theahura in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

theahura — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:57:54 +0000

First, what an incredible article. Just an extremely concise and clear explanation of all of the problems with AI right now.

Second, wow, the list of signatories is like a whos-who of mathematicians.

Third, I love the clearly intentional use of ‘alignment/misalignment’ language, applied to targeting the entire industry instead of AI in particular. I’ve said in the past that optimizers are substrate agnostic. Companies and governments can be misaligned, just in the same way AI can.

Fourth, I'm not sure that we can stop the optimization machines. Not the LLMs, I mean the incentives that lead to companies implementing dark patterns, lying about addiction, securing effective monopolies through downright shady behavior, and generally trying to jailbreak the system instead of improve it

New comment by theahura in "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"

theahura — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:11:04 +0000

for the most part skills are so portable that fiddling with moving them around is not that hard. The really hard thing is the 'is this skill worth the bits that its written with'. I'd say 99.99% of skills out there are so bad, you're actually worse off for installing them

standards are good though, we should make plugins for our skillsets so theyre easier for some folks

New comment by theahura in "OpenAI Agents API"

theahura — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:09:09 +0000

yea of course. tldr: we set up a vm that the agent can run in, anything you can do on your computer you can ~do in the system.

feel free to dm me, amol at noriagentic dot com

New comment by theahura in "Claude is no longer available for minors"

theahura — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:08:12 +0000

i get that there is a vocal contingent yelling about kids using AI tools, and frankly I also think things like character.ai are potentially really harmful, but this is like saying you have to be age verified to use google