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frontier AI labs lost the "deep research" frontier

williamtrask — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:51:45 +0000

Article URL: https://andrewtrask.substack.com/p/6-weeks-ago-frontier-ai-labs-lost

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008750

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Today's Frontier AI companies will never exceed the AI capability frontier again

williamtrask — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:56:35 +0000

Article URL: https://andrewtrask.substack.com/p/breaking-todays-frontier-ai-companies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545514

Points: 26

# Comments: 9

Frontier AI companies will never exceed the capability frontier again

williamtrask — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:04:26 +0000

Article URL: https://andrewtrask.substack.com/p/breaking-todays-frontier-ai-companies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524347

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

Show HN: AbcGPT

williamtrask — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:28:06 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/iamtrask/status/2061288899238879290

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355418

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by williamtrask in "YC's Biggest Scandals"

williamtrask — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:28:21 +0000

The scandals/year page has a little more umph to it than the main page https://ycombinator.fyi/timeline

New comment by williamtrask in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

williamtrask — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:26:10 +0000

Yeah... probably right. I do hold out hope that this is mostly a timeframe thing. Like, the library, printing press, etc. all had their moments of centralization. But eventually they federated.

New comment by williamtrask in "YC's Biggest Scandals"

williamtrask — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:48:54 +0000

fwiw - i think the design looks good.

New comment by williamtrask in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

williamtrask — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:47:33 +0000

I wonder if a popularization moment for local AI will ultimately be the pin-prick that pops the AI bubble. Like the deepseek or openclaw moments but bigger/next.

New comment by williamtrask in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

williamtrask — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:45:50 +0000

A non-profit to deconcentrate power over AI through better infrastructure for external auditing/oversight, and better infrastructure for local/federated inference/training https://openmined.org/

Also, we're hiring engineers and PMs (the eng position is about to be up). https://openmined.org/careers/#brxe-zgsziy

New comment by williamtrask in "U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets"

williamtrask — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:04:50 +0000

i like your comment better than mine. more please.

New comment by williamtrask in "U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets"

williamtrask — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:02:16 +0000

i'm not sure it's productive to think this way. senators could be making more money on prediction markets. they took a nice step which will lead them to make no money on prediction markets (less money overall). it also sets a precedent which could easily be applied to the stock market.

what you're saying is probably on the mind of at least one Senator, but all things considered, this feels like a net-positive move which they didn't have to do.

New comment by williamtrask in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

williamtrask — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:34:55 +0000

Sometimes I find joy in noticing the importance of comma placement:

Everything the incumbents ship, in an open codebase your firm owns.

Everything the incumbents ship in an open codebase, your firm owns.

Decentralized AI from Scratch (Python Tutorial) [video]

williamtrask — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:47:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY2dAK-pMPI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722793

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by williamtrask in "Decentralized AI in 50 Lines of Python"

williamtrask — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:46:41 +0000

<3 - have ambitious plans to release a new video/blogpost each week, but that's pretty ambitious we'll see

Decentralized AI in 50 Lines of Python

williamtrask — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:41:13 +0000

Article URL: https://iamtrask.github.io/2026/04/07/decentralized-ai-in-50-lines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690899

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Decentralized AI from Scratch

williamtrask — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:49:44 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/iamtrask/decentralized-ai-from-scratch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684935

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Zero-Setup Federated Learning: Train Models Across Private Datasets with GColab

williamtrask — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:45:46 +0000

Article URL: https://openmined.org/blog/zero-setup-federated-learning-google-colab/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539543

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by williamtrask in "A website to destroy all websites"

williamtrask — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:34:19 +0000

...with a price :)

Leadership Lab: The Craft of Writing Effectively [video]

williamtrask — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:20:45 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452577

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by williamtrask in "Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo"

williamtrask — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:48:57 +0000

"Conclusion Our monorepo isn't about following a trend. It's about removing friction between things that naturally belong together, something that is critical when related context is everything.

When a feature touches the backend API, the frontend component, the documentation, and the marketing site—why should that be four repositories, four PRs, four merge coordination meetings?

The monorepo isn't a constraint. It's a force multiplier."

Thank you Claude :)