<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: willmadden</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=willmadden</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:40:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=willmadden" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The thing most people here don't understand: all CEOs are sales people, and only some of them are technical.</p>
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<p>Do you have a quantum computer from the future and a file of passwords that haven't been changed in 50 years? Complete nonsense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:56:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034175</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The second order effects of what you are suggesting are a total surveillance state.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:48:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971860</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971860</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Watermarking sounds like a good idea, but it's not. Token drift from watermarking will degrade the quality of outputs and could allow clever people to circumvent guardrails.<p>You should assume all text is AI generated. If you want to "test" someone at school or during an interview, have them write with a pencil and paper.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:45:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856505</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856505</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Haha. Ok.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:04:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49847152</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49847152</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49847152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then why haven't they caught all of the obvious foreign fraud rings that people on youtube keep uncovering? It's egregious. You would think with their total data access, AI, and Utah datacenter they could at least create a target list for the FBI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:34:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846737</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That article is a bit myopic. People and companies don't want to feed all of their ideas, projects, and intellectual property to a morally unscrupulous oligopoly. We learned that lesson the hard way with the last batch of tech monopolies, and the shift towards majority open weight models proves the trend.<p>Open weight classifiers and open weight LLMs will be burned onto silicon cards in a few years after the models begin to stabilize. They'll be in PCs and laptops. That's going to capture a HUGE chunk of the market.<p>If you need more horsepower, you'll rent the same silicon safely from AI services cloud providers without handing your data over to Anthropic and OpenAI.</p>
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<p>That headline is tabloid tier bs. They haven't established anything close to causation. Do better, science.org.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:39:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756857</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ha.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:06:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647016</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These companies are effectively high-tech plagiarism factories run by CEOs who are competing viciously. Look at their past actions. No, of course you can't!</p>
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<p>That's next level masochism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:53:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616877</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "How Climate Resilient Are the Largest Cities?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My concern with this analysis is that the headline "conclusions" depend on a proprietary composite index and assumptions. Where are the underlying data and methodologies for independent evaluation?<p>I was also surprised by how little attention the analysis gives to China and India. It's like measuring the smoke from a candle while standing next to two forest fires. The real-world impact is to decimate the economies of Europe while industry moves to China and India, who have no meaningful guardrails at all, making the claimed problem worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:21:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611660</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611660</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Be careful what you wish for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:16:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472896</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The system works because it runs on human ambition. If people in power handed their control to an AI there wouldn't be companies and mergers anymore. It wouldn't make sense. That world could be great or it could be dystopian.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:01:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466990</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hello to the new app store and "Nvidia model approval process".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:55:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464974</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464974</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Better headline: Developers prove they have no idea or appreciation for what a CEO does.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:48:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464012</link><dc:creator>willmadden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willmadden in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unlikely, but say goodbye to uncensored and abliterated models.<p>These acquisitions are not healthy. They stifle competition and make it easier for governments to censor open weight models by choking off distribution points.</p>
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<p>Were you using the full model or a quantized version, and what harness/configuration were you using?<p>It sounds like you were using a quant model.</p>
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<p>The problem is the FDA's pathetic throughput times. It takes them decades to approve drugs. Blood tests take 1-2 years on average. It's a huge bottleneck. If they could turn these things around faster and work iteratively, it would be different.</p>
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<p>As long as we make examples out of the few that exploit, it will be a-ok.</p>
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