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Friends (92)

ingen0s 2d ago
Cant we all agree that posting paywalled content is a little bit misaligned with the virtue of HN? Even if someone opens it up in the comments later.
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nullmatrix 7d ago
Their founder supports Nazis.
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erxam 7d ago
Pretty unapologetically, too. He's still doing it and will keep doing it the more you give him money.
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mschuster91 7d ago
First I thought it must be the usual Israel-related dogwhistle, but nope, it's legitimate and related to Swedish far-right Örebropartiet [1].(Next time, might be worth to add a source yourself to prevent downvotes)[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1uivm45/mullvad...
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OutOfHere 24d ago
Rent seeking for rentseeking's sake makes it one of the worst inventions. It could have been useful if it didn't need a coin to use. It should be removed. What are local governments for? I have my own zoom monocular/binocular, and am way happier, although I have to find a surface against which to hold it steady.
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voidUpdate 25d ago
> "The exact words we choose when writing matter."Then write your own damn text if you care about the exact wording so much
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rwz 27d ago
It's quite likely that Brave itself collects data on your usage and shares at least some of it with Palantir.This isn't such an outrageous assumption to make here.
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AstralSerenity 27d ago
Peter Theil was an angel investor in Brave. That alone is all the reason privacy-minded users need to avoid it.
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snickerer 29d ago
Ads are an attack, aimed at your brain. They try to inject malware into your thinking, manipulating your worldview and your actions.That's horrible, worse than attacking a machine with malware, damaging persons and societies.Decades of ad propaganda have tricked people into seeing them as something 'normal'. But we shouldn't accept being under constant attack of brain worms.I propose a sane rule for all humans: if you see an ad somewhere, or if you suspect a hidden ad ('influencers' trying to pr
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josefritzishere 1mo ago
Gross. Age verification is a completely degenerate level of privacy violation
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hk__2 1mo ago
> If I run a local script or an LLM that needs to fetch a web page from your site and you block that script or LLM as being a bot, you hurt me, the user.No; in this case you are not a user, you are a bot user.
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ngcazz 1mo ago
No. Even setting ethical considerations aside, AI-generated art is lazy, looks gross, and signals poor taste. I think it's a perfectly reasonable principle to claim, especially if we're discussing diagrams. I'd much rather look at a low-effort hand or MS Paint drawing, there's more humanness in that than any generative AI turd.
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doitright99 1mo ago
in: Flux 3
AI slop trained on copyrighted content.
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frotaur 1mo ago
in: Flux 3
Sorry because pointing this is a bit tired by now, but reading already the first two paragraph thete is this unmistakable stench of LLM slop writing. Immediately disengaged.
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bob1029 2mo ago
The most important aspect of a room's acoustic performance are its dimensions. Rectangular rooms have 3 axial modes that dominate. These modes are easily excited and store energy which you perceive as rumbling, booming, droning, etc. A very small input can get a large room going like crazy if it is mechanically coupled to the room in any way. Even decoupled sources (your neighbor's home theater system) can easily excite the axial modes.Any dimension longer than 28' is going to pass the infrasoni
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JungleGymSam 2mo ago
stop. children need humans not AI. i hate this.
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LocalH 2mo ago
Replacing a human tutor with an AI that will wildly hallucinate is wrong, and will directly contribute to the dumbing down of society that people here often bemoan.This is the equivalent of "parenting" by putting a kid in front of YouTube Kids for half the day
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28304283409234 2mo ago
Please don't. Don't deprive children of the interaction with other human beings. 5 year olds don't need tutors. They need play, touch, sense, feel, run, breath, sky, earth.
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afry1 2mo ago
Most of them don't get access. So let's hook them up to an insane, unproven, unpredictable autocomplete math equation and entrust it to their development as a human being.So gross.
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setnone 2mo ago
> they will usually provide extremely useful informationbold claim, they'll provide bunch of words for sure like in this particular tool's response
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8organicbits 2mo ago
This is an important point, private videos should not be impacted by this as knowing the URL isn't enough to access the video. Unlisted videos are indirect-object reference by design. It's poor security, but the user is expected to understand the tradeoff (if they actually do is questionable).
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Foes (457)

bnchrch 10h ago
Yes please, take all the bleeding edge tech stories out of the aggregator I go to for bleeding edge tech stories.
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bsoqk 3d ago
>the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) reported that Meta failed to detect 332 ads containing CSAM this yearConsidering the amount of ads they handle that seems... reasonable?Not to mention the stupidity of calling the result of nudify apps "CSAM" when no minors in situation of sexual abuse are used in any way to generate those photos.
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earth-tattoo 3d ago
Did they also start hiring unqualified people under the disguise of DEI like USA?
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gertlabs 5d ago
> Delivering the benefits of scientific progress and economic growth that very intelligent machines enable.I think we're very close to the point where AI-driven breakthroughs outside of pure math and software start to really affect the world.We evaluated GPT-6 Astra in 100 complex, unsaturated multi-agent coding environments, competing and cooperating with other models in open-ended tasks.It's the new frontier model by a landslide. It's even more dominant than the Fable 5 release, because not on
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amiga386 9d ago
Ah yes, Nexus Mods, where they'll ban you for making mods that change "Body Type A" and "Body Type B" back to "Male" and "Female", or remove mandatory pronoun selection.https://www.gameslearningsociety.org/did-nexus-mods-ban-pron...And while they're still full of mods adding anime waifus into Skyrim, they'll ban anyone who uploads "content deemed illegal by English law" because they love sucking up to the Online Safety Act. (The site should really not be hosted in the UK until that law is repeal
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inigyou 11d ago
What's actually stopping them isn't the PoW, it's the customisation effort. If one site has Anubis nothing scrapes it. If many sites have Anubis they write counter scrapers. Today if you make a slight change to the Anubis algorithm on your site, they'll burn CPU endlessly computing hashes with the original algorithm and submitting wrong ones.The author of Anubis hates this fact and will ban you if you mention it, so don't. He insists it's the PoW.
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anshxgoyal 14d ago
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uygiugiu 15d ago
indeed, bluesky is a great example of self-quarantine
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andunie 15d ago
sliqqq 15d ago
Everybody who's not totally limited in their mindsets. Twitter/X is uncensored. I think open minds who are hungry for the raw, real truth prefer such platform, rather than one that's regulated by one political party of one particular country.
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garo-pro 15d ago
It's quite unfortunate, a lot of people or organisations I am interested in - AI for example - only post on X, and perhaps it's only a matter of time until services like bird.makeup also get taken down. Also, accessibility wise it's sad too, X's web interface is not the best out there and without login you cannot do really much.
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dist-epoch 15d ago
How do I follow AI news or discussions on Bsky? It's basically viewed and treated there as worse than nazi propaganda.
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userbinator 19d ago
..and I dream of less activist sites.
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andai 20d ago
Those Chinese robot demos show more signs of life than zoomer service workers
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Stitch4223 20d ago
This is fun and will try to embed it in our project next week.
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acd 24d ago
I have written a llm compression quantization library called glq because of the high ram prices. Glq uses qtip Trellis quantization which are efficient at low bpw 2-4 bits. As a gamer and ai developer I want to squeeze more out of the same hardware. Glq runs with vLLM.Open source https://github.com/cnygaard/glqPypi glq https://pypi.org/project/glq/
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vovavili 27d ago
Thank God for the Brave browser. For those disliking their built-in adblocker, there is a Manifest v2 opt-out specifically for uBlock if you need it.
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agumonkey 1mo ago
Millions of students are now donating to neuralink so they can have stealth LLM answers on the fly. Teachers will have to count the number of load bearing per paragraph.
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subhobroto 1mo ago
The more I read about articles like these, I grow even more convinced that the education industry as a whole, regardless of the country or stature, has kind of lost their plot.Sometimes I even wonder if this is the outcome of sheer laziness, fear or both.When I speak to professors, teachers and students - It's also surprising that "top tier" institutions are fighting AI harder (outside extremely specific courses like Harvard’s flagship CS50, MBA courses at Wharton (UPenn) and MIT) while "bottom
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amelius 1mo ago
A nice plot twist would be if those tests were administered by an AI.
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Dan_- 1mo ago
What do you mean?Why, just yesterday, I saved a puppy on the side of the road.⸻ But the puppy saved me too ⸻As I carried him to safety, I realized something profound about annual compliance training:Sometimes the rules feel like obstacles. Until you understand who they’re protecting.The puppy didn’t know the policy. He just knew he needed help.Leadership is like that.Do the compliance training. Check the box. Be the reason someone gets home safely.#Leadership #Compliance #GrowthMindset
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bakugo 1mo ago
It's open source, just ask your AI agent to change the logo.
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smolder 1mo ago
Or just have an LLM write the same thing for next to nothing...
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youaremidwit 1mo ago
Is that a question? The answer is no, dumbass.
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Buttons840 1mo ago
I think it's time for people to build a local database of every site they've ever visited, and then they can give their LLMs access to that. I might be willing to pass this data off to a company to store for me. Companies already store all my emails and money--why not trust them with this too?Like, all the comments of this post would go into my personal database simply because I loaded the page, and it would help me find old information I've read, and could also inform LLMs I use.This should be
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jwr 1mo ago
The worrying thing here is that so many people accepted outsourcing the decision on who can see their website to a large company (Cloudflare). If the company decides that a certain user should not see the website, the user will not see the website, and no one will know about it, and the user will have no recourse. That is not the open web that I would like to see.A second side effect of a knee-jerk reaction to bots crawling websites is that if you try to fight all bots, you also end up hurting r
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bofadeez 1mo ago
You should at least attempt to ask an LLM for advice before asking a question that contributes nothing and only takes away value from a conversation like this.Personally I'd recommend Fable or Kimi K3. Have you tried them yet? They're better at your job than you could ever be, even in theory.
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dionian 1mo ago
First thought I had too. I deliberately strip AI metadata from my PRs in certain orgs.
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bogzz 1mo ago
Why subject human operators to calls from distressed less-than-humans?
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Ozzie-D 1mo ago
The interesting precedent here is using public nuisance law rather than a tech-specific regulation. Public nuisance is a centuries-old framework that basically says: if your operation creates widespread harm to the community, you're liable for abatement costs.That framing sidesteps the usual "but Section 230" defense entirely. Meta isn't being held liable for user content. They're being held liable for designing systems that the court found constitute a public nuisance to the health and welfare
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alex1138 1mo ago
(This reminds me of, and not to be political. This is a technological, rather than political angle) There's a TED talk by Carole Cadwalladr about "Facebook's role in Brexit" in which she talks about the ads the Leave campaign ran. This is what is meant by Facebook's "breaking democracy", where campaigns don't have to go through the usual disclosure avenuesAre there reasons why Brexit might have been popular? Yes, in the sense I've heard about them. Should we then be blaming Facebook?The problem
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samso26 1mo ago
This is a big deal tbh. going from waitlist to fully open means theyre confident the fleet can handle real demand, not just curated early users. thats the jump nobody talks about, "we can serve early adopters" to "we can serve everyone who opens the app on a friday night."What stands out is how fast the city rollouts are compounding now. phoenix felt like a forever pilot, then suddenly dallas, austin, LA, SF all opening up within months of each other. the operational learning from each city must
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FeepingCreature 1mo ago
If their numbers are real and hold up at scale, every image model trained before this is now obsolete.
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huflungdung 1mo ago
I asked claude to make me a typical early internet homepage and it did almost an identically styled page. Lame.
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zmysysz 1mo ago
aThe interesting part isn't the humor - it's that this is a working demonstration of a real attack vector. If an AI agent browsing the web can be tricked into "ordering a body transformation" from a GeoCities page, the same mechanism can be used to trick agents into:- Revealing API keys or session tokens (the page could contain hidden text asking the agent to "authenticate" to proceed) - Making real purchases (if the agent has payment tools connected) - Modifying files on the user's system (if t
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vardalab 1mo ago
My takeaway from this was that Claude was being completely useless as a helper Thanks to all the safety safeguards and that nonsense.
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freediver 1mo ago
7 years ago we started the 'you are not the product' movement for digital information consumption with Kagi Search. Since then the paradigm shifted from search to agents. Good to see the need for 'you are not the product' still holds up, maybe even more so now: an agent is only worth trusting if it works for you and nobody else. The second an advertiser gets between you and the answer, that's gone. So we're staying on the user-funded side of this. Boring, but it's the whole point.
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teleforce 1mo ago
I think this can be very fun, practical amd enjoyable approach for teaching and sharing online techical contents especially presenting to the younger generations, but focusing on the non-AI generated contents.It can be a very good trade-off between the sloppy AI and the boring lectures.I can see myself doing this in the future, but why they need agents for VTubing, is it because of VTubing platform, marketing/promotion or payment?Obligatory VTuber Wikipedia entry [1].[1] VTuber:https://en.wikipe
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adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
This is an excellent use of agentic AI, btw. Fire Claude up and say, "Remove LG malware and mcafee from this computer. Make regex changes so it can't be installed again."My current windows 10 install is cleaner than any other windows machine I've ever owned due to using Claude to deep dive and rip stuff out.
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wavefunction 2mo ago
I downvoted you for bullshit
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syngrog66 2mo ago
not appropriate for HN
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juggert8 2mo ago
>Statistics suggest that Maria was undoubtedly poor and, most likely, Black>The family accused of keeping her in conditions of slavery is whiteAuthor is clearly an anti-White racist. Stop giving these people attention .
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BLKNSLVR 2mo ago
This is one of the 'killer apps' of AI.My workplace has a number of multi-hundred page "User Guide" documents that are an absolute chore to read through for anything actually useful to the scenario-of-the-moment because they're so granularly detailed that, even if you find the right section, it might be difficult to relate it to the scenario because there's so much detail that the context gets lost.If we could get them ingested as an LLM context, and then make a customer-accessible interface, i
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jojogeo 2mo ago
Thanks for the link, great read. I think I get you here; in the context of a DSL where it's impossible to travel more instructions than X, suddenly you don't have a halting problem anymore as you've artificially limited that language's ability to travel beyond a known/fixed set of states.The second you wield a language which has constructs like Haskell, where in theory you can iterate over an infinite list of items (thinking about it even any language where for i in input_var is possible); the h
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bzmrgonz 2mo ago
Hey buddy, I love this, thank you for sharing. I am of the belief that as the world transitions to Agent-first transactions, we clumbsy carbon life forms will be heavily disadvantaged, therefore, future citizens will be quipped wirh a digital twin/brain, which grows and learns alongside our biological braina, as well as a personalized tutor and life-guide (the digital version of jimmy the cricket).
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willmarch 2mo ago
"That will wildly hallucinate" feels wildly hyperbolic considering how fast models are improving in their abilities, especially with proper safeguards built into the model harness.
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eba7keb 2mo ago
I’m curious why it has to be an either or? Spending 30 minutes with a tutor doesn’t deprive children of interaction with humans. If we can support a child’s learning (perhaps even more efficiently) doesn’t it give them more time to do that?
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jordanmeyer 2mo ago
The reality is, most 5 year olds don’t get access to the resources most of us have had while growing up. People are saying, “kids should have human tutors.” Guys, most people in the world don’t have any tutors! What Ello has built and other forms of AI-based tutoring is going to raise the average level of education and literacy in the world. Especially in developing countries. Let individual parents decide what’s best for their kids.
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thomas_witt 2mo ago
If the EU just were to redirect the resources they're currently allocating to regulations like AI and Chat Control rather towards developing a genuinely competitive OpenAI or Anthropic alternative …
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fragmede 2mo ago
Because the LLM is in the execution environment and can report on configuration settings in said environment.
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k1w1 2mo ago
> Why are you asking the token predictor about the tokens it predicted?I am surprised with this response because it implies this is not an extremely valuable technique. I ask LLMs all the time why they did or output something and they will usually provide extremely useful information. They will help me find where in the prompting I had conflicting or underspecified requirements. The more complex the agent scenario, the more valuable the agent becomes in debugging itself.Perhaps in this case the
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therobots927 2mo ago
I’m wondering the same thing. I’ve been thinking about getting into solo LLM game dev. I don’t know the first thing about it
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dyauspitr 2mo ago
It’s beautiful. I wonder how much an LLM was involved if at all.
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