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6thbit··on AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
This is straight out of Gilfoyle's son of Anton.
6thbit··on Muse Wonder
So, Wonder (and not Wonder Full) will "will soon power experiences in" their assistant app. But no rollout details .

Then, Full is meant for API usage and "Muse Code" only.

It's getting confusing what having "Muse" means.

6thbit··on Chatcasting, an Alternative to Podcasting
What’d be the benefit of keeping it synchronous comms say vs an email thread?

Some mailing lists are fascinating to read.

6thbit··on I'm in a Meeting
is this the hacker typer of the new gen?
6thbit··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
Didn’t they have a flashy lawsuit to free the JavaScript trademark? What happens to that now?

No indication cloudflare would pursue that yet that I see.

6thbit··on OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled
They didn’t mention asking OpenAI for comment on that figure in the original story. They just quoted a person with knowledge of the group’s finances. Nothing about declining to comment.
6thbit··on OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled
Exactly.

  > far short of the $70bn reported by the FT and other media outlets late last month based on information that was provided to investors.

Media was mislead by second hand information and misled the public, now they are 'shocked' they reported incorrectly..

Still, seems it is still true that their number is not directly comparable to Anthropic's because they calculate it differently, I think that part still stands and is pretty relevant here.

6thbit··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
This brings Mathematica’s Manipulate elements to mind. I love those, once you determine the variables and make it interactive concepts come alive.

At least seems a fist step out of the serial interface of chats.

6thbit··on Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers
Shouldn't LLMs intuitively be better with a high number of available options? This article only does simple prompts with only options to block or not block.

What is openai doing for their decisions API, a finetuned luna?

6thbit··on Sites in ChatGPT
I'd like to have one of this but where the content is dynamically updated by a 'cloud' agent on schedule, is this feasible today?
6thbit··on Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met
seems unflagged now :) would love to see a detailed results page
6thbit··on Red Hat being phased out of existence?
I don't get it, why is one person quitting/layed off implying anything about redhat?

Why is a screenshot of a tweet and a highly speculative unfounded headline in the frontpage? What am I missing?

6thbit··on Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met
Not sure why this thread got flagged ?

Its fun. Can you add a sort by controversial? I'd like to know where people disagree the most between yes and no.

6thbit··on Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
With the kind of compute power available nowadays and AI models I wouldn't be surprised we see it much sooner.

All it takes is just one collision to consider it broken right?

But hey maybe the attempt to fix it makes git controversial enough it falls out of favor, and nobody uses it anymore in 2 years, problem solved? sure.

6thbit··on Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
couldn't github reject a push that contains an existing hash in the repo?
6thbit··on Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
That's impressive. I suppose they had a more flexible architecture to make that change so fast.

Is there any writeup on why it was easy for them and not for git?

6thbit··on Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
I thought this would be a snark but it's an extremely well put together argument against the "Hashmageddon".

If you're replacing the weakness of SHA-1 just by going to another algorithm, you better be prepared to go to the next one when sha256 collisions happen, and it doesn't sound like git's design would be easy to modify for this type of crypto agility.

I do like their proposal for using signatures to establish trust and allow swapping sha256 for whatever comes next.

6thbit··on Clef: Open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
I wonder if a good usecase for this would be cloudflare's WAF rules. Give broader request context to the decider and let it pick type of challenge/block traffic directly.

Perhaps that may be too costly atm

6thbit··on Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
doesn't that make egress fees egregious? or still cheaper than disks?
6thbit··on Gemini 4 Argon
Likely just trying to appear relevant in the news cycle.

It's also kinda wild how the competition being at v6.1 makes 3.x feel ancient, at least saying you are at v4 now changes public perception a bit imo.

6thbit··on Gemini 4 Argon
Have each agent rewrite openssl in $lang and call it the RollYourOwnCrypto bench.
6thbit··on Gemini 4 Argon
I wonder if there's people already whose full time job is maintaining/extending one of these auto-migrated codebases.

Imagine they aren't even familiar with rust but are deeply familiar with the product.

6thbit··on AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom

  > forecasts that annual spending on AI infrastructure might hit $1.5 trillion by 2031. 
  > ...
  > sustaining this level of investment would require an AI market approaching $6 trillion annually
This is a 2031 projection of a 6T market, but somehow the article editorializes this into 'justifying' a boom?
6thbit··on Dots: Always-on agents
I had forgotten OAI bought openclaw this year. Are dots are what came out of buying that team?
6thbit··on Dots: Always-on agents
Quite an upsell from $20 to $100 to get dots, especially in non-US markets.

On the other hand, Meta is not making money from muse base tier yet.

So, if OAI finds a way to make money the same way meta would for their free tier, maybe they follow suit.

6thbit··on Plan mode is dead
I'd like a brainstorming mode, with limited side effects.

I want it to go and read stuff but also invoke some commands and generate reports and discuss on the results. Latest GPTs in codex plan mode always go.. write a plan. Shocking, i know, but thats not what i want on every turn when im in that mode.

6thbit··on Yes, Claude can do nine loops
Fair point, and i think that's fine. AI labs could just not jump themselves into such problems and let humans have a go at them, whether ai-assisted or not. As in this case with a regular budget one researcher could've access to.
6thbit··on Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special
It'd be hilarious that meta chose to pay openai. If there was such a deal, would it come to light in any public/official filings?
6thbit··on Yes, Claude can do nine loops

  > As it turned out, the result wasn’t all that far away for humans either. A few days after I heard from Anthropic, we heard from Song He, an amplitudeologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Song’s group had already gotten the majority of the result. They’d used some AI assistance, based on GPT-6, but not the kind of one-shot almost human-less approach Anthropic used.

Please have AI come up with something no human is also about to solve?

This gets me wondering why ai labs aren't proposing their own millenium prize type challenges.

6thbit··on Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
Huh, didn't know the font could control variations over nth glyhph!

Could one make in theory a regular monospaced font to just render glyphs past 80 chars of a line as bad as possible?

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