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neuronexmachina··on Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? Here are some theories
If I understand correctly, they already exclude AI overviews for under-18 users in the EU to comply with local laws.
neuronexmachina··on Show HN: AgentRun – open-source, Self-improving Managed Agents
I think these are their relevant docs:

https://agentrun.ai/docs/self-improvement

https://agentrun.ai/docs/learning-reference

neuronexmachina··on Your TV can see through walls (2025)
> Back in the day it was CRTs emitting measurable waves through the neighborhood, with some papers even going as far as restoring the displayed image through a wall.

It's been some time since I've thought about Van Eck phreaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking

neuronexmachina··on AlphaProof Code
I'm curious how their approach compares with what Theorem & Anthropic are trying to do with formally proving nixpkgs: https://theorem.dev/blog/verified-software-stack/
neuronexmachina··on USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
Oof:

>Each Party acknowledges and agrees that a breach or threatened breach by LICENSEE of any of its obligations under this Agreement would cause the LICENSOR irreparable harm for which monetary damages would not be an adequate remedy and agrees that, in the event of such breach or threatened breach, the LICENSOR will be entitled to equitable relief, including a restraining order, an injunction, specific performance, and any other relief that may be available from any court, without any requirement to post a bond or other security, or to prove actual damages or that monetary damages are not an adequate remedy. Such remedies are not exclusive and are in addition to all other remedies that may be available at law, in equity, or otherwise

neuronexmachina··on USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
If this was about serving costs they wouldn't have terms like this in their license:

>LICENSEE shall use the Database and Data for the Permitted Use only and shall not disclose, release, distribute, or deliver the Database or Data, any portion of the Data or Database, or any other information derived from the Data or Database to any third party without LICENSOR's prior written consent.

neuronexmachina··on Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, Highest So Far
It's interesting to look at effort-levels lower than max, though:

* xhigh: 62 score at $14.83 per task for Fable 5.2, vs 50 score at $10.85 per task for 5.1

* high: 62 score at $9.08 per task for 5.2 vs 47 at $7.54 per task for 5.1

* medium: 56 at $3.80 per task for 5.2 vs 43 for $5.56 for 5.1

* low: 54 at $3.10 per task for 5.2 vs 39 at $4.37 per task for 5.1

At medium and low the scores are much higher for Fable 5.2, while actually costing less per task than 5.1

neuronexmachina··on Fold Epic Paper Airplanes
Cool, there's a bunch of designs I've never seen before.
neuronexmachina··on Goodbye Claude, hello Pi
> I think there _is_ a way to do this nicely in a GUI btw, which I've been toying with as a side project. Basically... build it as a trello style board

Something like Orca's Agent Dashboard, or something else? https://www.onorca.dev/docs/model/agents-sessions

neuronexmachina··on Inkling 2 Small
I think Mistral also avoids distilling on other company's models.
neuronexmachina··on Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
I love when my kid and and I are using AI Studio to make tower defense games, and it tries to squeeze in reasons to make Gemini API calls. No, I don't want a Gemini-populated random news ticker in my tower defense game.
neuronexmachina··on Tencent Hy4
Do you have a source for that? I hadn't realized that was the case.
neuronexmachina··on Sshole
There's a decent-size "any AI usage is theft" contingent that reacts dramatically to any usage of AI whatsoever.
neuronexmachina··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
Yeah, I used to hate the Claude desktop app's Code tab, but it's actually pretty good nowadays. I actually prefer it now over claude CLI.
neuronexmachina··on Tencent Hy4
With China's Announcement 48 (export restrictions on AI), I'm not sure how much longer that will continue for open-weight models. It includes a number of areas of biomedicine as covered technologies. It's not clear if a model capable of doing such biomedical research would be considered as Prohibited/Restricted from Export.
neuronexmachina··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
Repo link: https://github.com/nhnifong/cranebot3-firmware
neuronexmachina··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
Tangential: You might want to add some og-tags to your site (or at least a meta-description), so link unfurlers like those in Slack/FB will display a description/image.
neuronexmachina··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
I appreciate the post included the reasoning traces they had available, but it's too bad the first part of it is internal/hidden to Astra. The first bit of that process is what I'm most curious about:

> [Before writing this, Astra thought for 1,034 tokens. That thinking is hidden. The API returns only its 5 headings: Reconstructing the active map / Mapping maze corridors / Preparing exact maze map / Reconstructing row groupings / Checking channel patterns]

neuronexmachina··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
I got a FB message from an older relative urging me to vote for the President's party so we could all get the $5000 checks he promised.
neuronexmachina··on AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages
I'm curious which software was the entry point:

> According to a draft report reviewed by The Washington Post, Cathedral used AI agents to find weaknesses in business software used by Anthropic for administrative and sales tasks. The researchers found ways to access internal data, including meeting transcripts and Slack messages, after running their agents for less than 12 hours.

neuronexmachina··on Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
Minor correction: the $20 Claude subscription doesn't include API usage, but the $100 and $200 subscriptions include a corresponding amount of monthly API credits.
neuronexmachina··on Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful
Does it work with Claude's 1Password connector? https://1password.com/blog/1password-for-claude
neuronexmachina··on Archive.today links going forward
What is this referring to? I tried to find when Jani Patokallio tried to get the people behind archive.today imprisoned, but can't find anything.
neuronexmachina··on Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
"All models are wrong, but some are useful."
neuronexmachina··on Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)
I think it's in the title because it's also doing double-duty of informing customers that only usage of the GLM-5.3 model was potentially impacted. I agree that it's so what confusing, though.
neuronexmachina··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
Massive increases in efficiency and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
neuronexmachina··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
I wonder if this is going to be something like the Solow Paradox, from Econ Nobel Laureate Robert Solow: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-solow-productivity-pa...

>You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. Robert Solow (1987)

neuronexmachina··on Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
I'm betting this is related to China's Announcement No. 48 last week about AI export controls, since releasing an open-weight model is effectively export: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/china-proposes-new-export-...

> Prohibited: high-performance detection technologies used to counter cross-border data transmission security risks, including deep-synthesis forgery detection (266401J); AI cyber offensive capability technologies, such as malicious code generation and mutation, automated mass generation and distributed large-scale deployment of anti-detection variants (266402J); large models trained using China’s Core Data (266501J); and high-performance AI agents designed for highly sensitive scenarios, such as critical information infrastructure, national defense and core government affairs (266502J).

neuronexmachina··on DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
When it says civilian agencies are ordered to purge all "third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek implementations", what does that actually mean? Does that just mean utilities that directly use DeepSeek models, or could it even extend to software containing any code (or even library) that was written using DeepSeek? Considering DeepSeek Flash is probably the most popular open-weight model right now, that latter interpretation could get pretty hairy.
neuronexmachina··on Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers
> The models don't seem to need it anymore. I

I imagine by this point the models already have the plugin code in their training corpus, plus plenty of RL data from users interacting with the plugins.

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