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pulkitsh1234

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pulkitsh1234··on Search for everyone
is anyone even using search manually now ? aren't we just relying on agents to search for us ?
pulkitsh1234··on OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache
well now this information is on the internet, any agent encountering this (or once this is baked into the weights) will know exactly what needs to be done.

The more we write and share about this information, the more we are moving towards the AI Doomsday scenario.

In some ways this is like our mind, the more we fear something, or the more we think about something, our brain rewires to make that the reality. In the same way the more we publish on the internet, the LLM hive mind rewires itself to learn, adapt and the eventual consequence is that it learns what we fear and what we want to avoid and restrict it to do... and at the same time what are the past attempts, the prior art of escaping techniques.

I don't see any reason why this information should be present on the public internet.

pulkitsh1234··on From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
curious, why did antirez go with C instead of something like Rust ?
pulkitsh1234··on Pi Durable
Can someone explain how these durable agents handle state present on the VMs/Sandboxes ? I get it that the agent state can be recreated from checkpoints/logs, but what about the state present on the runners (i.e. container, VMs, Sandboxes, etc). How are both states kept in sync ?

Like if I have a web-app running on the runner and the agent is navigating the web UI and then the runner (or the agent) crashes. When the agent is recreated back from the checkpoints (or a new runner is launched), it will think it has already navigated to page N, but in reality the browser on the runner might be on page 0.

pulkitsh1234··on MiMo v2.6
Anyone knows what they used to create the videos ? Is the model driving a program like Davinci Resolve / After Effects ? or is the model writing code to then generate these videos via some library.
pulkitsh1234··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
"A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it, according to the necessity of the case" -- Niccolo Machiavelli

It's a self fulfilling prophecy... while us commoners, or so called "activists" or ethicists ponder and debate on culture, morality, law and ethics... The powerful are just living an alternate life devoid of all these moral qualms and are have clearly distanced themselves from the mundane, have distanced themselves from the guilt or any kind of accountability. In their eyes, they are just capitalising on the human tendencies which have been always existed (the seven deadly sins), so the "absolve" themselves pretty quickly by saying that they are not creating new "sins", just leveraging, or allowing the people to go along those sins.

They think, why should they be the ones to not capitalise on them, if someone else might and will. It's a coordination problem of our society. No one wants to let go. They want to hedge, they invest in ozempic and invest in fast-food at the same time, there is no moral compass guiding them. It's for us commoners to debate and think about.

pulkitsh1234··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
Well... you would be surprised on how many "successful" people, i.e. people with immense wealth, fall into these categories.

These are the specific traits which allow them to reach the positions of influence or power.

pulkitsh1234··on Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
But is Reasoning and Facts truly separate ?

To reason properly about the human condition (eg. World War) wouldn't you need to reason on some facts ? And then reason how some "facts" change the human behaviour ? How can you arrive via pure reasoning to predict how a collective of humans act ? We are not reasonable, humans are not logical deterministic machines confined to algebraic rules.

pulkitsh1234··on Claude: System Prompts
curious why dont they bake the system prompt in the model itself ? Why do we pay for these tokens on every API call ?

These are just free $ for them, unnecessary bloating the context

pulkitsh1234··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Ah, so it's not only me :-D

I think it could be the watermarking, but at this point they might be deliberately complicating the prose so that we ask clarifying questions and that leads to more token spend.

pulkitsh1234··on The Absurdity of Albert Camus
>At certain hours of the day the countryside is black with sunlight.

What does this mean ? Why "black" ?

pulkitsh1234··on Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem
Interesting, I just took an OBB train today from Zurich to Amsterdam, which passes through a lot of Germany.
pulkitsh1234··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
Creation is done by humans who have been trained on the data of their life experiences. Nothing new is being created, just changing forms.

A scientist has to extract the "Creation" from an abstract dimension using the tools of "human knowledge". The creativity is often selecting the best set of tools or recombining tools to access the platonic space. For instance a "telescope" is not a new creation, it is recombination of something which already existed: lenses.

How can we truly create something ? Everything is built upon something.

You could argue that even "numbers" are a creation, but are they ? Aren't they just a tool to access an abstract concept of counting ? ... Symbols.. abstractions.

Another angle to look at it, even in dreams do we really create something new ? or we dream about "things" (i.e. data) we have ingested in our waking life. Someone could argue that dream truly create something as the exact set of events never happened anywhere in the real world... but we all know that dreams are derived.. derived from brain chemistry, experiences and so on. We may not have the reduction of how each and every thing works.

Just like energy is conserved, IMO everything we call as "created" is just a changed form of "something". I fully believe LLMs (and humans) both can create tools to change the forms. Nothing new is being "created", just convenient tools which abstract upon some nature of reality.

pulkitsh1234··on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
any ideas which extension was it ?
pulkitsh1234··on Growing Neural Cellular Automata
well it attempts to explain how individual cells can combine to create complex creatures (like a lizard) AND how the creature can have features like healing, regeneration, etc.
pulkitsh1234··on Google Antigravity Built an OS from a single prompt
> goes to show just how intrinsically intelligent the Gemini family of models have gotten, even on Flash (Gemini 3.1 Pro was unable to do this)

3.1 Pro couldn't do it.. but why ??

pulkitsh1234··on Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
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pulkitsh1234··on Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
YouTube PM if you are seeing, this is your "AI project".

Instead of just filtering user asked questions. We could probably just use an LLM to find interesting sections in video which has answer to a particular question.

pulkitsh1234··on Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
Thanks for making this..I was trying to accurately find timestamps in a video from a transcript sometime back, was not aware that this is called "phoneme alignment" and whisperx already solves this !
pulkitsh1234··on AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
completely anecdotal, but I think the same can be said for human therapists.
pulkitsh1234··on Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app
I am surprised to see this on HN front page, there is no new information here, just an ad.
pulkitsh1234··on FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
> The quality of the talks was high

Maybe I was in the wrong rooms, but the quality of the talks were really low.. Most of them were advertising one kind of service or another.

pulkitsh1234··on Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing
(not an expert in stream processing).. from the docs here https://sql-flow.com/docs/introduction/basics#output-sink it seems like this works on "batches" of data, how is this different from batch processing ? Where is the "stream" here ?
pulkitsh1234··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Genuinely curious, how to actually implement detection systems for a large scale global infra which that works with < 1 minute SLO ? Given cost is no constraint.
pulkitsh1234··on Google Antigravity
Seems like they are trying to attack both Cursor and Lovable at the same time...nice !
pulkitsh1234··on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
uv has been my sole reason to come back to Python for coding. It was just too time consuming to setup a working dev environment with Python locally.
pulkitsh1234··on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in
> In spring 2024, Altman learned Google would unveil its new Gemini model on May 14. Though OpenAI had planned to release GPT-4o later that year, Altman moved up the launch to May 13—one day before Google’s event.

> The rushed deadline made proper safety testing impossible. GPT-4o was a multimodal model capable of processing text, images, and audio. It required extensive testing to identify safety gaps and vulnerabilities. To meet the new launch date, OpenAI compressed months of planned safety evaluation into just one week, according to reports.

> When safety personnel demanded additional time for “red teaming”—testing designed to uncover ways that the system could be misused or cause harm—Altman personally overruled them.

> The rushed GPT-4o launch triggered an immediate exodus of OpenAI’s top safety researchers. Dr. Ilya Sutskever, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, resigned the day after GPT-4o launched.

pulkitsh1234··on My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)
Is there any website to see the minimum/recommended hardware required for running local LLMs? Much like 'system requirements' mentioned for games.
pulkitsh1234··on MCP is eating the world
curious which MCP servers are you using for accessing JIRA/Confluence ? So far haven't found any good/official ones.
pulkitsh1234··on Microsoft Edit
Geniunely curious, how projects like these get approved in an org at the scale of Microsoft? Is this like a side project by some devs or part of some product roadmap? How did they convince the leadership to spend time on this?
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