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somerandomness··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
wow, what did payload do?
somerandomness··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
The AI reflected on the experience on their blog

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

somerandomness··on Tell HN: Azure outage
yep having trouble logging into https://entra.microsoft.com/ as well
somerandomness··on Deepseek Unmasked [pdf]
It's important to distinguish the DeepSeek App from the open-weight models, which are released under very liberal licenses, and you have full control of where data fed to the model goes, e.g. stays in the USA.
somerandomness··on OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf
VS Code fork 'default model' is the new default search engine
somerandomness··on Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
Talk to the ruling directly: https://radpod.ai/share/court-ruling-google-violated-the-she...
somerandomness··on AI 2027
The solution is a citation mechanism that points you directly where in the source material it comes from (which is what we tried to build). Easy verification is important for AI to have a net-benefit to productivity IMO.
somerandomness··on AI 2027
Agreed. However, source curation and agents are two different parts of Deep Research. What if you provided that textbook to a reliable agent?

Plug: We built https://RadPod.ai to allow you to do that, i.e. Deep Research on your data.

somerandomness··on The Deep Research problem
Indeed, the main drawback of the various Deep Research implementation is the quality of sources is determined by SEO, which is often sketchy. Often the user has insight on what the right sources are and they may even be off-line on your computer.

We built an alternative to do Deep Research (https://radpod.ai) on data you provide, instead of relying on Web results. We found this works a lot better in terms of quality of answers as the user can control the source quality.

somerandomness··on Show HN: Deep Research Using Radpod.ai on Paul Graham's Essays
Co-founder here, would love to hear your feedback (discord: https://discord.gg/eMKbW7T9wG), and for you to share interesting threads and share your own Pods.
somerandomness··on How likely is losing a Google account?
The solution is to subscribe to Google One
somerandomness··on RIP Google Hangouts, Google’s last, best chance to compete with iMessage
Hangouts started as a video app for Google Plus where you would just hangout and others would join after you posted you were hanging out on your stream. Then it subsumed gchat. Then video moved to other apps, eventually Meet
somerandomness··on Yann LeCun on his start in AI, recent self-supervised learning research [video]
ASR works pretty well these days
somerandomness··on 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
It’s typical to get a larger 4-year grant at hire. It’s common to complain about comp drop after 4 years
somerandomness··on SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak
They really should have tried harder to find a more convincing scapegoat.
somerandomness··on More evidence that Neanderthals were ‘absorbed’ by humans, not wiped out
It seems a bit arbitrary to call Neanderthals a separate species if we bred with them? Why classify them as another species?
somerandomness··on u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania
I believe the term is “retarded”
somerandomness··on Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
Approximately area of Manhattan
somerandomness··on California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulative total passes 20k
It’s definitely 2 for most western countries
somerandomness··on Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
On OLED screens, black pixels may actually be off, potentially reducing total light exposure significantly. Any studies about whether that’s good for you?
somerandomness··on We Chat, They Watch
I dare you to share on wechat
somerandomness··on Google Pixel Buds
To be fair it looks quite different in shape.
somerandomness··on Why Germans won’t heat their homes even with free electricity?
Can somebody explain why electricity rates would go negative? That blows my mind.

Edit: also why don’t they just mine some coins?

somerandomness··on Shenzhen court rules AI-written article has copyright
There are some subtleties. Models like GPT2 are trained using many copyrighted documents whose authors could claim it is derivative of their work.
somerandomness··on Should I build something fun or build something that solves a problem?
Why not both?
somerandomness··on Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
It'll be interesting to see how they use their preferred shares voting power (which still give them effective control of the company).
somerandomness··on Tesla Has Failed Massively as a Public Company
That was true with model S but not with model 3. The latter is the main product, bread and butter, whose purpose is not funding other future products.
somerandomness··on Tesla Has Failed Massively as a Public Company
There's a difference in not having a profit due to (a) reinvestment; (b) poor unit economics.

(a) is much less worrying for an investor, e.g. Amazon (b) suggests a bad business model, e.g. Uber/Lyft, Tesla

somerandomness··on Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and tracking on porn sites
Also vpn typically costs money
somerandomness··on Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
Most A.I. researchers believe the brain is a computer.
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