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Tepixon Your Open Source Model Could Have a Hidden Time-Release Backdoor

Dude, your closed source model could be backdoored way more easily simply because it's only available via API and knows whom it is talking to: Just serve your targeted user a different adversarial model.

Tepixon I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes

With AI being more useful with access to more of your data, I can't see myself using cloud AI models for purposes such as personal assistants.

Perhaps with differential privacy or confidential compute...

But ideally these models run locally.

Tepixon I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes

I hope you have backups.

Tepixon Ox Alpha

Would be great if it runs on the same hardware as DeepSeek (i.e. 256GB RAM is sufficient for 512k ctx size).

Tepixon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

Nope, the EU should use the trade bazooka against the US.

Tepixon c100

Also it's close to ANSI layout, what about ISO? I want a german E1 layout(§), thank you very much.

    -- 
    § https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E1_(Tastaturbelegung)#Umfang

Tepixon Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

Oh, a cool idea! I just tried it, works pretty well. Kudos!

One feature request:

Instead of playing the AI-generated audio solely through the iPhone's speakers, add an option to send the audio as midi notes to a device (probably the same one you received the mini notes from).

Tepixon OpenRouter is joining Stripe

15%? Isn't the fee 5.5% with lower fees for enterprise customers?

Tepixon Norway should buy OpenAI

OpenAI will likely not IPO this year because their numbers are so poor compared to those of Anthropic's. However if they don't IPO, they cannot pay for all those datacenters they ordered.

Meanwhile, Chinese companies are creating SOTA models and make them available for free, strongly limiting the amount of money that OpenAI and Anthropic can demand for their similar models via API. Their sky high valuations are likely to suffer as chinese models are considered "good enough" and safe to use when hosted in the West. They even have fewer safeguards and are thus more suitable for cybersecurity tasks.

tl;dr: They're fucked. Don't buy them.

Tepixon The Amazon tax

> It doesn't have to do with Amazon. It is just how ads work.

It doesn't have to be that way. Can you keep your search results pure and put ads next to them. If the ads are good, customers will be interested.

Yes, you will have fewer clicks (i.e. less ad revenue) than if you try to deceive your customers by not clearly marking ads. But you don't have to enshittify your page. Enshittification also lowers the value of your business, particularly in the long term.

Tepixon The Amazon tax

Amazon has many decisive conflicts of interest:

- improving search results vs less ad revenue

- promoting their own products vs merchants'

- streamlining the shopping vs trying to sell more stuff

As long as these fundamental conflicts aren't resolved, it's not going to improve.

Tepixon Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

Luckily, the future isn't set in stone. I see a ton of skepticism towards this surveillance tech.

Tepixon Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

Has anyone done the same for other rides with wheels? I guess that would end up being NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) & Gaussian splatting?

Tepixon Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

Ever since OpenAI launched their improved voice mode, I've been looking for a capable LLM with builtin voice-in and -out. Llama 4 was supposed to be it but turned out to be a dud. I haven't followed the topic closely lately, did I miss anything? Are there capable (!) open weights omni models that allow low latency voice chat? If so, what software do you use them with? Can you use a PWA on your phone? WebRTC? WebTransport?

Tepixon Buy Your Friends Batteries

Do they even have houses?

Tepixon Buy Your Friends Batteries

In Germany you can use a "Balkonkraftwerk" that just plugs into any outlet and contributes up to 800W. You can also hook up solar panels to it up to 2000W (makes most sense with batteries). No need for the landlord to agree.

Tepixon Buy Your Friends Batteries

> €1,600 for 5 kWh

Those prices are high. You can get 2.56kWh for 270€ on Aliexpress, delivered locally from Germany.

Tepixon Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

Interestingly, in a test c't magazine did a long time ago, the test audience preferred mp3 256kbit over the original.

Tepixon Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP

Always put the quantisation in the title!

Tepixon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

So the government provided healthcare covers everything then? If not, you cannot legally get it by paying for it by yourself? Curious.

Tepixon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

> if your solution requires perpetual majority control

I think once universal health coverage is established, it amounts to political suicide to try to take it away again.

Tepixon Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety

Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, 1756.

Tepixon Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA

Really, the standard argument "There's a X% loss of privacy, why expect any privacy at all?"

Tepixon Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA

Is it really? It seems that the fight against total surveillance is bipartisan.

Tepixon Site removes all the clutter from recipe videos and gives just the recipe

Given it’s raison d’être, why does it add a slop summary in front of the recipe, in a different language, no less?

Tepixon Show HN: Headlines

Re: Sunflowers game

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Tepixon In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices

Volkswagen will limit your car to 100kWh of charging your home. That's not a whole lot.

Tepixon In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices

We also have a solar boom in Germany, unfortunately our minister is trying to stall the deployment of solar instead of copying what Australia is doing very successfully here... it's really a shame!

Tepixon Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

> Google’s history of innovations in privacy technology

Ah yes, their history of innovations! Thanks to Gemini for making a list for me over at https://share.gemini.google/vx9lE5dEJ1L7

The list contains more than 6 chapters with multiple entries each.

Google has truly been very innovative in destroying privacy online.

Tepixon 50k Boat Names

Agreed. The „foreign phrases“ category only contains entries starting with A or B