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apostataon Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

Or, fishing. They could take up fishing instead.

apostataon A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Because they're as useful as a pedal-powered wheelchair.

We say what's "good" in the good book.

apostataon Scientists predict and witness evolution in a 30-year marine snail experiment

> The Bible, separately proven

This statement is doing a lot of work. I would be interested to see anything resembling proof that the bible is the inerrant word of a god.

apostataon GPT-4o

> And then it can very well kill a home through misdiagnosis.

I would imagine outcomes would be scrutinized heavily for an application like this. There is a difference between a margin of error (existing with human doctors as well) and a sentient ai that has decided to kill, which is what it sounds like you're describing.

If we didn't give it that goal, how does it obtain it otherwise?