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dfsegoaton Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]

> but google is stock in the academic bias of Stanford and MIT and can't think outside the box

Can you clarify what you mean? I am not sure I follow.

dfsegoaton Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases

Highly recommend using agent based hooks for things like `[review & test]`.

At a basic level, they work akin to git-hooks, but they fire up a whole new context whenever certain events trigger (E.g. another agent finishes implementing changes) - and that hook instance is independent of the implementation context (which is great, as for the review case it is a semi-independent reviewer).

dfsegoaton Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access

It seems that perhaps neither are inherently 'good models'? What would an ideal alternative look like?

dfsegoaton Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

> it’s more performant than Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT 5.2 extra high

...and all of that done without any GPUs as far as i know! [1]

[1] - https://www.uncoveralpha.com/p/the-chip-made-for-the-ai-infe...

(tldr: afaik Google trained Gemini 3 entirely on tensor processing units - TPUs)

dfsegoaton GPT-5.2

they 100% are unless you provide a RUBRIC / basically make it ordinal.

"Return a score of 0.0 if ...., Return a score of 0.5 if .... , Return a score of 1.0 if ..."

dfsegoaton Claude outage

Very similar usage duration / window for me (US Pacific) - no availability issues.

dfsegoaton Moderna has unraveled

To put some numbers to trying to develop a single therapy (where candidates etc. will fail as you try them)

- Plan to sink $180-500M+ just in R&D

- Factor in failures, regulatory, clinical, recruitment, phase 1/2 trials and you arrive very quickly around $1.3-2.1 BILLION USD per therapy approved.

...there is a 90% chance that you will spend that $1B+ - and it will fail completely.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-020-00043-x

https://greenfieldchemical.com/2023/08/10/the-staggering-cos...

dfsegoaton Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders

fwiw towards your theory, I believe that the US Govt actually considers cloud providers - by way of specific services offered "dual use" systems for mil or civil use.

E.g. you will find references in AWS docs to Bureau of Industry/Security rulings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology

https://www.bis.gov/

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/global-export-compliance/

dfsegoaton Launch HN: Propolis (YC X25) – Browser agents that QA your web app autonomously

OTP protected flow verification

dfsegoaton Launch HN: Propolis (YC X25) – Browser agents that QA your web app autonomously

Really good call out re: email and other 'side-flows' - hopefully there is integration with something like Mailosaur.

https://mailosaur.com/email-testing

dfsegoaton The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership

> nor are they...able to mutate themselves to gain new information on the fly

See "Self-Adapting Language Models" from a group out of MIT recently which really gets at exactly that.

https://jyopari.github.io/posts/seal

dfsegoaton OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup

...not monetized yet: Can't find the post, but a prev. HN post had a link to an article showing that OpenAI had hired someone from Meta's ad service leadership - so I took that to mean it's a matter of time.

edit: believe it was Fidji Simo et al.

https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2025/openai...

dfsegoaton Markov chains are the original language models

Ahh thank you for catching - apologies I didn't see this in time to add a correction.

dfsegoaton Markov chains are the original language models

KingJamesProgramming [1] - a mashup of Knuth books [2] and the King James Bible with a Markov chain, is still one of my favorite reads for a laugh.

It was also the first place I was really exposed to probabilistic-based methods for generation of novel content.

You get gems like:

"they smote the city with the edge of the sword. 22:20 And one of his main motivations was the high cost of proprietary software houses."

and

"37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and leave it for an inheritance unto the children of Gad according to the number of steps that is linear in b."

[1] https://www.tumblr.com/kingjamesprogramming

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

dfsegoaton A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture

I'm typically pretty critical of PM oriented pieces, but I found this to be a decent overview of how to reason about building these systems from first principles + some of the non-tech pain points + how to address them.

dfsegoaton We're Joining OpenAI

Very good catch. For all my interest this space, it's embarrassing that I did not remotely see this coming...

dfsegoaton We're Joining OpenAI

> Expect to see a lot of ads 2 years from now

I think I am just slow today - but could you please elaborate?

dfsegoaton Intel's "Clearwater Forest" Xeon 7 E-Core CPU Will Be a Beast

Very curious about this as well.

Though I would say the fact that they were not involved with OpenAI on gpt-oss is not a good sign.

(OAI partnered with Databricks, NVIDIA, Dell, bunch of MSPs. etc.)

dfsegoaton Hundreds lose water source in Colorado's poorest county with no notice

Colorado Water access law is truly crazy and arcane in some cases (such as this, it would seem).

Source: Had a friend in college that interned for a group of attorneys in Western, CO whose entire practice was around water access rights.

She explained to me some of the ridiculous things that neighbors requiring common water access could do to each other - based purely on who was using the water first.

dfsegoaton Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

Can you clarify which tooling you are using? Is it cursor-stats?

dfsegoaton Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale

If there were a toy or other public implementation of this, I would love to see it.

dfsegoaton O3 Turns Pro

It's a tough question and I do things the same way.

I feel like we are in awkward phase of: "We know this has severe environmental impact - but we need to know if these tools are actually going to be useful and worth adopting..." - so it seems like just keeping the environmental question at the forefront will be important as things progress.

dfsegoaton Object personification in autism: This paper will be sad if you don't read (2018)

I also relate - but have not received a formal diagnosis other than ADD.

- I remember feeling sorry for cars in a car dealership on a hot summer day as a child: "they must be miserable in this heat!"

- I frequently to this day personify my childrens stuffed animals & dolls & action figures: "They must feel so lonely not being played with anymore!"

- I was inordinately attached to my own stuffed animals / toys as a kid. I remember when one got taken away during a schoolday, that I felt like someone had kidnapped a family member - and I was inconsolable.

It's fantastic to see that this is now being investigated in the literature.

dfsegoaton Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression

Did you already exercise regularly?

dfsegoaton Hacker infects 18,000 "script kiddies" with fake malware builder

Oh man, FXP, couriering (the original “currying”!) and 0day drops…

This thread is such a solid shot of nostalgia, and why I love HN.

dfsegoaton A story on home server security

Heh. We also got treated to the digit thing. That topic alone was about 30 mins of mtg. time with a vp of eng and 2 seniors in the mtg.

dfsegoaton A story on home server security

I feel this. Recently implemented a very trivial “otp to sign an electronic document” function in our app.

Security heard “otp” and forced us through a 2 month security/architecture review process for this sign-off feature that we built with COTs libraries in a single sprint.

dfsegoaton A Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O'Brian

My father did say I had better gear up for this when i told him haha.

dfsegoaton A Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O'Brian

I just got the first book on Audible, and it does sound like it’s going to be a real treat!