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flipping_beacon··on AI Makes Me Sad
The other day I was trying to read some article (tutorial of sorts) and it was just slop after slop after slop, it was in that LLM language which I can't describe but it just felt like ChatGPT wrote the whole thing, art music literature made by humans is what I look forward to As for the programming part, programming has always been a creative field and I don't feel it has been "ruined" by AI, it's just that a lot of people have suddenly unlocked a dimension of sorts where they can explore their creativity without having to go through all the syntax, structures and nuances associated with programming
flipping_beacon··on The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
It's crazy that we talk about LLMs, AI/ML and what not but so many fields still don't use computation as much as we think they do simply because they cannot reliably keep up with the advancements happening almost everyday and people simply forgetting about backwards compatibility in their products
flipping_beacon··on Clef: Open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
Definitely agree with edge computation, although inference extensively researched and funded if SOTA LLMs hit a dead end tomorrow,there is still a lot to explore and research in inference and edge computation
flipping_beacon··on A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
This can't be real I am go gonna ask Willie
flipping_beacon··on Uncensored and Offensive Security AI Models Benchmark
Would have been better with something else other than the gradient colour scheme
flipping_beacon··on What's Behind the AI Panic
I did read the article, frontier labs have been fearmongering to gain government regulations on open source open weights models to justify their trillion dollar valuations Jacob Coxon worked with a doomer PR firm over his statements regarding AI safety https://nypost.com/2026/09/25/business/ai-doomer-pr-firm-wor...
flipping_beacon··on What's Behind the AI Panic
Trillion dollar valuation with billions of dollars of losses is what's behind the AI panic
flipping_beacon··on It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
They want to brew fear in the public minds for government regulations to justify their Trillion dollar valuation and billion dollar losses
flipping_beacon··on Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page
Wonder if there's a scenario where this also works for PQC ML-KEM
flipping_beacon··on Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
I think it's the idea or my understanding of the paper that stays with me instead of the abstract
flipping_beacon··on I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck
Crazy work