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netvarunon Ember-1

Technically kimi k-3 weights license is not open weight (it has a lot of restrictions). I would classify it as ‘weight open’ similar to the bsl and fsl ’source open’ licenses.

netvarunon Ember-1

Off topic:With sol pricing drop tbh kimi k3’s value prop has not been that great. For our internal use case/testing/benchmarks sol come out with way better quality and much cheaper costs. Kimi really needs to drop their pricing (I heard it’s set by them across all the neoclouds) Sol is at 2/10 vs kimi’s 3/15

netvarunon Xorshift Generators

https://archive.is/zElcb

netvarunon Xorshift Generators

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netvarunon Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

Wow, this was really fun to play around with! Amazing execution and launch!

Quick feedback: it’d be great if the page updated when the URL changes, so you can explore different positions without reloading.

Right now, if I change the URL/hash of the cube position (eg: incrementing by 1 https://everycube.alen.is/?view=3d#5319001606686939024 ), the app doesn’t update and I have to open the new URL in a separate tab to see the new position. [Chrome 150 on Mac OS X 10.15.7]

netvarunon Fields Medals 2026

https://x.com/Qiaoqiao2001/status/2080003441821163958

While there was a bunch of human effort - it is not that hard to imagine this whole pipeline becoming fully autonomous in the coming months.

netvarunon Fields Medals 2026

I posted a similar comment when the winners were leaked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48906573

i’d like to revise my earlier comment: 2022 may have been the last time we had pure humans win a Fields Medal.

I’m fairly certain this batch's winners used LLMs for research, lit-revews, reviewing work, and calculations... perhaps not enough to count as a co-author, but still enough to handle a lot of the grunt work.

Who would have imagined the pace of progress in LLM-powered math..

netvarunon A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986943

netvarunon Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list

First of all congrats to the winners.

Second, fitting that codex enters the picture.

The last time the fields medals were announced llms were still very nascent :)

And I am convinced this is the last time pure human fields medalists will be announced.

The next batch’s winners are all going to have llms as coauthors.

netvarunon Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for –$1.3k)

“The Anthropic team for their incredible coding models (Fable-5 wrote every line of code in this project), and the Claude Code harness.” Source: the repo

netvarunon NumClass – a Python CLI classifying integers into 200 number-theory properties

This is an amazing project - thank you for building/sharing it!

netvarunon Detecting and countering misuse of AI

Shameless plug: We're building this. Our goal is to provide AI pentesting agents that run continuously, because the reality is that companies (eg: those doing SOC 2) typically get a point-in-time pentest once a year while furiously shipping code via Cursor/Claude Code and changing infrastructure daily.

I like how Terence Tao framed this [0]: blue teams (builders aka 'vibe-coders') and red teams (attackers) are dual to each other. AI is often better suited for the red team role, critiquing, probing, and surfacing weaknesses, rather than just generating code (In this case, I feel hallucinations are more of a feature than a bug).

We have an early version and are looking for companies to try it out. If you'd like to chat, I'm at varun@keygraph.io.

[0] https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114915606467203078

netvarunon Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

s/x84/x86/

netvarunon Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet

Hey Shawn!

netvarunon Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet

Hi - we should chat :)

netvarunon Find Your People

I think they refer to: IB - investment banking PE - private equity HF - hedge funds or High Frequency trading (?)

netvarunon OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

Tangent: Did Windsurf actually get acquired by OpenAI? I would have imagined some sort of announcement from OpenAI at the very least? Bloomberg was the one to break that news too, but haven't seen any follow up.

netvarunon Databricks and Neon

Does anyone have insight into Neon's financials - specifically their revenue, COGS, and gross margins? I'm trying to understand what made Databricks value them at $1B. Was it strong unit economics, rapid growth, or mostly strategic/tech value?

netvarunon Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto

https://archive.is/kVsvc

netvarunon The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

Dagger (https://dagger.io) recently seems to have reinvented/rebranded itself as some llm agent platform.

@dang: The original URL (from Step Security, the company that discovered this flaw) is a better source for this:

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/harden-runner-detection-tj-...

netvarunon A Second Search for Bash Scripting Alternatives

Agree - that’s what we use too.

netvarunon Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs)

Wow that had been quite a journey - thanks for the detailed response. We’ve been using cel internally in a golang codebase and been pretty happy with it. I’ve only know about starlark in the Bazel context - I’ve learned a couple of things from your post. Thanks :)

netvarunon Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs)

This looks cool - will give it a try (hah!) Curious on why you picked starlark instead of cel for the conditional scripting part?

netvarunon OpenAI Acquires Rockset

Congrats to the team. IIRC their CTO was the creator of RocksDB.

netvarunon Show HN: Primeval Numbers

Very slick interface and implementation! This is why I love coming to HN!

netvarunon Show HN: Restate – Low-latency durable workflows for JavaScript/Java, in Rust

Thanks for the detailed answer - please turn it into a blog post! Excited to see competition and different architectural approaches to tackle durable execution. Wishing you all the very best!

netvarunon Show HN: Restate – Low-latency durable workflows for JavaScript/Java, in Rust

Feedback: everybody’s question is going to be on why this over temporal? I’ve noticed you answered a little bit of that below. My advice would be to write a detailed blog post maybe on how both the systems compare from installation to use cases and administration, etc - I’ve been following your blog and while I think y’all are doing interesting stuff I still haven’t wrapped my head around how exactly is restate different from temporal which is a lot more funded, has almost every unicorn using them and are fully permissively licensed.

netvarunon The man who killed Google Search?

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

"Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

netvarunon The man who killed Google Search?

I agree - and flagged it as a result. It is clearly a hit piece and has promptly even made it to Prabhakar's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhakar_Raghavan