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LLMs feed on their own output during inference, so there is a loop on itself, isn't it obvious?

xplon Octane – React’s programming model, compiled

Does it have any overlaps with React Compiler — like the auto-memoization that they have?

Also, is there any read on the downsides / shortcomings / caveats of Octane vs. vanilla React?

xplon Octane – React’s programming model, compiled

The model is a bit different from React (no deps, hooks can be under ifs) — do coding agents recognize it or they get confused when they see that code?

xplon Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

> they will not be able to obtain non-immigration visas in the future

Why? Aren't L1 and H1B "dual intent" visas?

xplon Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine

It made a big difference when it first appeared on the battlefield. Russia has adapted since then, so it's no longer a game changer. But systems like these helped Ukraine hold on, and they continue to do so today.

xplon Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem

> Their capabilities should saturate at human or maybe above-average human performance

LLMs do have superhuman reasoning speed and superhuman dedication. Speed is something you can scale, and at some point quantity can turn into quality. Much of the frontier work done by humans is just dedication, luck, and remixing other people's ideas ("standing on the shoulders of giants"), isn't it? All of this is exactly what you can scale by having restless hordes of fast-thinking agents, even if each of those agents is intellectually "just above average human".

xplon Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference

Is this a joke? If it's not trainable / differentiable when why do it in the first place? It's just as inefficient and inflexible as it gets compared to tool calling — you have to statically bake programs in the weights, model cannot introspect it and modify, it has very limited IO capabilities, bad performance, bad everything. Its like a weird brainfuck-esque VM — cool that you can do it, but for what except some lulz?

But maybe it's just too genius and I don't understand it.

xplon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)

Unfortunately, no. We allow hybrid work, but only if you're willing to relocate immediately (U.S. only).

xplon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)

We at Avride are hiring in Austin for a full-time, onsite position.

In this role, you'll help build state-of-the-art 3D data annotation tools that advance autonomous driving.

We're looking for a seasoned UI engineer with a strong React background and relevant experience building highly stateful, low-latency interactive applications. Experience with 3D graphics is a plus.

Apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/avride/jobs/4012877009

xplon Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway

> Tesla is famously anything but a car company because their cars are mediocre in every way except the battery range

I can't say that I'm a big fan of this guy... But I can tell you this: I learned to drive only after moving to the U.S. recently, and when I had to choose my first car, I found Tesla to be the best among many I tried. It's just awesome, and I don't even use their FSD, the car itself is superb (at least the latest "3"). Minimalistic, no BS, drives well, quiet, comfortable. The same feeling I had with the first iPhone, compared to other phones.

xplon Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?

sqlite with extensions, scales to millions of docs easily

xplon Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

A similar project of mine (generated back when GPT-4 was out, along with comment threads and articles):

https://crackernews.github.io/

xplon Grokipedia and the coup against reality

> What are some examples?

"Weaponizing Wikipedia Against Israel" https://aish.com/weaponizing-wikipedia-against-israel/

xplon Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo

Why not use actual Ethereum as a base layer? If you want speed, build (or use) an L2 on top of it.

I can hardly see any value in "yet another private blockchain" — just use a database, duh.

xplon GPT-5

They say:

In the API, all GPT‑5 models can accept a maximum of 272,000 input tokens and emit a maximum of 128,000 reasoning & output tokens, for a total context length of 400,000 tokens.

So it's only 270k for input and 400k in total considering reasoning & output tokens.

xplon AI video you can watch and interact with, in real-time

Only at first glance. It can easily render things that would be very hard to implement in an FPS engine.

What AI can dream up in milliseconds could take hundreds of human hours to encode using traditional tech (meshes, shaders, ray tracing, animation, logic scripts, etc.), and it still wouldn't look as natural and smooth as AI renderings — I refer to the latest developments in video synthesis like Google's Veo 3. Imagine it as a game engine running in real time.

xplon I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Check out this Russian Telegram channel on AP https://t.me/usadminvisaprocessing/1

There are people who file collective mandamus lawsuits, so you might consider joining one of those groups.

However, from what I've seen, it could be a waste of money, as there isn't convincing evidence that it accelerates AP. These lawsuits usually take many months, and AP often resolves "by itself" before the lawsuit reaches a resolution.

xplon What if humanity forgot how to make CPUs?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1922015999118680495.html

xplon OpenAI is building a social network?

One interesting benefit is that OpenAI would be able to detect bots using their APIs to generate content.

xplon Gene drive modified mosquitoes offer new tool for malaria elimination efforts

We just recently had COVID which was likely bioengineered (as the lab leak is now "officially" considered a plausible explanation)

xplon AI Is Making Developers Dumb

People said the same thing about IntelliSense a long time ago.

xplon I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Not everyone needs to pay exit tax, only if your net worth is over $2mln or your 5-year average annual tax paid is over $190k or something like that.

IANAL so do your own research. Google "covered expatriate".

xplon I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

I suppose deporting you to Guantanamo and detaining you there until your country of origin agrees to take you back would be consistent with the current administration's actions.

xplon Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart

Can't implants read from that nerve? Or the issue is that the "protocol" is hard to reverse?

xplon Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]

I mean not only sex, but also swearing, drugs, violence, etc. Basically everything R-rated (but not illegal) which usually gets censored.

xplon Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]

Maybe there exists a dataset consisting entirely of objectionable content, so people can finetune neutered models on it?

xplon McDonald's gives its restaurants an AI makeover

They would probably be able to do it if the listed prices were fixed, but they provided a personalized discount that would vary depending on who you are.

xplon Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart

How does the device regulate the heartbeat speed? I mean, how does it know that it needs to pump blood faster or slower?

xplon TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography

> So what's the motivation here?

Better interpretability, I suppose. Could give insights into how cognition works.

xplon Operation Leg – a pilot unlike any other (2020)

> Bader then used this leg to mount multiple escape attempts from various prisons

Oh, that reminds me of the prosthetic leg joke from 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. So it was a reference?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJfMSE_3iSc