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811.
by verdverm 3mo ago
Also the harness, there have been several HN submissions showing that older/smaller models can find a subset of the exploits given a good env
812.
by verdverm 3mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/business/china-russia-ai-... https://archive.ph/yAvgz There is no doubt an amount of xeno/sinophobia is at play as well. Russia is still killing i
813.
by verdverm 3mo ago
Alignment with who in what context? Likely an unresolvable debate like consciousness, where there is not single or right answer for everyone.
814.
by verdverm 3mo ago
Is it possible to block scroll hijacking?
815.
by verdverm 3mo ago
one task is not a benchmark or a dataset you can make conclusions from
816.
by verdverm 3mo ago
There is a lot more one has to be good at to make a fable level model. Distillation won't get you there, it will help refine some at the end
817.
by verdverm 3mo ago
doing the basics and trying to create quality content, not trying to compete in crowded niches
818.
by verdverm 3mo ago
You do not have to give them your pin, by law. They can use biometrics to open your device, which is why you should not use biometrics for device unlocking. GraphenOS has a couple of settings, a distress pin that wipes the device, and a num
819.
by verdverm 3mo ago
qwen3.6-27B, gemma4-it-31B, poolside/Laguna-S-2.1 are all good text gen models generally in the <128GB (depending on quant, you can fit them in smaller mem footprint) Note, Laguna provided quants have some issues and they are rework
820.
by verdverm 3mo ago
How are you accessing K3? If it is through Moonshot's API, then there is very likely guardrails, because it seems like it wanted to answer and was then cutoff. We are starting to get access to K3 from US providers now, curious if they
821.
by verdverm 3mo ago
We'll have ~Fable level weights in the coming days (K3). Look out to the end of the year and there will be multiple options. There are seemingly more frontier labs than the three US ones.
822.
by verdverm 3mo ago
With Kimi 3 weights coming, and China committing to the open weight ethos, everyone will be able to download frontier models. Running them is another problem.
823.
by verdverm 3mo ago
> This is a very common pattern. Sounds like a bad habit for security testing Ai. It's not that hard to build an internal mirror and proxy that, keeping the real internet physically separated if needed, and truly locked down if conc
824.
by verdverm 3mo ago
Why bother when more companies than not make their weights available on Huggingface?
825.
by verdverm 3mo ago
> is bad for business A fundamental misalignment in US capitalism is putting the business and revenue as the #1 priority far above all other aspects in society. They have good margins and the Chinese are doing the same on the cheap by co
826.
by verdverm 3mo ago
HN is not a jobs board. Please see the HN Guidelines and FAQ linked at the bottom of most pages. There is a special post you can comment on the first business day of each month called "Who's Hiring"
827.
by verdverm 3mo ago
HN thread from early this year, re: (no skill), no taste https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089907
828.
by verdverm 3mo ago
Probably the agent workflow traces, including thinking sections, are of main interest. Used in late training for decision making and problem solving strategies.
829.
by verdverm 3mo ago
Sandy Monroe has a business product he sells to Big Auto where he tears down cars, creates a bill of material in incredible detail, and expert notes about the process of how the car is made. If that's not distillation in the auto indus
830.
by verdverm 3mo ago
> Aren't consumers benefiting from cheap chinese batteries, EVs, and drones? Depends on what country you live in I suppose, but likely a spectrum of yes than any outright no. For example, Chinese EVs are using a different battery ch
831.
by verdverm 3mo ago
Sorry, I don't, still newer to the quantizing side of things since many are already produced by others.
832.
by verdverm 3mo ago
Any of the Kimi 3 titled submissions also have some comments on this theme too
833.
by verdverm 3mo ago
I've got the nvfp4 running on a spark, impressed enough so far I'm going to see if it can replace my qwen3.6 27B usage Have had issues with the dflash drafter and vllm, crashes, OOMs, broken thinking... so I'm back to the mid
834.
by verdverm 3mo ago
impressive for a small model, but probably only useful if you cannot fit a bigger model (25-35B)
835.
by verdverm 3mo ago
HN is not a jobs board. Please see the HN Guidelines and FAQ linked at the bottom of most pages. There is a special post you can comment on the first business day of each month called "Who's Hiring"
836.
by verdverm 3mo ago
HN is not a jobs board. Please see the HN Guidelines and FAQ linked at the bottom of most pages. There is a special post you can comment on the first business day of each month called "Who's Hiring"
837.
by verdverm 3mo ago
I've found that having good source material (markdown, dependency source, search results for agents) for the models to draw on significantly improves information accuracy. Definitely worth investing in this side of "harness engine
838.
by verdverm 3mo ago
initial impressions, great model for coding, probably swapping it out for qwen 27b for a while to long-term test, more sycophantic than any I've run locally myself
839.
by verdverm 3mo ago
HN is not a jobs board. As a YC company that normally follows the job posting rules (including the special ones for YC companies), I recommend you speak internally about the proper channels. The HN Guidelines & FAQ have more info for th
840.
by verdverm 3mo ago
shoe on other foot feelings, re: not honoring international deals

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