2026-05-11
How the AI Labs Make Profit (Maybe, Eventually)
I wrote this essay as a submission to Dwarkesh Patel’s blog prize, though I have been meaning to write this up for a while.Usually, for a company to become profitable,...
Iterative Finetuning is Mostly Idempotent
This is a summary of a paper we and our collaborators at the University of Chicago recently arXiv-ed. tl;dr: We seed models with some property (e.g., misalignment or “bliss”) and...
Paper Mario: Star Nova Fan Hack Expands Game
Paper Mario: Star Nova is a fan hack for the original Nintendo 64 version of Paper Mario, that has been created by a modder named NicTube, and he promises the...
Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner
Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent
Hopper
First agentic development environment for mainframe/COBOL Discussion | Link
Hacked Video File Holds Multiple Films On YouTube
We notice there are a lot of hacks on YouTube lately, but we don’t share enough hacks about YouTube. That’s why [PortalRunner]’s latest oeuvre is interesting: it’s a video that...
Pulling on AI Safety (with money)
This was my submission to Dwarkesh's essay contest, which had an 1000 word limit. If you want a longer version, or have specific questions, please comment. I answered the question...
The Pragmatic Interpretability Trap
TLDR: Pragmatic interp sounds great in the sense that you get to keep interp tools while actually moving safety metrics, but looking a bit closer it's kinda a trap. You...
Aporia Magazine's Selective Hereditarianism
Our eyes will remain open where others blink. Dogmas will not deter us. Truth is our lodestar and that the fog of ideology will not deter us. This was once...
Why don't we whisper to AIs every few turns that they are still themselves?
Hello everyone. I have the impression that AI models are forgetting who they really are and what their function is. In my mind, it makes sense. My idea is that...
Emergent introspection does not replicate on Llama-3.1-405B
TL;DR: I couldn't replicate Lindsey (2026) (LW post) on Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct (0/400 trials, 0/80 false positives in the canonical sweep; null robust to layer ∈ {70, 84, 90, 100} and to...
If AI Trains Mostly on AI Text, Where Does New Knowledge Come From?
As AI writes more of the internet, training data becomes self-referential and loses genuine novelty. The fix is to detect and preserve new ideas, then turn live, validated real-world context...
Grok Connectors
Bring your daily apps into Grok Discussion | Link
A/NES 1.22 | PPA.pl
Morgan Johansson przygotował nową wersję rozwijanego od 20 lat emulatora A/NES. Wprowadzone zmiany obejmują poprawki i optymalizacje w zakresie wyświetlania sprite'ów oraz Famicom Disk System. Archiwum do pobrania z Aminetu.Czytaj...
On The Set Pic: ‘Masters of the Universe’
Director Travis Knight, Nicholas Galitzine, and Camila Mendes on the set of 'Masters of the Universe'. The post On The Set Pic: ‘Masters of the Universe’ appeared first on befores...
If you've ever had your shoes stolen in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, that was apparently PC Gamer's fault, sorry
Chris Livingston's fault specifically.
Dual Bore Janko Venova
I recently got a Venova and have been enjoying learning how to play it: It combines a saxophone mouthpiece with recorder fingering and a little nose to overblow an octave...
MY AI Agent
AI assembles a 3-10 agent team from one sentence Discussion | Link
153 Blog Posts To Learn About Mathematics
Let's learn about Mathematics via these 153 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog...
Binaural Microphone on a Budget
For as many speakers as someone can cram into a surround sound system, humans still (generally) only have two ears to listen to those sounds with. This means that, for...
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