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Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

The companies are begging to be regulated for this reason and have been doing so for years. HN's response is generally that this is performative for marketing or seeking regulatory capture or haha anthropic you get what you ask for. Maybe the cynics are right, but there's really nothing inconsistent about the naive view here, once you factor in race dynamics and obligations to investors.

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

The companies are begging to be regulated for this reason and have been doing so for years. HN's response is generally that this is performative for marketing or seeking regulatory capture or haha anthropic you get what you ask for. Maybe the cynics are right, but there's really nothing inconsistent about the naive view here, once you factor in race dynamics and obligations to investors.

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

I think I found the item the grandparent commenter was presumably referring to - "Our position on open-weights models", posted by Amodei and dated July 27, 2026 - which includes: > some people have even accused Anthropic of wanting to ban open-weights models as a means of protecting our business. Anyone who has read my past writing should know that I don’t regard such bans as a useful measure, but let me state it clearly so that there is no doubt: * Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.* However, as you said, it also says "All sufficiently capable models, open and closed, should go through mandatory safety testing." https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

Any reasons? I mean we are proof that it happens. We seem to make gradual progress in investigating like this article and recently there was stuff on how RNA could self replicate https://youtu.be/EhPgu0I8yaY

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Their position makes no sense to me. I don’t see how you can be a mainstream company selling your services worldwide (almost) if you also believe that you’re building an extremely dangerous AGI (supposedly based on the same technology you’re offering to everyone). If you actually believe that an AGI would be extremely dangerous that should 100% be a very strictly regulated area of research, similar to bio weapons. And we know that Chinese models are derived from OpenAI and Anthropic, they are at the same time talking about how dangerous models can be (even their aligned ones it seems), while being also responsible for the development of the whole industry and providing the basis for adversary countries to build their own. I don’t believe we would accept that for any other technology that …

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

> And really good at marketing those failures into spin at how amazing their products are. The paranoid style in American PR (with apologies to Richard Hofstadter) The fact that the world has become susceptible to what amounts to a mob shakedown - look at how dangerous our amazing products are, don't you need them to protect you from others misusing our products? - is to me a really compelling example of US gun lobby thinking leaking out into a global problem. Anthropic and OpenAI may be able to bounce this into restrictions on open weights models, but they are going to have a lot less luck extending this into foreign policy. If the USA can't control its weapons, they aren't going to see a lot of co-operation from foreign countries on a blockade of open weights modeld from China.

Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices

Mostly because IT insists that you need to start over with a fresh install. When I last switched laptops, I just did `dd if=/dev/nvmeOldLaptop of=/dev/nvmeNewLaptop` and was good to go with the entire laptop state being replicated, compared to my colleagues who spent a week gradually copying all their stuff over, and still missing a ton. Some time later IT figured out my windows installation ID was wrong and just assumed they messed up during setup and updated their database.

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

this is pretty old by now but still very relevant. people dont look at this enough but with rising chip complexities for TPU units etc. and a shift towards poorly documented hardware like NVIDIA gives this problem new fuel. Domas (and maybe his team or colleagues?) has put out shit tons of very interesting materials over the past years on advanced malware, implants and things like Cantor Dust which are amazing things to dive into. using his own cpu fuzzer, msr fuzzing techniques etc. he has found, reversed and implemented attacks through hardware bugs and backdoors. It cant be confirmed if a backdoor is malicious or for debugging but essentially the capabilities gained through them are what is important. These techniques he shows throughout his videos are not super tricky to replicate and…

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

> Almost always they end up setting up a separate system such as Clickhouse and replicating the data between the two systems. Now they can have one system that's Postgres-compatible, and it's faster than either of the original systems. I can see the appeal for pgrust for smaller teams who need analytics, and don't want to deal with having to ETL to something like ClickHouse. But beyond a certain complexity, replicating your data to a warehouse or lakehouse _is_ the right approach and more scalable for several reasons: - Analytics tend to be centralized, i.e. you want data from several Postgres databases spread across multiple teams to be replicated into 1 place, so people can start joining data across the entire business - Analytics tend to fall under a different team ownership with th…

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

There is no evidence that Anthropic's revenue is 70B.

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

We know that intricate machines are designed by smart people; they don't just happen by luck. The idea that living things, which are far more intricately organized at every level than any machine we have made, could have arisen by some unknown series of chance steps is a fairy tale. It has never been observed, and even in the most controlled of environments it cannot be replicated. To me it's far more reasonable to conclude that life was designed by a super intelligent Creator. Just as a piano implies a piano maker (even if we haven't seen them), life implies an original Life-giver.

SpaceX 10GW in 2027 – Why It's Real, Will Drive $300B ARR for SpaceX

The specific predictions here are (1) SpaceXAI will borrow ~$250B to build at least 5 GW of GPU capacity in 2027 and then (2) OpenAI/Anthropic/others will pay SpaceXAI ~$300B/year to rent those GPUs. This money would have to come either from customer revenue (assuming something like $1T of token revenue in 2027) or investors. These are very large amounts of money. If you extrapolate current exponential growth trends, $1T is possible. But any number of events could pop the bubble in the next 18 months. The biggest risk AFAIK is simply investors running out of capital to invest. Another risk is that token prices collapse due to competition.

Claude Code: Starting August 14, auto mode will be the default permission mode

Yeah, the over-cautious filters continues to be a massive pain. There also seems to be bifurcation on consumer (and hence token subsidised) and enterprise (hence API) when it comes to 'safeguards'. The exact same prompts hit safeguards in a consumer account, but not with my work account. While there's been some improvements, Anthropic's filters _really_ hate self-hosted GPU setups, or multi-machine homelabs. I have a 'homelab' (a 4x5060Ti 16GB rig + 2x DGX Spark + couple Intel Arcs for AV1 encoding). Fable would often refuse for just about anything, even basic sysadmin, if I try to run it from my laptop (so ssh'ing into my local network). If I run Claude directly on machines, I get a little bit more mileage, but ask it to optimise the inference speed of DSv4 Flash? Fable refusal. Try to e…

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

I'm interested to see where they want to land performance-wise (i.e. which point they choose on the scaling curve) and the niche they want to carve. They have a decent ways to scale beyond trinity large, in paticular on posttrain/RL before they are competitive with open-weights, especially internationally. Deepseek is explicitly banned [1] at LLNL and I wouldn't be suprised if there's a blanket ban on all Chinese models. But nowadays models like tera/luna could fill this area of the pareto front, and LANL already runs openai models on their clusters [2]. Maybe it's in custom SFT/RL, for instrument control or sensitive topics? But you'll still have to compete with frontier models + a harness. I would have also liked to see a carrot tied to their offer. It'll be hard to get t…

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

> I think part of the reason software was winner take most was the difficulty of making software. That might be part of it, but I think it also has to do with the reality of replicating and scaling. Hardware or physical goods simply don’t scale like digital goods. There can be hundreds of knock-off physical products that have lower quality and lower cost but serve 90% of the same purpose, because physical capacity for raw materials, construction, labor, shipping, etc. have scaling limits in each market and economy. Digital goods are just so much easier to replicate and scale, so it often doesn’t make sense to buy software at lower quality and lower price if it doesn’t do most of the job. There are still limits of course, and different from physical goods, but I think this is a key reas…

OpenAI Trained Models for Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits

SpaceX 10GW in 2027 – Why It's Real, Will Drive $300B ARR for SpaceX

> both OpenAI and Anthropic can generate over $100B/GW/year of revenue when selling API inference on a GB300 cluster. This is significantly more than the costs of renting a GB300 cluster for a year at current neocloud prices. This is one view and then there are Ed Zitron's articles on impending collapse of AI. I'm not sure whom to believe.

SpaceX 10GW in 2027 – Why It's Real, Will Drive $300B ARR for SpaceX

> both OpenAI and Anthropic can generate over $100B/GW/year of revenue when selling API inference on a GB300 cluster. This is significantly more than the costs of renting a GB300 cluster for a year at current neocloud prices. This is one view and then there are Ed Zitron's articles on impending collapse of AI. I'm not sure whom to believe.

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

Well, I said "Find a rich life outside of work". In the article's conclusion, "once freed from the false satisfaction of believing we are changing the world with our day jobs, perhaps we will be inspired to fill that hole with something real". I suppose we agree and are saying something similar. If you've worked for startups then you've delt with existential threats, perhaps hard times and failures. I read the article as a lot of corporate jobs. When you fail you find out quickly what is important in life. You need some not-work to be important in your life too. AI can only mimic your creativity and your emotions. You are not as replaceable as it may seem. Maybe I'm not convinced that Anthropic and OpenAI are going to replace us all just yet. We are living in strange times, not only with …

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

Well, I said "Find a rich life outside of work". In the article's conclusion, "once freed from the false satisfaction of believing we are changing the world with our day jobs, perhaps we will be inspired to fill that hole with something real". I suppose we agree and are saying something similar. If you've worked for startups then you've delt with existential threats, perhaps hard times and failures. I read the article as a lot of corporate jobs. When you fail you find out quickly what is important in life. You need some not-work to be important in your life too. AI can only mimic your creativity and your emotions. You are not as replaceable as it may seem. Maybe I'm not convinced that Anthropic and OpenAI are going to replace us all just yet. We are living in strange times, not only with …