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thoughtpeddler

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About thoughtpeddler

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    Great work! Love the harnessing of Apple's local inference. Wondering if you'd be willing to support the same conversational export, summarization, and search/retrieval flows but f…

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    Comment #49225770

    Yes, I thought about that, and which is why I'm just running this as a pilot for this quarter to see how it goes and I'm not particularly attached to it if feedback/results are mix…

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    Comment #49225666

    Scrolless is another tool I've found helpful for this, by a fellow hn-er: https://festudio.net/scrolless/

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    Comment #49225637

    As an educator myself, this quarter for the first time for my course's final project, I've switched to actually asking my students to provide an "AI Authenticity Audit" of their (p…

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    Comment #49225600

    Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-06/ai-sk-hyn...

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    Ask HN: What will be the Chernobyl or Bhopal scale industrial disaster of AI?

    It seems we're potentially running into a situation where there may be some kind of large-scale industrial accident (somewhere in the world) arising from more aggressive testing of…

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    Comment #49203292

    Oh ya, this is like the approach from the Incompressible Knowledge Probes [0] paper - smart! [0] Incompressible Knowledge Probes: Estimating Black-Box LLM Parameter Counts via Fact…

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    Comment #49203008

    I didn't realize there was a SchlongBench™ (but of course there is). What's it test? (asking seriously)

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    Comment #49177239

    Did you even read Gwern's Guardian Angels post? It literally describes the concern pointed out here, that the large consumer models are not aligned with users' interests. If anythi…

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    Comment #49128061

    Doesn’t this just lead to a new “basin of tastelessness” that, sure, looks different from current slop, but is itself just eventually slop all the same?

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    Comment #49039373

    The civilization in which you are a part of, this very mass that is greater than you and I, is evolving and changing. How can there not be new unique headlines?

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    Comment #49028305

    It's true that there isn't currently a single Chinese model family that matches the full OLMo/Nemotron end-to-end 'cookbook' one could rightly call "open-source" (i.e. a full manua…

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    Comment #49015728

    RIP JCD. As a kid growing up in the 1990s, I looked forward to your (highly opinionated) column in every new issue of PC Mag. So much of my own taste in software and computing was …

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    Comment #48969992

    Yes you can anonymize from one frontier lab, but you've just now created a new source of identification for all your inference: OpenRouter.

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