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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 11/10/2026
this! and the refusal/denial to see it, beyond the head-in-the-sand reflex, will ultimately come down to a god-of-the-gaps argument
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 09/10/2026
We travel not for trafficking alone; By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known, We take the Golden Road to Samarkand. James Elroy Flecker’s “The Golden Journey to Samarkand”
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 08/10/2026
beware asking Opus about the jev (decision) model because it default classify the prompt as if it's about the jev (bio) model (Japanese Encephalitis Virus)
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 08/10/2026
We were jagged before it was a benchmark
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 07/10/2026
in a few hours, I'll be in a presentation with tens of parents and students looking at IB options and I already know the large majority of them (parents) will ask normal questions, ignoring or pretending to ignore the risk x magnitude of changes coming...
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 06/10/2026
Very likely that the US/China restrictions on AI are a factor there. Not only the fact that Anthropic/OpenAI don't serve HK but also that any plan of private DC would be highly constrained there (no NVidia/AMD) and that any future development might come under the transfer restrictions.
ft.com
Hong Kong quizzes HSBC over Singapore AI hub decision
Monetary authority strives to bolster Chinese territory’s status as international financial capital
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 01/10/2026
Unless there's a way to build a custom feed that's not too brittle, this will be the end of my account there.
theverge.com
Reddit says it has to cut back access to ‘Old Reddit’ because of AI bots
Reddit’s RSS feeds are on the way out too.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 27/09/2026
surprised he's not pushing for Super-Duper-Intelligence
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 25/09/2026
Amazing - really read the fediverse thread
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 25/09/2026
I see the cassandras have awaken again 😜
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Digital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Richard Marles needs to do more than set up a taskforce, he needs to treat this like the crime it is. If an individual hacked into Medicare they'd be going to jail, but there is no accountability for Big Tech.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 22/09/2026
Mendaciousness or imbecility? one can argue whether the cursor of refusal is too tight/too open but this magical thinking, lmao.
OpenWorker is an open source project, and identifying and addressing security gaps is a priority. I cannot think of any security benefit to refusing to help us find security issues in our own code. If any issues exist, it is better that we find them before an adversary does.  
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 16/09/2026
I wonder if something funny should be happening with the venn diagram of the 2A absolutists and the models-don’t-go-rogue-they-were-programmed-by-humans
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 15/09/2026
Interesting original: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/zk0KxuLzhm... one translation: www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA...
mp.weixin.qq.com
我不得不把才华埋葬在昨天
前几天,DeepSeek v4.1 发布了,将小模型能力的高度又向上推进了一个档次。AI 发展的速度远远超过了所有人的预期。
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 14/09/2026
Funny
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 14/09/2026
has there been a worse roi for a Superbowl ad than Flock's? not that they don't deserve it, i'm glad they did it.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 09/09/2026
hard to reconcile assumptions: * there can not be so many sock-puppet accounts on so many platforms * there can not be so many accounts make so many weak/dumb arguments (especially when there exist stronger but less emotional/vivid arguments)
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 07/09/2026
I hadn't realised that OAI was aware, before even the HF hacks, of the wiki hijacks and apparently have been at least disingenuous in their answers to congress about such activities. very serious & professional... not.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 05/09/2026
a particular way ppl can't seem to extrapolate how ai will impact the world is that some of their capabilities are advancing much faster than their (cap.) use is diffusing. so they end up projecting current cap. (at best, more often than not, 6m+ old) for their multi-year projections
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 03/09/2026
All labs are basically committing felonies through their agents hacks and sorry, what...? Reminder that a journalist was prosecuted for looking at a web page source and Swartz for charges with penalties up to 35y jail.
scmp.com
US tech chiefs Huang, Musk warn against AI curbs amid race with China
US tech leaders warn strict rules could blunt innovation and prevent the harnessing of economic gains from rapidly advancing AI.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 02/09/2026
What kind of (former) PM writes "Buy Japanese Yen (JPY)"?
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 29/08/2026
Haha, that's pretty direct openai.com/index/our-de...
Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026. To maximize the time that developers can retain access to our models through Cursor, we are giving the maximum notice provided by our contract. This decision was incredibly tough, as we care deeply about our models being broadly available for developers. We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 21/08/2026
“a blogger, Noah Smith” is an oddly satisfying phrasing
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 19/08/2026
IOW, Github is getting paperclipped
Title: New comment by tristanj in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"
Author: tristanj
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:30:06 HKT
Feed: Hacker News: Best Comments
Tags: science, tech
Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332666

Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up. Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. As of three months ago, it was 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)

20% of all GitHub accounts were created in the past 6 months
https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2082604368399159542
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 14/08/2026
Very fair view of the yen intervention. Recommended instead of the macro-tourist takes available here and there.
podcasts.apple.com
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 14/08/2026
I find it unbelievable, in 2026, that the quoted Q. can be asked in good faith (esp. on HN) and if it is, we are far from being able to get good laws re. tech.
> I don't understand why a police cruiser can sit in a public space (or even a private one) and write down licence plates and descriptions of passers-by with pen and paper, or record everything around them with dashcams and bodycams for later use, but when it comes to cameras on a pole this would require a warrant.

Scale actually matters. Things that are generally OK at a small scale become problematic at larger scales. A single police cruiser writing down license plates isn't able to track you in the same way a huge surveillance network is, and the opportunities for abuse are much lower.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 11/08/2026
TIL they made a remake of Bureau des Légendes
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 10/08/2026
That's a headline!
scmp.com
China experts explain why sleeping with winter melons can cause explosions
The tradition of hugging winter melons to cool off dates back over 650 years to the late Ming dynasty in China.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 07/08/2026
Finally watched and Disclosure Day was a big pile of crap.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 07/08/2026
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
In an interview with The Post, Flock chief executive Garrett Langley said misuse of its systems is inevitable and that the company is focused on providing tools to catch perpetrators after the fact. In their contracts with Flock, police departments agree to use the tool solely for "bona fide investigations" of crime.
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer way forward. www.pacingthefrontier.com
pacingthefrontier.com
Pacing the Frontier
A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 28/07/2026
good post
chadnauseam.com
cancelling-my-hey - Chad Nauseam Home
Cancelling "Hey" If you don't know, "Hey" is a somewhat popular email client, created by industry legend DHH. I found Hey to work really well for me and really liked it. It costs $99/year, and I've b…
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 24/07/2026
I remain uncomfortable that this event seems will have no legal follow-up, let alone consequences, whereas a human had done it, in good faith, that person would face very serious charges.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 21/07/2026
Let's not forget the extra thumbwork for posting about it Well done, me 💪 what we (they) do for that dopamine hit...
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 19/07/2026
This reminds me a little bit of the inside-only commentary about CDO tranches being rated AAA. not saying consequences or even bubble diagnosis should be the same but there's some serious common knowledge gaps going on at several levels via simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/...
The answer was a lot more interesting. It was partially ridiculous sales material being delivered to an easily excitable audience, but this was not the dominant factor constraining honesty.
Executives at their customers were saying absurd things about achieving 100x productivity, and this meant that if any executive
 at the vendor said that these gains were not plausible, it would undermine the credibility of the customer’s executive, be perceived as an attack (or heresy), and possibly result in an enterprise contract cancellation. And getting enterprise contracts cancelled because you wanted to opine on something that doesn’t really matter to your organisation’s mission is a great way to get fired.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 10/07/2026
First time I see this argument (idea of a knock-out game) made openly from the Chinese side
scmp.com
Why AI race with US is a ‘knockout game’ China cannot afford to lose
China must overhaul innovation ecosystem or risk a power decline that could even shift cross-strait leverage, academic warns.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 10/07/2026
"Les cordons de la bourse se relâchent pour moi"
arstechnica.com
Judge doesn't like Elon Musk settlement with SEC, but says court can't block it
Judge reluctantly approves $1.5M settlement with SEC over Twitter stock violation.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 07/07/2026
Best way to end the discourse. Bravo!
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 01/07/2026
I think changing the term 'purchase/buy' to something else is a placebo solution and time/energy shouldn't be wasted there.
arstechnica.com
Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy
Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 26/06/2026
Good stuff
schneier.com
AI and Liability - Schneier on Security
Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves,” and that they generally know “that information gen...
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 24/06/2026
lmao
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 24/06/2026
"On crache la nourriture A ces yeux affamés Vous voyez qu'ils demandent Nous les savons avides De notre pourriture Mieux que d'la confiture A des cochons" This song really aged well. Unfortunately. L'homme pressé, Noir Désir, 1996
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 24/06/2026
I'm so tired of half-broken websites from large companies.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 24/06/2026
Il faut battre le fer quand il est chaud...
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 19/06/2026
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Besoin et Fonction
A saying I remember from conversations with my uncle forty-odd years ago, and I’ve never found it in print, so take the wording as mine-via-his. Le besoin fait la fonction. L’absence de besoin défait ...
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 19/06/2026
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Esprit Critique
There are close English equivalents but they lack the elegance and weight of the French one in my opinion. “critical thinking” remains the closest culturally established term, even if the word …
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 19/06/2026
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Weak Arguments Only Count If Someone Tried
A bad argument for a claim is evidence against the claim. That sounds like a license to dismiss anything poorly argued, and it mostly isn’t — the inference only works when you had reason to expect a …
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 19/06/2026
(european here) Broadly agree with the thread but this is the operating condition: > *significant* electoral repudiation of *MAGA* I am unfortunately not very hopeful.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 19/06/2026
⬅︎
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 16/06/2026
Watching the sincere libertarians work through the fable situation, which has been building for a while. They're strung out along the same curve at different speeds, some pointed well before fable, some only arriving now.
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