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Neuralink's Newest Brain Chip [video] (youtube.com)
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One of Black Mirror's episode kind of thing
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People are scared but it can do lots of good if it's used for the people that really need it
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It will be great when it's used to help the severely disabled. Not so great when we're all forced to use it and have advertising beamed into our dreams.
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Incredible and horrifying at the same time
China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48 (labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org)
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slightly ot, but this seems like a good place to ask, since I don't think I have the strategic-business mind to understand it all myself: What's the play here with China having supported publishing open weight models this far? I know the official line is for the good of mankind and all that, but presumably it's more strategic than that. Soft power? Commoditise your competition?
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These rules are not new, right? They appear to match the previous guidance (restrictions on top-10 models, exemption for open-source collaboration)
https://www.mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/xwfyrth/art/2026/art_d7661dbf62794345a221404f82a25959.html "Second, we encourage open source, open collaboration, and resource sharing. The Chinese government is committed to making artificial intelligence a significant driving force for promoting common prosperity and safeguarding common security. To support the construction of an open source innovation ecosystem for artificial intelligence, convenient measures such as automatic licensing will be applied to technology exports involving open source AI technologies, Chinese companies building and operating their own computing centers overseas, conducting chip fabrication overseas, utilizing overseas resources for joint research and development, and participating in the formulation of international standards, basically achieving "immediate reporting and export." Technologies that have already entered the public domain through open source or published academic papers will not be included in the export management scope, creating a favorable environment for international exchange and cooperation in artificial intelligence technology." their official stance suggests they remain in support of open-weights
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What governments do is, generally, much more important than what they say. And what they're doing here is moving in the direction of restriction
I understand why China wants to restrict exports of their models. But I feel the only reason Chinese models have been able to gain such popularity is BECAUSE they are open source. I wouldn’t trust models from China enough to use them in important work unless they were open. Restricting any powerful Chinese model [that ranks in the global top 10] is going to make them very difficult to advocate for, and very hard for global users to adopt. Feels like this could be the beginning of the end of the democratisation of powerful AI. And yes, I appreciate the irony that Chinese models have been the ones enabling that democratisation!
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Why do they care about global usage though? This seems primarily so that they can control it for their billion plus population, they really don't need global users at all, much to our chagrin.
Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN (wikihack.netlify.app)
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Pls somebody make hackertwitter save us from Elon
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Let's raise the bar. Create HackerDump - it's like HackerNews but only shows the articles you read in the toilet...
There's so many dead domains though.
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I mean, Im probably never going to bookmark a netlify url. A domain cost $3.00. If someone doesnt care enough to invest $3.00 in their project I'm not going to use it. On more than one occasion a friend has sent me a netlify link asking for my opinion on a business or product and Ive replied that its a throwaway project.
Coming soon: HackerHackerTube, my website that recommends HackerTube variants posted on HN!
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Waiting for HackerMusic and HackerGames...
Yeah influence has always had a huge effect but nowadays it feels like it starts to be the only thing that has an effect, as all these curiosity projects are low effort.
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Mmmm Karpathy slop
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