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Cost per kill ("CPK" in industry lingo) is a dark phrase that feels disturbingly within reach of some of these companies.



Yeah it's sort of alarming when you think about hooking up models to take action in the real world and telling them it's just a game. Several scifi stories have it as a plot twist that humans think they are playing a game but are killing actual people. I'm not sure if the same twist shows up for AIs but it seems like an increasingly real possibility.


You’re anthropomorphising.

Actual AI is like the Terminator. There’s no human feeling, it will do what it’s designed to do. No emotion, no remorse.

Cue the swarming drones… :/


the target just may be on the scale of kills per cost.


https://50centadjustedforinflation.com/

50 Cent is up 1 cent to 113 Cent.


Thank you for sharing your story! I wish you continued success and I also hope that one day someone will share with you about how YOUR story helped them do something similar, just like the article did for you.

Also, Preston Thorpe (who Gavin mentions as inspiration) has an interesting story as well: https://pthorpe92.dev/intro/my-story/


Also recommend folks check out Unlocked Labs, who run a prison program for this sort of thing. Jessica is an angel:

https://unlockedlabs.org/


Thank you for the link, and for sharing your story.


Thank you for that link. I recommend reading to the very last line.


How nice is that!


Not to go off topic, but there's some similarities between that and the way that Hacker News is run/moderated. But I believe they've found a pretty ideal balance. Even though they occasionally annoy me with with fun things taken down, I understand the need to have some consistency.

Perhaps they need to take a page out of dang (and team)'s book.


comment of the year award


Gemini 3.5 Flash's 2000 token clocks aren't bad. https://clocks.brianmoore.com/


From looking at all of them, it actually seems to be the best one, followed by Deepseek 3.1. And something went wrong with GPT-5's.


Fascinating, kimi k2 has good clock too from my limited time being on the site.


as does qwen3.5


Really putting the "fun" in "Neal.fun." Yet another amazing work by Neal Agarwal.


I've been attempting to buy a cross section of one of these cables for a very long time. Anybody got a lead on one?


Have someone with a .edu email address to email a company that makes them.


A bunch of ridiculous experiments with QR.

https://brianmoore.com/qrapps


hi, creator of the site here.

A LONG time ago, I was shared on a document with a brand font and was surprised to see it was a custom one. With a bit of testing, I realized I could pull it into a new document and that new document would then become "infested" with that font and allow me to use it anywhere else within.

I recently realized there must be even more fonts that exist that I don't know of, so (transparently, with the help of Claude,) I ran through a list of potential clients (some listed on Google Workspace's site, some I just assumed) and tested across many. This is the list I came back with.


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