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FutureSearch
Company blog · futuresearch.ai/blog · on HN as ddp26aidata
FutureSearch is the company blog at futuresearch.ai, writing about ai and data. Since 2024, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “LiteLLM PyPI has been compromised an hour ago, do not update”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link FutureSearch's blog for its write-ups on the LiteLLM PyPI supply-chain compromises, plus its analyses of OpenAI Deep Research failures and OpenAI revenue.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
AI forecasting with a public track record. Ask what will happen, or about an upcoming decision. Research trusted by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI.
Most-linked posts?
- LiteLLM PyPI has been compromised an hour ago, do not update4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-03-24
- Estimated OpenAI Revenue Breakdown3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-11
- Futuresearch.ai: AI forecaster for geopolitical risk professionals2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-20
- Unit Economics of LLM APIs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-27
- OpenAI Deep Research – Six Strange Failures2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-19
What Hacker News says?
This is the second significant exploit against LiteLLM in what, a year or two ? Just last night I came across notes and a script from an older claude session to help audit all project dependencies and verify nothing used litellm. Okay, checked, it was March of this year: https://futuresearch.ai/blog/litellm-pypi-supply-chain-attac... . What even is time anymore in the llm age?
Comment linking /blog/litellm-pypi-supply-chain-attack/
on “Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor”Submitted The Karpathy Interview, 6 Months After AI 2027 as a story · 38 points
HN discussionFutureSearch ( https://futuresearch.ai ) | Full Remote | Full-Stack Eng / Research Eng / Research Scientist FutureSearch gives unbiased, deeply-researched answers to hard questions about the world, and always gives a concrete answer. Businesses need much better answers than ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc. can currently give. My cofounder and I are the former CTO and Head of AI at Metaculus, and our edge comes from impleme…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)”Submitted How long until AI automates all cognitive labor? as a story · 31 points
HN discussionmeanwhile: OpenAI Deep Research - Six Strange Failures: < https://futuresearch.ai/oaidr-feb-2025 >
Comment linking /oaidr-feb-2025
on “Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist”Submitted Apple's plan to power Siri with ChatGPT was a predictable failure as a story · 15 points
HN discussion> So, what exactly has generative AI actually done? Where are the products? The product is ChatGPT, actually. If LLMs are a bubble, then you should expect most of OpenAI's revenue to come from its API (which is used by startups which have raised money to do "magic AI stuff", and the bubble would pop when investors would stop giving the money). But according to https://futuresearch.ai/openai-revenue-report , revenue…
Comment linking /openai-revenue-report
on “The Generative AI Con”Submitted LiteLLM PyPI has been compromised an hour ago, do not update as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI analyzed OpenAI API profitability in summer 2024 and found inference for gpt-4 class models likely pretty profitable, ~50% gross margins (ignoring capex for training models): https://futuresearch.ai/openai-api-profit
Comment linking /openai-api-profit
on “LLMs are cheap”Submitted Show HN: FutureSearch, AI forecasting you can verify as a story · 11 points
HN discussionFutureSearch | Software Engineer, Research Engineer, Research Scientist | Full Remote (global) | Full-time FutureSearch ( https://futuresearch.ai ) is a seed-stage startup building AI systems that reason about the future reliably. We're an elite 7 person team, who all worked together prior to FutureSearch. My co-founder is the former Head of AI at Metaculus, and I'm the former CTO of Metaculus & creator of Google's…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)”Submitted How AI Finds Fuzzy Duplicates in Large Datasets as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThat's very kind of you to ask. My personal blog is defunct (for now!). But some of my recent writings can be found on the research page [1] of my startup, FutureSearch. We're building an AI that can forecast accurately. We've written some pieces on topics like the problems with using crowds to forecast, and contesting recent papers' claims of good forecasts coming from simple LLMs. [1] https://futuresearch.ai/repor…
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on “The death and life of prediction markets at Google”Submitted LLM Agents Solve the Table Merging Problem as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI linked elsewhere in a comment, Metaculus has AGI forecasts. You can also now use AI forecasters like FutureSearch [1] (disclaimer: I work there), which are competitive with the best humans / teams of humans. And since you aren't depending on a human crowd, you can ask any variation of AGI questions with any definition, even ask conditional questions. [1] https://futuresearch.ai/app
Comment linking /app
on “How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?”Submitted Estimating the market value of top AI researchers as a story · 9 points
HN discussionMore details here: https://futuresearch.ai/blog/litellm-pypi-supply-chain-attac...
Comment linking /blog/litellm-pypi-supply-chain-attack/
on “LiteLLM Python package compromised by supply-chain attack”Submitted How Predictable Are the Oscars? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI am from futuresearch and went through this with Callum (the OG). We did a small analysis here: https://futuresearch.ai/blog/litellm-hack-were-you-one-of-th... of the packages and also build this mini tool to analyze the likelihood of you getting pwned through this: https://futuresearch.ai/tools/litellm-checker/
Comment linking /tools/litellm-checker/
on “Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised”Submitted OpenAI Deep Research – Six Strange Failures as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThere is actually a real bull case for xAI (that I don't endorse), e.g. from people who think that chips & computer is the main determiner of model quality. xAI may plausibly soon have the biggest training apparatus of anyone. I think talent is more important than compute, as I wrote in my Jan 2026 predictions that Anthropic would end up on top this year: https://futuresearch.ai/blog/forecasting-top-ai-lab-2026/
Comment linking /blog/forecasting-top-ai-lab-2026/
on “A $1.75T IPO Would Be Overpaying 30% for SpaceX”Submitted Agents Sometimes Catastrophize as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Higher effort reduces deep research accuracy for Gemini Flash 3 and GPT-5 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude can miss the motives of politicians as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some rare examples of AIs being underconfident as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Run Agents Twice as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ask LLM Agents to Classify Problems Before Starting as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supply Chain Attack in litellm 1.82.8 on PyPI as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI takes people at their word as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack as a story · 4 points
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