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Maria Sukhareva
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Maria Sukhareva writes AI Realist, a personal blog at msukhareva.substack.com about ai. Since 2025, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for commentary on LLM capability and claims that Chinese models such as Kimi were distilled from US models. Only one comment, which cites the post while questioning how strong the distillation evidence was.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Honest, data-driven dialogue about AI.
What Hacker News says?
i knew about the compute already (he was very public about i believe huawei under delivering the amount of chips he requested), but nowhere in that transcript does he say he's dependent on US progress for his own progress or he's distilling the US to make progress i don't really think distilling is even that fundamental anymore (nor was the evidence ever that strong - https://msukhareva.substack.com/p/is-kimi-k3-rea…
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on “The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening”Submitted The E-Commerce Trap: How ChatGPT Tracks You as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAI is great. AI makes everyone very productive. AI will cure all the diseases. AI will transform our workday. Our God and Saviour - AGI - is about to arrive. That is the gospel that AI evangelists have been bringing to the working class for the past four years. Subscribe on : https://msukhareva.substack.com/subscribe ? The gospel is well received by C-level managers, board members and others. But mere mortals seem t…
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on “Employees Do Not Want Your AI”Submitted AI Realist Radar:GPT‑5.6 Sol Pricing, Stripe's OpenRouter Deal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor decades AI was an obscure field covering Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Bioinformatics and similar areas. People considered it a difficult research area with unclear value. When deep learning gained momentum, the field got even more complex - research papers filled with mathematical formulas, code that no one knows how to run, and constant CUDA errors when you try to train something. he output, th…
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on “ChatGPT-Taught Experts Are Crippling Agentic AI”Submitted How are you handling prompt injection across multi-step agent workflows? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTaissiya is 16 years old and a high school student. One day, her mother asked me whether she could do an internship at AI Realist - a mandatory part of her school curriculum. I always have things to do at AI Realist, and I loved the idea. I, Maria, see the new generation currently in school as people who will eventually be AI-native. They grew up with this technology the same way we grew up with the internet. And I…
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on a deleted threadSubmitted The Industry of Lies, or What Leaders Need to Know About AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did AI Misidentify the Minab School? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technical Explanations Why LLMs Use Em Dashes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT-Taught Experts Are Crippling Agentic AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The downfall of OpenAI and who will follow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How AI Kills at Scale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five LLMs Tried to Build a Website. ChatGPT Failed as a story · 1 points
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