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Mercor
Company blog · mercor.com/blogaidata
Mercor is the company blog at mercor.com, writing about ai and data. Since 2024, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. 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
Linked as the homepage of Mercor, an AI talent and data company. The comments mention it as a company, including its founder's pitch and a privacy concern, rather than discussing any writing.
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.
Mercor is organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy. We are powering frontier research, AI benchmarks, and AI agent training at scale for the top AI labs and enterprises.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-30
What Hacker News says?
https://mercor.com/
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on “Claude 4 System Card”Submitted 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks as a story · 634 points
HN discussionThe intensely negative reaction to GPT-5 is a bit weird to me. It tops the charts in an elaborate new third-party evaluation of model performance at law/medicine, etc [0]. It's true that it was a bit of an incremental improvement to o3, but o3 was a huge leap in capabilities to GPT4, a completely worthy claimant to be the next generation of models. I will be the first person to say that AI models have not yet realiz…
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on “OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup”Submitted Update on Mercor Security Incident as a story · 3 points
HN discussion- cj · 2024-09-30
> Before things like this become widespread, can we get some etiquette (and legal awareness)? I was watching CNBC interview last week with the founder of https://mercor.com/ (backed by Benchmark, $250m valuation). The founder was pitching that their company would take every employee's employment and payroll history (even from prior roles) and use that to make AI recommendations to employers on things like compensati…
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on “Screenpipe: 24/7 local AI screen and mic recording” Submitted Human Baselines for Benchmarks: AI Now Outperforms Junior Accountants as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOh I wrote up a post on X on this exact question! https://x.com/danielhanchen/status/1979389893165060345?s=20 1. Cursor used online RL to get +28% approval rate: https://cursor.com/blog/tab-rl 2. Vercel used RFT for their AutoFix model for V0: https://vercel.com/blog/v0-composite-model-family 3. Perplexity's Sonar for Deep Research Reasoning I think was a finetuned model: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-star…
Comment linking /blog/expert-data-drives-model-performance/
on “Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation”Submitted TaskNet: A New Taxonomy of Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIs that not exactly what https://www.mercor.com/ does?
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on “LMArena is a cancer on AI”Submitted Mercor acquires Deeptune to build AI training environments as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Can't Read an Investor Deck as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apex-Agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apex: AI Productivity Index for investment banking, law, consulting, medical as a story · 1 points
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