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Thomas Dullien
Personal blog · thomasdullien.github.io/postssecurityai
Thomas Dullien's personal blog at thomasdullien.github.io covers security and ai. Since 2026, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “RL economics, morally charged terms, and "distillation"”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Thomas Dullien's post on LLM distillation and the economics of training on other models' outputs, citing it in arguments about whether that counts as stealing. The comments cite it without judging it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- RL economics, morally charged terms, and "distillation"4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-07-19
- Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-06-23
- AI: An Age of Experimentation [pdf]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-17
What Hacker News says?
Maybe, but that's sort of begging the question that those open weight models aren't significantly trained using "distillation"[0] [0] not technically distillation. https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-06-15-rl-economic...
Comment linking /posts/2026-06-15-rl-economics-morally-charged-terms-and-distillation/
on “Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1”Submitted AI: An Age of Experimentation [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"Stealing" something you already paid for (tokens), but that you can't have access to(!). And trained on the sum of human knowledge. Training on other model outputs ought to be business as usual, stop using morally charged terms made up by future monopolists: https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-06-15-rl-economic...
Comment linking /posts/2026-06-15-rl-economics-morally-charged-terms-and-distillation/
on “Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs”Submitted RL economics, morally charged terms, and "distillation" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three important steps in my maturation process as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Age of Experimentation [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RL economics, morally charged terms, and "distillation" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship as a story · 1 points
HN discussion