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gorgmah··on OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others
So there is a real solution to that problem! Thanks a lot for sharing it
gorgmah··on OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others
Good point, sadly ios only, I'm on android: https://ente.com/help/auth/migration/authy/ Or do you mean it also works on android but not documented?
gorgmah··on OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others
I think they allow importing from Authy but only on rooted phones. I missed the train to move away from Authy in 2024 and now the only non-root option is to regenerate the seed from every provider one by one. As other commenters said, rooting my main phone would lock me out of banking apps. I suppose I could find an old phone, sync from authy cloud, root it, and then migrate, but then generating new seeds is probably both safer and faster at that point.
gorgmah··on OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others
Thanks for the summary. I agree with you about 2FA, but it's still annoying, I was hoping I would find a lazier solution.
gorgmah··on OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others
Slightly unrelated: is it relatively safe to root android phones nowadays or should I stick to the unrooted standard android? The reason I'm asking is that I'm stuck with authy as a MFA code app, and would like to move to something that has both desktop and phone support, and my conclusion is I'd need to root my phone to get access to the actual MFA seeds (they don't allow exports to keep you stuck in their app).
gorgmah··on Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
I was also thinking that this is almost too good to be true
gorgmah··on GPT-6 Astra
Yeah, apparently
gorgmah··on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
You made me irrationally laugh reading this
gorgmah··on How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
It's partly true: this only applies to consumer cards. That's why many EU banks still offer corporate credit cards with huge cashback etc. For example, revolut offers no cashback in France on their metal cards if you have a consumer account, but up to 1% cashback on the same card if you have a "freelance" account. https://www.revolut.com/fr-FR/metal/

Second thing: interchange fees are not the only fees that your typical store has to pay, the total fees are much higher. I think the EU essentially capped Visa/Mastercard profit in the EU, more than they capped small business fees for card payment.

gorgmah··on Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders
For those who had access, how does it compare IRL with GLM 5.3 ? iirc both models are similar in terms of benchmarks ?
gorgmah··on Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
> Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

I know is editorialized, but a more accurate title to this content would be either :

Models Are Getting Ignorant on Purpose

or

Models Are Getting Less Knowledgeable on Purpose

gorgmah··on Sam Altman says we are in the singularity
We are already seeing math problems being solved by AI on a weekly basis now. Maybe at some point a breakthrough in math will cause a breakthrough in physics?

It makes me wonder if the model is the limit here or if it's the harness: e.g. give GPT 5.6 or Fable a team of 20 people that can easily interact with the real world and let it do whatever in order to "make a breakthrough" in physics; do you think it would manage to?

gorgmah··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
good find! This sounds a bit like what Meta was doing with the earlier Llama models?

There is also this paragraph in their licence that is smart marketing-wise:

> 3. If the Software (or any derivative works thereof) is used for any of the Licensee's commercial products or services that have more than 100 million monthly active users, or more than 20 million US dollars (or equivalent in other currencies) in monthly revenue, "Kimi K3" must be prominently displayed on the user interface of such product or service.

gorgmah··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
Yes it's true that it's not super clear whether these prices are permanent or short term promotions. On the other hand, there are so many providers making promotional offerings that you could probably easily switch from one to another should their prices go up?
gorgmah··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
We already know that competition brought GLM 5.2 prices down roughly 45% since its release on June 16th (1.5 months ago), and the price downward slope is probably still going (I've been checking regularly and new providers keep fighting on price, I don't think prices have settled yet). For reference : https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2#providers

I saw arguments like "Providers cannot price less than their costs" in other comments. In economics, it's generally admitted that they shouldn't price less than their marginal costs, i.e. in their case roughly the cost of electricity, since a lot of these datacenters are not at capacity in terms of graphics cards usage (speculation since it's very easy to rent a GC for a couple hours on some providers). My guess is that someone will be selling tokens at less than electricity + depreciation of GCs soon, since there's a lot of competition and "smaller" data centers have overcapacity? This is speculation, correct me if I'm wrong

gorgmah··on GPT-5.6
I have it in france, update all you apps etc.
gorgmah··on GPT-5.6
Yes had the same experience, Sol consumes limits quite fast
gorgmah··on GPT-5.6
I use it for basic web stuff so haven't pushed it to the limit, but they have tons of stuff you can configure (up to self-hosting your environments): https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/environme...
gorgmah··on Fable July 12th disclaimer disappears from Claude Code
I don't see it on the web version either, did you try a hard refresh ?
gorgmah··on GPT-5.6
I live in fear lol.

More seriously, I was blindly trusting the auto-classifier from claude code (same as the middle option when you do `/permissions` in codex), and it actually allowed the agent to do pretty hardcore `rm` and `git push --force-with-lease` commands, which I would have expected to have to approve manually. Luckily no major issue from those yet.

The best option imo is the integrated cloud environments from claude code (not sure yet if there's a codex equivalent). It spawns a VM in the cloud where the agent runs, and you can open a PR from the app when it's done. Very smooth experience

gorgmah··on GPT-5.6
thanks, it makes sense, I'll stick to max from now on
gorgmah··on GPT-5.6
Anyone else noticed the "Extended: Fable 5 is included in your weekly limit through July 12 blablabla" disappeared from claude code? Did they panic-delete the july 12th deadline ?
gorgmah··on GPT-5.6
this is so cool: it's playable (even though super boring since there are no enemies) and you can feel that a few iterations would make it very usable.

Which model is the best at the moment, for this kind of stuff, in your experience?

gorgmah··on GPT-5.6
Just used terra ultra for exactly one prompt in codex and it ate through my full 5h window in about 10mns (20$ plan). The results look pretty good though. Luckily I have had my chatGPT subscription for a while and have a bunch of resets available (nice compared to anthropic).

Assuming I take the 5x plan it would give me about an hour of active sessions with terra ultra (maybe ultra is not good value regarding tokens?), not even using Sol yet. Does everyone using codex use the 200$ plan?

I normally use the 100$ anthropic plan and barely ever reach the usage limit.

gorgmah··on We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
Now I'm wondering if the 84% probability of GPT-5.6 release on polymarket on july 9th is about to drop substantially (in order to release while fable is at extra cost, like everyone seems to anticipate)? If they miss thursday release, does it mean they'll release Sol on next tuesday?
gorgmah··on Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API
I worked recently on an internal tool to achieve this kind of things, mostly plugging mistral OCR to gemini to extract structured data from documents. We then perform automated diffs too.

There seems to be an insane amount of competition in the "Intelligent Document Processing" market, like for instance parseur, whose founder is often on HN himself.

What do you think sets you apart from competition like : 1) Mistral document AI : depending on the model, it looks way cheaper than yours, OCR model pricing ranges from 0.001 to 0.004 EUR / page and they have structured output wired in the OCR API if needed (things then get fed to one of their LLMs) + EU-based and GDPR ready 2) parseur / rossum / docsumo / nanonets (which is YC 2017) ?

gorgmah··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Same for me in France, I'm guessing it depends on a claude-code update that will happen during US office hours
gorgmah··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
I'm hoping openai releases 5.6 Sol in the meantime (and doesn't make it an addon like anthropic did) so we can leave for codex and have a ~Fable-level model to use
gorgmah··on The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now [Benn Jordan][video]
I like the word leveragism, in France people talk a lot about "financiarisation de l'immobilier", i.e. how real estate was a commodities in the 70s and is now a financial asset.

The video made me think of Peter Turchin's "End Times", a book that I recommend, for whatever it's worth, to you anonymous internet fellows. The book talks about many of the same arguments, and adds more. Its main thesis is that the author studied hundreds of major crises that led to war/poverty/revolutions etc., and the one thing all these events have in common is the excess of people that are willing to be part of the elite. He calls that the overproduction of elites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction.

gorgmah··on .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
yes and it's not even on the front page yet lol
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