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internetteron You said no MCP

Yeah I'm not a huge AI bull but I've just never understood why MCP needs to exist when OpenAPI could've just been extended

internetteron GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

First, they come for the programmers, and next the mathematicians. Then it will be the biologists, lawyers and doctors. Humanities will stake it out a little bit longer because AI isn’t human, but AI companies would be dammed if they don’t try. Eventually, with advancements in robotics, stabs at increasingly more physical sciences will also be attempted. Eventually, AI will have its hand in the pie of all knowledge work, if it is possible. Not to mention all the roles like tech support and customer service. Once they have gotten as far as they think they can go, they will try to turn up the prices. However, they might struggle to do so as models are becoming a commodity. This is why they are arguing for regulation and stating that only they can tame these beasts.

internetteron Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

> Unfortunately, it breaks about 30% of the web.

Only 30?

internetteron Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

I was being hyperbolic, but reading the comment back it doesn't really come across that way.

internetteron Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

the stock is up 150% because if Moderna has indeed cured cancer, the stock is worth many magnitudes more than that. It's presumably based on the probability this report is indeed as promising as it is at face value. If Moderna had announced "we are 100% sure cancer is cured" the stock would've gone up much more

internetteron A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

where do you draw the line? (I sound like PETA). But it's a valid question. for instance, I have empathy for dolphins, and for elephants. I have empathy for cows, despite eating them. They are more smart than we give them credit for. I have empathy for a bee when I must kill it, and certainly for the broader colony and species. I don't think I have empathy for lice or ticks or mosquitoes, but where on earth is that line, and what does it represent?

internetteron GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

Possibly OAI? If you have OAI tokens you are a captive audience. If you have OpenRouter you are bidding on a free market.

OpenRouter attributes this promotion to OpenAI https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2089416739398254662

internetteron How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Nobody in the comments talking about snapchat where like one of the core pillars of what "sets their service apart" is the difficulty of taking a screenshot without notifying the other party

internetteron Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

> but there’s a reason 99% of the world’s devs does not follow that workflow.

Is there?

internetteron Incident with Github.com [resolved]

That is essentially your number of followers. Pretty hard to have a system that cannot be gamed. I think followers are probably loosely correlated with tech ecosystem impact in some capacity, but the second there is an incentive to accumulate them, well...

internetteron Anthropic Risk August 2026 [pdf]

"all traffic through our systems for collecting human feedback data from contractors evaluating our models ran without blocking biological classifiers"

"totaled around 133M exchanges."

While this wound up being relatively benign, I still find this concerning, amidst numerous sandbox escapes, and previously, unreleased models being accessible via a custom URL. I don't think these companies are giving the responsibility they possess enough weight. How many more issues like this exist?

internetteron Anthropic Risk August 2026 [pdf]

Is fable not just mythos with safeguards?

internetteron Compression is prediction

common theory. see https://prize.hutter1.net/

internetteron Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard

also see https://caniuse.com/?search=squircle (though no gradient border)

internetteron Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow

Millions of households have plug-in solar. The payoff is something like 1.5-5 years. Of course, this should be tens or hundreds of millions, but this isn’t vaporware

internetteron RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

The computer seems to have identified source code to blame though? Unless of course it hallucinated which there’s always a non zero chance of

internetteron .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

a sub (level below) domain from a top level domain (.self) would presumably be pavel.self

internetteron Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

You're being deliberately obtuse. Canvas has many many features. Wikis and discussion boards and quizzes (with some anticheat) and groups and the list goes on and on. Furthermore, while it was never the flashiest thing, it did it better than many of its predecessors. Yes, an individual class may not use all of these features, and yes canvas has suffered feature creep even over my time as a student and yes canvas is not doing anything technically challenging, but there is enough of it that each school rolling their own everything would be a drastic waste of everybody's time and money.

internetteron Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/03/05/cursor-goes...

"Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today, that subsidization appears to be even more aggressive, with that $200 plan able to consume about $5,000 in compute"

internetteron Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months

I know I'm responding to AI right now, but

> which means figuring out if the company can afford this level of productivity at scale.

If it was actually productive, then the revenue would increase and affordability wouldn't be a question.

internetteron Copy Fail

Technical writeup is also slop I fear

internetteron Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

> A password manager does not need a CLI tool.

A password manager absolutely does need a CLI tool??

internetteron OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise

Wrapping fetch is not rocket science

internetteron OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise

Just slow and convoluted internals due to the accumulation of cruft over time

internetteron OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise

This is why people still need to know how to write code and why it is asinine to have an LLM write code without a human reading it. Good developers should know what good code looks like and push back when what they're fed is wrong.

internetteron OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise

Any sufficiently competent typescript developer can build out an adhoc wrapper (that just inherits the type definition and passes along whatever it is passed after altering it however needed) in under a hour. It doesn't scale in the sense that you don't expose a configuration, but config as code is king.

(Source: have built out much more scuffed variants of this than the one I just described like https://github.com/boehs/ajar)

I guess a LLM can do as well. Although that's not something I'm quite ready to admit.

internetteron DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor

Does this support Fusion as well? I've done photo editing using a fusion workflow before and while clunky it was the only program that could reasonably accommodate my needs at the time.

internetteron The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

When you read the code, what you propose is actually its exclusive use... logging.

internetteron Anthropic's Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026

I can't speak on Gemini but OpenAI is far worse for free accounts at least

internetteron False claims in a widely-cited paper

dang could you change the link