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rdon Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

I'm just wondering why they sold compute to Anthropic if they were planning on still competing in this race?

rdon Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

i’ll never really understand this comment. why would labs do this if they know private benchmark evals will come out in the next week?

rdon Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k

Peter Santenello does a great job of this.

rdon Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI

Give it a rest, you've gotten the point across.

rdon Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing

I wonder if I could start a US-based company with good data regulation and just serve open-weight models at a competitive price. I feel like the real barrier is just that most companies willing to adopt AI usage enough to make it worth it at this point don't want to be using inferior models.

rdon The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

You've gotta leverage your network and find friends you know who work at Meta/IG. I was able to get my account back without asking friends at IG (because mine wasn't fully disabled just password changed), but people I know who lost their accounts have had to ask multiple people very up the chain at IG to do some special restoration.

rdon The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

I don’t use this account as a personal account. It has 0 followers. It’s solely used for design inspiration.

rdon The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

This happened to my instagram yesterday night while I was asleep. I don't have a particularly high value username (it's probably worth somewhere in between $300-500), but still incredibly frustrating to deal with. True to the article, I had already enabled 2FA last night and it didn't matter.

Thankfully, IG gave me the option of restoring my username when I logged back into my account today.

rdon GPT-5.5

should be more f’s and da’s in there

rdon Open Source Isn't Dead

I don't follow. It seems obvious that there's more to gain for attackers using AI agents to exploit open source repositories, than there is for good samaritan defenders. In this new closed-source world (for Cal.com), there's nothing stopping them from running their own internal security agent audits, all whilst at least blocking the easiest method of finding zero-days - that is, being open source.

This really just seems like Strix marketing. Which is totally fair, but let's be reasonable here, any open-source business stands to lose way more by continuing to be open-source vs. relying on the benevolence of people scanning their code for them.

rdon Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids

Submarine marketing?

rdon Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'

A combination of https://selfcontrolapp.com/ and Hammerspoon automation and you can lock yourself out of pretty much everything.

rdon Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)

It would be easier if we could just block comments from green users. I get that it loses ~.1% of authors who might have made an account to comment on a blogpost of theirs that was posted here. I'd rather have that loss than have to deal with the 99.9% of spam.

rdon US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says

This can't be a to-die-on rule though. Retail would've never bought GOOG, or TSLA, or AAPL if that were the case. Maybe I'm just being pedantic.

rdon GPT-5.4

Noticeably yes much more than usual. It’s quite bad. I need to start blocking accounts.

rdon I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services

Is there any hard evidence that this is true compared to say 20 years ago. I’ve heard it repeated a million times but no one’s ever provided evidence

rdon Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor

Who do you think your target customer is? Curious to know if you think the money is in short form, traditional YouTube videos, or even movie studios one day.

Great website btw. The onboarding was very pleasing

rdon New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes

what qualifies as old?

rdon The Misuses of the University

This is true! I hadn't thought about it like this to be totally honest. It's hard to point fingers at old institutions, especially given they're mostly located in prime real estate locations across the country (Cambridge, Palo Alto, etc.), and it's not really their fault that they need land to operate.

rdon The Misuses of the University

I recently graduated (class of '25), and the thing I heard most often about my school's management was that over the past couple of decades, they more closely resembled a real estate holding company than a research university.

There's a great student op-ed about _a_ proposed solution (firing the deans): https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/29/anderson-burea...

rdon OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine

Just check comment history, each comment follows the exact same structure

rdon OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine

The amount of green accounts that are obvious LLM spam has increased what seems to be 10x in the past couple of months. What's going on?

rdon MinIO repository is no longer maintained

rdon How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code

Anyone who disagrees with this, please check the OP's previous comments. That's all the proof you need.

And then, as an exercise, ask yourself why you were willing to give this comment leniency?

rdon Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?

I don't know why more school districts don't force this for essays. It's so straightforward with Google doc editing history too. And yeah, sure, you can get around it if you _really_ want quite trivially, but I imagine it would solve for 99% of students, and force them to actually engage with whatever AI-generated stuff they inevitably type by hand more than they were before.

rdon Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?

I've always wished there was a "block comments from this user" feature that didn't rely on vibe-coding my own Chrome extension (and thus not work on Safari where I spent at least 50% of my HN time). I imagine it could even work like Sponsorblock does, and we could crowdsource people who's comments are inflammatory.

I've also noticed that very obviously LLM-generated comments are called out, and the community tends to agree, but those that have any plausible deniability are given far too much leniency, and people will over-index on the guidelines to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I don't think a captcha is the solution, as it'll degrade conversation by an OOM though.

rdon Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing

Go Hoos good work Wadehra

rdon Sora 2

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sora-by-openai/id6744034028

App link

edit: CBN80W for an invite code

rdon Show HN: Family Chess: Play across firewalls and Internet cultures

This is awesome! Very smooth. I love when people build things to solve their own problems. Hope your son and grandfather enjoy the games :)

rdon The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review

you could probably write an extension to accomplish this in a couple of days with GPT-5 now