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super256··on Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models
It's a "problem" of compute, I think. If you query without an account on ChatGPT you will see the model look up less stuff and research less, than when you have a paid account and choose "medium" or "high" in the effort slider.

Which makes sense, because of you have looked into search and crawlers you notice that search is actual quite expensive (which is why e.g. Kagi charges a few bucks for search every month).

super256··on Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
I do have Version 10.10.0 since today and it also started crashing on open. Guess I'll have to downgrade to an older version for the time being.
super256··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Maybe hidemyemail allows easily creating many accounts on a site. And some big site didn't like it.

The "Sign-up via Apple" button and creating an iCloud email yourself have a slightly higher barrier than creating a new throwaway hidemyemail email (1 API call w/o captcha/phone verification or whatever).

We might find out later this year if some site starts blocking @icloud.com but keeps allowing @private.icloud.com.

super256··on Every Model Cheats
>Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 system card described Cybench as “saturated,” reporting near-100% pass rates without a cheating audit. If these estimates were representative, cheating would be a marginal artifact.

One would assume that LLM creators do run the benchmarks on systems with least privileges. Which means that the LLMs don't have general internet access, can't read config files etc by design. That's why you also should run agents in a sandbox/vm (codex does this by default).

super256··on Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking
It was a joke :)
super256··on Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking
I tried looking you up but were unable to find your profile site.
super256··on Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview
It's built on OWL, which is their own Chromium integration. It's not electron.

Seems pretty solid for Mac, but idk about Windows and Linux.

https://openai.com/index/building-chatgpt-atlas/

super256··on Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
Crawling the internet and dumping it to disk is not "stealing".
super256··on ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
Haven't they been doing this for a long time already? I remember trying to copy Hunter S. Thompson's style many moons ago and getting a refusal.
super256··on Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped
I don't know! I recently tried to download all posts by Matt Levine for a funny analysis, but GPT wouldn't let me do it.
super256··on Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped
If only GPT wouldn't refuse my requests to write a crawler for $site. :(
super256··on Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program
tbh hackerone should just implement a +/- reputation points feature on researcher profiles. Like, the researcher submits a slop report to GitHub via H1, GitHub looks at it and identifies it as slop, GitHub presses the -rep button on reaearcher profile which bans them from submitting to GitHub on H1 again and makes their rep points minus 1. Companies should be able to configure you need at least 10 rep points to receive payouts. Only specific (by H1 chosen) companies can +/- rep.

So, researchers first need to collect some positive rep. But the rep points are global, so once you have fixed a few bugs for Google, you've gotten enough +rep that you can also receive stuff at GitHub.

Oh, and ID check when signing up at H1.

Long term all beg bounty submitters would be banned for pretty much all of tech.

super256··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
Fun fact: They deliberately chose to host in the EU because they were concerned that malicious actors could abuse the DMCA by filing fraudulent copyright claims to take down legitimate software repositories.

I guess software that doesn't fit their world view is illegitimate now.

Here is a talk from one of their presidium members about GitHub DMCA takedowns: https://vimeo.com/246282607?fl=pl&fe=sh

super256··on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
You will be very happy once OpenAI serves GPT-5.6-Sol on Cerebus at 750 token/s.
super256··on Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID
I can recommend the LibRedirect extension for doing this automatically: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

(I don't use it for Twitter, because I find the 5s xcancel redirect more annoying than logging into Twitter. But I use it for Imgur and Tiktok, as Imgur straight up denies serving many VPN IPs, and Tiktok serves a really annoying captcha.)

super256··on ChatGPT Work
The old ChatGPT is now ChatGPT Classic. Codex is now ChatGPT.

There is a funny interaction in the Microsoft store, where ChatGPT turns into Codex when you click on it: https://f003.backblazeb2.com/file/sharexxx/ShareX/2026/07/Ap...

(Also GG @ MSFT for opening a nag about Windows Hello twice while I wanted to stop the recording.)

super256··on GPT-5.6
On the tiny voids demo: does your Firefox js thread lock up as well, when you try to interact with it?

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/#a-leap-forward-in-design

super256··on How to sequence your own DNA at home
I used myheritage and simply exported all my data and then requested an account closure and data deletion.

The main factor for using myheritage was that they have this cheap 30€ offering at the moment.

super256··on Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID
Related thread by some Massgrave.dev devs explaining some GDID mechanisms:

https://x.com/massgravel/status/2074304593303892354

super256··on Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things
I'm bootstrapping my own company, and I live off savings, so the answer is no. I don't have a salary at all.
super256··on Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things
200 years ago 75% of the population in western Europe were farmers. 100 years ago 41% were farmers. 10 years ago 1-3% were farmers.

We are looking forward to bring the same productivity gains to logistics and manufacturing (look at the advancements done in the last few decades!).

Why not bring this to white collar work too? I get so much more shit done today than I did a few years ago. It's a great time to be alive!

super256··on Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC
The non profit is a big shareholder of the commercial subsidiary
super256··on EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products
Not a breakdown, but this comment reminded me of a recent play sand test by Stiftung Warentest:

They tested play sand for asbestos, and four of these positive tested play sands were ordered on Temu. The play sand is for kids!

https://www.test.de/Deko-Spiel-und-Bastelsand-Asbest-Alarm-i...

super256··on Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”
Just force 3d secure, as it shifts the liability to the customer's bank. Most people don't mind opening their banking app on the phone for confirming the transaction if they really want the product for itseprice.
super256··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
Maybe we should ban the stock market too.

In 2017 someone tried to bomb the bus of the BVB soccer club, after he bought puts options on the BVB stock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borussia_Dortmund_team_bus_bom...

super256··on Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
Oh hell, no. Does anyone remember Sandboxescaper/Polarbear? Very skilled researcher, but also crashouts and mental problems.

Had a job at MSFT once, but is now struggling to earn money at all and is posting heart breaking stuff on Twitter. https://x.com/WeirdQuadratic

Hope she finds a way out and a more stable and fun job in the future.

super256··on Omnisearch – A lightweight metasearch engine written in C
A meta search engine queries other search engines and aggregates the results. See searx or dogpile.com.
super256··on Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
With which workspace solution did they end up with?
super256··on YC's Biggest Scandals
http://30u30.fyi

http://termsofservice.fyi

http://ycombinator.fyi

All their sites are similar slop.

super256··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
In space you get bit flips fairly quickly when using very small transistors. You would have to run stuff on fairly old hardware, which probably makes the whole thing economically inefficient for serious "computation in space".
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