Hacker News: 0x_rs

New comment by 0x_rs in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

0x_rs — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:56:27 +0000

People are getting real EU fatigue from both sides of the spectrum. The attacks on privacy are the most concerning, the members of the high level group pushing for ChatControl and other surveillance state measures are still anonymous, while the Commissioner's Pfizer chats are still nowhere to be found--not that they would be subjected to the same surveillance as the little people. The needs of those bureaucrats sitting in their glass windowed buildings--with AC still running on their tallest floors where the commission staff works, while shut down on the lower ones--clearly do not match what the average person wants or expects. How much can they push it further? They're only adding fuel to the fire that will replace them with something just as bad, if not worse. It's hard not to be skeptical considering the exceptional level of lobbying steering regulations. The latest is the utterly idiotic, anti-consumer de minimis threshold changes, with an incomprehensible "per category" fee on every purchase outside the EU, lobbied for by EuroCommerce, killing entire hobbyist fields (e.g. anything to do with electronics) in the continent.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News"

0x_rs — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:07:24 +0000

>LLMs hallucinate. It's an unfixable problem.

It's not, and the problem is Google shoving those summaries in everyone's face while using the cheapest, lowest model for it. If they cannot scale one that would produce more accurate results, they should not be doing it at all. The product is not ready, and it's a terrible look for them, not that anyone seriously believes they can produce any kind of decent LLM model at this time of course.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best"

0x_rs — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:21:23 +0000

The internet, as it was before the one-way ratchet started to close, feels more and more like a lightning in a bottle that nobody in power wants repeating ever again. Everything in the past couple years has been going towards the centralization into a small number of services, walled wastelands that require you forfeit any kind of anonymity to even browse, tightly coupled to the countries they operate in, and especially for tech corpos, practically an extension of surveillance agencies through PRISMesque programs.

Soon enough (and already the case, if you're one of the unlucky ones) you won't even be able to browse it without explicitly allowing Google to track you on every single website you try to access through your Google-approved, constantly monitored handheld device, linked directly to your identity.

Commercial VPNs are not a solution, they're merely kicking the can down the road, and shrinking the number of people that will complain once they will, finally, come for them too, first by requiring strict accountability to providers and age verification, then outright banning any that do not comply.

New comment by 0x_rs in "What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?"

0x_rs — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:15:27 +0000

NFTbro discovers expectancy effect. This has nothing to do with art or social experiments, so much so it's actually insulting to one's intelligence.

New comment by 0x_rs in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

0x_rs — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:20:02 +0000

>Thanks for the report! This was an overactive anti-abuse system. Fixed.

This is the most interesting line to me. "Anti-abuse system"? I would bet the system is far from being just a conditional on a specific filename. In other words, this supposed anti-abuse system might be far more pervasive without the user's knowledge. And perhaps even more importantly, who thought upcharging instead of blocking is the correct approach to dealing with this alleged "abuse"? Is this some anti-distillation feature they let Claude itself write looking at past distillation attempts producing similar artifacts or what?

New comment by 0x_rs in "You have to have an account to read IMDB reviews now"

0x_rs — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:43:59 +0000

You need an account to do anything nowadays. And to have an account on more and more platforms you must verify it with your age providing your face picture and/or ID. LLMs and their consequences accelerated but did not start this trend, and it's only going to get worse. Account fatigue, what must be a real phenomenon at this point, will also incentivize Google Sign-In and worse further impacting privacy and freedom. I don't see how it can get better from here.

New comment by 0x_rs in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

0x_rs — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:43:48 +0000

I don't like how the question is setup, both in wording and scenario. Saying "everyone will die unless >50% press blue" sounds more impactful. And pressing red is a free win in this scenario making it a nonchoice. Threshold not being announced or red having some condition would make it more interesting (and at the same time, boring).. unless the point of the question is not to make people discuss blue vs red, but why you should make an irrational decision.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

0x_rs — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:17:22 +0000

>To celebrate 3 million weekly codex users, we are resetting usage limits.

>We will do this every million users up to 10 million.

>Happy building!

https://x.com/sama/status/2041658719839383945

Last reset today, after the 4 million users milestone.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

0x_rs — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:32:08 +0000

Feels to me it's a battle between who has the most compute. OpenAI does not seem to be struggling with their x2 usage on the new 100 Plan, which is very close to unlimited usage with the best performing model on the highest reasoning setting. Not mentioning the resets every 1 million customers, or the other generous usage multipliers last months. Meanwhile Anthropic seems to be desperately trying to cut down on inference with their changes to reasoning effort and more lately, so they might be focusing on what they consider to be more valuable customers for their long-term strategy. The 20 plan with Opus had gotten so bad on CC they might've just pulled the plug to stop people from complaining about usage limits. If OpenAI can burn money longer and capture the market from the bottom, I think they'd win in the long run.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

0x_rs — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:20:01 +0000

If true, very strange change when Codex (at both 20 & 100) is a much, much better deal for a model much better at most coding tasks, with way more usage even with the /fast mode enabled. Is losing most non-enterprise customers the right move for them?

New comment by 0x_rs in "Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware"

0x_rs — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:51:35 +0000

Some projects or tasks might become impossible to do any debugging or work on in the future, because every bug is potentially exploitable with security implications or can be twisted into something against guidelines. And they're so popular, and any bugs in them so sought for, there's a massive negative signal associated with them. LLM cannot truly infer intent from the user, an innocent request is indistinguishable from a carefully crafted scenario from bad actors, so I would never trust anyone claiming those ambiguities can be solved in their product.

If some LLMs become too strict, they'll simply be impossible to reliably use, and hopefully fail along with their providers. Claude (only reasoning models, after 4) has repeatedly refused to perform translations for text that was not lyrics (poems), it's very stupid.

New comment by 0x_rs in "U.S. set to launch tariff refund system on April 20"

0x_rs — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:05:34 +0000

Cantor Fitzgerald, run by (Commerce Secretary, Epstein neighbor, and island visitor) Lutnick's sons. It should be noted Lutnick himself was a big proponent of tariffs to replace "some" income taxes -- just not your own.

>Public reporting indicates that Cantor has offered companies the opportunity to trade their legal claim to a future tariff refund in exchange for twenty to thirty percent of the duties the company paid.

https://fortune.com/2026/03/07/winners-supreme-court-tariff-...

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-wa...

New comment by 0x_rs in "Codex Hacked a Samsung TV"

0x_rs — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:37:44 +0000

I've had good success doing something similar. Recording requests into an .har file using the web UI and providing it for analysis was a good starting point for me, orders of magnitude faster than it would be without an assistant.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

0x_rs — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:09:10 +0000

There's a "European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles", signed by the member states, and I believe the right to access internet freely, without companies being permitted to mandate entire IP addresses blocks being forbidden from routing and within 30 minutes from the request surely would fit within that one, or others, in some way or another. No company should hold that power and it's a serious precedent others states in the union would want to leverage for their own reasons too. Reading this recent TorrentFreak article, the regulations should probably align with the following thinktank's analysis, at the very least:

>The report makes 12 formal recommendations. The most significant is that IP-based blocking should be avoided altogether, due to its inherent tendency to block large numbers of legitimate service sites. DNS-level or URL-level blocking should be used instead.

https://torrentfreak.com/eu-pirate-site-blocking-is-broken-r...

New comment by 0x_rs in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

0x_rs — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:50:09 +0000

Seems obvious at this point there needs to be EU-level regulations against individual countries, such as Spain and Italy, implementing these absurd restrictions. It would at least make lobbying from those sports companies more difficult. These same companies have been pushing for banning VPNs -- consumer VPNs -- as they easily circumvent half the internet going dark because of some dumb sports event, and they're going to be targeted next when everyone's using them. It doesn't help "piracy" always ends up being an excellent excuse to undermine everyone's privacy.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

0x_rs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:27:32 +0000

Google Photos does the same thing, aggressively prompting the user endlessly until they give in. A solution to that is disabling the malicious application and installing Google's Gallery app instead, that possesses no ransomware capability from what I've last heard of it. Make no mistake: Google and Microsoft know very well this behaviour will lead to people subscribing to services they have, for the most part, no use for. It is therefore explicitly by design, deceiving tech-illiterate people threatening to delete files they never meant to upload.

New comment by 0x_rs in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

0x_rs — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:23:42 +0000

Does this mean sanctioned individuals, such as those in the International Criminal Court, would be unable to access eIDAS, among other things? As it requires, from my understanding, installing app(s) from the play store, thus requiring an account there and being able to access it, which isn't happening if you're among those or really, in any group that might get the same treatment in the future.

New comment by 0x_rs in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

0x_rs — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:48:01 +0000

The government would never lie: the "damaged" plane was already accounted for, just in the ground, in enemy territory.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Italy blocks US use of Sicily air base for Middle East war"

0x_rs — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:50:14 +0000

So far it's only been the US lifting sanctions and greatly understating the military aid (including but not limited to drones) and intelligence (for targeting US and its allies) provided by Russia to Iran. In addition to all of the above, this war has been a great help to their declining finances.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Italy blocks US use of Sicily air base for Middle East war"

0x_rs — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:46:42 +0000

More intentionally misleading propaganda. Just like France's supposed ban of its airspace to US aircrafts claimed by Trump which is, needless to say, wrong. Think about what countries benefit from spreading this misinformation through media channels.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/31/f...