Hacker News: 6thbit

New comment by 6thbit in "Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents"

6thbit — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:03:44 +0000

They can route between models but you pay the standard rate for whichever model is selected (plus 5% fee). Afaik all current model providers have fixed prices per tokens which don't vary depending on, say, demand or hardware availability.

New comment by 6thbit in "Claude Opus 4.7"

6thbit — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:29:46 +0000

this is exactly how the other side feels

New comment by 6thbit in "Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents"

6thbit — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:18:06 +0000

i got shivers thinking about a future ai dynamic pricing and automatic gateway choosing the cheapest provider available

New comment by 6thbit in "Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents"

6thbit — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:09:03 +0000

don’t attach to a single AI provider when you can attach to cloudflare as your single AI gateway provider!

rant aside, they are greatly positioned network wise to offer this service, i wonder about their princing and potential markup on top of token usage?

i presume they wont let you “manage all your AI spend in one place” for free.

New comment by 6thbit in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

6thbit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:26:34 +0000

the beauty of wikipedia as dns is its easy access, are there similarly easily accessible uncensorable ways?

New comment by 6thbit in "Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson"

6thbit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:52:26 +0000

Great PR piece by Strix, but I find mixed messages.

Cal.com folks are getting a red team for free, wouldn't that further convince them their closed source software is strong enough?

Isn't Strix's business companies paying for scans regardless of whether the software scanned is open source or closed?

New comment by 6thbit in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

6thbit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:52:33 +0000

who updates wikipedia with the new domains? how do they know the new ones?

New comment by 6thbit in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

6thbit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:50:24 +0000

300M come from: Statutory damages for circumvention of a technological measure for 120,000 music files

22M come from: Statutory damages for willful copyright infringement for 148 sound recordings from Sony, Warner and UMG.

Why is it only 148 sound recording with infringed copyright when the 'circunvention' is for 120,000?

New comment by 6thbit in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

6thbit — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:50:19 +0000

Exactly yes, and that is insecure here because the app relayed the message beyond its layer and ownership. Thus not making the app the end of the communication.

New comment by 6thbit in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

6thbit — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:57:28 +0000

So this is where we find out the one end of e2e is the phone and not the app.

Semi-related, in whatsapp reading the text in the notification doesn't mark the message as read, so the OS is kinda mitm here.

New comment by 6thbit in "The many failures leading to the LiteLLM compromise"

6thbit — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:18:51 +0000

i like the efforts behind sigstore.dev project.

And while I do think code signing alone would’ve helped in the recent issues, what I’d like to see is a sort of automated package scanner that searches for this kind of malware and then publishes a signed report enumerating the things verified alongisde package pypi metadata.

Then I could verify both the package and the scanners result and decide to update or not.

i know this is day dreaming cause who would sponsor scanning and attesting every open source project, anthropic?

New comment by 6thbit in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

6thbit — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:03:37 +0000

NYT has more than enough bandwidth and process to vet every ad they run, which must be in the order of 10s or 100s.

Meta runs ads in the order of hundreds of thousands or millions, and constantly allows very questionable things.

New comment by 6thbit in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

6thbit — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:24:48 +0000

Thought it was clickbait/circumstantial but they are quoting an actual spokesperson saying they are doing it on purpose !!

> "We're actively defending ourselves against these lawsuits and are removing ads that attempt to recruit plaintiffs for them," a Meta spokesperson tells Axios.

New comment by 6thbit in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

6thbit — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:17:25 +0000

So what's the current data centers footprint in Maine?

Does the move benefit companies with existing DCs whose competition can no longer establish a region there?

New comment by 6thbit in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

6thbit — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:07:22 +0000

I'm good with my Iosevka ExtraLight with iTerm2's thin strokes enabled.

But the bitmaps do make me nostalgic, maybe useful to read my own old code and cringe a little less.

New comment by 6thbit in "EFF is leaving X"

6thbit — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:44:58 +0000

Any chance they keep an RSS?

New comment by 6thbit in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

6thbit — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:00:48 +0000

that's such a loaded statement.

New comment by 6thbit in "Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs"

6thbit — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:59:08 +0000

I thought Codex at least already can handle interactive sessions of programs, e.g. GDB.

New comment by 6thbit in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

6thbit — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:53:32 +0000

non-zero already existing companies can afford to compete, so its not a great preliminary line of defense against your main enemies.

If the existing competition's turn around time to out-benchmark you is in the order of weeks, its an absolutely terrible moat.

New comment by 6thbit in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

6thbit — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:22:48 +0000

Calling squash stupid sounds like a case of Dunning-Kruger.

If you've worked on a large team without squashing and without increasing frustration I'd be greatly interested to hear about it.