Hacker News: 6thbit

New comment by 6thbit in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

6thbit — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:53:43 +0000

Would it be a costly process for Anthropic to re-tune those guardrails? Like, re-training sort of cost? or like coding session sort of cost?

New comment by 6thbit in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

6thbit — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:16:16 +0000

but of course! why wouldn't you encourage bot accounts listening every kind of artist to scalp tickets?

look at the monthly active users chart after this deal! promoted.

New comment by 6thbit in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

6thbit — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:11:44 +0000

If you make open source used by any of this companies for this network, would you also characterize it as actively enabling this?

If your retirement fund owns stocks of the s&p 500, does that make you an enabler?

Are there really ways out?

New comment by 6thbit in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

6thbit — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:29:19 +0000

This isn't pointing towards a merger is it?

xAI gets the cashflow and makes spaceX bottom line more appealing. But that guy Musk hardly makes deals that favor other companies over his, so what am i missing?

New comment by 6thbit in "Google changes its search box"

6thbit — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:37:22 +0000

The last product i thought google would kill, that isn't ads, the true end of an era with an underwhelming bang.

I wonder if they will stop using pagerank completely? Has pagerank already transcended the software plane?

New comment by 6thbit in "We are retiring our bug bounty program"

6thbit — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:04:13 +0000

How about a real/false prediction market of sorts instead of a bounty program and let the public bet on the answer, everyone uses their own tokens to try and verify the report's substance and buys bets on it, if the majority yields False, the house wins, majority real house pays.

joking, but maybe not?

New comment by 6thbit in "The Prompt API"

6thbit — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:44:13 +0000

Is “Ship a 22gb model on your product” the new “put a chat window on your product”?

I agree with others this fits better in the OS, or hey maybe Apple sells a time-machine sort of NAS with neural engine chips.

New comment by 6thbit in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

6thbit — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:40:44 +0000

Big talk about laying out the 'systemic failures' but then shows no accountability on giving such elevated access to the agent.

New comment by 6thbit in "Google Plans to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic"

6thbit — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:56:45 +0000

A 10B insurance policy on google’s business sounds like a bargain?

And with cashback through gcp usage!

New comment by 6thbit in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

6thbit — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:58:01 +0000

Meanwhile I’d like a reverse filter, like don’t show me anything posted by people under 25. And I’m sure lots of young people would love to filter out anything posted by people over 40.

New comment by 6thbit in "Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees"

6thbit — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:13:50 +0000

Satya is 58, plus his years at ms totals over 70, maybe he takes the buyout : )

New comment by 6thbit in "GPT-5.5"

6thbit — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:19:31 +0000

                          Mythos     5.5
    SWE-bench Pro          77.8%*   58.6%
    Terminal-bench-2.0     82.0%    82.7%*
    GPQA Diamond           94.6%*   93.6%
    H. Last Exam           56.8%*   41.4%
    H. Last Exam (tools)   64.7%*   52.2%    
    BrowseComp             86.9%    84.4%  (90.1% Pro)*
    OSWorld-Verified       79.6%*   78.7%

Still far from Mythos on SWE-bench but quite comparable otherwise. Source for mythos values: https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing

New comment by 6thbit in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

6thbit — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:09:26 +0000

i'll speculate further: it could've been on the dismiss notification code, and when you delete the app the OS dismisses the removed app's notifications, triggering the same code path.

in this case as per reporting, defendant removed the app. unclear if they first dismissed them.

New comment by 6thbit in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

6thbit — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:44:48 +0000

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

New comment by 6thbit in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

6thbit — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:15:35 +0000

The "bug" discussed in the article is only part of the problem.

The main problem, which is notifications text is stored on a DB in the phone outside of signal, is not addressed. To avoid that you have to change your settings.

In this case, the defendant had deleted the signal app completely, and that likely internally marks those app's notifications for deletion from the DB, so the bug fixed here is that they were not removing notifications from the local database when the app that generated them was removed, now they do.

  Impact: Notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device
  Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.
  CVE-2026-28950

They classify this as "loggging issue" so it sounds like notifications were not actually in the database itself but ended up in some log.

New comment by 6thbit in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

6thbit — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:07:44 +0000

in the case reported the content did not leave the device. feds retreived them directly from the phone.

New comment by 6thbit in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

6thbit — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:14:37 +0000

System card link with safety details https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/chatgpt-images-2-0

direct pdf https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/chatgpt-images-2-0/chatg...

New comment by 6thbit in "OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”"

6thbit — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:00:27 +0000

you're onto something, why pay for ads if i can pay a post-ads agency to ensure maximal product placement during training.

New comment by 6thbit in "OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”"

6thbit — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:47:53 +0000

I find it a good surprise. Signals they probably don't want to become an advertising company, which is what every other tech business ended up becoming. And that is not against having ads be a core revenue driver, like for companies in other sectors.

New comment by 6thbit in "OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”"

6thbit — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:45:09 +0000

Google did just fine with the same strategy on search.