Hacker News: MallocVoidstar

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN"

MallocVoidstar — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:57:59 +0000

Article tells you to paste

> $lid=(Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:SOFTWAREMicrosoftIdentityCRLExtendedProperties').LID

which obviously does not work because it has all the slashes removed. Article author apparently didn't bother to proofread anything.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Claude Opus 5"

MallocVoidstar — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:24:55 +0000

Opus 4.8 was intentionally nerfed and that was before the government took action against Fable

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

MallocVoidstar — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:16:36 +0000

> The fact that Codeberg has the power to do this is a good reason not to host your code on Codeberg.

Everything other than full self-hosting has this exact power

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't"

MallocVoidstar — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:07:12 +0000

Yeah, I used to get stuff directly from China, then after the postage rate changes I was getting packages that had gone China -> Thailand -> Azerbaijan -> USA. Nowadays they seem to batch packages for the good shipping, from Aliexpress in China to (I assume) some US subsidiary, and then from there it gets parceled out to a shipping company seemingly at random (Maersk, Amazon, USPS).

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

MallocVoidstar — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:54:17 +0000

> Claude Code 2.1.207 and OpenCode 1.17.18, both pinned to claude-sonnet-4-5

So not only is this article AI-written, but the testing was entirely done by AI, too? I can't see any other reason to use such an old model.

> Our traffic passes through a local LLM gateway that wraps requests in its own envelope, a constant we measured at roughly 6,200 tokens with bare calibration requests

Why do you need to do calibration requests to figure out how your own gateway is affecting requests?

> Its subagent lane did not complete cleanly through our gateway

> We attempted to toggle extended thinking in both harnesses and are declining to publish numbers. Our gateway applies its own thinking policy, neither harness's toggle demonstrably survived the path, and anything we quoted would be noise.

Why is your own gateway screwing with your testing?

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Cloudflare Drop"

MallocVoidstar — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:33:47 +0000

> For one thing, CF is probably the largest entity serving pirated content internationally while hiding the identities of actual perpetrators for privacy.

That's awesome, glad to hear it

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

MallocVoidstar — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:27:43 +0000

Some of them will publicly break it for whatever reason, an NVIDIA engineer (@blelbach) recently made some posts on X about his results using 5.6 Sol Ultra to optimize stuff and then deleted them shortly after (presumably got yelled at).

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

MallocVoidstar — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:20:32 +0000

There's something like 20 companies with access.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)"

MallocVoidstar — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:06:28 +0000

No, depending on the complexity of the issue models can be into loops, where they go "this is definitely an issue and must be fixed", and then the resulting fixed code gets "this is definitely an issue and must be fixed", and then the resulting fixed code has the original 'issue'.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds"

MallocVoidstar — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:42:50 +0000

I don't want any random program on my computer to be able to change all of my system settings and terminate security processes.

A Third Party Breached the Intercept's Signal Tip Line

MallocVoidstar — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:20:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/intercept-signal-tip-line-breach-hack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766842

Points: 15

# Comments: 3

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Claude Sonnet 5"

MallocVoidstar — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:52:37 +0000

The preceding sentence is

>Our safety assessments found that Sonnet 5 shows an overall lower rate of undesirable behaviors than Sonnet 4.6, and is generally safer to use in agentic contexts.

which is obviously painting that as a good thing. So reading the next sentence as "in other good news" is reasonable.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

MallocVoidstar — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:58:59 +0000

There are a lot of companies reselling Claude to Chinese users. You use their base URL but it's still going to Anthropic.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

MallocVoidstar — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:23:13 +0000

OpenAI is saying they want it to be temporary, not that it will be.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'"

MallocVoidstar — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:53:11 +0000

"Mobile" generators that are sitting in one place and not moving.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'"

MallocVoidstar — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:50:21 +0000

Memphis is majority black

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch"

MallocVoidstar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:25:08 +0000

Do you think everyone on HN sees every submission?

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?"

MallocVoidstar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:42:36 +0000

The vast majority of the complaints I see about "[LLM] is worse now" never include any examples.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?"

MallocVoidstar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:38:22 +0000

I'm not reading eight thousand AI-generated words saying one single person is ruining every model.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "US Secretary of War Comments on Anthropic"

MallocVoidstar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:10:46 +0000

https://nitter.net/PeteHegseth/status/2065897156226015690