Hacker News: MallocVoidstar

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription"

MallocVoidstar — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:21:40 +0000

OpenAI only does monthly payments, so they can just keep the old usage for current subscribers for through their billing period.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

MallocVoidstar — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:46:28 +0000

Hover the #1/114 and it shows only open weights, that's probably why

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google's AI"

MallocVoidstar — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:21 +0000

> The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run by the company Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta.

Why does anyone use this company?

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

MallocVoidstar — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:32:12 +0000

Kagi don't scrape, they pay other engines for API access: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

>Our search results also include anonymized API calls to all major search result providers worldwide

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "So you want to use OpenRouter?"

MallocVoidstar — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:50:16 +0000

> Reasoning models sometimes put everything in the reasoning field and hand back content: null, finish_reason: "stop". 345 completion tokens, HTTP 200, nothing to show the user.

This isn't necessarily an OpenRouter issue, Google's Gemini will sometimes do it on their own API. Since they summarize reasoning this means you pay the whole cost and can't get anything out of it.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

MallocVoidstar — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:24:10 +0000

> you can just clone the repo and make your own very easily

This is not the case for Nitter. It requires real X accounts to run, quite possibly hundreds or thousands for a major public instance. Creating X accounts currently requires phone number verification.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

MallocVoidstar — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:25:57 +0000

Sol's normal pricing is $5/$30.

New York City Public Schools banning AI use through middle school

MallocVoidstar — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:02:30 +0000

Article URL: https://abcnews.com/Technology/new-york-city-public-schools-banning-ai-middle/story?id=136134872

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537402

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Ask HN: Why do people get mad at AI pastes"

MallocVoidstar — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:51:11 +0000

Most of the time I see AI pastes it's "I saw someone describe 20% of a problem they're having so I pasted it into Claude and now I'm pasting Claude's vague overview of how maybe to fix it", which is absolutely worthless.

Malicious Virtualizor update served via BGP hijacking

MallocVoidstar — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:41:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.virtualizor.com/blog/security-incident-bgp-hijacking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518037

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Creepy Crawlies"

MallocVoidstar — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:19:32 +0000

I looked at your comments and there's a bunch saying that Anubis is bad CS but none I could find saying what, exactly, you want Anubis to do instead. You sure are posting a lot about how it's bad, though.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Laion Big Video Dataset"

MallocVoidstar — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:20:38 +0000

The companies say they have consent because saying "yeah we'll give you access to a botnet" is illegal.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dis...

>These SDKs, which are offered to developers across multiple mobile and desktop platforms, surreptitiously enroll user devices into the IPIDEA network.

If I install an app with a big ToS and buried in there is "we use third-party monetization SDKs" and buried in there is "welcome to our botnet" they do not actually have my consent.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Laion Big Video Dataset"

MallocVoidstar — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:53:19 +0000

Basically all of them are botnets, yes. They generally claim to have consent but I'm pretty sure 99% of it is "some app the user uses has it buried in a 200 page ToS"-style consent.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost"

MallocVoidstar — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:55:42 +0000

AI writing is not high-quality writing. And I don't think it's trained on particularly high-quality writing, I'm pretty sure it's trained on SEO slop. The old outputs of gpt-4o that loved the word "delve" read just like SEO spam blogs.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

MallocVoidstar — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:27:47 +0000

> Why would you add a penalty of 50 ms at a minimum?

All of the customer service bots I've dealt with recently were reasoning models that thought for multiple seconds. I would not have noticed 50ms extra.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

MallocVoidstar — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:25:43 +0000

It's still the case that you pay less in the app. You get 'coins' for a daily check-in, which are automatically(?) applied as a discount. Most items either don't actually use them or only give you a pointless 1% off or something, but I've gotten a $12 microcontroller for $5, for example. I think some coupons are app-only, too (though most aliexpress sales are fake and are better thought of as the normal price).

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload"

MallocVoidstar — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:19:50 +0000

They aren't trivial, at least: https://docs.rs/arrayref/0.3.9/src/arrayref/lib.rs.html#202-...

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

MallocVoidstar — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:24:51 +0000

GitHub's historical uptime page is fake, they backfilled it with 100% uptime going back to 1996: https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=200

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance"

MallocVoidstar — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:38:33 +0000

https://www.githubstatus.com/

It's all green which means it's working. Ignore the unicorn error on every page.

edit: After 5-10 minutes they got around to opening an incident and (apparently manually?) marking the API as having 'degraded performance'.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released"

MallocVoidstar — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:37:31 +0000

What an annoying time for GitHub to go down.