Hacker News: Sayrus

New comment by Sayrus in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

Sayrus — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:52:55 +0000

Excluding server costs, having that 100Gbps on egress can cost $50k a day. since it's a very high-margin product, AWS support would probably refund or reduce that to hundreds. Not sure how you get to millions either.

New comment by Sayrus in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

Sayrus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:11:08 +0000

The data-sharing surely is for all providers. I think the sentence "When models become available, onboarding details will be shared." hides a lot of things.

New comment by Sayrus in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

Sayrus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:32:38 +0000

> Through Google Cloud's Agent Platform: Retention will need to be enabled for your new covered model, and retained data stays in your GCP environment. When models become available, onboarding details will be shared.

From https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retenti...

New comment by Sayrus in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

Sayrus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:14:56 +0000

MV3 itself isn't what breaks uBlock Origin, it is the bundled removal of capabilities that Chrome decided to do. Firefox MV3 supports full WebRequest "scopes" while Chrome only supports declarativeNetRequest.

New comment by Sayrus in "Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day"

Sayrus — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:21:33 +0000

Most panels are from China. Panels have a very long lifetime. Over their lifetime they generate way more than their price in oil. Europe is not a huge producer of oil and relies on imports to sustain its usage. Sourcing panels is effectively reducing the amount of money leaving Europe in the long term.

New comment by Sayrus in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

Sayrus — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:47:41 +0000

> Now that the attack window has changed to 7 days, all new exploits like these will come with time bombs to not trigger until 8 days.

Many automated scanners use static code analysis rather than run the installation script. Not all of them are caught, but a good part of them are and you'd be saved by a delay.

New comment by Sayrus in "Apparently Google hates us now"

Sayrus — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:17:40 +0000

You still need criteria to handle reputation: does an account invited years ago and now spamming affects the reputation of the inviter, how much? What about the hacked accounts?

For small platforms it makes a lot of sense, for larger the potential for abuse is still there in different forms.

New comment by Sayrus in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

Sayrus — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:38:08 +0000

> Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox/Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android.

> The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.

Context is definitely interesting to have with your statement (From https://grapheneos.org/usage).

New comment by Sayrus in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

Sayrus — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:44:47 +0000

Thanks for writing all this, this really shows how the failures you encountered don't overlap with my use of the phone.

I don't use RCS and Android Auto.

I have HeliBoard to replace Stock/Google Keyboard. It is way ahead the stock keyboard experience but far behind Google Keyboard's, especially when writing in two languages.

Tap-to-pay works with my bank apps. But that means I can only use one card unlike with GPay.

I rarely use second account as the latency to switch from one account to the other is a pain. I only have a secondary sending notifications to the first one.

I don't let the phone auto-reboot for installs, I let it install automatically and click reboot when I want it to install.

I am on a physical SIM / different carrier and never encountered network issues so I can't comment on that one.

New comment by Sayrus in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

Sayrus — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:28:54 +0000

I think parent is talking about Play Integrity being integrated into banking apps. It's a hit or miss depending on the bank, some will be fine without, some with integrate it but not rely on it to directly refuse login, some will require a lower integrity level, and some will actually require the highest integrity level leading to issues on custom ROMs.

New comment by Sayrus in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

Sayrus — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:23:33 +0000

I've been using it for a bit over a year. Installed in a few minutes thanks to WebUSB. A bit of research needed to set the right permissions on Google Play Services.

After that? I only had one application fail due to Graphene's memory allocator. No weird bugs, no need to restart like some siblings are commenting. As close to the "Graphene just works" as it could be.

However, I'm not heavy into Google's ecosystem. Google Pay will not work but I'm not a user, some Google features won't tell you why they don't work but I'm not using them either (Quick Share for instance), none of my apps require the highest Play Integrity level. Maybe the person who say this are a specific type of person where use-cases don't overlap with what breaks on Graphene.

New comment by Sayrus in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"

Sayrus — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:00:50 +0000

Not sure what country you're from but in France it's not rare to see 0.30-0.60€ per kWh and even requiring a subscription on top of that.

New comment by Sayrus in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

Sayrus — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:00:26 +0000

ARR says nothing about the ability of these companies to retain customers once subsidies stop.

New comment by Sayrus in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

Sayrus — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:48:00 +0000

An unfinished upload or sync stored locally instead of on the remote can absolutely be an issue. You can look at all the posts about OneDrive and GDrive not actually syncing before confirming to users who then delete their files since they "have been uploaded". Or the user may never open that specific page again or the session will not exist anymore when he comes back.

Browser storage is cheap, but it is not guaranteed to be durable.

New comment by Sayrus in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

Sayrus — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:08:28 +0000

On the other hand, "are you sure you want to exit without saving" is a good use-case. But I'd prefer that to be a setting I can allow for specific site.

New comment by Sayrus in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

Sayrus — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:49:08 +0000

$99 per year for your developer account required to distribute applications. At AWS pricing, that's a bit over a TB of traffic. At any normal pricing, that's anywhere from 10TB to a few hundreds. At volume pricing, that's even more. How many apps are paying for traffic they don't use? Apple pockets millions.

New comment by Sayrus in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

Sayrus — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:52:12 +0000

> If you are analyzing locally stored transcripts, you wouldn't see raw thinking stored when this header is set, which is likely influencing the analysis. When Claude sees lack of thinking in transcripts for this analysis, it may not realize that the thinking is still there, and is simply not user-facing.

Claude often fetches past transcript for information after compaction. Wouldn't this effectively distort the view it has of past discussions?

New comment by Sayrus in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

Sayrus — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:44:29 +0000

And your car, license and insurance are not such a connection?

New comment by Sayrus in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

Sayrus — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:21:47 +0000

Extrapolating with this method, large cities should be as well equipped as Switzerland.

Los Angeles has 10x the population density of Switzerland and around the same population density in urban area. Same for Washington dc, San Francisco...

It doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing. Distance between cities may be large, but the order of magnitude is closer when comparing within cities.

New comment by Sayrus in "Neovim 0.12.0"

Sayrus — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:59:55 +0000

I think what they did with first-party support for LSP would be an example of this.

However, Neovim explicitely states that they don't want to turn VIM into an IDE. The feature parent is talking about seem to be falling into that type of vertical integration instead of composability.