Hacker News: radicality

New comment by radicality in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

radicality — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:24:21 +0000

About to go do that on Kagi for the linked site. Oh and also hit the “Report this site as AI generated”

New comment by radicality in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

radicality — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:35:22 +0000

Absolutely agree I hate that software. Last I remember I was trying to upgrade firmware I think of either a usbc drive, but could have been some m2 nvme drive via usb4. Software looked so nasty that I think I managed to get it somehow working in a VM for firmware update.

New comment by radicality in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

radicality — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:57:41 +0000

The way I use the products something like this. My main account on my MacBook - ChatGPT website, codex cli. Then, a Mac VM running via UTM with shared writable dir - anything more ‘shady’ in terms of permissions and for playing with new ai apps - eg ChatGPT/Codex standalone apps, Atlas, Claude desktop app etc. Seems to work decently enough. And I do totally agree that there should be a way to opt out of all these privacy invasive measures, especially after paying $200/mo

New comment by radicality in "Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]"

radicality — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:01:04 +0000

That’s just sad ugh, just the other day I was using my pre-shitty-IoT era Sous Vide machine (Anova brand, I think it might have been chefsteps recommended too, got around 2014/2015), and I was thinking how glad I am that it has zero fancy connectivity - just a wheel to set the temperature and a start/stop button and simple led display. Still works great.

New comment by radicality in "Velxio 2.0 – Emulate Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi 3 in the Browser"

radicality — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:52:13 +0000

Nice. Yeah definitely do consider it, esphome is quite popular with people using HomeAssistant

New comment by radicality in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

radicality — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:56:58 +0000

Yeah long ago when I was doing some iOS development, I can remember Apple UX responsives mantras like “don’t block the main thread”, as it’s the thing responsible for making app UIs snappy even when something is happening.

Nowadays seems like half of Apple’s own software blocks on their main thread, like you said things like keyboard lock up for no reason. God forbid you try to paste too much text into a Note - the paste will crawl to a halt. Or, on my M4 max MacBook, 128GB ram, 8tb ssd, Photos library all originals saved locally - I try to cmd-R to rotate an image - the rotation of a fully local image can sometimes take >10 seconds while showing a blocking UI “Rotating Image…”, it’s insane how low the bar has dropped for Apple software.

New comment by radicality in "Velxio 2.0 – Emulate Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi 3 in the Browser"

radicality — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:18:31 +0000

I often write a bunch of Esphome ‘code’ , which I then use with various esp32 based devices (mostly from M5stack) via esphome/HomeAssistant.

Can this project help me in any way during dev stage before uploading the code to device just to see it doesn’t work ? Eg could I use this to somehow compile&run those esphome yamls via this emulator?

New comment by radicality in "Goodbye to Sora"

radicality — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:17:51 +0000

You have more info about the inflated token use? I’m using codex cli a bunch now, but the reported token usage seems like an order of magnitude higher than, say Claude code with opus.

Idk if it’s because I set codex to xhigh reasoning, but even then it still seems way higher than Claude. The input/output ratio feels large too, eg I have codex session which says ~500M in / ~2M out.

New comment by radicality in "The Proliferation of DarkSword: iOS Exploit Chain Adopted by Hackers"

radicality — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:42:59 +0000

I think was posted here correctly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426540

New comment by radicality in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

radicality — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:20:57 +0000

Using Codex more for now, and there is definitely some compaction magic. I’m keeping the same conversation going and going for days, some at almost 1B tokens (per the codex cli counters), with seemingly no coherency loss

New comment by radicality in "Elevated errors on login with Claude Code"

radicality — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:36:25 +0000

Oh yes, upvoting, my top annoyance with anthropic too, email links are a bit ridiculous as a login mechanism. Anytime I have to login again, it’s the ridiculous dance of figuring out what surface I’m logging into and how to get the magic link to open there, and not mistakenly somewhere else. Never a problem with openAI - input password and 2FA - done, logged in.

New comment by radicality in "1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT"

radicality — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:03:28 +0000

On topic of just data requests from OpenAI - this article says “Be aware that this process isn’t instant”

I did notice this an wonder what changed - I do periodic data backups of various services, and up until recently it was impressive, as ChatGPTs email with data zip file link arrived maybe within 1-3 min of the request, for around a ~1GB file. I have similar amount of data now (even less, I pruned some), yet now the file takes a really long time to prepare and receive.

New comment by radicality in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

radicality — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:05:59 +0000

I tried to use it right after launch from within Claude Desktop, on a Mac VM running within UTM, and got cryptoc messages about Apple virtualization framework.

That made me realize it wants to also run a Apple virtualization VM but can’t since it’s inside one already - imo the error messaging here could be better, or considering that it already is in a VM, it could perhaps bypass the vm altogether. Because right now I still never got to try cowork because of this error.

New comment by radicality in "Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty"

radicality — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:53:14 +0000

I’m happy with ShellFish, $30 one-time (subscription option too). https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ssh-client-secure-shellfish/id...

New comment by radicality in "GPT-5.3-Codex being routed to GPT-5.2"

radicality — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:42:16 +0000

Wow, this should be higher up and with a different title.

People who are paying $200/month for a defined service, and think they are using `gpt5.3-codex`, are getting their requests silently routed to a less capable model without telling the user at all. Why? - because openAI claims gpt5.3-codex is too powerful and dangerous in regards to cybersecurity, and their system randomly flags accounts. And the way to unlock access to a model you thought you already were paying $200/month for, is upload your ID and do identity verification...

New comment by radicality in "More Mac malware from Google search"

radicality — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:55:03 +0000

I use brew but willing to try out Macports. How come the package install instructions seem to require sudo under macports? Does that not carry more risk during the install ?

New comment by radicality in "Ask HN: Notification Overload"

radicality — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:42:51 +0000

There’s a way somewhere deep in settings to disable those. I still have UberEats notifications for food arrival, but was able to disable all other ones while digging through all the settings

New comment by radicality in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

radicality — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:36:16 +0000

Oh yeah totally, that “feature” of a Duracell cr2032 battery screwed me over in that exact case. They just don’t work at all with an AirTag (battery bought from afaik reputable supplier, Home Depot). Switched to Energizer cr2032 and it’s been great.

New comment by radicality in "Certificate Transparency Log Explorer"

radicality — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:25:59 +0000

Nice, thanks. What are the different options (log streams?) you can select? I read the info box but it isn’t super clear. I figure the numbers are a year - how come there are 2027 ones with data being populated ? And how come something like ‘Argon2025h2’ also has data from ‘1h’ ago? I would expect data only on the 2026h1 - or are these some kind of shards but with weird year naming ?

New comment by radicality in "Bugs Apple loves"

radicality — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:17:50 +0000

I also don’t understand the back button at all on Safari iOS, I think one version it just stopped doing its one task correctly. It’s messing with my mental model of how I arrived at each tab. Currently:

Safari iOS: Be on a page, tap hold a link, click Open in new tab, go to new tab. The Back button should be grayed out and isn’t, and clicking it closes the tab.

Chrome iOS: Be on a page, tap hold a link, click Open in new tab, go to new tab. Back button correctly grayed out as the tab has nowhere to go back to.