Hacker News: super256

New comment by super256 in "Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models"

super256 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:44:47 +0000

It's a "problem" of compute, I think. If you query without an account on ChatGPT you will see the model look up less stuff and research less, than when you have a paid account and choose "medium" or "high" in the effort slider.

Which makes sense, because of you have looked into search and crawlers you notice that search is actual quite expensive (which is why e.g. Kagi charges a few bucks for search every month).

New comment by super256 in "Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS"

super256 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:49:12 +0000

I do have Version 10.10.0 since today and it also started crashing on open. Guess I'll have to downgrade to an older version for the time being.

New comment by super256 in "iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com"

super256 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:02:46 +0000

Maybe hidemyemail allows easily creating many accounts on a site. And some big site didn't like it.

The "Sign-up via Apple" button and creating an iCloud email yourself have a slightly higher barrier than creating a new throwaway hidemyemail email (1 API call w/o captcha/phone verification or whatever).

We might find out later this year if some site starts blocking @icloud.com but keeps allowing @private.icloud.com.

New comment by super256 in "Every Model Cheats"

super256 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:48:21 +0000

>Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 system card described Cybench as “saturated,” reporting near-100% pass rates without a cheating audit. If these estimates were representative, cheating would be a marginal artifact.

One would assume that LLM creators do run the benchmarks on systems with least privileges. Which means that the LLMs don't have general internet access, can't read config files etc by design. That's why you also should run agents in a sandbox/vm (codex does this by default).

New comment by super256 in "Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking"

super256 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:37:43 +0000

It was a joke :)

New comment by super256 in "Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking"

super256 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:13:02 +0000

I tried looking you up but were unable to find your profile site.

New comment by super256 in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"

super256 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:34:44 +0000

It's built on OWL, which is their own Chromium integration. It's not electron.

Seems pretty solid for Mac, but idk about Windows and Linux.

https://openai.com/index/building-chatgpt-atlas/

New comment by super256 in "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs"

super256 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:26:06 +0000

Crawling the internet and dumping it to disk is not "stealing".

New comment by super256 in "ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style"

super256 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:40:40 +0000

Haven't they been doing this for a long time already? I remember trying to copy Hunter S. Thompson's style many moons ago and getting a refusal.

New comment by super256 in "Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped"

super256 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:35:15 +0000

I don't know! I recently tried to download all posts by Matt Levine for a funny analysis, but GPT wouldn't let me do it.

New comment by super256 in "Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped"

super256 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:38:51 +0000

If only GPT wouldn't refuse my requests to write a crawler for $site. :(

New comment by super256 in "Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program"

super256 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:48:51 +0000

tbh hackerone should just implement a +/- reputation points feature on researcher profiles. Like, the researcher submits a slop report to GitHub via H1, GitHub looks at it and identifies it as slop, GitHub presses the -rep button on reaearcher profile which bans them from submitting to GitHub on H1 again and makes their rep points minus 1. Companies should be able to configure you need at least 10 rep points to receive payouts. Only specific (by H1 chosen) companies can +/- rep.

So, researchers first need to collect some positive rep. But the rep points are global, so once you have fixed a few bugs for Google, you've gotten enough +rep that you can also receive stuff at GitHub.

Oh, and ID check when signing up at H1.

Long term all beg bounty submitters would be banned for pretty much all of tech.

New comment by super256 in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

super256 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:30:18 +0000

Fun fact: They deliberately chose to host in the EU because they were concerned that malicious actors could abuse the DMCA by filing fraudulent copyright claims to take down legitimate software repositories.

I guess software that doesn't fit their world view is illegitimate now.

Here is a talk from one of their presidium members about GitHub DMCA takedowns: https://vimeo.com/246282607?fl=pl&fe=sh

New comment by super256 in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

super256 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:05:59 +0000

You will be very happy once OpenAI serves GPT-5.6-Sol on Cerebus at 750 token/s.

New comment by super256 in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

super256 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:01:12 +0000

I can recommend the LibRedirect extension for doing this automatically: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

(I don't use it for Twitter, because I find the 5s xcancel redirect more annoying than logging into Twitter. But I use it for Imgur and Tiktok, as Imgur straight up denies serving many VPN IPs, and Tiktok serves a really annoying captcha.)

New comment by super256 in "ChatGPT Work"

super256 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:52:10 +0000

The old ChatGPT is now ChatGPT Classic. Codex is now ChatGPT.

There is a funny interaction in the Microsoft store, where ChatGPT turns into Codex when you click on it: https://f003.backblazeb2.com/file/sharexxx/ShareX/2026/07/Ap...

(Also GG @ MSFT for opening a nag about Windows Hello twice while I wanted to stop the recording.)

New comment by super256 in "GPT-5.6"

super256 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:44:12 +0000

On the tiny voids demo: does your Firefox js thread lock up as well, when you try to interact with it?

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/#a-leap-forward-in-design

New comment by super256 in "How to sequence your own DNA at home"

super256 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:22:20 +0000

I used myheritage and simply exported all my data and then requested an account closure and data deletion.

The main factor for using myheritage was that they have this cheap 30€ offering at the moment.

New comment by super256 in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

super256 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:15:51 +0000

Related thread by some Massgrave.dev devs explaining some GDID mechanisms:

https://x.com/massgravel/status/2074304593303892354

New comment by super256 in "Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things"

super256 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:36:44 +0000

I'm bootstrapping my own company, and I live off savings, so the answer is no. I don't have a salary at all.