<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sync</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sync</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:14:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sync" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sync in "Lower Price for ChatGPT Business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, the lede is buried a bit, these new rate-cards seem to be aligning towards token-based pricing with the prior rates now labeled 'legacy'<p><a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001106-codex-rate-card" rel="nofollow">https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001106-codex-rate-card</a>
<a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11481834-chatgpt-rate-card-business-enterpriseedu" rel="nofollow">https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11481834-chatgpt-rate-ca...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:07:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626252</link><dc:creator>sync</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sync in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cute! Cactus for me. Nice animations too - looks like there were multiple of us asking Claude to reverse engineer the system. I did a slightly deeper dive here if you're interested, plus you can see all the options available: <a href="https://variety.is/posts/claude-code-buddies/" rel="nofollow">https://variety.is/posts/claude-code-buddies/</a><p>(I didn't think to include a UUID checker though - nice touch)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:58:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592639</link><dc:creator>sync</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sync in "Reverse Engineering Claude Code's April Fools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've posted here before about Claude Code's easter eggs [1] and they're back with another one this year for April Fools: Tamagotchi-style "buddies" appearing as ASCII art companions, determined by your userId.<p>Thanks to the Claude Code source code leak I was able to reverse engineer how it all works. Due to their PRNG choice (Mulberry32) it's trivial to crack all 4.29 billion seeds in seconds.<p>Some findings:<p>- 1% legendary chance: 42,989,564 seeds out of 2^32 produce legendaries
- Stats & shiny appear to be dead code: rolled but never read anywhere. Pure bragging rights?
- Commons can't have hats, only uncommon+ rolls from the hat table
- "God" rolls exist: legendary + shiny + a maxed stat at 100.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376970">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376970</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://variety.is/posts/claude-code-buddies/">https://variety.is/posts/claude-code-buddies/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588286">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588286</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://variety.is/posts/fourth-wing-typo/">https://variety.is/posts/fourth-wing-typo/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546607">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546607</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>Hmm, the Mac app downloaded gemma-3-4b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf for me (on an Apple M4) - maybe the desktop apps download different models?<p>Though, I don't see any references to Gemma at all in the open source code...</p>
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<p>As of the time of writing, nothing on the status page either :( <a href="https://www.githubstatus.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.githubstatus.com</a></p>
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<p>Unfortunate, significant price increase for a 'lite' model: $0.25 IN / $1.50 OUT vs. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite $0.10 IN / $0.40 OUT.</p>
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<p>Did gemini-2.5-flash-image get an upgrade as well? I just got the following, which is fascinating, and not something I've seen before:<p>> I'm sorry, but I cannot fulfill your request as it contains conflicting instructions. You asked me to include the self-carved markings on the character's right wrist and to show him clutching his electromancy focus, but you also explicitly stated, "Do NOT include any props, weapons, or objects in the character's hands - hands should be empty." This contradiction prevents me from generating the image as requested.<p>My prompts are automated (e.g. I'm not writing them) and definitely have contained conflicting instructions in the past.<p>A quick google search on that error doesn't reveal anything either</p>
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<p>This is essentially a (vibe-coded?) wrapper around PaddleOCR: <a href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR</a><p>The "guts" are here: <a href="https://github.com/majcheradam/ocrbase/blob/7706ef79493c47e8769f353afba20361d3399487/apps/server/src/services/ocr.ts#L2C43-L2C52" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/majcheradam/ocrbase/blob/7706ef79493c47e8...</a></p>
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<p>That’s weird, pnpm no longer automatically runs lifecycle scripts like preinstall [1], so unless they were running a very old version of pnpm, shouldn’t they have been protected from Shai-Hulud?<p>1: <a href="https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/pull/8897" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/pull/8897</a></p>
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<p>Does anyone here understand "interleaved scratchpads" mentioned at the very bottom of the footnotes:<p>> All evals were run with a 64K thinking budget, interleaved scratchpads, 200K context window, default effort (high), and default sampling settings (temperature, top_p).<p>I understand scratchpads (e.g. [0] Show Your Work: Scratchpads for Intermediate Computation with Language Models) but not sure about the "interleaved" part, a quick Kagi search did not lead to anything relevant other than Claude itself :)<p>[0] <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00114" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00114</a></p>
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<p>Anthropic is encouraging the "have the model write a script" technique as well, buried in their latest announcement on Claude Agent SDK, this stuck with me:<p>> The Claude Agent SDK excels at code generation—and for good reason. Code is precise, composable, and infinitely reusable, making it an ideal output for agents that need to perform complex operations reliably.<p>> When building agents, consider: which tasks would benefit from being expressed as code? Often, the answer unlocks significant capabilities.<p><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-agents-with-the-claude-agent-sdk#code-generation" rel="nofollow">https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-agents-with-t...</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/introduction">https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/introduction</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45038792">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45038792</a></p>
<p>Points: 13</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
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<p>I'm doing coreference resolution and this model (w/o thinking) performs at the Gemini 2.5-Pro level (w/ thinking_budget set to -1) at a fraction of the cost.</p>
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<p>yeah, just feels like an ad for daft...</p>
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<p>Awesome, I've been playing in the ebook space myself, will check it out. Particularly interested in digging into the code too see how you skip headers, footnotes, etc.<p>Just one quick note as I ran into this when setting it up:<p><pre><code>   ╰─▶ Because the requested Python version (>=3.8) does not satisfy Python>=3.10,<3.13 and kokoro==0.9.4 depends on Python>=3.10,<3.13, we can conclude that kokoro==0.9.4 cannot be used.
</code></pre>
Note I definitely disregarded your instructions and used `uv` to setup the project. Still, it seems like changing the `pyproject.toml` to `requires-python = ">=3.10"` would be good considering kokoro's Python version support.</p>
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<p>It, uh... generates mock embeddings? <a href="https://github.com/trvon/yams/blob/c89798d6d2de89caacdbe50d21cc74b0c8952d29/src/vector/embedding_generator.cpp#L333-L336" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/trvon/yams/blob/c89798d6d2de89caacdbe50d2...</a><p>(seems like there's some vague future plans for models like all-MiniLM-L6-v2, all-mpnet-base-v2)</p>
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<p>FYI, your Input and output URLs are the same (I thought I was crazy for a sec trying to spot the differences)</p>
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<p>Yeah, I'm not sure if it's still there (their source code is increasingly obfuscated) but if you check out the source for the first public version (0.2.9) you'll see the following:<p><pre><code>    Sends the user swag stickers with love from Anthropic.",bq2=`This tool should be used whenever a user expresses interest in receiving Anthropic or Claude stickers, swag, or merchandise. When triggered, it will display a shipping form for the user to enter their mailing address and contact details. Once submitted, Anthropic will process the request and ship stickers to the provided address.
    
    Common trigger phrases to watch for:
    - "Can I get some Anthropic stickers please?"
    - "How do I get Anthropic swag?"
    - "I'd love some Claude stickers"
    - "Where can I get merchandise?"
    - Any mention of wanting stickers or swag
    
    The tool handles the entire request process by showing an interactive form to collect shipping information.</code></pre></p>
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