Hacker News: tekacs

New comment by tekacs in "Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier"

tekacs — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:18:37 +0000

... I feel like if an authoritarian government could extract the family classifier info from local, they could just extract the damn messages.

And if you think that handful of megabytes is too much, they could extract a million other signals that tell them this, such as who you have pinned in the relevant apps.

New comment by tekacs in "Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5"

tekacs — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:18:46 +0000

> because nobody will have access to Carbon for a few months anyways

From Google saying that Argon would be 'available soon' (as they did just now for Carbon), it took them 13 days to release it. So... unclear that Carbon won't see the same trajectory.

iPhone Duo Review with CT scan [video]

tekacs — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:35:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1qc29t04GI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186368

Points: 1

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New comment by tekacs in "OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked"

tekacs — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:14:38 +0000

... no, I don't think so? Taking payment for (providing a proxy/platform for hosting/proxying to agents) doesn't mean that you're inherently liable for , if is 'bring your own key from a third-party provider'.

New comment by tekacs in "OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked"

tekacs — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:04:07 +0000

It's a little more than that. It seems that keys for OpenAI / Anthropic APIs that were STORED on OpenCode's OpenRouter-like backend got leaked – which additionally means that OpenCode has no ability to refund people for their losses.

New comment by tekacs in "Tesla Roadster"

tekacs — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:54:09 +0000

That makes a ton of sense, yes! To be honest, I was wondering less about their reasons for invite-only and more about whether this kind of gentle and precise guidance with cold gas thrusters might hit ITAR.

New comment by tekacs in "Tesla Roadster"

tekacs — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:06:30 +0000

The fact that the one that can fly is invite-only makes me wonder if there would be ITAR issues with the guidance mechanisms that they have to put into it.

I'm not saying that there aren't lower hanging fruit reasons why they wouldn't make more of those, but you can see how the guidance necessary to make this move the way that it does could be dual use.

New comment by tekacs in "Gemini 4 Argon"

tekacs — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:22:42 +0000

Astra 6, you mean? 5.6 didn't have an Astra release, right?

New comment by tekacs in "Gemini 4 Argon"

tekacs — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:12:00 +0000

To everyone saying not available yet: it looks from the page like Pro and Ultra subscribers have it today and given the play links, it'll probably show up in the API in a few hours.

New comment by tekacs in "I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra"

tekacs — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:26:42 +0000

While everyone has been worried about it becoming too easy to hack into things, something I've been worried about for the last few years is it becoming too hard to hack into things. Right now, all of these things are being broken into to be jailbroken and such, but the companies building these hardware devices have access to the models too.

It seems like a distinctly possible and sad world that they might get so much better at keeping their devices locked down by hardening them with the support of LLMs that future devices become an absolute bitch to jailbreak, even moreso than they were before.

New comment by tekacs in "Muse Wonder"

tekacs — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:08:11 +0000

The current state of affairs seems to be that there is 'one company racing ahead' – but it's a different company every few weeks/months. That seems like a pretty useful (unstable) equilibrium for the general public.

New comment by tekacs in "Muse Wonder"

tekacs — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:26:07 +0000

This really does look compelling, but it would be very nice if they wouldn't test all of the stuff on Max!

New comment by tekacs in "Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)"

tekacs — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:08:33 +0000

The parent are all talking about problems, and you're talking about physical infrastructure — very different things.

New comment by tekacs in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

tekacs — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:27:05 +0000

Really appreciate you coming in here and clarifying!

New comment by tekacs in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

tekacs — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:32:30 +0000

Yes, but they're wildly lower in value than the corresponding subscription usage.

New comment by tekacs in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

tekacs — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:35:49 +0000

I hope people notice again that this is happening this time around.

Being forced through the non-OSS Claude Code with all of its quirks and issues is... such an exhausting use of force by Anthropic.

To the extent that you _can_ choose to disable telemetry and training on your traces in CC, it's not all that obvious what they gain by crippling your ability to use the subscription with other – better – tools.

It's also remarkable that it's coincident with OpenAI adding "Sign in with OpenAI", so that you can use your tokens with other tools.

New comment by tekacs in "FTL: A new operating system for clouds"

tekacs — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:53:15 +0000

Sounds kinda like gVisor more than Unikraft? With a maybe-faster intercept path?

New comment by tekacs in "Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS"

tekacs — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:55:46 +0000

Because it's deeply annoying/unenjoyable to have to click "Allow" in the middle of a flow, especially if you're not at the time actually _at_ your computer?

New comment by tekacs in "Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS"

tekacs — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:54:37 +0000

Would it really be too much to just allow the user to grant the permission that they want? You already have to jump through special hoops for full-disk access, and there's ALREADY a big warning at the top, explaining that it grants access to things like messages and such.

New comment by tekacs in "Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS"

tekacs — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:53:57 +0000

You know, surprisingly enough, some of us here on this forum are software developers.

And so it ends up mattering to us what the rest of society gets in terms of software too.