Hacker News: telotortium

New comment by telotortium in "US Government backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright case"

telotortium — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:00:35 +0000

Amicus brief PDF: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/jnvwzqxzbpw/...

New comment by telotortium in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

telotortium — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:30:23 +0000

I have a skill that instructs ChatGPT/Codex to verify the rendering using the Mac versions of Microsoft Office. Even without registering, you still can open files read-only, which is enough. Apparently Office refuses to open some Open Office XML documents that LibreOffice is fine with, so that's another reason to use this. After a few times, Codex ended up storing some memories to stop producing broken files in the first place.

I generated the skill originally for ChatGPT 5.5, so some of these may not strictly be necessary anymore with later models. But posting here in case others find it useful: https://gist.github.com/telotortium/844386f762c4b3bab49999ba...

New comment by telotortium in "A milestone in expanding access to AI"

telotortium — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:44:45 +0000

You can use ChatGPT without being logged in

Spontaneously charged water drops induce corrosion

telotortium — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:09:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10941-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458611

Points: 1

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New comment by telotortium in "Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)"

telotortium — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:02:44 +0000

Hence why USAID was (allegedly) co-opted to perform the same role.

The right-wing areas of the internet, even now, say the decline of whatever progressive or left-wing phenomenon they’re talking about is because they ran out of money after USAID was defunded.

New comment by telotortium in "My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality"

telotortium — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 01:26:35 +0000

Hmm, I guess everyone here is using Claude? I find that Sol is much more restrained, to the point where I have a prompt to tell it to add short comments for things that are not obvious. Really, I find the verbosity problem to be worse in tests. I regularly prompt my review agent to remove tests used only for scaffolding to write the code in the first place. The agent is in a way following strict TDD, which reminds me why I don’t like TDD, even though some of the generated tests can be useful.

New comment by telotortium in "Linux 7.2"

telotortium — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:17:35 +0000

Here it doesn’t mean “digital rights management”, but “Direct Rendering Manager”, a component of the kernel’s graphics stack: https://docs.kernel.org/gpu/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

New comment by telotortium in "Norway should buy OpenAI"

telotortium — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:40:04 +0000

I mean, compared to a lot of other states Texas is fairly well run for its budget.

New comment by telotortium in "Norway should buy OpenAI"

telotortium — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:53:22 +0000

So you want it to end with Norway essentially coerced out of financial stress to join the US as a junior partner?

New comment by telotortium in "Norway Should Buy OpenAI"

telotortium — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:52:00 +0000

The author does have this bio at the bottom:

A guest post by Zachary Jones “My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.”

New comment by telotortium in "GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform"

telotortium — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:43:50 +0000

Gitlab does exist

New comment by telotortium in "Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data"

telotortium — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:17:20 +0000

The initial reporting implied it was some catastrophic data loss, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire. The truth, while concerning, is a lot more boring.

Also some articles and people on social media were unclear that it was just a single PBS station involved, rather than all PBS content. I saw comments that thought that all the archives for Sesame Street were lost.

New comment by telotortium in "Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum"

telotortium — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:40:44 +0000

It’s “The Physics of Dissonance”: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl6ZcY9ag

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

telotortium — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:45:35 +0000

It’s here: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/remote-connections

But I can’t tell from these docs if the ChatGPT desktop app needs to remain running on your macOS/Windows host as a proxy, or if you can directly SSH from your phone to your Linux box with just Codex CLI.

New comment by telotortium in "ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux"

telotortium — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:38:55 +0000

That was already supported from your phone by using SSH, using the app server feature of the Codex CLI. The Codex desktop app is more for computer use, browser control, and the UI paradigm of GUI, which is overall just richer and better than a TUI, albeit more heavyweight.

New comment by telotortium in "Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?"

telotortium — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:31:19 +0000

Bending Spoons must be watching Dropbox closely. Like the other companies that have been acquired by them, Dropbox has reached its final stage of stability.

New comment by telotortium in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

telotortium — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:00:48 +0000

They need to be able to serve their market. The price increase is partly load shedding. If they improve their ability to serve their load, they can always drop it again, as OpenAI did with Luna recently.

New comment by telotortium in "Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability"

telotortium — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:11:02 +0000

1. George Hotz exhibits strong signs of Dunning-Kruger in most things he does nowadays.

2. Even in exploit development, his original field, he might be able to find vulnerabilities in mature, well-maintained software with security programs. But would he charge $20k or more for that service? Say it with me, Claude: “Absolutely!”

New comment by telotortium in "Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability"

telotortium — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:07:46 +0000

But if you have proper risk-based vulnerability management, you should already have classified that CVE as a lesser priority. This is something that modern LLMs should in theory make a lot easier, although I’m unsure if workflows exist to continuously build a proper architectural understanding of your systems, at least at a feasible cost.

"the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits"

telotortium — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:54:02 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2082851447499088173

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118474

Points: 56

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