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MallocVoidstar··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
There's something like 20 companies with access.
MallocVoidstar··on sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
No, depending on the complexity of the issue models can be into loops, where they go "this is definitely an issue and must be fixed", and then the resulting fixed code gets "this is definitely an issue and must be fixed", and then the resulting fixed code has the original 'issue'.
MallocVoidstar··on MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds
I don't want any random program on my computer to be able to change all of my system settings and terminate security processes.
MallocVoidstar··on Claude Sonnet 5
The preceding sentence is

>Our safety assessments found that Sonnet 5 shows an overall lower rate of undesirable behaviors than Sonnet 4.6, and is generally safer to use in agentic contexts.

which is obviously painting that as a good thing. So reading the next sentence as "in other good news" is reasonable.

MallocVoidstar··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
There are a lot of companies reselling Claude to Chinese users. You use their base URL but it's still going to Anthropic.
MallocVoidstar··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
OpenAI is saying they want it to be temporary, not that it will be.
MallocVoidstar··on DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'
"Mobile" generators that are sitting in one place and not moving.
MallocVoidstar··on DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'
Memphis is majority black
MallocVoidstar··on Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch
Do you think everyone on HN sees every submission?
MallocVoidstar··on Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?
The vast majority of the complaints I see about "[LLM] is worse now" never include any examples.
MallocVoidstar··on Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?
I'm not reading eight thousand AI-generated words saying one single person is ruining every model.
MallocVoidstar··on US Secretary of War Comments on Anthropic
https://nitter.net/PeteHegseth/status/2065897156226015690
MallocVoidstar··on US ban on Mythos is related to a jailbreak research by Amazon researchers
You think that if someone can get a model to write a beginner's guide to exploiting code that requires writing your own purposefully vulnerable program, then the creators of that model should be arrested?
MallocVoidstar··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Anthropic refused to allow the US Government to conduct mass surveillance, which made the US Government mad. OpenAI was fine with it as long as it was 'legal' mass surveillance. OpenAI is not going to get banned, even if their next model is both better and more dangerous than Mythos.
MallocVoidstar··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
It's only rewarding hype if the ban gets dropped. If "foreign Anthropic employees that live in the US can't use Fable/Mythos" stays it harms them, if they don't drop the ban and Fable/Mythos stay limited to "every single person who uses the model must individually provide their ID to prove American-ness" it harms them.
MallocVoidstar··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Google shows completely wrong timestamps all the time. I'm pretty sure they just randomly grab vaguely date-like text from pages and declare it the date the page was created.
MallocVoidstar··on Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM
Some are made in China and Japan, most are made in Wales.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/how-raspberry-pis-are...

MallocVoidstar··on Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM
It's useful if you need GPIO but not $350 useful. Nowadays you can get used office mini PCs with a 10th gen Intel and 16GB RAM for like $200 and they'll come with an SSD. No idea why anyone would buy an expensive Pi.
MallocVoidstar··on Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM
At least get a -C6 if you're trying to replace a Pi with a microcontroller.
MallocVoidstar··on Claude Fable 5
Opus 4.0 and 4.1 are more expensive than Fable.
MallocVoidstar··on LLMs are not the black box you were promised
AI (assisted?) summary of the March 2025 Anthropic paper https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...
MallocVoidstar··on MCP is dead?
The article is from May 29 2026, they're lying about that update being 'recent' and coming after the article to make themselves look better.
MallocVoidstar··on 2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update
"As explained by" someone regurgitating the views of the "Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom", an anti-vax, right-wing organization that opposes HIPAA, Medicare, and government involvement in healthcare in general.
MallocVoidstar··on Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
> It is entirely possible that any released model access will be heavily guardrailed against hacking attempts

Yes, Anthropic have said they made Opus 4.7 worse at this on purpose.

> It is entirely possible that Mythos is a different architecture or size

It has 5x the token pricing of Opus 4.7, so it's probably larger.

MallocVoidstar··on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HItbXhvW4AAMD8W?format=jpg&name=...

All of their repos have been copied and are up for sale. Attackers are TeamPCP, the creators of the Shai-Hulud malware.

MallocVoidstar··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
In addition to people pointing out your LLM got the pricing wrong,

> The pricing and "including thinking tokens" framing position it as a reasoning-capable flash model rather than just a pure speed optimization

Every Gemini model starting with 2.5 has been a reasoning model.

MallocVoidstar··on LLM Policy for Rust Compiler
See https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s...
MallocVoidstar··on Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
>If we just postulate that the systems have a high error rate, I wonder why they are being adopted.

From the article: "While 30 percent of a platform’s evaluation score depended solely on whether they had a domestic presence in Ontario, the accuracy of medical notes contributed only 4 percent to the total score."

Accuracy wasn't really part of the scoring, Ontario doesn't care about it.

MallocVoidstar··on Bun's rewrite in Rust was merged
Maybe someday GitHub will find a way to optimize their system so I can actually see the PR and not a unicorn.
MallocVoidstar··on GitHub is sinking
The graph in the article is a lie, because GitHub's "historical data" is a lie.

https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=3000

According to it, GitHub had 100% uptime from June to August 1996.

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