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Sandworm5639··on The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin
oh, I love the connections benchmark.

Just curious, can you share what are those hardest puzzles that even the top models can't crack? sometimes when I find the puzzle absolutely undecipherable I like to ask LLMs to solve it, and I haven't seen them fail yet.

Sandworm5639··on At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
> The pattern: destruction in blue states, red states

Which of CA OR VA IL CT(the states mentioned above that sentence) is red? Virginia I guess is the closest one but still rather blue...

Sandworm5639··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
Ah, thank you. I'm not a native speaker so that's not what I imagined when I read that he "attended the protest for 5 minutes".
Sandworm5639··on Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
> This caused many accounts to "lose value" and thus rank lower on searches

wouldn't this make some other accounts rank higher on searches then? I mean it couldn't have been a problem that affected absolutely everyone so for someone it must've been a positive change.

Sandworm5639··on I’m Not a Robot
The Empire State Building level was very satisfying to pass.

I just didn't like that you had to use your camera. Oh well I only gave them my ceiling and shutterstock pictures.

Sandworm5639··on The Origins of Wokeness
That Elon/Twitter part was really out of place, like a VPN ad integration in the middle of a Youtube video. Attributing the rise of wokeness to students becoming deans and administrators sounds kinda dubious but maybe, he could use more evidence there.

Otherwise a great piece.

Sandworm5639··on Ask HN: Real name vs. Anonymous Username – Which do you use online and Why?
If one can choose A or B, can always change A to B if one wants but can never go from B to A, the choice is kinda obvious I think.
Sandworm5639··on Chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits: lawsuit
The most surprising thing is Billie Eilish letting them use her name for this. Even if she's legally insulated, still looks like a very bad PR.
Sandworm5639··on How I ship projects at big tech companies
As any worthwhile piece of advice, this post is not saying "Do good things, don't do bad things" but instead "Prioritize one good thing over another". Hence lots of comments. I wish there were more submissions like this.
Sandworm5639··on Mira Murati leaves OpenAI
Can anyone tell me more about Mira Murati? What else is she known for? How did she end up in this position?
Sandworm5639··on Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn
Is it known who set it up and for what purpose?
Sandworm5639··on Show HN: I made a web game that makes practicing basic arithmetic fun
You can choose a diagonal segment but it doesn't count even if the concatenated digits give the M.N.
Sandworm5639··on Sieve is simpler than LRU
Why call it "FIFO queue"(isn't it just stack?) when actually you need to remove elements from the middle?

Also I think you could do away with storing "prev" for each node and make it like std::forward_list(with some additional work during eviction).

> We pushed SIEVE a bit further by letting it peek into the future – well, sort of. We tested how well it could guess the next request. It turns out, with this extra bit of foresight, SIEVE is nailing it, outperforming the rest in almost all scenarios.

No idea what they mean here.

Sandworm5639··on A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique)
> A CL (or Pull Request) is created in Google’s in-house code editor Cider

Since the article is pretty accurate about everything else, I just want to point out that this is(was?) just one way of creating a CL. I was using IDEA and was mostly creating CLs using a command line.

Sandworm5639··on Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]
> At any given time, Google has thousands of employees who are under a litigation hold for document preservation.

Crazy, it's an order of magnitude more than I'd guess.

> Lim testified that the thought process that he might need to save something that was said because he was subject to a legal hold simply “doesn’t occur because, as I said, I’m under so many legal holds, it’s impossible to think that way.”

This is also a crazy thing to say. But I guess I misunderstand something here, just before that it says that he did try to save _something_ copying it into docs etc and the problem is that he wasn't saving _everything_.

Sandworm5639··on CFTC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao [pdf]
The original report in English, linked in the article https://transparency.org.ru/en/news/from-moscow-city-with-cr...
Sandworm5639··on Block: Inflated user metrics and “frictionless” fraud facilitation
How does this end if you don't have CashApp installed?
Sandworm5639··on Alameda took 1B hit in mobileCoin trade to prop up FTX
Very weird, the information is not sourced at all and this is FT, not a random website.

>Two people familiar with the matter said...

who are they? Current/former employees/someone who knows that trader? Is this from some of the bankruptcy proceedings filed docs?

Sandworm5639··on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
Thomas really is a conservative extremist and I agree that his concurrence is very concerning. But no one else joined his opinion and the majority explicitly stated that all those cases shouldn't be affected(because of how abortion affects "two lives").
Sandworm5639··on Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did
Do I understand this correctly: there's no inherent incentive to put the "correct" price, they just need to agree with each other. Essentially playing "Guess 2/3 of the average" but it's just "Guess the average".
Sandworm5639··on Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did
* 1USDT is always $0.999 on tether.io

* But only if you're exchanging at least $1'000'000(and you can't exchange at all below $100'000)

* But only after you've paid $150 verification fee.(all per https://tether.to/en/fees/)

* And of course "Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens" (https://tether.to/en/legal/)