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odo1242··on Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned https://buildtheearth.net/
odo1242··on Amazon's "digital pacifier" for toddlers
You’re missing Group C, who didn’t offer cigarettes to their kids until their kids heard of these “healthy” cigarettes that are “safe for kids”
odo1242··on Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI
I was surprised at how obvious the AI was. Cilia do not, in fact, pop in and out of existence while moving around.
odo1242··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
I see. Based on the wallet address, it does in fact seem to have simply gone down without being exploited.
odo1242··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
Site gives 504 Gateway Timeout. Have there been any updates in the exploitation attempt?
odo1242··on Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
You can set the max file size per ZIP file to 50GB instead of 2GB, then it will only generate 7 zip files
odo1242··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
It's challenging to expand vertically while also fighting a battle horizontally. Usually expanding vertically is done by companies after they've already taken over a lot of their industry or the industry has matured (a.k.a. less competition).
odo1242··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
iMessage's attachment renderer is also sandboxed, actually. You might be talking about this vulnerability: https://projectzero.google/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero..., but the second half of the vulnerability exploit chain was finding a way out of the CoreGraphics (Apple's image rendering library) sandbox to hack the rest of the system.
odo1242··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
iOS does sandbox their processes really well, that's why this hack was as difficult as it was. The Safari thing you're talking about is JIT - iOS disables all runtime code generation across the system except in Safari (for JavaScript), but this is a completely separate thing from sandboxing.
odo1242··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Would require defining what features are needed. "Require PDF/A" is probably a reasonable approximation, though it would break most PDFs
odo1242··on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought
GeForce Now is $9.99 for 100 hours of playtime (but the hours do expire)
odo1242··on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought
Server GPU/memory has also been getting more expensive along with normal customer stuff. Hyperscalars with a lot of hardware do try to keep prices constant for a bit (since prices for hardware they bought is amortized), but they too are bound by economic markets and have to raise prices.
odo1242··on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought
Doesn't seem like much of a good deal relative to competitor services, especially GeForce now at 10 cents per hour
odo1242··on A farewell to Arc browser
I'm on Zen Browser
odo1242··on A farewell to Arc browser
Zen Browser is what I've been using (https://zen-browser.app/)
odo1242··on WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
No, the model is simulating the entire TUI, not just terminal commands. It also actually is that slow (because it's generating a diff for the entire screen each time you make a keypress).
odo1242··on Android apps running native on macOS
Well, a JVM isn't really a VM in the sense that the author was talking about. No VM means "no virtualization of the android OS itself"
odo1242··on Android apps running native on macOS
Macs can install/run iPad/iPhone apps through the App Store if the app developer enables the feature. A bunch of app developers don't though, and iOS apps have DRM that macOS ones don't
odo1242··on Android apps running native on macOS
This reminds me of Android Runtime for Chrome (https://archon-runtime.github.io/) before Google stopped supporting it.
odo1242··on OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
Yes
odo1242··on I Love Software Rendering
What is Doom if it isn’t a real 3D engine? Is it faking it somehow?
odo1242··on Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI
Hold Assist doesn’t work if there’s any speech (like an AI agent) on the line, it specifically only works when on hold.
odo1242··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
But it's specifically a potting epoxy designed to cause damage to the electronics if removed. And any destruction of the epoxy has to not significantly affect the outward appearance of the device. At worst it's defense-in-depth.
odo1242··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
I think that’s where the epoxy from earlier in this comment chain is supposed to come in.
odo1242··on Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI
I think this is a classic [Commoditize Your Complement](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17047348) - Nvidia wants open models because their business is hardware and it's complement is AI models, so they want AI models to be commoditized so that hardware is the industry with leverage. OpenAI/Anthropic/etc want closed models so that the AI model development/data has leverage over the hardware providers.
odo1242··on YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
This is exactly what the YouTuber was trying to illustrate - the whole legal justification of Flock cameras is that it's equated to someone sitting down in the location and writing down license plate numbers.
odo1242··on What is Codemode
Because the scripts run outside the harness, they would have to create their own MCP clients and manually connect to the same servers to run MCP tools. While Pi codemode runs inside the harness itself, so the script can call MCP tools directly and have the call go through the harness.
odo1242··on What is Codemode
They can't natively call MCP tools. Claude importing a library, reading the global MCP config, creating a new MCP client, etc. is not the same as Pi codemode being able to do that inline
odo1242··on Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved
To be fair to GitHub, outages are pretty short (~40 minutes), and they rarely impact critical parts of the service, nor do they affect one’s ability to work (git offline)
odo1242··on What is Codemode
Claude’s scripts can’t call MCP tools, meaning everything has to be CLIs or libraries. At which point you lose the “everything has self-documenting input-output schema” that Codemode is going for.
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