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pixelmelt··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Dunno about you but I had to jailbreak my TI84 to run what I wanted to on it
pixelmelt··on Hacking Anthropic For Free Unlimited Claude
You would think with all their cybersec models they would have security audits running round the clock, how did this get by?
pixelmelt··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
Interesting concept, I can't see a reason to use a generalist classifier over an api rather then just training my own? If it was open weights I would probably mess around with it.
pixelmelt··on A week of using Codex more than Claude
Agreed, only LLM I can give a folder of packet traces from a multiplayer game and wake up the next day with a server that feels identical.
pixelmelt··on Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored
I'm inclined to agree given how unstable Gemma 4 is when not using the "official" sampler settings
pixelmelt··on Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
Aren't consumer class dumb TVs gone?
pixelmelt··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
Can confirm it is also useless for building tools defending against reverse engineering work (unless asked to do code review for some reason?)
pixelmelt··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
Ironically making a stink about it online is likely to have a larger impact then using their dedicated feedback or support channels (which go to claude, not a person)
pixelmelt··on Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
It has about the same problems with finding content that the www has, its just in the earlier stages
pixelmelt··on Chipotlai Max
Reminds me of this story https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
pixelmelt··on Click (2016)
Try blackbox, its a puzzle game that will have you messing with device settings to beat levels
pixelmelt··on LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models
Its already happening, some of my friends have (seemingly) inherited LLM verbal tics, specifically overuse of the word "highlight."
pixelmelt··on Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
Im in the community reverse engineering web CAPTCHAs, it's because they are too easy to reverse engineer with Claude now.

I've seen multiple people break botguard (the obfuscation used by recapcha) within the last year when before it was considered a huge technical envour.

Devices like phones don't have this issue since Google owns the client attestation end to end and can fingerprint you without the risk of receiving spoofed values.

pixelmelt··on Grok 4.3
I've been working on my own misaligned model and grok is definitely different enough with a syspronpt compared to all the other frontier models that I've considered using it to generate synthetic training data, however it leans really heavy into LLMisms which makes it not really worth it. Tangentially I also really like the idea of llms as librarians they are trying out with grokapedia.
pixelmelt··on Cursor Camp
There was an old game called cursors.io which was the same concept but collaboratively traversing a maze where you would sometimes have to leave other players behind to reach the next level
pixelmelt··on Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics
I opened this thread expecting a bunch of "kids these days..." posts, kind of surprised not to see any. People have been raising themselves up by putting down other generations since the very first I assume, the temptation towards the fallacy of composition is too irresistible.
pixelmelt··on The Last Quiet Thing
I liked this, reminds me of some other discussion on recycling/global warming etc being pushed as the comsumers fault
pixelmelt··on LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
I've been getting into making and breaking these antibots recently and it's funny to me how the person who wrote this post gave so much attention to what LinkedIn was doing and left the other antibots on the page as a footnote. They grab way more, they just don't let you see it. I haven't reversed PX or Recap yet but the antibot on twitch and Nike similarly checks if you have any of these 53 apps installed (when loaded on a WebKit browser) https://pastebin.com/raw/KACvjpTK
pixelmelt··on OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says
And so did everyone else, making it... Dead? If you've got some good alternative communities then do tell!
pixelmelt··on Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating
I've already been doing this haha, got Claude to install VR mods into a game that most certainly should not have been working with VR mods on linux
pixelmelt··on Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records
It sounds weird because Claude wrote it
pixelmelt··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
Some of the more recent versions of it had memory leaks so you couldn't just leave it on in the background
pixelmelt··on Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers
As one of said generation, I would chalk it up to instant communication creating innumerable shallow remote relationships that significantly replace time spent with others in person.
pixelmelt··on Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
maybe not overrun by spam, but the amount of bots I see on popular subs is definitely not 0
pixelmelt··on LLM Writing Tropes.md
I found a new one in claude recently with "Fair enough, ..."
pixelmelt··on Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
Wow this is big, what's the best device/remote stack to use it with?
pixelmelt··on 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)
Hoarding/archiving/collecting is quite fun. I don't think it's a stretch to say he likely read more then the average person, and from his own collection too!
pixelmelt··on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
They have a support article on how to fix this!
pixelmelt··on Show HN: Shibuya – A High-Performance WAF in Rust with eBPF and ML Engine
Relevant username
pixelmelt··on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Had a friend who worked on designing systems to pick these signals up around airports
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