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samcat116··on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
I think this a popup for their shopping research promotion feature they added last week. I guess its a first party ad for their own new feature, but I don’t think its the third party ads that this article is talking about.
samcat116··on OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon
I would imagine they couldn't offer models through Bedrock. I think this means training and traditional computing workloads for their products (such as the workspaces for Codex cloud)
samcat116··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
This is the difference between “partitions” and “regions”. Partitions have fully separate IAM, DNS names, etc. This is how there are things like US Gov Cloud, the Chinese AWS cloud, and now the EU sovereign cloud
samcat116··on Smartphones and being present
Related but if you want a less algorithmic YouTube experience, I'd recommend the Play app on Apple platforms. It uses each channels RSS feed to rebuild YouTube in a much nicer and less distracting native app.

Unlike a lot of people on this site I really enjoy the YouTube algorithm to discovery new topics/videos, but it can definitely become a rabbit hole.

samcat116··on Let's Not Encrypt (2019)
Thats most articles posted to HN
samcat116··on Modern Linux tools
For some people the "uphill battle" is the fun part
samcat116··on The AI emperor has no clothes
I think we’ll start to see a bunch of fintech companies use stablecoins for things, but as more of an implementation detail and not really a speculative market like it was before.
samcat116··on Apple Debuts iPhone 17
US Mobile is really good. You can also get on any carrier you want via it (and multiple if you are really inclined)
samcat116··on iPhone Air
> You need to go through your provider to transfer, which requires calling them and verifying your identity.

I don't think this is true for all providers. I've never had to do this for T-Mobile for instance, it just activated without intervention.

samcat116··on Orion Browser
I was using Orion for a while, but it was so hopelessly buggy that I had to go back to Arc. Hope that changes in the future.
samcat116··on ApplePay vs. Alternative Payment Services
> Would the EU allow Visa or Mastercard to impose such exclusion rules on merchants who want to accept their credit cards? Definitely not.

I mean Costco has been doing this for many years and people seem ok with it? It's somewhat annoying but I get enough value out of Costco that myself and I think many are happy with the tradeoff.

samcat116··on Figma spends $300k on AWS daily
Am I the only one that finds that not that crazy?
samcat116··on Remote MCP Support in Claude Code
> I can’t see a way around that except to have some kind of sandboxing or a concept of untrusted or tainted input rather than treating all tokens as the same. Maybe a way of detecting if the response of a tool is within a threshold of acceptability within the definition of the MCP (which is easier with structured output), which is used to force a manual confirmation or straight up rejection if it’s deemed to be unusual or unsafe.

I think we are starting to see these remote agent environments where each agent session gets its own sandbox environment to run things in. I bet thats where this is going.

samcat116··on Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
> Is this the first time Apple has offered something substantial for the App store fees beyond the SDK/Xcode and basic app distribution?

They've offered 25hrs/mo of Xcode Cloud build time for the last couple years.

samcat116··on Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
The api looks like "give it a string prompt, async get a string back", so not tied to any particular UI Framework.
samcat116··on Ask HN: Alternatives to NAT gateways for EC2 instances
The ideal answer is IPv6 subnet with an egress only internet gateway
samcat116··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
I find the opposite, I can stay in flow state much longer than I could before because tabbing out to an LLM is a tighter loop than me going out to google and searching through sites for smaller tidbits that I have to assemble and get through, rather than a full solution that might not be 100% correct, but most of the time I can get to the working solution quicker.
samcat116··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
FWIW Adobe makes a lot of noise about how their specific models were indeed trained on only licensed work. Not sure if that really matters however
samcat116··on Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH
I can't tell the benefits of this vs running an SSH CA that supports OIDC. In that scenario, the server just needs to trust the CAs key, rather than running some sort of verifier.
samcat116··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
> Only having autocomplete for Java code gives the impression that Zed is only a text editor and not an IDE

Where did you get the impression they only have support for autocomplete for Java? AFAIK they support any LSP and this new feature is language independent.

samcat116··on Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
This really makes me want to learn rust and contribute to Redox.
samcat116··on Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf]
I think its the search monopoly one. Likely due to the fact that it was ruled illegal for Google to pay Apple $20B for default search engine placement.
samcat116··on I don't like Docker or Podman
Posts where the author proclaims they don't even want to try and understand why something is the way it is just lose all credibility to me.
samcat116··on Six day and IP address certificate options in 2025
I wonder if they could mandate that IP address certs could only be issued for IPs owned by an AS that has RPKI enabled.
samcat116··on Red Hat Woos VMware Shops with OpenShift Virtualization Engine
I'd be worried how proxmox would scale past a few racks. The bones are all good, but I'm not sure how much scale testing their API layer has had.
samcat116··on Red Hat Woos VMware Shops with OpenShift Virtualization Engine
Probably kubevirt if I had to guess (which would then use KVM under the hood)
samcat116··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
> There was nothing on vine that was addicting

Did we use the same app??

RIP Vine

samcat116··on Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security
I think they added better hardware key support at an OS level a little over two years ago. They needed all the web authn stuff for passkeys anyways, so I bet it was a necessity prerequisite.
samcat116··on Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again
I consider HN a doom scrolling machine as well
samcat116··on Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security
Yubikeys work on iPad and iPhone via USB perfectly fine now. I do it quite often.
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