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The old ChatGPT is now ChatGPT Classic. Codex is now ChatGPT.

There is a funny interaction in the Microsoft store, where ChatGPT turns into Codex when you click on it: https://f003.backblazeb2.com/file/sharexxx/ShareX/2026/07/Ap...

(Also GG @ MSFT for opening a nag about Windows Hello twice while I wanted to stop the recording.)

super256on GPT-5.6

On the tiny voids demo: does your Firefox js thread lock up as well, when you try to interact with it?

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/#a-leap-forward-in-design

super256on How to sequence your own DNA at home

I used myheritage and simply exported all my data and then requested an account closure and data deletion.

The main factor for using myheritage was that they have this cheap 30€ offering at the moment.

super256on Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID

Related thread by some Massgrave.dev devs explaining some GDID mechanisms:

https://x.com/massgravel/status/2074304593303892354

super256on Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things

I'm bootstrapping my own company, and I live off savings, so the answer is no. I don't have a salary at all.

super256on Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things

200 years ago 75% of the population in western Europe were farmers. 100 years ago 41% were farmers. 10 years ago 1-3% were farmers.

We are looking forward to bring the same productivity gains to logistics and manufacturing (look at the advancements done in the last few decades!).

Why not bring this to white collar work too? I get so much more shit done today than I did a few years ago. It's a great time to be alive!

super256on Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC

The non profit is a big shareholder of the commercial subsidiary

super256on EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

Not a breakdown, but this comment reminded me of a recent play sand test by Stiftung Warentest:

They tested play sand for asbestos, and four of these positive tested play sands were ordered on Temu. The play sand is for kids!

https://www.test.de/Deko-Spiel-und-Bastelsand-Asbest-Alarm-i...

super256on Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”

Just force 3d secure, as it shifts the liability to the customer's bank. Most people don't mind opening their banking app on the phone for confirming the transaction if they really want the product for itseprice.

super256on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

Maybe we should ban the stock market too.

In 2017 someone tried to bomb the bus of the BVB soccer club, after he bought puts options on the BVB stock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borussia_Dortmund_team_bus_bom...

super256on Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit

Oh hell, no. Does anyone remember Sandboxescaper/Polarbear? Very skilled researcher, but also crashouts and mental problems.

Had a job at MSFT once, but is now struggling to earn money at all and is posting heart breaking stuff on Twitter. https://x.com/WeirdQuadratic

Hope she finds a way out and a more stable and fun job in the future.

super256on Omnisearch – A lightweight metasearch engine written in C

A meta search engine queries other search engines and aggregates the results. See searx or dogpile.com.

super256on Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message

With which workspace solution did they end up with?

super256on YC's Biggest Scandals

http://30u30.fyi

http://termsofservice.fyi

http://ycombinator.fyi

All their sites are similar slop.

super256on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

In space you get bit flips fairly quickly when using very small transistors. You would have to run stuff on fairly old hardware, which probably makes the whole thing economically inefficient for serious "computation in space".

super256on Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

Looks like Cloudflare has the only user friendly captcha of them all.

super256on Shadcn/UI: A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize

You can easily change the theme by changing the css variables. You might want to take a look at https://tweakcn.com/

super256on Framework Laptop 13 Pro

Some laptops do become unusable once they start thermal throttling. I have an Matebook X Pro (2020, the one with i7) which throttles to the point where I can't even properly write code in VSC anymore (I do only light web apps).

super256on Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

80 characters limit in the title.

super256on ChatGPT Images 2.0

I tried using it for creating 2D logos, which many tools suck at (except mid journey).

Looks like ChatGPT Images 2 is now good at this too!

super256on Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It

That is true! The sums got bigger and the market for crypto is more liquid than for PSC.

super256on Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It

Don't worry, ransomware already existed before BTC. The ransomware demanded Ukash and Paysafecard instead.

super256on Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

>It isn't a product-led acquisition, but more a talent one.

I am pretty sure OAI mostly cares about their virtualization IP for MacOS. They already extensively use WSL2 for sandboxing Codex on Windows, and I imagine they want something similar for Codex on Mac.

super256on Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd

It's a chain mail for server admins.

super256on Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

I felt fatigued after the second paragraph. All these LLM tropes chained together are horrible to read.

super256on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do

Game theory can be applied to these problem, and if you can correctly model reward, cost and motives, you can predict decisions of politicians more often than not.

super256on Nasdaq's Shame

I didn't mention retail traders anywhere. With arbitrage traders I mean those companies who do hft all the time and are directly connected to exchanges. They still do business.

super256on Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?

I had to deal with Java codegens from UML specs in 2021. So, nothing has changed! :')

super256on Nasdaq's Shame

>I don’t think Nasdaq is free float based.

I recommend the NDX proposal from February which the whole discussion is based upon:

"To balance index integrity and investability, Nasdaq proposes a new approach for including and weighting low-float securities (those below 20% free float). Each low-float security’s weight will be adjusted to five times its free float percentage, capped at 100%. Securities with more than 20% free float will continue to be weighted at full, eligible listed market capitalization, while those below 20% free float will be weighted proportionally to preserve investability."

The document includes a scenario with the rules applied to SpaceX. "Company C" in the table is SpaceX (with some estimated numbers).

https://indexes.nasdaqomx.com/docs/NDX_Consultation-February...

super256on Nasdaq's Shame

This is wrong in multiple ways.

First: 5x5 is 25, not 20. So it's 25% rather than 20%

Second: they only have to buy the 25% of the listed shares.

To take your 1 Trillion example: if SpaceX has a total market cap of 1T, but only 500b get listed on NASDAQ, and the free float is 5%, the index will weigh SpaceX at 25% of the listed shares, which means it will be weighted at 500 * 0.25 = 125b.

And also note that index ETFs have tracking errors all the time (that's why arbitrage traders still have business!), and the ETFs themselves could also track the performance of SpaceX via derivatives instead of buying the stock. And I think, there are many investors of SpaceX who would like to sell some shares. Fund managers won't have an issue finding their phone numbers.