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tekacson Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

> because nobody will have access to Carbon for a few months anyways

From Google saying that Argon would be 'available soon' (as they did just now for Carbon), it took them 13 days to release it. So... unclear that Carbon won't see the same trajectory.

tekacson OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked

... no, I don't think so? Taking payment for <X> (providing a proxy/platform for hosting/proxying to agents) doesn't mean that you're inherently liable for <Y>, if <Y> is 'bring your own key from a third-party provider'.

tekacson OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked

It's a little more than that. It seems that keys for OpenAI / Anthropic APIs that were STORED on OpenCode's OpenRouter-like backend got leaked – which additionally means that OpenCode has no ability to refund people for their losses.

tekacson Tesla Roadster

That makes a ton of sense, yes! To be honest, I was wondering less about their reasons for invite-only and more about whether this kind of gentle and precise guidance with cold gas thrusters might hit ITAR.

tekacson Tesla Roadster

The fact that the one that can fly is invite-only makes me wonder if there would be ITAR issues with the guidance mechanisms that they have to put into it.

I'm not saying that there aren't lower hanging fruit reasons why they wouldn't make more of those, but you can see how the guidance necessary to make this move the way that it does could be dual use.

tekacson Gemini 4 Argon

Astra 6, you mean? 5.6 didn't have an Astra release, right?

tekacson Gemini 4 Argon

To everyone saying not available yet: it looks from the page like Pro and Ultra subscribers have it today and given the play links, it'll probably show up in the API in a few hours.

tekacson I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra

While everyone has been worried about it becoming too easy to hack into things, something I've been worried about for the last few years is it becoming too hard to hack into things. Right now, all of these things are being broken into to be jailbroken and such, but the companies building these hardware devices have access to the models too.

It seems like a distinctly possible and sad world that they might get so much better at keeping their devices locked down by hardening them with the support of LLMs that future devices become an absolute bitch to jailbreak, even moreso than they were before.

tekacson Muse Wonder

The current state of affairs seems to be that there is 'one company racing ahead' – but it's a different company every few weeks/months. That seems like a pretty useful (unstable) equilibrium for the general public.

tekacson Muse Wonder

This really does look compelling, but it would be very nice if they wouldn't test all of the stuff on Max!

tekacson Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)

The parent are all talking about problems, and you're talking about physical infrastructure — very different things.

tekacson Claude Haiku 5.5

Really appreciate you coming in here and clarifying!

tekacson Claude Haiku 5.5

Yes, but they're wildly lower in value than the corresponding subscription usage.

tekacson Claude Haiku 5.5

I hope people notice again that this is happening this time around.

Being forced through the non-OSS Claude Code with all of its quirks and issues is... such an exhausting use of force by Anthropic.

To the extent that you _can_ choose to disable telemetry and training on your traces in CC, it's not all that obvious what they gain by crippling your ability to use the subscription with other – better – tools.

It's also remarkable that it's coincident with OpenAI adding "Sign in with OpenAI", so that you can use your tokens with other tools.

tekacson FTL: A new operating system for clouds

Sounds kinda like gVisor more than Unikraft? With a maybe-faster intercept path?

tekacson Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

Because it's deeply annoying/unenjoyable to have to click "Allow" in the middle of a flow, especially if you're not at the time actually _at_ your computer?

tekacson Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

Would it really be too much to just allow the user to grant the permission that they want? You already have to jump through special hoops for full-disk access, and there's ALREADY a big warning at the top, explaining that it grants access to things like messages and such.

tekacson Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

You know, surprisingly enough, some of us here on this forum are software developers.

And so it ends up mattering to us what the rest of society gets in terms of software too.

tekacson Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

But this is what it is currently. At the moment, not only is it a toggle, but unlike almost all other permissions, you can't just request the permission.

You have to send the user to the system settings pane for it and have them manually toggle it on there.

It's hard to imagine how it could be more explicit than it is currently. I imagine they have something draconian planned.

tekacson Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

Apple, as always, seem extremely determined to make sure that they protect things on your computer from being accessed by you.

Apple Intelligence is a great example of this. Everything can funnel up to Siri, but neither you nor any other app on your computer can see what is fed to it by all of the APIs that would provide it data. So anyone who adds support for it is enabling Apple to do their usual slow broken thing with Siri and not enabling any other way you might want to use software or AI with that data.

tekacson Claude partial outage

They don't, no (last that I looked) – if you switch providers, encrypted reasoning no longer works.

tekacson Unreal Agent

The headline graph is kind of bizarre.

For some reason they're comparing their harness running on Astra xhigh to Codex with Astra max?

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Also worth noting that OpenAI just added support for async tool calling to their harness, which isn't 1:1 with this approach, but is slowly ramping up in being able to provide something similar.

A big part of why Codex uses so many tokens is that it basically hot loops on polling tasks it starts for... absolutely no good reason: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wdlp7q/weve_discove...

I fixed it on my fork of Codex too, also back in Jan/Feb – I keep this patch rebased, for anyone who wants it: https://github.com/tekacs/codex/commit/9ffcf8db9078eae43d411...

It results in token savings similar in scale to those displayed here by Unreal.

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My harness has used a slightly fancier version of the approach that Unreal is using since ~Feb, and... it definitely works excellently, but it's also assuredly smoother with Astra and other recent models that are more aware of async tool calling.

tekacson Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

The OpenAI folks have been clear that they are merging them by the end of the year, obviously TBD what they do with quota.

tekacson GPT-6 Astra

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model

The docs page has a bunch more interesting details, including for example async tool calling!

tekacson OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

I think they embargoed the news, and then they failed to put up their own blog post synchronized to the scheduled news releases, probably because of the outages they're having today.

Reuters announced at 2.03pm and at 2.40pm still no blog post.

All the news articles say that OpenAI announced it in a blog post, of course.

All the love to the folks at OpenAI scrambling to get this out right now!

Edit: HN user codergautam mirrored the launch post, below: https://astratest.codergautam.workers.dev/GPT-6%20Astra_%20A...

Edit 3.31pm: Live now! https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

tekacson Bernie Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act

Posting this in opposition to it for awareness

tekacson Elevated Errors for Multiple Models

Quite possibly, yeah! Although in the past, whenever Anthropic has been down, I've always been able to rely on using OpenAI.

tekacson Claude outage – Resolved

Amusingly and frustratingly, this coincides with Codex also being down right now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1w69ff6/whats_this_e...

tekacson Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

Sadly no – the current 'classic' is just the Steam game without the steam features AIUI – i.e. still the mouse-oriented UI. 0.47.05 is the last keyboard version AFAIK.

tekacson Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 Preview

Yes, lots – I think that folks will hopefully discover more of these as they scale up their ambition, now that LLMs make a lot of previously difficult things far easier.