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by varenc 6d ago
For browsers that implement strict cookie partitioning, the privacy concern is moot. With this, the cookie jar that's used when chatgpt.com is a 3rd party site is completely separate for the jar used on the 1st party site. So your cha
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by varenc 7d ago
> Google simply regrets android being open source. Could Google backtrack on this if they wanted? If they suddenly decided to stop releasing public code updates, what would they be violating? I can guess: Anti-trust maybe. probable at le
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by varenc 9d ago
Relatedly: I suspect LLMs are influencing baby names. If you ask Claude or ChatGPT for its favorite baby names, you'll get baby names that right now are skyrocketing in terms of popularity.
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by varenc 10d ago
Congrats ! Really excited for the team.
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by varenc 10d ago
The output tokens are just responses to your inputed questions and their probability. So relatively few output tokens. No unstructured text back in the response.
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by varenc 10d ago
I think the trouble is that Typesafe APIs don't fit into the normal OpenAI-style API that every other regular LLM provider users. You're not just providing unstructured text and getting unstructured text back. It would take a diff
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by varenc 13d ago
I'm curious about your use of agents for security bug bounties. Do you use self hosted models? GLM 5.2? Do the economics of self-hosting make it worth it? Or if you use 3rd party hosted models, don't you run into safeguards that t
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by varenc 15d ago
> notice they have a dom.webgpu.blocked-domains with the sole entries being "easyeda.com,*.easyeda.com", I wonder what that's about? I found this issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1980392
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by varenc 16d ago
Their showcase examples[0] link to GitHub but the links 404. Like this one for the Slack agent: https://github.com/OpenAI-Early-Access/agents-api-python-pre... Guessing this an early release not quite ready for the pub
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by varenc 20d ago
> I think big things are coming for this world and by and large they are not ready for it. With regard to PCB design, I'm curious if can you add more color to how the world isn't ready for this in particular? I don't thin
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by varenc 21d ago
I disagree about JIT performance not mattering. I enabled "Lockdown Mode" on iOS which disables the JIT for the mentioned security reasons, and it causes a very noticeable lagginess on many sites. Of course, the primary cause is t
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by varenc 1mo ago
Using energy always raises nearby temperatures since all energy becomes heat. If any facility is using 36 MW of electricity, then 36 MW of heat is going to be entering the environment somewhere. Though I think what's interesting here
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by varenc 1mo ago
It's interesting that Claude for Goverment has had perfect 100% uptime in the past 90 days, while the rest of the services are around 99.4%: https://status.claude.com/ Really shows how isolated their government systems
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by varenc 2mo ago
The part about K3 is just very strong evidence that K3 is partly a distillation of Opus. Probably even a distillation of Opus's CoT, which means they already had broken CoT encryption themselves awhile ago.
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by varenc 2mo ago
If CoT wasn't stateless and you instead just got a reference which pointed to the CoT stored on the lab servers, the same vulnerability would still exist. Since you just need a weaker jailbroken model to read a smarter model's CoT
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by varenc 2mo ago
This article shows that when Kimi3's chain of thought is prefilled to match Opus's, the rest of the chain of thoughts Kimi3 outputs very closely aligns with Opus's. That seems strong evidence that Kimi3 is partly a distillat
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by varenc 2mo ago
By some interpretations protecting your frontier model with strong safeguards from being distilled into an open source model without safeguards is a safety issue.
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by varenc 2mo ago
The compaction prompt doesn't seem like the valuable thing here. I suspect they're protecting the compaction result itself. If you're trying to distill a model, collecting lots of examples on how a large conversation gets co
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by varenc 2mo ago
super interesting. So pre-filling Kimi3 reasoning with Opus's reasoning results in thoughts that closely match Opus's. This seems like strong evidence Kimi3 was trained on decrypted Opus chain-of-thought. Meaning the Kimi team li
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by varenc 2mo ago
HuggingFace's use of models in this incident keeps getting characterized this way but it's not true that HG used GLM-5.2 to "save them" from OAI's attack. OAI's model had already hacked and compromised HG by t
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by varenc 2mo ago
There's been a moratorium on new billboards in SF for a long time already. No new ones are getting built. Given the reliable revenue they provide, will be a long time before they naturally go extinct.
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by varenc 2mo ago
hah thanks for the deep dive on this. I wanted to investigate myself but figured someone on HN would be faster at it. Makes sense it's not helpful, alas.
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by varenc 2mo ago
Can someone help me understand the underlying motivation behind this? It makes sense that some crawlers, in the style of Google, would want to index the entire internet. But what is the point of the same crawler re-fetching a page they al
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by varenc 2mo ago
Theres always going to be some negative externality effecting people that live near anything getting built. Even if the operational data center isn't loud enough to be heard beyond its property lines, the construction process will be l
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by varenc 2mo ago
likely because your browser is enforcing that you always go to the HTTPS URL. Your link above works fine for me.
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by varenc 2mo ago
it's not serving HTTPS at all, it's HTTP only. Port 80 is open, port 443 isn't.
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by varenc 2mo ago
Cosmically I feel like the HTTPS certificate on Cloudflare.pay should provide sufficient info to confirm it's the same entity behind Cloudflare.com
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by varenc 2mo ago
It handles these circumstances. Definitely seen it cross to the other side with oncoming traffic to get around a truck blocking a lane. For the signal light, never experienced that, but I imagine after awhile it'd figure it out. Possib
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by varenc 2mo ago
The poster: https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i... Note the pigs are numbered 1, 2, 1. And the gondola with a floating cable and another that terminates at a tent top.
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by varenc 2mo ago
It's interesting how much of the value here is providing the english Skill definitions that tell the LLM what to do: https://github.com/openai/codex-security/tree/main/sdk/types... Some of appr

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