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usually a combination of something like camoufox and a residential ip address
as expected, the typical "politically sensitive" search queries return 0 results

egress on fetch looks to be huawei cloud in hong kong

fetch tool uses a linux firefox 149 user agent with lang set to china. it runs js. could be using something like camoufox.

Re:Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:49AM (#49644705)
had my account since the gpt 3.5 days, disabled it once and its still disabled. though, now that i have advanced account security enabled, the setting is disabled entirely
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:29PM (#49557342)
the last model to use the gpt-4o base model was gpt 5.1, since then its been new pre-trains but this is a new one entirely to itself
Re:99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:45AM (#49212240)
make your only legit users mine fake crypto to access your site, only costs them 5% battery on an android device
Re:Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model on Saturday June 27, 2026 @02:24PM (#48700496)
steady lads, deploying more capital
Re:GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @10:57AM (#48609673)
if you're benchmaxxing then maybe bigger doesnt always mean better, but for general intelligence and big model smell, that couldn't be further from the truth

the oss models are impressive but it's pretty clear how quickly they fall off when you try to use them outside of a narrow set of problems they benchmarked well on when compared to opus/5.5

There was also a bug where you could cancel the subscription via the iOS app store and if you never opened the iOS claude app again, you'd keep the subscription forever and could use claude via the web, without paying.

Also when they added extra credits to everyone as an apology I was able to click the claim button multiple times and I got up to $400 in credits. Eventually a day later this dropped to $200 and then a few days later, $100 where it sits today.

Re:DeepSeek v4 on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:52PM (#47895010)
They mention it uses MXFP4 quant which is a blackwell capability but it looks like this is also supported by ascend 950 series according to marketing material
Re:OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:47PM (#47894953)
i wonder if they put an older cutoff date into the prompt intentionally so that when asked on more current events it leans towards tool calls / web searches for tuning
Re:OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:44PM (#47894919)
the model obviously knows things after the reported date but its just curious that it reports that date consistently

could be they do it intentionally to encourage more tool calls/searches or for tuning reasons

Re:OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:40PM (#47894863)
with thinking off and tools disabled:

  Donald Trump won the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Re:OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:40PM (#47894858)
you cant but its pretty reproducible across api and codex and other agents so i just thought it was odd. full text it gives:

   Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06
   Current date: 2026-04-24

   You are an AI assistant accessed via an API.

   # Desired oververbosity for the final answer (not analysis): 5
   An oververbosity of 1 means the model should respond using only the minimal content necessary to satisfy the request, using
 concise phrasing and avoiding extra detail or explanation."
   An oververbosity of 10 means the model should provide maximally detailed, thorough responses with context, explanations, and
 possibly multiple examples."
   The desired oververbosity should be treated only as a *default*. Defer to any user or developer requirements regarding
 response length, if present.
Re:OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:16PM (#47894613)
API page lists the knowledge cutoff as Dec 01, 2025 but when prompting the model it says June 2024.

   Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06
   Current date: 2026-04-24

   You are an AI assistant accessed via an API.
Re:Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @03:30PM (#47868177)
Memory bandwidth is the biggest L on the dgx spark, it’s half my MacBook from 2023 and that’s the biggest tok/sec bottleneck
Re:The Beginning of Scarcity in AI on Thursday April 16, 2026 @05:53PM (#47799995)
"adaptive" thinking
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @04:32PM (#47799124)
show us the benchmarks with "adaptive thinking" turned on
Re:Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:12PM (#47796468)
the MDM profile requirement is suspect though I get why they are doing it. but it doesn't inspire confidence to see that their profile is unsigned and still using the default micromdn scep challenge...
it should, lume is a thin wrapper around Apple's Virtualization.framework as i understand it
starting with M3+ you can use Hypervisor.framework/Virtualization.framework to spin up nested VMs.

it would be amusing if that bypassed the limit.

I tried the periodic table in their examples using sonnet 4.6 on the $20/mo plan. After a few minutes Claude told me it reached the max message length and bailed. I pressed continue and eventually it generated the table, but it wasn't inline, it was a jsx artifact, and I've now hit my daily usage limit.
Re:GPT‑5.3 Instant on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:46PM (#47240844)
claude models with 'extended thinking' toggled answer very quickly and the quality of the answer is far ahead of what gpt 5.2 'instant' provides. i wont even bother using the non-thinking version of chatgpt because the quality of the answers is awful and usually incorrect.
Re:Claude Is a Space to Think on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @04:04PM (#46891741)
i spend most of my time with claude thinking about when my daily usage limit is going to reset
Re:I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file? on Thursday January 22, 2026 @10:19PM (#46727967)
“After creating a new account, I can confirm the quota drains 2.5x–3x slower. So basically Max (5x) on an older accounts is almost like Pro on a new one in terms of quota. Pretty blatant rug pull tbh.”

lol

Re:Claude session limits getting small on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:56PM (#46714250)
claude has half the context window size of codex and blows through a good percentage of it right off the bat by injecting a system prompt the size of don quixote
Re:OpenAI API Logs: Unpatched Data Exfiltration on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @05:08PM (#46712298)
it sounds like the data can be involuntarily disclosed to an external third party (the attacker’s domain) purely because someone reviewed logs that auto-load remote images

their log viewer renders the markdown and their browser will make a request containing the sensitive data to the attackers domain where it can be logged and viewed

Re:Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news on Friday January 16, 2026 @06:52PM (#46653779)
i thought the article was going to go there, just redirecting the host to a self-hosted ip address serving the bin, but i was pleasantly surprised it didn’t! interesting to learn about the patching process and tooling used
Re:Andrej Karpathy – AGI is still a decade away on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:10PM (#45619938)
like leveling to 99 in old school runescape
its possible to use gpt-5-high on the plus plan with codex-cli, its a whole different beast! i dont think theres any other way for plus users to leverage gpt-5 with high reasoning.

codex -m gpt-5 model_reasoning_effort="high"

Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears on Thursday August 21, 2025 @02:36PM (#44976412)
it only requires exponentially MORE money for linear returns!

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