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Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:37AM (#50221114)
Dunno about you but I had to jailbreak my TI84 to run what I wanted to on it
Re:Hacking Anthropic For Free Unlimited Claude on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:59PM (#50169334)
You would think with all their cybersec models they would have security audits running round the clock, how did this get by?
Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:45PM (#49718671)
Interesting concept, I can't see a reason to use a generalist classifier over an api rather then just training my own? If it was open weights I would probably mess around with it.
Agreed, only LLM I can give a folder of packet traces from a multiplayer game and wake up the next day with a server that feels identical.
I'm inclined to agree given how unstable Gemma 4 is when not using the "official" sampler settings
Aren't consumer class dumb TVs gone?
Can confirm it is also useless for building tools defending against reverse engineering work (unless asked to do code review for some reason?)
Ironically making a stink about it online is likely to have a larger impact then using their dedicated feedback or support channels (which go to claude, not a person)
It has about the same problems with finding content that the www has, its just in the earlier stages
Re:Chipotlai Max on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @02:11PM (#48373935)
Reminds me of this story https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
Re:Click on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @12:12AM (#48189094)
Try blackbox, its a puzzle game that will have you messing with device settings to beat levels
Its already happening, some of my friends have (seemingly) inherited LLM verbal tics, specifically overuse of the word "highlight."
Im in the community reverse engineering web CAPTCHAs, it's because they are too easy to reverse engineer with Claude now.

I've seen multiple people break botguard (the obfuscation used by recapcha) within the last year when before it was considered a huge technical envour.

Devices like phones don't have this issue since Google owns the client attestation end to end and can fingerprint you without the risk of receiving spoofed values.

Re:Grok 4.3 on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:56PM (#47989301)
I've been working on my own misaligned model and grok is definitely different enough with a syspronpt compared to all the other frontier models that I've considered using it to generate synthetic training data, however it leans really heavy into LLMisms which makes it not really worth it. Tangentially I also really like the idea of llms as librarians they are trying out with grokapedia.
Re:Cursor Camp on Thursday April 30, 2026 @01:57PM (#47966029)
There was an old game called cursors.io which was the same concept but collaboratively traversing a maze where you would sometimes have to leave other players behind to reach the next level
I opened this thread expecting a bunch of "kids these days..." posts, kind of surprised not to see any. People have been raising themselves up by putting down other generations since the very first I assume, the temptation towards the fallacy of composition is too irresistible.
Re:The Last Quiet Thing on Monday April 06, 2026 @02:25PM (#47664843)
I liked this, reminds me of some other discussion on recycling/global warming etc being pushed as the comsumers fault
Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer on Friday April 03, 2026 @12:05AM (#47623080)
I've been getting into making and breaking these antibots recently and it's funny to me how the person who wrote this post gave so much attention to what LinkedIn was doing and left the other antibots on the page as a footnote. They grab way more, they just don't let you see it. I haven't reversed PX or Recap yet but the antibot on twitch and Nike similarly checks if you have any of these 53 apps installed (when loaded on a WebKit browser) https://pastebin.com/raw/KACvjpTK
And so did everyone else, making it... Dead? If you've got some good alternative communities then do tell!
I've already been doing this haha, got Claude to install VR mods into a game that most certainly should not have been working with VR mods on linux
Re:Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records on Saturday March 21, 2026 @06:04PM (#47471962)
It sounds weird because Claude wrote it
Re:OpenCode – The open source AI coding agent on Friday March 20, 2026 @06:45PM (#47461765)
Some of the more recent versions of it had memory leaks so you couldn't just leave it on in the background
As one of said generation, I would chalk it up to instant communication creating innumerable shallow remote relationships that significantly replace time spent with others in person.
Re:Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting on Monday March 09, 2026 @12:54AM (#47304999)
maybe not overrun by spam, but the amount of bots I see on popular subs is definitely not 0
Re:LLM Writing Tropes.md on Sunday March 08, 2026 @03:35AM (#47295374)
I found a new one in claude recently with "Fair enough, ..."
Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:48PM (#47283130)
Wow this is big, what's the best device/remote stack to use it with?
Re:70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home on Friday March 06, 2026 @01:32PM (#47279064)
Hoarding/archiving/collecting is quite fun. I don't think it's a stretch to say he likely read more then the average person, and from his own collection too!
Re:Lenovo's New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:44AM (#47243992)
They have a support article on how to fix this!
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