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fwiw, Gemini 3.5 has identified itself to me as an OpenAI product on multiple occasions.

I held my nose through the first third of the winning entry before giving up. Unbearable. Those metaphors… yeesh. Reminded me of this brutally fair minded attempt to read Shy Girl, the AI slop ‘horror novel’ Hachette pulled from shelves in disgrace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbeKTa5xhZo

The number of realists on this site is encouraging.

I’m not sure how to reconcile anthropic’s update / some of the exuberant comments here with recent feedback like the following from curl maintainer Daniel Steinberg:

“I see no evidence that this setup [Mythos] finds issues to any particular higher or more advanced degree than the other tools have done before Mythos. Maybe this model is a little bit better, but even if it is, it is not better to a degree that seems to make a significant dent in code analyzing.”

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-v...

Isn’t this illegal?

From my experience, LLM performance in these areas is being massively oversold. I have repeatedly tried using Claude to modify a range of models typical of investment banking / private equity / sellside research contexts, and the results have been generally disastrous. On multiple occasions, the xlsx would no longer open.

Our country is currently enforcing a blockade that is murdering children in Cuba. It is all so sickening.

the word general in italics was intended to read as “in contrast to this”...

Somewhat relatedly, there is a pretty plausible theory that some “find the Yeti” expeditions were in fact cover for operations by my country’s intelligence services to sabotage China. See e.g., https://topsecretumbra.substack.com/p/the-secret-history-of-...

(Btw the general idea that there are animals that we don’t know about is not remotely far-fetched. A new possum genus was discovered like a month ago.)

That is no longer true. What we have historically referred to as “health insurance” companies responded to ACA margin limits by becoming sprawling behemoths whose rampant self-dealing makes such profit margin calculations meaningless.

Our country has a long and sickening history of interdiction theater e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Peru_Cessna_185_shootdown

I would recommend Garbage Day’s coverage of this:

https://www.garbageday.email/p/a-big-confusing-game-of-inter...

Also, for contextualizing the social media reactions (including on HN) I would recommend this recent New Yorker article:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/17/when-the-hindu...

Apple Pay does not generate a unique card number for every purchase. One number is generated when the card is added to Wallet. This seems to be a common misconception.

Thank you. I disagree that it's "just the same thing", but it is an interesting precedent to consider and one that I was not familiar with.

I am also somewhat uncomfortable that his sponsorship was kept secret for so long, and that it easily could have stayed secret indefinitely.

Can you point me to some examples where an individual financed litigation against a media outlet or journalist? I don't doubt they exist, but I can't think of any specifically.

I think this is a common misperception regarding Apple Pay - it actually does not use disposable credit card numbers. Apple Pay generates a Device Account Number (DAN) once when you add a card to your phone's wallet. Thereafter, the same DAN is reused on that device for all transactions with that card.

So it actually does not do much to defeat merchant tracking, assuming you consistently use Apple Pay where it is available.

If you are using ES6 class syntax, then I would think you would also be using const / let; and if you are using const / let, then FlowTypes is, for me anyway, borderline unusable because it still does not support them (although there is apparently a fork with pseudo-support, if you want to deal with that):

https://github.com/facebook/flow/pull/431

It actually doesn't in most cases, last I heard:

http://blog.airtightnetworks.com/ios8-mac-randomization-anal...

@prottmann alluded to it, but it might be useful to add Marty as well (http://martyjs.org) (no affiliation).

It's just behind Reflux on the superficial metrics (stars, contributors, npm downloads) so is likely to be on most short-lists.

I've had a good experience with Marty so far but remain curious about the others. Reflux worries me a bit because of its minor divergences from the Flux design decisions.

Good thought, but I disabled that too. Edit: Twitter discussion regarding one of these issues. Note that Spotlight is doing this despite all relevant settings disabled (spotlight suggestions, bing, privacy, and logging).

https://twitter.com/marczak/status/481818945318428673

I disabled both Spotlight Suggestions and Bing yet Spotlight -- via SpotlightNetHelper -- still attempts to connect to api.smoot.apple.com:443 and wu.apple.com:80.

Can anyone explain this?

I think Slate has been abandoned. Check out Phoenix: https://github.com/sdegutis/phoenix

Is this the correct donation link?

http://www.givewell.org/about/donate?ASW

Or should donations be sent to the IA?

https://archive.org/donate/index.php

I'd be interested in knowing which journalists you're referring to.

Does the reference to similar incidents this year suggest this was a watering hole attack targeting a Java vulnerability? It would be nice to know, just generally, what vectors were used here to the extent it was anything novel.