What is the execution environment of ChatGPT apps? If it’s users’ browsers, do I now need to worry about code that is running without my permission? Is ChatGPT gonna be cryptojacking?
Readit Newsquinncom commented on Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT openai.com/index/develope... · Posted by u/tananaev
quinncom commented on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? · Posted by u/lemonlime227
That's a fun idea. How do you get the transcript into Claude Code (or whatever you use)? What transcription service do you use?
I use Spokenly with local Parakeet 0.6B v3 model + Cerebras gpt-oss-120b for post-processing (cleaning up transcription errors and fixing technical mondegreens, e.g., `no JS` → `Node.js`). Almost imperceptible transcription and processing delay. Trigger transcription with right ⌥ key.
I had a bunch of fun writing about this one, mainly because it was a great excuse to highlight the excellent news about Kākāpō breeding season this year.
(I'm not just about pelicans.)
Awww. If there weren’t only 237 of them, I would want to bring one of them home.
> Kākāpō can be up to 64 cm (25 in) long. They have a combination of unique traits among parrots: finely blotched yellow-green plumage, a distinct facial disc, owl-style forward-facing eyes with surrounding discs of specially-textured feathers, a large grey beak, short legs, large blue feet, relatively short wings and a short tail. It is the world's only flightless parrot, the world's heaviest parrot, and also is nocturnal, herbivorous, visibly sexually dimorphic in body size, has a low basal metabolic rate, and does not have male parental care. It is the only parrot to have a polygynous lek breeding system. It is also possibly one of the world's longest-living birds, with a reported lifespan of up to 100 years.
>It's just insane that a gift card redemption can trigger this.
It's also the buying of gift cards that can get Apple accounts locked: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/r8b1lu/apple_will_pe...
If enough of these horror stories are publicized, people will learn to never buy/redeem Apple gift cards because of the real possibility of account bans.
- Don't give Apple gift cards to family and friends: You're potentially ruining the recipient's digital life if they redeem it.
- Don't buy Apple gift cards: You risk ruining your own digital life.
If you've been given an Apple gc for Christmas -- and you have paranoia of the risks -- don't buy anything online that's tied to your Apple ID. Instead, go to the physical Apple store to redeem it. And don't buy an iPhone with it because that will eventually get assigned to an Apple ID. Instead, get a non-AppleID item such as the $249 ISSEY MIYAKE knit sock.
I have thousands of credit-card reward points that could be traded in for Apple gift cards but I don't do it because Apple's over-aggressive fraud tracking means Apple's store currency is too dangerous to use.
I'm the author of that Reddit post. I should probably update it to clarify that I didn’t just purchase the gift cards, but also redeemed them. I don’t think it was purchasing them that triggered the lock on my Apple account. I mean, after all, how would they know what my Apple account is until they’re redeemed?
quinncom commented on Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you neberej.github.io/exposed... · Posted by u/coffeecoders
This is useless. I think you misunderstand the point of fingerprinting. A powerful fingerprinting algo should strive to detect you as the same person (aprox) while you use two different browsers. A more powerful one will detect you while you use another device. This only detect your current refresh.
Thanks for pointing this out. At first, I was concerned – “Unique to 1 in 2,147,483,648+ devices” – but, my fingerprint ID changes with each page refresh, so there's no tracking possible. I'm using Brave on iOS.
> As you’d expect, this makes Tauri apps far more lightweight.
Note that lightweight compared to Electron does not mean it's actually lightweight. In my experience, Tauri apps are still pretty heavy and a constant drain on system resources; maybe they're 2x better (faster/lighter) compared to an Electron equivalent, but they're still at least 10x worse compared to native apps.
With a Tauri-based app (just like with Electron), I have to constantly remember to close the app at the soonest possible point in time, or I can tangibly feel the sluggishness it creates in the system performance. So if there's a native choice and a Tauri-written choice, I'd heavily prefer the native choice nowadays, even at the cost of some features.
I'm curious what the impact on system resources is between a Tauri-based app versus the web app version opened in a browser window. If the features for both are the same, I imagine the resource utilization is also the same. The only exception might be that browsers such as Chrome will force inactive tabs to sleep.
Readwise Reader is one app I've compared both versions to, and I don't see much difference in resource usage for either version.
quinncom commented on Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results torrentfreak.com/google-r... · Posted by u/gslin
Based on what? Have you read that somewhere?
Yandex is one of Kagi's index sources. They used to publish a list of their sources but have changed it to a generic "we use multiple sources" because they got so much shit for using Brave (because of its founder’s bigotry) and Yandex (because of the ethical dilemma of paying a company headquartered in Russia which in the best case pays taxes and in the worst case has Kremlin/military involvement). This has been a contention debate for awoke, you can search their forum and discord for more details.
quinncom commented on Tau² benchmark: How a prompt rewrite boosted GPT-5-mini by 22% quesma.com/blog/tau2-benc... · Posted by u/blndrt
Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it!
It makes lot of sense - I'll update the article with links to the actual prompts.
Initially I thought these would be too lengthy for the article and no one would care, but as it seems people are really interested in it. Of course I'd be happy to share the details.
I see that you've added links to a pull request that show the previous and final optimized prompts. However, the OP was asking for the prompt you gave to Claude to assist you in optimizing your prompt. Would you mind sharing that one? (That way nobody has to reverse engineer the instructions from the diff you provided.)
quinncom commented on ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access platform.openai.com/docs/... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
What is the error you are getting? I get "Error fetching OAuth configuration" with an MCP server that I can connect to via Claude.
I get this error trying to connect the Mapbox hosted MCP server:
Something went wrong with setting up the connection
Token exchange failed: 401, message='Unauthorized', url=URL('https://api.mapbox.com/oauth/access_token')quinncom commented on Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI zed.dev/blog/bring-your-o... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
I like Zed. It's super fast and seems to be getting lots of improvement constantly.
My issue with it is when I use it on my codebase, it doesn't like my (probably old style) eslintrc. So it decides to go ahead and reformat my file on save :(.
I've seen a lot of similar complaints. I think it would be helpful when Zed sees a new codebase to offer an onboarding questionnaire and apply the settings that can't be auto-detected from the codebase itself: coding styles, linting configuration, etc.