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Billing can be bypassed using a combination of subagents with an agent definition, resulting in unlimited free premium requests. · Issue #292452 · microsoft/vscode · GitHub

Billing can be bypassed using a combination of subagents with an agent definition, resulting in unlimited free premium requests. · Issue #292452 · microsoft/vscode · GitHub

🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Summary It's possible in Copilot to bypass any billing / 'premium request' usage by taking advantage of: Subagents and tool calls not consuming any 'requests'. Request cost being calculated on the initial model used. "Free" models incl. in Copilot e.g. GPT-5-mini, GPT-4.1 etc. Ability to define an agent for a subagent. Ability to specify a model for an agent. Combining these correctly results in 'free' and almost unlimited, usage of expensive premium models like Opus 4.5 which would usually cost '3 premium requests': Instructions Start…
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Noam Chomsky’s wife responds to Epstein controversy

Noam Chomsky’s wife responds to Epstein controversy

💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Note: Noam Chomsky’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has become the source of controversy. After suffering a severe stroke in June 2023, Chomsky is unable to comment on it. His wife Valeria has responded to questions surrounding their contacts with Epstein in the statement below. I am publishing it here, with minor typographical corrections. As many are aware, my husband, Noam Chomsky, now 97, is confronting significant health challenges after suffering a devastating stroke in June 2023. Currently, Noam is under 24/7 medical care and…
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RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo”

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Network Working Group D. Eastlake 3rd Request for Comments: 3092 Motorola Category: Informational C. Manros Xerox E. Raymond Open Source Initiative 1 April 2001 Etymology of "Foo" Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved. Abstract Approximately 212 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 269, contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' as…
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(AI) Slop Terrifies Me – ezhik.jp

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me – ezhik.jp

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 🦔 🦔 🦔 What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring? All em dashes in this post are organically-made. Imagine if this is as good as AI gets. If this is where it stops, you'd still have models that can almost code a web browser, almost code a compiler—and can even present a pretty cool demo if allowed to take a few shortcuts. You'd still get models that…
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Why E cores make Apple silicon fast – The Eclectic Light Company

Why E cores make Apple silicon fast – The Eclectic Light Company

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: If you use an Apple silicon Mac I’m sure you have been impressed by its performance. Whether you’re working with images, audio, video or building software, we’ve enjoyed a new turn of speed since the M1 on day 1. While most attribute this to their Performance cores, as it goes with the name, much is in truth the result of the unsung Efficiency cores, and how they keep background tasks where they should be. To see what I mean, start your Apple silicon Mac up…
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Fwd: [cherry.heiyui@keio.jp: Sad news: Dave Farber has passed away] – NANOG

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: From: "Cherry, Hei Yui WONG" Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2026 11:06:40 +0900 Subject: Sad news: Dave Farber has passed away We are heartbroken to report that our colleague -- our mentor, friend, and conscience -- David J. Farber passed away suddenly at his home in Roppongi, Tokyo. He left us on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026, at the too-young age of 91. To his son Manny, he was simply ???Dad???, his bedrock whom he will miss immeasurably. They spoke almost daily by video throughout his time…
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In the Australian outback, we’re listening for nuclear tests. What we hear matters more than ever

In the Australian outback, we’re listening for nuclear tests. What we hear matters more than ever

✨ Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Tyres stick to hot asphalt as I drive the Stuart Highway from Alice Springs northward, leaving the MacDonnell Ranges behind. My destination is the Warramunga facility, about 500 kilometres north — a remote monitoring station I've directed for the Australian National University for nearly 19 years, and one of the most sensitive nuclear detection facilities on Earth.When I started exploring Earth's inner core in 1997, I had no idea my calling would lead me here, or that I'd spend years driving this highway through the…
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The Abstraction Rises – The Cyber Omelette

💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In the time it takes to get an undergraduate degree, Large Language Models (LLMs) have evolved from delivering realistic chat responses, to autonomously coordinating and completing tasks at the scale of full engineering teams. In programming circles, Stack Overflow used to be where you landed when you got stuck. A simple search typically led you to discover another programmer who had suffered through the same problem, and if lucky, the solution too (relevant xkcd). Since 2022, however, the number of new Stack Overflow posts has…
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Open Source — DoNotNotify

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Open Source — DoNotNotify DoNotNotify is Now Open Source We're excited to announce that DoNotNotify has been open sourced. The full source code for the app is now publicly available for anyone to view, study, and contribute to. You can find the source code on GitHub: github.com/anujja/DoNotNotify Why Open Source? DoNotNotify was built with a strong commitment to privacy. By open sourcing the app, we're backing that commitment with full transparency. You no longer have to take our word for it — you can…
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OpenClaw Is Changing My Life

OpenClaw Is Changing My Life

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I want to share some thoughts on my recent experience with OpenClaw. Over the past year, I’ve been actively using Claude Code for development. Many people believed AI could already assist with programming—seemingly replacing programmers—but I never felt it brought any revolutionary change to the way I work.Sure, agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor have made writing code easier, but at the end of the day, I was still the one writing. It might look like the AI is doing the work,…
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