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It's working for me (based out of California).

This website is unusable without closing out advertisements upon advertisements...

Interesting. I don't see any ads, even with my ad blocker turned off.

Yeah warning to mobile users, too. Basically unusable website because of the ads.

I miss the ad free web.


Maybe you should create whoisinspacewithnoads.com? :D

How about a new TLD, .noads?

I'm in the same boat as you, having only read non-fiction the past few years. It appears quite ironic that the entertainment occurring in the real life events is surpassing the entertainment I hear one usually derives from fiction.


I wonder what the dress code is.


"business causal" ofc :)


The author mentions CADO-NFS right in the article: https://cado-nfs.gitlabpages.inria.fr/


Yes but used how? What is the exact configuration and details for reproducing this?


That's a good point. I've added to the post. It's simple enough I'd expect anyone who wants to do it can follow the docs from CADO-NFS, which are very good, but I can write it down explicitly.

Install CADO-NFS per upstream directions.

Get the number you want to factor. I just did this in a python repl, something like:

    from cryptography import x509
    f = open("gold-server.pem", "rb").read()
    print(x509.load_pem_x509_certificate(f).public_key().public_numbers().n)

That gets you the `n` to factor - The big number below.

Then pass it to CADO-NFS. The full invocation for the server root was:

    ./cado-nfs.py 10754123440737946604182274398563307850262685121187325065132187145895199633213947273310647001521000121802425390193123548314361970563322281259804690831526167 -t 32 --workdir /data/cert1

All run in a tmux to keep it alive for the few days, of course.


This has got to be the worst project name I've seen all year.


I think the name probably has to do with this research from Microsoft (same people involved and a lot of similarities in the way it's conceived.

HyDRA: Hybrid Dynamic Routing Architecture for Heterogeneous LLM Pools : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17106


Seems more like many heads -> one head and someone thinking it's clever.

But could be your thing too obviously.


Considering the people thanked in the article are the same who wrote the paper I linked, and the similar mechanisms, it's more than likely


Why? I feel it kinda implies what the approach is. Could definitely be worse, strongly prefer this over just giving the thing a random-ass name like Laguna.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(comics)

> Hydra (sometimes stylized as HYDRA) is a fictional terrorist organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.[…] Hydra is taken over and turned into a neo-fascist international crime syndicate by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker.


With all due respect, but I'm not letting some newfangled comic taint/monopolize a perfectly usable name that's been used to describe many-headed-thing (water snake) for over two millennia.


I think the problem here is that we're running out of names. Which is ironic after calling everything copilot or office 365


From a different angle, I moved from hosting my own e-mail server to having it all served in Fastmail, and I couldn't be happier as well!


How's delivery? I ran a mail server when I was a kid, and I'm not sure I have the patience to do it again


I don't think I could ever go back to running an e-mail server again, given the continually evolving battle with convincing the major e-mail providers that your IP is legit (I'm looking at you AT&T!).


I wonder if you put job classifications along a spreadsheet's leftmost column (e.g. search in file, search in directory), and data types along a spreadsheet's topmost row (e.g. JSON file, macOS-based filesystem), would you end up finding gaps in the intersection of the columns and rows make these new tools you've created less surprising? For example, to "search a file" on a "macOS-based filesystem", you would naturally gravitate towards `grep`. Or to search the contents of a JSON file, you would maybe use `grep`, or perhaps `jq` and a well crafted query. Well, as you expand out the job classifications and data types (or some other abstraction), you start to realize where we don't have tools today. And then Claude can go and create those, perhaps even proposing a faster alternative!


> Or to search the contents of a JSON file, you would maybe use `grep`, or perhaps `jq` and a well crafted query

Try https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron.


I've never installed the ChatGPT app on my Mac until today. I ran the app, signed in, and I see the same.

% ls ~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/dependencies/native/libreoffice-headless

libreoffice manifest.json


On a Windows installation I see this:

    PS C:\Users\user> ls C:\Users\user\.cache\codex-runtimes\codex-primary-runtime\dependencies\native\
    Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
    ----                 -------------         ------ ----
    d-----         8/27/2026  10:09 AM                git
    d-----         6/16/2026   9:18 PM                jxrlib
    d-----         8/26/2026   7:37 PM                libheif
    d-----         6/17/2026   5:32 AM                poppler
    d-----         8/27/2026  10:09 AM                powershell
So doesn't seem bundled with all installs at least.


Is this perhaps because the aim is to read Office documents and there are (maybe, I don't know for sure) default components within Windows that can do that?


I don't think there are.

Even when you have the MS Office suite installed, it doesn't really provide a good interface for LLMs or automation, so AI tools don't really use it.


And libreoffice has some really useful and easy to use tools for document manipulation and creation hiding in the background.


It does provide a pretty good COM interface.

Codex always try Libreoffice first on my computer.


Notably: this did not exist after I installed the app, it existed after I ran the app and there was the long startup screen. Presumably, and I'm not sure I'm interested enough to redo it all and find out, that long startup screen involves the default skills plugins setting up their environment and one of those pulls it as a general app requirement.

I also saw this present after first run on macOS but not Windows.


I have had the Codex/ChatGPT app installed for a few months, and can confirm that there's a 422.9 MB file named LibreOfficeDev.app in the above path.

More notably, I don't use Computer Use or any of the fancy features, just Codex for agentic coding.


I logged in just to share the entire comment for you:

>The big milestone is when computers can read and understand information like humans do. There is a lot of work going on in this field - Google, Microsoft, Facebook, academia,... Right now computers don't know how to represent knowledge so they can't read a text book and pass a test.

>Another whole area is vaccines. We need a vaccine for HIV, Malaria and TB and I hope we have them in the next 10-15 years.



Yes? So not 9 years ago...


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