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Vol. 2026 · No. 182
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Wed · Jul 1 · 2026
The stack 4 picks · curated
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Hacker News 662 c · 2254 pts

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

Inspecting the Claude Code binary (v2.1.196), a developer found a function that silently swaps the apostrophe in “Today’s” and the date separator in the system prompt for look-alike Unicode characters — a steganographic marker triggered when ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL is set and the timezone or hostname matches a base64-encoded list of (largely Chinese proxy/reseller and rival-lab) domains, letting the backend flag requests routed through third-party gateways.

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Marginal Revolution 2h

Civilian supersonic flights are being legalized in the U.S.

The U.S. DOT proposed replacing the decades-old ban on overland supersonic flight — a hard speed limit — with a noise-based standard, the first update to civil supersonic rules since the 1970s and a potential reopening of domestic supersonic travel.