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A Show HN project called Die With Me packages Claude and Codex API rate-limit notifications into nostalgic AIM-style away messages. Users install a desktop app and use an invitation code to enable the feature, which surfaces usage limit warnings in a retro chat-client format instead of a plain error message.
GitLab is overhauling how it throttles requests on GitLab.com, moving from flat limits to caps tied to each subscription plan, applied per user and per top-level group. Free accounts and unauthenticated traffic hit the new limits on October 19, 2026, with two brownout previews on October 7 and 14; Premium and Ultimate users follow in January 2027. Unauthenticated requests, including automation hitting the API without credentials, will be capped at 60 requests per hour per IP regardless of account tier.
OpenAI has restored a rolling 5-hour usage cap for ChatGPT Plus and Business Standard subscribers, according to a user report on Hacker News. The change reportedly explains why usage limits have felt noticeably different compared to the prior week, with reset windows now covering much shorter spans than before.
Researchers from Meta AI and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign built EvoHarness-RL, a training framework that teaches a small 8-billion-parameter model to decide when to read, update, or consolidate information it gathers from its execution environment during long, multi-step tasks. Rather than following rigid, human-written scripts for tool use, the model learns to manage its own memory and error recovery, reportedly reaching performance comparable to Claude Opus 4.5 on complex agentic workflows.