Hacker News: Gigachad

New comment by Gigachad in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

Gigachad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:02:43 +0000

I just flag as spam in my email client and it takes care of all future emails.

New comment by Gigachad in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

Gigachad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:40:04 +0000

At least all of the ones I have tried work locally. I’ve entered airplane mode and things like magic eraser in images works fine.

New comment by Gigachad in "State of Homelab 2026"

Gigachad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:01:15 +0000

iMessage doesn't require you to store history in icloud, it can just store everything locally if you want. But yes, I'd rather not have stored history, or the option to pay for storage than to have all media crushed beyond recognition.

A few times I've wanted to print something and found it was sent over an IM app and compressed to 100kb rendering it useless.

New comment by Gigachad in "State of Homelab 2026"

Gigachad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:23:24 +0000

It is so sad how with the internet we have accepted terrible media quality. Instant messaging and social media reduces photos to 1MP and heavily compressed. It's fine for a photo or meme you are only looking at once and scrolling past. But if it's something you'd want to save, the quality is garbage.

I'd honestly rather apps stop providing hosted media and just do the delivery, let me worry about backing up history. iMessage seems to be the only one sending things in full quality.

New comment by Gigachad in "State of Homelab 2026"

Gigachad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:20:45 +0000

I self host for privacy, which makes me feel uncomfortable about all my private data sitting unencrypted on a server I don't control. It's better in that you don't have fully automated google AI scanning your data, but it's still exposed. None of the self hosted apps are designed with e2e encryption in mind so you'd be better off using icloud.

New comment by Gigachad in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

Gigachad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:02:40 +0000

These are software/cloud features. You can install gemini on iphone if you want to talk about towers in Chicago.

The only reason to care about it being OS integrated is to interact with functions of the OS, which siri does fine.

New comment by Gigachad in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

Gigachad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:01:15 +0000

We still aren't going to be putting 200gb ram on a phone in a couple years to run those local models.

New comment by Gigachad in "State of Homelab 2026"

Gigachad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:56:02 +0000

Software wise I find stuff pretty easy to set and forget. It's hardware that's always been the issue for me. When your power or internet goes out, everything goes down. While you move property, every thing is down. Currently my server has developed an issue with randomly crashing and rebooting I haven't been able to resolve yet.

Using a VPS entirely removes the hardware aspect, but it also mostly defeats the point of self hosting.

New comment by Gigachad in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

Gigachad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:22:59 +0000

People like features, benefits, and outcomes. AI isn't a feature, it's a technology that can enable features. But it's being marketed as the only thing that matters.

The user does not give two shits if the new laptop "has AI". This is how Apple has been killing it lately, they market the macbooks being powerful, cheap, with long batteries, and a premium feel. Things the user cares about. Most of the stuff marketers are just blanket labeling "AI" will eventually be shuffled to the background and rebranded with a more specific term to highlight the feature being delivered rather than the fact it's AI".

New comment by Gigachad in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

Gigachad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:59:02 +0000

Apple will just drip feed locally running models that enable minor conveniences. They will probably drop the Apple Intelligence label later and just have things with their own names like "magic eraser".

New comment by Gigachad in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

Gigachad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:56:21 +0000

For consumers AI has anti hype right now. It's off-putting to see consumer products slapped with a hundred AI labels. I see people talk about how you can turn off all of Apple Intelligence with one toggle rather than hundreds on Samsung.

Firefox is also marketing how easy it is to disable AI.

New comment by Gigachad in "How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home"

Gigachad — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:18:54 +0000

And for pm2.5, at least in Australia, it’s entirely generated from cooking. Outside air is very clean.

New comment by Gigachad in "How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home"

Gigachad — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:16:31 +0000

It’s quite intuitive to think about. The entire tread of the tire becomes ground up plastic dust. Cars burn through significantly more KGs of tires in a year than a bicycle.

New comment by Gigachad in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

Gigachad — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:54:13 +0000

Sam and related spend half their lives on TV poking the bear laughing about how he is going to use his tech to ruin peoples lives and there is nothing they can do about it. Some of those people have nothing to lose.

New comment by Gigachad in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

Gigachad — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:55:52 +0000

Also “responsibility” and “accountability” mean little for anon contributors from the internet. You can ban them but a thousand more will still be spamming you with slop.

New comment by Gigachad in "CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised"

Gigachad — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:20:48 +0000

Software is the one thing I won't pirate since the risk of installing malware is extremely high. For media files, unless you are incredibly unlucky and someone is exploiting a bug in the media player, you are entirely safe. But for software you have no way of knowing how the software has been tampered with, and often there actually is malware in it.

New comment by Gigachad in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

Gigachad — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:04:38 +0000

I feel like it’s “easier” with space math because there’s so little to interfere with the course. With a golf ball, the basic math is easy, but the slightest bit of wind throws it off way beyond the acceptable error, and you can’t model all the wind perfectly.

New comment by Gigachad in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

Gigachad — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:27:50 +0000

No one considers anything in these tech companies. It’s all some bot automatically banning people who are then faced with a brick wall looking for a contact to get unbanned.

New comment by Gigachad in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

Gigachad — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:26:03 +0000

I spent 20 minutes trying to log in to Teams on my phone today and I just couldn’t. After my username and password, it would redirect to Microsoft Authenticator, then ask me to create a passkey for some reason, show a loader, and then bug out and restart the flow in an infinite loop.

I’m being told we are in the incredible age of fully automated AI programming and yet Microsoft can’t even get login to work.

New comment by Gigachad in "Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming"

Gigachad — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:47:49 +0000

I had a go at setting up the devkitpro stuff and building a demo that I run on my DS. It’s surprisingly easy to do and kinda neat.