<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gabipurcaru</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gabipurcaru</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:23:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gabipurcaru" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "AGI is not multimodal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>multimodality would be very useful, but on the other hand humans can't see infrared, and can't smell ~most things that other animals can</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:46:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182700</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are multiple parts to it --<p>"The 2 May 2023, 6 months later, the regulation started applying and the potential gatekeepers had 2 months to report to the commission to be identified as gatekeepers. This process would take up to 45 days and after being identified as gatekeepers, they would have 6 months to come into compliance, at the latest the 6 March 2024.[8][32] From 7 March 2024, gatekeepers must comply with the DMA. [33]"<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:03:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815230</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Bad bots account for most internet traffic? Analysis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> people only do it when there's no API<p>Legitimate scrapers, maybe. Everyone else does it to circumvent the API limitations, by posing as real traffic. APIs imply API keys which can be traced and banned.</p>
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<p>this is fairly easy to test for yourself. What did you try?</p>
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<p>This is super fun! I did the same back in uni, it was an awesome project: <a href="https://github.com/bbpcr/Yomato">https://github.com/bbpcr/Yomato</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:35:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941991</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yep, I think it's quite standard. The BitTorrent protocol also uses it extensively : <a href="https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification#Bencoding" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification#Bencoding</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:16:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37583246</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37583246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37583246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Engineering Intensity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this also implies that you can train for more sustained intensity, which I think is absolutely true. You can become a brilliant engineer by finding the right balance of intensity and R&R, assuming this is what you want</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2023 16:07:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36655685</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36655685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36655685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Scientists claim >99 percent identification rate of ChatGPT content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As usual, journalists trying to explain what scientists do and misrepresenting the facts.<p>The paper mentions accuracy i.e. (true positives + true negatives) / total examples. And it's actually 100% accurate i.e. there are no false positives _or_ false negatives.<p>But the big caveats are:<p>1. this was tested only on 180 examples, which is a very very small dataset to draw conclusions on, and<p>2. this is obviously an adversarial space so any classifier will be obsolete with the next training run<p>I'm bearish on any attempt to distinguish real content vs. AI generated content (on any medium, text, image or anything else). This is an adversarial game and the AIs can incorporate your fancy algorithm to fool you better. In the end these projects only end up improving the AI models in terms of realism.</p>
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<p>people buy their stuff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2023 15:10:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36125778</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36125778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36125778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Microsoft is slowly rolling out ads in the Windows 11 start menu"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>well, to be fair, the app store has ads in search. When you search for app X, you're likely to see its competitor Y as the first result. (Though this is obviously not Jobs' doing.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 20:11:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35546055</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35546055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35546055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice. I'd be super interested in deeper AI integrations for note taking apps, to help you reach certain goals, e.g.:<p>- calorie counting or diets: just write down what you ate, and it should be good enough to compute calories, macros etc.<p>- gym logging: write down when you went to the gym and what you did, and it should give you tips, help you maintain your routine and other helpful things</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 16:25:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35304189</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35304189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35304189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm pretty sure wget has plenty more users in addition to Stallman</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 09:03:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35243965</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35243965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35243965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "GPT-4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is what they claim:<p>We did no specific training for these exams. A minority of the problems in the exams were seen by the model during training, but we believe the results to be representative—see our technical report for details.</p>
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<p>this looks nice and clean. Generally, the problem with these services is that they can easily be used for malicious purposes -- fronts for data exfiltration, scamming etc., so there will be some cost attached to responding to various queries and takedown requests<p><a href="https://mediasonar.com/2019/07/11/pastebins-data-breach/" rel="nofollow">https://mediasonar.com/2019/07/11/pastebins-data-breach/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:19:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27995562</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27995562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27995562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Clubhouse data leak: 1.3M user records leaked online for free"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same as the recent FB and Linkedin incidents. It's all scraped data. Doesn't mean that collecting public data at scale is not something bad</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:56:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769039</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My one contention with click menus is that clicking on _anything_ has a nonzero chance of accidentally navigating away from the page, depending on the particular website's implementation (and depending on whether the JS assets have finished loading). Hover menus are risk free in this regard</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2021 11:02:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26522207</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26522207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26522207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Facebook is gambling Australia can't do without it. What if we prove them wrong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The government says the code will initially focus on Google and Facebook, but could be expanded to other tech companies.<p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56107028" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56107028</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:01:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192660</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192660</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I'm not saying that companies shouldn't be able to suspend accounts temporarily. I'm simply saying that there needs to be a way to get your account unsuspended if you're innocent. The way it "works" now is that innocent consumers are without any recourse whatsoever.<p>This is absolutely spot on, with the caveat that you do need to disaggregate from accounts to people, which is the hard problem. Having people call a phone number is definitely not going to work as a way of achieving this disaggregation. I'm pretty sure I could create a system to bring that call center to a halt with fairly minimal cost in less than a week of coding.<p>As an attacker, you can also hire people in call centers to make phone calls at scale for you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:48:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26066055</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26066055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26066055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  How many innocents have to get caught in the crossfire before we start protecting them?<p>> Again, it's not a "request" [..] suspension notifications can also be automated.<p>Can you clarify what you mean by "protecting" them? I'm not sure suspension notifications qualify as meaningful protection</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:27:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26065774</link><dc:creator>gabipurcaru</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26065774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26065774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gabipurcaru in "Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>privacy, online safety, no false positives<p>Pick two.<p>Different companies do different trade-offs. The optimal solution depends on how the internet community weighs each individual axis</p>
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