Hacker News: gaia

New comment by gaia in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

gaia — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 11:46:59 +0000

PS: wouldn't it be nice to actually be able to ping his DID from anywhere?

New comment by gaia in "Google can now read your WhatsApp messages"

gaia — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:25:26 +0000

On Pixel phones, it is possible to disable the app "AICore" https://i.imgur.com/BKJWFaj.png. I assume this disables Gemini also. I will confirm and write back.

New comment by gaia in "I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days"

gaia — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 10:48:18 +0000

Agreed it is a step above the rest, but I find that it still needs some oversight you'd hope it doesn't. Simple stuff like rewriting stuff differently which yields the same result (to the naked eye, no need to even test it), to having to call it out when it misses things (update other scripts with the same problem, reflect the changes in the README or requirements.txt) and to ask it to try harder to solve an issue in a better way.

Sometimes it takes the easy way out. If you look up your billing, you will see sometimes it uses the 3.5 instead of the 3.7 API, maybe this has something to do with it. It apologies ("you are correct", "yes that was hasty") but I'd rather have it try harder every time, not only when called out (and foot the bill that goes with that ofc).

But overall the experience is great. I hope to use it for a few months at least until something else comes along. At the current pace, I switch subscriptions/API/tool at least once a month.

New comment by gaia in "Learning not to trust the All-In podcast"

gaia — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:27:13 +0000

Wait, it gets worse: https://x.com/laurenbalik/status/1853850363004063977

-David Sacks bankrolled a company called Done Global. The "CEO" Ruthia He is a Chinese national with absolutely no medical experience. Very quickly, this turned into prescriptions for dead people, medspas doling out Adderall, the Chinese sharing health data about Americans as the whole back office was in China. Plenty of these narcotics ended up on the street, which was always the goal.

The CEO and several others are awaiting trial. They caught David Sacks-backed Ruthia He trying to flee to China about a month ago, and now she's back in jail.

-David Sacks had a whole money laundering operation set up around Eaze. His guy Keith McCarty left Eaze to found a payments system company (to support Eaze) and they have Keith McCarty with crack cocaine, prostitutes, and firearms rooming with a guy named Hamid Arkhavan involved in the Wirecard fraud, running up transactions to facilitate money laundering through porn sites. Eaze was a big advertiser on these sites to clear money laundering transactions.

-Earlier this year, conservative influencer Dave Rubin was caught up in a money laundering racket after he and his people were receiving payments from Russian assets, and the Russian fled the US overnight. Dave Rubin is another David Sacks-backed founder. Rubin was co-founder of the company Locals, which is extremely crappy Web 1.0 software used to facilitate payments to influencers. David Sacks sold this Locals plus his other company Callin, to Rumble $RUM and took a Board seat at Rumble.

There. Right there you have 3 David Sacks-backed founders all directly tied to money laundering and/or drug trafficking. Ruthia He. Keith McCarty. Dave Rubin.

Those are just the main ones with some amount of legal/media coverage on them, but there are more.

You still think Sacks is "just" a VC? The VC stuff is a front.

This isn't tech. This is the Mafia. Sacks just throws the word "software" over it to obfuscate it, but too many people have figured this out now.

He got too cocky after he and Lonsdale "lost" a bunch of foreign money with Hyperloop.

His prancing around is like watching an animal in a cage. He's got to negotiate his way out of this regardless.

New comment by gaia in "IPMI"

gaia — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:18:18 +0000

ASRock IPMI, at least on X570D4U Ryzen 5000, is unusable. You can't turn on the firewall allow only specific IPs, it blocks everything. They said they have a beta firmware (> 01.39.00) to solve this, but it doesn't. Had to purchase a Spyder to add to the machine.

Supermicro's BMC UI on X11 does feel like 2004, but it is decently reliable. On the H13 series is even more stable and doesn't feel outdated.

New comment by gaia in "Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors"

gaia — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:37:35 +0000

Sorry, the IQ/brain capacity/"insert a term that you are comfortable" with here required to be a lawyer is much higher than to be a real estate agent. It is much more accessible to the avg person to do at least 80% of the work an agent does, especially on the buy side. And count on AI doing 100% of it, on both buy and sell sides, much better and cheaper than real estate agents, in a matter of a couple of years, if not months.

The main reason RE agents play a significant role is the artificial stronghold around the MLS. It's not their Nobel prize winning brains providing irreplaceable services.

New comment by gaia in "Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off"

gaia — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 09:19:56 +0000

Unfortunately Trilium, the closest option to Evernote (as opposed to Notion), doesn't have an Android client (there is one to send notes but not search/read).

Looks like Joplin is the one checking all the right boxes (added plus of being able to sync via OneDrive, which is free, and with E2E I don't care which cloud it sits on)

New comment by gaia in "Google Search Is Dying (2022)"

gaia — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:19:51 +0000

Countdown until someone builds a site that only appends "inurl:reddit.com" to every query and calls it Roogle.

New comment by gaia in "Choose your status game wisely"

gaia — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 02:02:41 +0000

This reminds me much of the Dutch society. Although I'm not Dutch, I've lived there twice, and I frequented both old, new and no money circles. What struck me the most among Dutch was how similar a blue collar worker and the president of KLM would look riding a bike down the street.

New comment by gaia in "Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it"

gaia — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:29:05 +0000

Is there something you could say about complementing Defender with paid MalwareBytes? Is there too much overlap to justify this? Or is performance hindered more than the additional benefit accrued (not that I feel it, system is responsive enough)?

New comment by gaia in "Google's Abandoned Android Authenticator App"

gaia — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 05:54:36 +0000

Surprised there (this far) no mention of Authenticator Plus (https://www.authenticatorplus.com/) here. I welcome scrutiny of this option (but I am not affiliated in any capacity with them)

New comment by gaia in "Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018)"

gaia — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:23:40 +0000

If you NEED extensions, you should consider Vivaldi. Chrome engine, but doesn't require login to google and has better default privacy settings.

New comment by gaia in "Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised"

gaia — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 01:30:11 +0000

Thank for the update, David. Would this be an affected store? https://us.images.linuxcontainers.org/images/ubuntu/bionic/a...

New comment by gaia in "The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack"

gaia — Thu, 23 May 2019 15:08:25 +0000

You can use Authenticator Plus, which cloud syncs your 2FA DB on every add/delete/update you make to any of your 2FA accounts.

New comment by gaia in "Leaving Google Fi"

gaia — Mon, 20 May 2019 06:46:08 +0000

International roaming at no extra cost is great, but if you leave Google Fi you can pay for that when you needed it.

The real reason to stick with Google Fi is: it's the only carrier (ok, MNVO) that requires 2FA for a SIM swap.

New comment by gaia in "Warp – Mobile VPN"

gaia — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:49:19 +0000

@eastdakota, I have 1.1.1.1 at router level but when I installed the app it told me I wasn't using 1.1.1.1.

Is this by design or there is possibly something wrong with my router's DNS setup?

New comment by gaia in "I stopped using Intercom"

gaia — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:02:14 +0000

Could they be as bad as NewRelic sales people?

New comment by gaia in "Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking"

gaia — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:57:24 +0000

I've switched to the Vivaldi browser after all these privacy undermining "features" Google has been rolling out.

But I am happy Android now allows setting your own DNS - you are no longer restricted to Google DNS. I am waiting for X-Privacy to be made available for Android 9.

Apple products are not an option for me. It's Linux, Windows and Android in my world.

Synesthesia: Detecting Screen Content via Remote Acoustic Side Channels [pdf]

gaia — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 19:16:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/synesthesia/synesthesia.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17921041

Points: 3

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New comment by gaia in "Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed"

gaia — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:55:15 +0000

Let the benchmarks roll in...

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/L1TF-perf

An estimation of man hours spent on this issue outside Intel

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-publishes-l1tf-and-foresh...

Thought frequently mentioned, Phoronix did not run a benchmark comparing before and after application of the microcode update. Excerpt: To note, no microcode changes/updates were made to the systems under test for this article, just testing/comparing the kernel patches (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=l1tf-for...)