Hacker News: hsshah

New comment by hsshah in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

hsshah — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:35:53 +0000

interesting! Discovered any prompting best practices while iterating with nano banana?

New comment by hsshah in "FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal"

hsshah — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:55:27 +0000

Have you ever had to reply 'from' a random iCloud email? Is it possible?

I faced that with Costco support. My method is custom email on personal domain name. Had to setup email alias in gmail to do so. Was a pain.

New comment by hsshah in "AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server"

hsshah — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:41:17 +0000

Have you looked into their privacy/data collection policies?

Generally prefer local solutions but gave up on Pi-hole some time back after recurring issues. Currently using client-specific adguard; however the centralized management with nextdns is enticing.

New comment by hsshah in "Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news"

hsshah — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:44:33 +0000

Nice implementation. I like it.

In addition to source/topic customization that others have already mentioned; it would be nice to be able to ask follow up questions on a news story that one would like to know more.

New comment by hsshah in "Tart: VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework"

hsshah — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:23:34 +0000

After installing UTM, did your Mac experience a noticeable slow down, even when no VMs are running? It was frustrating enough for me to uninstall it altogether.

New comment by hsshah in "Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software"

hsshah — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:55:44 +0000

How does it compare with Arq Backup (for Mac)? It's a bummer that Arq has still not added support for Azure.

New comment by hsshah in "Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?"

hsshah — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 05:03:32 +0000

One more vote. This seems to help. Thank you for the suggestion. Now I am wondering if I should also turn off "Predictive" in the settings.

New comment by hsshah in "Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?"

hsshah — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 04:59:14 +0000

Same here. Been using an iPhone since 3s. Glad (not really) to see its not only me. I tried Pixel 2(?) for sometime in between and my typing accuracy / experience was better with it.

With all the so-called AI/ML being used, shouldn't the typing get better?!

New comment by hsshah in "Mullvad is now available on Amazon"

hsshah — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:55:42 +0000

ah.. Does WireGuard app have a widget or shortcut support?

New comment by hsshah in "Mullvad is now available on Amazon"

hsshah — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:22:55 +0000

Been using Mullvad for over 6 months now. Really like it. I wish they offer a way to whitelist streaming apps on iphone or atleast make a widget to make it easy to turn VPN on and off.

New comment by hsshah in "Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account"

hsshah — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:57:31 +0000

I have PiHole as well. How to verify that FB SDK requests are blocked by it?

New comment by hsshah in "Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows"

hsshah — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 22:50:01 +0000

Can I use Arq to backup disks connected to my airport extreme router? I don't have a desktop; will be installing it on my laptop. Can I schedule when to backup ?

New comment by hsshah in "AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5"

hsshah — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:54:11 +0000

As always, there is a relevant XKCD about this phenomenon.

http://xkcd.com/1425/

New comment by hsshah in "Moving on from Picasa"

hsshah — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:43:38 +0000

Have you figured out a way to have a shared (family) photo library? My wife and I use different iCloud accounts, are part of iCloud Family. However, I cannot setup a single shared library for all the kid's pictures we take.

New comment by hsshah in "SnappyData: OLTP and OLAP Database Built on Apache Spark"

hsshah — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 19:51:39 +0000

This can be great if it lives up to it's promise.

I could not find any performance numbers from real-life scale deployments. Will have to wait before giving a verdict.

New comment by hsshah in "iOS 9.3 Preview"

hsshah — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 22:53:15 +0000

Can this impact Kodi side-loading in tvOS?! I don't know if it relies on any 'private framework'

New comment by hsshah in "Evernote’s 5% problem offers a cautionary lesson to tech companies"

hsshah — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:57:38 +0000

Does it have something equivalent to Evernote Web Clipper? I rely on it heavily.

New comment by hsshah in "Scientists argue that beer motivated our ancestors to start grain farming"

hsshah — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:28:55 +0000

I saw this "documentary" a while back: "How Beer Saved the World" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832368/

I had to spend an hour on wikipedia afterwards to determine if it was a spoof or serious show! (I still don't know about some parts of it :)

New comment by hsshah in "A simple puzzle to tell whether you know what people are thinking"

hsshah — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 06:47:45 +0000

This post reminded me of the ideas discussed by Malcolm Gladwell in "The Tipping Point". IIRC, talks about highly networked individuals starting new trends.

New comment by hsshah in "Ritzy – A collaborative web-based rich text editor"

hsshah — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 19:28:40 +0000

Looks very promising. Been looking for Google Doc alternative for sometime now.

I realize that there is a commercial service aspect that is being worked on to provide server side hosting, however, how easy would it be to self host this on sandstorm.io?