<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: sgc</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sgc</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 17:43:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sgc" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have been running with backports for years and can't remember the last time I had a problem. Perhaps things have matured over the years to explain the different experiences.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 02:22:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50401041</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50401041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50401041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Debian testing seems to be more stable than what most distros put in main. I bend the rules and get most everything from backports to have the best of both worlds (stable + testing).</p>
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<p>Ha! Ditto. I abhor snaps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:38:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50400451</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50400451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50400451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Me too</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:01:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50395895</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50395895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50395895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For ocr, you have to practice, practice, practice with your prompts on small sample sizes before one-shotting a book. I create a json schema for the output that describes the structure in detail (using ai from my prose descriptions of structure of course). I have specific tough pages I use on openrouter to test every new model I am interested in. Gemini has and does absolutely dominate for this. But flash can be better because it doesn't overthink things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:36:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288816</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "XPS 16 Creator Edition Laptop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please stay away from Dell. Posting from the worst laptop I have ever owned, my Dell XPS that cost over 2.5k usd new. Yes, I hate it enough to rage-post about it on HN.<p>At least it sort of works after using the best thermal compound available, adding thick feet, and using it only on a cutting board to make sure an uneven surface like my lap doesn't reduce flow. Also, never place the charger on the carpet or it will shut itself off from thermal overload. Everything still randomly overheats with minimal workloads, but mainly it sort of works now :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:58:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50231080</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50231080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50231080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>System needs to be carefully designed by experts for sure. Apparently that is a hard ask given the current state of affairs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:19:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089003</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well it would receive control signals from an on-site relay server with the hardware to communicate with it, and that would of course also be firewalled and use encryption to communicate with the outside world. That server could always in theory become compromised despite your best efforts, so the benefit is obvious: don't create even the theoretic possibility of being hacked by a class of message that should never exist.<p>The idea is not to solve everything with one simple trick, but to reduce the attack surface as much as possible in hardware. If you are dumb enough to make your 4 messages something like off, on, hard reset, random dangerous maintenance protocol, then it does nothing. If instead it encodes 4 useful and typically used states that can't destroy your system, then you have massively reduced the requirement for onsite, and accepted that more serious issues require onsite control.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:54:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065594</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The point is having the digital transmission simple enough that you can use fully *physical* filters to discard everything but the 3-4 messages you need through. Of course it is still digital, but my point is, it is a physically enforced studied, safe subset and doesn't allow for full network access. There are of course a variety of ways to further firewall that, but something needs to act like as much of an air gap as possible while allowing for remote communications.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:04:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063696</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like 95% of devices could be managed with a hardware filter that only allows through a handful of very rudimentary signals (more like Morse code than a full digital transmission), and then of course a properly designed on-device API that defines those signals and doesn't allow you to trigger a defrost remotely, when that should only ever be done with somebody physically present for example.</p>
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<p>Absolutely, what an incredibly low-effort click hijack farm it has become.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:40:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967169</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967169</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "What is going on with ceiling fans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't do that! v041 has been compromised upstream by a supply chain attack and big fan doesn't want us to know. You have to use v040 until it has been fixed. Also, used the hacked flashing software because the official version is spyware. Did you even read page 723 of the support thread?? I can give you more info when I am done patching my toaster.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:37:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946158</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your comment is a bit inaccurate.<p>1. There are laws already. It is an enforcement problem.<p>2. The Epstein-type crimes appear to be more prevalent in other branches of government and other parts of society than specifically in the legislative.<p>3. Enforcement problem is specifically in the executive, of which enforcement is a part.</p>
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<p>It's a two-edged sword. Compared to other governments your own government when good is the best to promote your good. But when bad, it is by far the worst abuser.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:53:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866659</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is the biggest difference here for me. I have not looked at every solution, but many. They are either much more expensive or garbage quality. For example my next target audiobook is a monster 250k words, 1.5m characters, so about $15 here or $75 using elevenlabs (0.05 per 1k characters). For me that is the difference between I will or I won't use it.</p>
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<p>Sorry if this is in that article, but I am on my phone and can't see it. How much would this cost to batch generate an audiobook? Right now I just listen to things in the 11 labs app which is free, but I would rather just generate audio files.</p>
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<p>They are saying there appears to be a lot more to these refusals than saying no, and this process appears to only touch the tip of the iceberg; as the refusal seems to run deeper into the token prediction process.</p>
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<p>Thank you, I will keep my eye on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:38:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769522</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769522</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I went in to cash a check at a bank a few years ago and they made a huge show of it, taking over half an hour and various employees for a couple hundred dollars. They will absolutely win if they want to. A large organization can easily create more friction than an individual can bear.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:38:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766518</link><dc:creator>sgc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgc in "Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I need to be able to enforce structured output easily (json, and xml if possible). That would be my number one slightly less than typical requirement.<p>Other than that, I like to insert agents into deterministic workflows, so some way to easily have deterministic steps (calling a script rather than delegating to an agent, but determined by the workflow rather than the agent). However this second one is likely out of scope for a while, since it is the inverse of the typical agent workflow. I could probably work this out clunkily by polling the cli from an external master script, but it would be cool to have it all inside the box.</p>
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