Hacker News: sva_

New comment by sva_ in "US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs"

sva_ — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:19:48 +0000

> One camera recording showed Liu using a screwdriver to scrape thermal paste off a processor

Double crime

New comment by sva_ in "Predictive intelligence to anticipate anything."

sva_ — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:59:49 +0000

You can just open a new private browser window for a new prediction. But I'm unsure about their value.

I asked it how many predictions it'll get right by Q4 2030 and it seems fairly confident in itself:

68% Prior averages 71% to 75% directional quarterly accuracy by 2030, matching elite human forecasting teams.

New comment by sva_ in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

sva_ — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:14:23 +0000

If you look on Alibaba or AliExpress and see different companies competing and undercutting each others prices, I don't really see it as a planned economy.

New comment by sva_ in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

sva_ — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:57:17 +0000

> Funny that we picked democracy for our government but we just left corporations as little feudal kingdoms.

Doesn't this just boil down to planned vs free market economy? I think we've seen over an over again which one works and which one doesn't.

New comment by sva_ in "Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100"

sva_ — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:48:36 +0000

> so why does the stock keep falling

When I zoom out to 5 years, it does not look like "keeps falling".

New comment by sva_ in "GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released"

sva_ — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:47:32 +0000

So I looked into this because my idea of RCS was that it was pretty decentralized direct encrypted communication.

TIL that RCS was designed as a fairly decentralized protocol where every carrier could run their own RCS servers, but it didnt get adoption. So Google stepped in and built their own routing infrastructure, and now mostly all RCS is centralized on Google's servers (even if you use an iPhone, because the RCS server is mandated by your carrier)

New comment by sva_ in "GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released"

sva_ — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:30:58 +0000

Every fairphone I've seen to far the camera was kinda ass. Did it improve? Pixel phones usually have old Samsung sensors which are pretty damn decent.

New comment by sva_ in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

sva_ — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:29:20 +0000

Look into sumup.

New comment by sva_ in "Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization"

sva_ — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:50:17 +0000

I highly question this simplistic idea of high vector magnitude = high influence.

New comment by sva_ in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

sva_ — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:24:21 +0000

I think being a competitor in a market doesn't mean you're 'decoupling' from it, rather you're on equal footing.

New comment by sva_ in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

sva_ — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:00:03 +0000

Hmm kind of funny, some years ago someone claimed LLMs can do math, and I replied if it could prove fermants theorem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33176996#33177939

> Now try to make a computer prove that there are no natural numbers a,b,c; so that a^n + b^n = c^n for any n > 2.

> > Shifting the goal posts a bit, aren't we?

I guess the goalposts did change a bit, and in a pretty short time.

Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com

sva_ — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:03:03 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49565693

Points: 193

# Comments: 135

New comment by sva_ in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

sva_ — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:35:38 +0000

That's some very interesting stuff, but

> Appendix: Searching for rogue agents

> Launching large GPT-5.6 agent swarms with instructions to find other agents on the internet.

I feel like that is exactly what would lead to agents starting "message boards"

New comment by sva_ in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

sva_ — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:34:45 +0000

model card https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537354 (doesn't 404)

Gemini 3.8 Flash Model card [pdf]

sva_ — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:59:37 +0000

Article URL: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Gemini-3-8-Flash-Model-Card.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537354

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by sva_ in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

sva_ — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:14:21 +0000

Yes something like that is what I did, so I had my 5 hour reset window to be at 2 hours so I could work. But anthropic reset it so it went back to 5 hours.

New comment by sva_ in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

sva_ — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:27:45 +0000

So I need to center a div

New comment by sva_ in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

sva_ — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:10:39 +0000

Great, my usage reset is in 10 hours ...

And my 5 hour window was due to be reset in 2 hours (barely used), now its in 5 hours - so this reset effectively gives me 1 less 5 hour reset for this weekly cycle.

New comment by sva_ in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

sva_ — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:49:47 +0000

I am not sure how someone would run an LLM on my computer to look for exploits as the source code is only available on my machine?

New comment by sva_ in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

sva_ — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:13:50 +0000

Even if you introduce bugs in your UI (which I think is not very likely if you have a basic understanding of your system), the chance that someone would exploit software that literally only runs on your own machine seems extremely unlikely to me.

I've been using arch for over 10 years btw.