Hacker News: vzaliva

New comment by vzaliva in "Person of Interest"

vzaliva — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 16:57:07 +0000

I've read somewhere that creators wanted to make a show about AI but they have to disguise it is crime show to sell to the network.

New comment by vzaliva in "The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo"

vzaliva — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:30:34 +0000

Theress a bug. That happens. Reporting it should take way less time than writing a sarcastic blog post ("I haven't filed a bug because we aren't Canonical's free debugging resource"). It's open source, so I think reporting bugs or submitting a PR is just good citizenship.

New comment by vzaliva in "How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?"

vzaliva — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:14:50 +0000

I really hate such clickbait titles. When I read it, the assumption was that the Fable model would hide some information in watermarked images by default. This would be very concerning from a privacy point of view.

What the article is actually about is how the authors instructed Fable to do so.

New comment by vzaliva in "What Is Gridifcation"

vzaliva — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:43:27 +0000

I bet the same is happening with writing, at least with technical and academic. Automated grammar checkers and AI correctors bland the language by enforcing strict grammar. Whereas a slight departure from standard grammar and punctuation is something that could give writing character and personality.

New comment by vzaliva in "Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier"

vzaliva — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:41:49 +0000

It reaffirms that Ukrainians are:

1. very advanced with drones 2. caring about their soldiers

Disclaimer: I am a proud Ukrainian.

New comment by vzaliva in "Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux"

vzaliva — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:33:55 +0000

it was very slow, and I had to re-authenticate often. I want something like dropbox daemon, which mounts drive and syncs it. Set up once and forget. Since I have not found anything like this for Proton I am still using Dropbox for some synced data.

New comment by vzaliva in "Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model"

vzaliva — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:14:08 +0000

In fact I did. I multilingual and ocassinally query ChatGPT and Claude in other languges than English.

New comment by vzaliva in "Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model"

vzaliva — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:28:06 +0000

"Languages: German and English" – this is odd. That means their dataset is limited. In my understanding, frontier models are trained on multilingual datasets and can combine knowledge no matter what language it was written in.

New comment by vzaliva in "ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy"

vzaliva — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:11:02 +0000

In my experience, ArXiv has become too slow to publish. My previous paper took weeks to be approved. It was a recommended path for journal submission (posting to a public repository and submitting a link), and after waiting a long time, I just posted it on hal.science instead, and it was up in a day.

Another one of mine has been on hold for 18 days and counting.

I think it is a great service to the community, but clearly they are having a scalability problem.

New comment by vzaliva in "Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography"

vzaliva — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:10:30 +0000

I expect in the near future all digital cameras to digitally sign the images they take. Even before AI slop, it was useful to avoid manual alterations. AI makes it all too easy, so it makes sense.

However, this will certify only the original image. I think the missing part of this is additional layers of certification which allow some image editing (e.g., rotating, contrast, etc.) yet clearly document that the image was modified and link to the original image ID. Kind of like a signed git log.

New comment by vzaliva in "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"

vzaliva — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:48:10 +0000

I've used this to install some 3rd party skills: https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills It allows to install and update skills.

Caveat: It works for Claude Code and Codex, but does not work for Claude Desktop.

New comment by vzaliva in "Hister – A private, full content search index that you control"

vzaliva — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:40:40 +0000

I was thinking about making a "personal data search engine". I have almost 30GB of email archives and a bunch of Google Drive and offline files. I am thinking about downloading it all from the cloud and storing it on a large RAID array, with an indexing and search interface (and possibly a local MCP server).

Would Hister be suitable for this? Can it index mbox files? Would it handle this amount of data? Does it have a search API so I can build an MCP server?

New comment by vzaliva in "Cursor Origin"

vzaliva — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:21:48 +0000

I’ve finally cancelled my Cursor subscription. It was an interesting product, but the fact that most interesting features only work with per-token pricing, not Cursor and Codex subscriptions, is a bummer. As to their Composer models, they were good for simpler coding tasks, but after the company purchase, they will probably end up merged with Grok, and I do not want to pay nor contribute to Elon Musk’s businesses.

New comment by vzaliva in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

vzaliva — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:20:35 +0000

Imagine all licence plates being small screens and periodically showing numbers derived from a private key issued by the DMV. As they change, vehicles could not be tracked without knowing the private key, yet the DMV can verify the ownership because they know one. I am not a crypto expert, and the actual scheme may be a bit more sophisticated, but you’ve got the idea.

New comment by vzaliva in "Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon"

vzaliva — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:08:36 +0000

You nailed it: there is a conflict between surface area (wanting more for solar charging) and efficiency (you want it to be aerodynamic and light, hence less area for solar charging).

I also think an extendable canopy (for a car, not a bike) should be a better approach. I wonder if anyone tried it.

New comment by vzaliva in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

vzaliva — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:19:57 +0000

I do not know any EU-only, but ProtonMail is in Switzerland.

New comment by vzaliva in "Building on ATProto"

vzaliva — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:17:05 +0000

The intention is good. I like the reviews idea. Since the author has hit the limitations of ATProto, could ActivityPub be an answer?

New comment by vzaliva in "FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers"

vzaliva — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:30:12 +0000

The missing integration point is reading progress. The killer feature (for me) of Kindle is that I can have several devices and continue reading on any of them with my position in the book synced. I want that across different readers.

For example, if I buy now Xtelink X4 for reading ‘on the go’, there is no easy way to switch back to a larger device for more comfortable reading at home.

New comment by vzaliva in "Phosh 0.56.0"

vzaliva — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:31:08 +0000

This is a good example of a poor web site design. If you, like me, do not know what Phosh is and go to their website, it will tell you not much beyond "A user interface for your mobile phone," which could mean pretty much anything. Is it a UI level on top of Android? Is it an idependent mobile OS? How it is better that competition? What are key features and design goals?

New comment by vzaliva in "Choosing a Public DNS Resolver"

vzaliva — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:45:01 +0000

Comcast + Netflix. My personal experience few years ago: switched to 8.8.8.8 DNS at home and my Netflix streaming become extrelemly slow.