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ratg13··on Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice
It might not be gluten (protein) that is affecting you, but the fructans (carbohydrates) that are found in wheat, rye, and barely which are high in FODMAPs.

Look into low-FODMAP diets if you haven't already.

ratg13··on First 6 days of Iran war cost $11.3B
Sadly this is just as much money as was stolen from taxpayers and transferred to "The Board of Peace"
ratg13··on Ask HN: How to be alone?
Go to where the people are.

Volunteer your time .. animal shelters, food kitchens, trash cleanups, habitat for humanity, or even just drop in to a nursing home .. there are tons of people that would also love to talk and share.

ratg13··on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
He wrote the code base that it is based on in combination with code he stole. The name is also based on an early name he chose for the software.

Whether he was involved in the organization and participated in it, is certainly up for debate, but it's not like he would admit it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4M

ratg13··on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
Not sure if you know the history behind it, but look up Paul Le Roux

Also would recommend the book called The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff

ratg13··on Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server
When I was 12-13, I attempted to download the entirety of a linux install CD this way because I was unaware of FTP clients.
ratg13··on China's genius plan to win the AI race is paying off
This article focuses on their education system .. but the thing that is going to push China ahead is their electrical grid.

The US would have to heavily invest in their grid for the next 10 years to reach where China is currently.

ratg13··on Postman to limit Free plan from 3 users to 1
Powershell

If you’re only 3 people or less just use a shared account .. or pay them if you use it significantly

ratg13··on There is no skill in AI coding
I think it’s mostly the difference between breaking things down into small focused parts .. and people who are trying to accomplish many features with a single prompt and just expecting the ai to read their mind.
ratg13··on Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
As a petty person I would at least attempt to push this through small claims court.

Add up the amount you lost moving to another platform, value your time appropriately, and submit your claim.

A judge will decide if it’s fair, and you can be awarded ~10k in most places.

If they don’t pay for some reason you can put a lien on their property.

ratg13··on 'Tesla is (still) trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF robotaxis'
Please read the article before commenting.

Tesla is claiming to operate automated taxis in California, where they are legally not allowed to do so.

They are trying to rebrand “Robotaxi” as a trademarked word that doesn’t mean driverless vehicle to fool investors.

Your anecdote is completely irrelevant to this conversation.

ratg13··on Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending
Your comment contains nothing but insults.

This is not a place for you to try and make yourself feel better by disparaging others.

ratg13··on OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia
Maybe someone is posting links to a webpage somewhere?

I don't have the exact question I asked it, but it was about the use of baby foreskin in beauty products.

I just asked it a similar and more simplified question: "are there beauty products that still use baby foreskin as an ingredient" .. and grok was 1/3 sources .. my initial question it was 3/6 sources.

Citations to pages like:

https://x.com/i/grok/share/2q3paAYZAsTD2OU5RAMxFEdid?utm_sou...

ratg13··on OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia
Recently I asked an obscure question and it thought for awhile and it gave me a lot of output with sources.

Over half the citations were from Grok .. not even grokipedia .. just “share” pages from questions other people asked.

ratg13··on Letting Claude play text adventures
It's very likely the model didn't stop to question if the game they were playing was something they knew already, and just assumed it was a puzzle created for it.
ratg13··on Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age – study (2025)
As a person who is uneducated on this, I’ve always wondered if it isn’t also something to do with large objects that have collided into in the past .. these things would essentially wipe out most everything on the ground planet and force things to re-evolve again and that is why we see similar patterns .. like Carcinisation [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

ratg13··on Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM
You sound like you had a murder down your block and you are scared (understandably), but if nobody else anywhere had any murders you should understand why they aren't scared.

My carrier lets me issue esims myself on their website. I can login, get a QR code, and scan it on my phone and the service just starts working.

Personally I find this preferable to having to go to a physical location, and the fact that I can issue a new sim card to myself anywhere in the world has been very helpful.

ratg13··on More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance
Nobody should be using AI as the final arbiter of anything.

It is a tool, and there always needs to be a user that can validate the output.

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That poor child.
ratg13··on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
With zero-click exploits you do not need access to the phone and it does not need to be unlocked.
ratg13··on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
option four, they used pegasus or similar to takeover the device with a 0 or 1-click installing memory resident malware
ratg13··on Ask HN: Why are certain communities like Reddit so anti-AI?
For every one person that uses AI correctly, there are 10,000 people using it incorrectly.

The problem with AI is that you have to already be an authority on the output to know whether it is right and usable or wrong.

Many people out there treat AI as the authority not even knowing whether the output is correct or not.

I know for me that AI has made programming easier for me, but at the same time made my job harder cleaning up other people’s “but the AI told me to do it” messes

ratg13··on AI, Wikipedia, and uncorrected machine translations of vulnerable languages
It's ironic that the "solution" to the problem is being driven by yet another person that isn't native to Greenland.

While they may be a Greenlandic teacher, it's almost assured that they are teaching western Greenlandic, which is similar to Canadian Inuktitut.

People in the East of Greenland speak a language that has similarities, but is different enough in vocabulary and sounds that it's often considered a separate language and not a dialect.

When people from East and West Greenland come together, they typically speak Danish because they can't understand each other in their own native language.

So we're talking about a country that has 55k people and a portion of them don't even speak the official language.. This guy would have no way of knowing whether something was written poorly by a computer or a poorly educated greenlandic native that maybe isn't so good with the official language.

Given that the majority of the country's citizens do not use the internet at all, it is not even clear what his solution is other than just deciding to be some sort of magic arbiter .. which is not realistic or sustainable.

ratg13··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
And I have seen them delete my entire environment including my backups due to them not following their own procedures.

Sure, if you configure offsite backups you can guard against this stuff, but with anything in life, you get what you pay for.

ratg13··on OpenAI, Jony Ive struggle with technical details on secretive new AI gadget
I think advertising is the problem being solved.

If they can make it remotely useful enough to allow you to record all of your conversations, that is extremely valuable to advertisers.

ratg13··on Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL
everything on this website is broken.

the video demo goes to postgressql.org, all of the purchase buttons go to postgres, the get access button doesn't work, you can't schedule a demo or even contact their sales team.

ratg13··on Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers
I ordered a quantity of o’reilly books from Amazon because that was the only outlet offered by them.

I received some real books, and several counterfeit copies. The same books weren’t even the same size, some also had thin pages, some yellow pages, and several with printing errors the others didn’t have.

Sadly I tried to contact the publisher and let them know about the counterfeit books in their listings and tried to warn them about what was going on, but their support people only wanted me to take it up with Amazon, and couldn’t understand how to escalate my concerns internally and just kept asking me if they could close the ticket.

Also Amazon refunds aren’t as smooth when you don’t live in the US and already paid customs duties on the counterfeit products, and the return shipping costs make returns prohibitively expensive.

I wouldn’t have even ordered from them in the first place if I could have avoided it.

I’m glad they are solving this problem, but I also kind of don’t want them to succeed because of their terrible legacy.

ratg13··on Reddit is blocking comments with em dashes assuming they're AI generated
Mods of /r/entrepenuer unaware that iOS and MacOS auto format -- as an em-dash
ratg13··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Rented apartments are just someone else's house.

These things being true does not negate the standard practice of respectful contract negotiation.

ratg13··on Apple Photos app corrupts images
This article is about importing photos from an SD card to MacOS
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