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22 Sept, 19:50
Re: Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazyI doubt John Ternus will change direction anytime soon, since it will look like he’s reversing the plethora of eyesore ads that Tim Cook added over his tenure.But the Apple with ads is not the Apple that had some taste and discernment in the past. For a long time I’ve visited the App Store’s app update page directly (tap and hold on App Store icon to see the context menu option). Anytime I inadvertently go to the App Store home page or the few times I search, it’s an ad filled disaster!From this article> repeatedly attempting to prod customers towards even more of the company’s products might seem cheap, even distasteful.From a recent post by John Gruber:> Steve Jobs in 2011: 'We Build Products That We Want for Ourselves, Too, and We Just Don't Want Ads' [1]Looks like Tim Cook, John Ternus and EddyHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 19:20
Re: I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB> About 20 Markdown files described browser use, connectors, payments, credentials, data handling, generated files, voice, goals, and scheduling.This the state of software engineering in 2026.Edit: clarified engineering to software engineering, which is more correcttolugenius, 4 hours agoHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 17:35
Re: Claude Opus 5.5> Claude Opus 5.5 is our first release since we called for pacing the frontier.Interesting how the very first line is used to remind the reader of their call to pace the frontier just last week, and everything else after that line is to demonstrate with very specific numbers how they absolutely are not pacing.sailingparrot, 49 minutes agoHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 16:50
Re: AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will YouThe problem imo is the slow deterioration of institutional knowledge that offloading the mental task of wisdom gathering to AI is causing.One interesting comparison is to the history of manufacturing. West/America decided one day that manufacturing would be cheaper to outsource and better (short term) profit was to be made by outsourcing it all to China. The institutional expertise started to deteriorate, to the point that America simply didn't even have the capacity, or expertise anymore to produce stuff (such as grill brush [1])I feel like you could take all the handwavy comment that are made today to dismiss this caution, and find equal dismissal back then when companies were actively outsourcing the manufacturing."I'm coding 10x faster" "look at the output velocity per employee""we are producing much more (in China)" "look at profitHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 15:05
Re: Attention is all you haveBookmarks died because most humans are allergic to having to do bookkeeping and cleanup tasks that are incidental to what they really want to do.We see that over and over again, in a bunch of non-tech fields. My kids never want to clean up their toys; they will pull out new ones, but it is a struggle to get them into the habit of putting the old ones away first. My parents used to keep a notebook with every gas fill-up they made; nobody born after about 1990 does that anymore. We were taught how to balance a checkbook in elementary school; basically nobody does that anymore, we put everything on autopay and if you are diligent you check a statement or import it into Quicken once a month (most people don't even do that, they have no idea what they are spending and predictably, usually no money left over). GMail succeeded because instead of putting yourHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 14:20
Re: I said no and Apple said yesBecause Mac laptops are lightyears ahead of any other hardware.Build quality (aluminum), charging (magsafe), screen resolution, battery life, noise (or lack thereof), trackpad…It’s like other vendors aren’t even trying.Also the OS mostly “just works”, just last week my Linux laptop disabled NVIDIA GPU (and almost bricked itself?? Not sure, had to fix apt) during automated updatestomp, 4 hours agoHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 13:20
Re: I don't want to read what you didn't writeIt's funny, i push back on pull requests because there is too much description now - a 20 line change has pages and pages of generated description, rationalisation for why it is safe, defense of each design decision, analysis of risks and side effects. People are indignant, you're rejecting my change because there is too much documentation? And my response is, I don't have time to read it and you put me in the position where I can't afford not to - because approving the PR implies I did and accepted it. The investment to read all that for the value of a code change that I'm one prompt away from doing myself if I cared is just not high enough. So it's rejected.zmmmmm, 14 hours agoHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 13:20
Re: I said no and Apple said yesNot trying to start flamewars, but more and more I wonder how much are people willing to put up with such practices. On linux for 15+ years and everytime I try to use mac or win, it is an ordeal. And ads. Fcking ads in a system someone has purchased. And spying. Really user hostile environment. No, thank you.vitro, 4 hours agoHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 11:35
Re: Attention is all you haveThe Mosaic browser (1993) had full text history search.We then got a bookmark system that was every bit as terrible as a web directory.It stayed that way. The delicious search revenue made organizing websites uninteresting. That obscure website you enjoyed a decade ago but don't even remember, they had lots of traffic like you. No point updating or keeping it online. You can't have rss in Firefox but here is a Facebook like button in your address bar in stead.I've tried to maintain the bookmark menu but I rarely use it since everything is dead. Why aren't browsers storing a text version of the bookmark? Did people in 1993 have more resources than us? Should I be afraid it grows to a few GB over the decades?A good few dead websites have a backup some place but there is no automation to find it. If you had a string of text from a page you might beHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 10:50
Re: AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep upA good chunk of what my company has been doing with AI falls into either burning down our known tech-debt and "easy wins" that no one ever had the bandwidth to approach... And improving / automating our processes. The former is having a direct and meaningful impact on the quality and availability of our services.Our QA, formerly a fairly frequent blocker of all our releases, are doing more in-depth reviews and catching issues earlier in our release process. They have become unblocked to the point they are actively chasing down work that starts to slip.We have cleaned up and tuned both our security alerts and operations logs and improved our tenant isolation in our service in a way that makes customer and formal audits SIGNIFICANTLY easier.We're setting ourselves up for faster human development of theHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 08:05
Re: Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on MacI want the disk space taken from the models back.I will never touch this garbage and would rather use the disk space I purchased to be used for my purposes, not the industry's pointless fad bubble endeavors.VCFundedGenYer, 13 hours agoHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 02:20
Re: Xiaomi MiMo v2.6Anyone else more excited about Chinese models than American models these days? Big thing for me is affordability.lwansbrough, 5 hours agoHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 02:20
Re: I don't want to read what you didn't writeAs I have been saying for years:Writing is fundamentally the transfer of information from your brain to my brain. If you have 1000 bits of semantic information you want to transfer, you can't give 300 bits of semantic information to an LLM and have it fill in the remaining 700, because it doesn't know what those 700 bits are. If it's able to guess those 700 bits correctly, then they aren't true semantic information, and you really only have 300 bits you want to transfer. You might as well transfer those bits to me directly, rather than having the LLM add on an extra superfluous 700 bits that I then have to filter out.hatthew, 4 hours agoHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 02:05
Re: AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep upHere's my constant question:Everyone's going so fast that they keep hitting walls. Review, CI, product asking for things, whatever.Why have we not seen an improvements in products?While every post and thread feels like a 90's wall street office, the new android and iphone ship with fewer features than usual. No indie guys come up with a linux-sized alternative OS. Switch 2 remains unhacked. Windows takes 3 seconds to show the right click menu.Is everyone just running full speed in circles or something?torben-friis, 5 hours agoHN Best Comments
22 Sept, 01:20
Re: US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cutIt happens. There use to be a joke during the first big DC build out phase that went like if you're ever going into the wilderness take a 1ft length of fiber optic cable with you. If you get lost bury it and a back hoe operator will appear and sever it within an hour. You can get a ride back with them.chasd00, 4 hours agoHN Best Comments
21 Sept, 22:35
Re: Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in AugustThe Office of Weights and Measures exists because, long before any of us were born, in 1836, companies were up to shady shit and consumers were paying for inconsistent products. I.E. Being scammed.AI companies should be subject to the OWM like any other company that sells a product that varies in weight. Perhaps when a sane administration is re-elected; one that can read history books and comprehend why our regulations exist in the first place. Or have even a semblance of respect for its citizenry.jesse_dot_id, 5 hours agoHN Best Comments
21 Sept, 22:20
Re: The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceledAnyone wanting to be involved in the future of scientific research should probably start learning Mandarin. We're going the way of the Soviets, where political officers will quash any science that doesn't fit their ideology. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/trump-planning-to-ha...notabee, 2 hours agoHN Best Comments
21 Sept, 22:20
Re: Xiaomi MiMo v2.6I know we have strong views on what a truly open model is (open weights, open training data, open training code etc.) but I really like how transparent they’ve been about the training of this model.The realtime dashboard they shared during training (https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/) was an incredible learning and teaching tool for me, and they’ve been unusually comprehensive in sharing details about their methodology (check out that tech report - it's got lots of clever behind the scene tricks like Google or Deepseek writeups) and benchmark scores (even the stuff they didn’t do well on).If you’re releasing an open model going forward, please consider offering the community more of this transparency!rao-v, 2 hours agoHN Best Comments
21 Sept, 21:50
Re: The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceledThis article only obliquely mentions in the last paragraphs, but there's a parallel Chinese program that recently brought back samples from the moon, and will attempt Mars sample return, launching in 2028,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwen-3peri-cl, 2 hours agoHN Best Comments
21 Sept, 21:05
Re: Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in AugustCould there be a benefit to releasing a new model, slowly dumbing it down over a couple months, then releasing a new model that’s marginally if at all better than the original to create a perceived improvement when in reality there isn’t really one?For an industry that’s stagnant in progress yet relies on new frequent releases to survive (non-progress being an existential risk), this could make sense.I have no idea if that’s what’s happened, I completely pulled it out of my butt. And I have no idea is the actual frontier is stagnating.talon8635, 3 hours ago
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