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Weird issue: The iPhone dropdown doesn't include the iPhone XR. It's not like I expect it to work, I'm just curious what the app does.
Re:Show HN: DRM-Free Books on Sunday June 28, 2026 @05:21PM (#48711780)
Do you know if you can buy as a gift for someone else?
This Summer: Bad Wank, from the people who brought you Bad Blood.
Re:OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @02:41PM (#47141754)
Nvidia gives money to OpenAI so they can buy GPUs that don't exist yet with memory that doesn't exist yet so they can plug them into their datacenters that don't exist yet powered by infrastructure that doesn't exist yet so they can all make profit that is mathematically impossible at this point - Stolen from someone else.
Re:OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @02:40PM (#47141740)
> Its a circular economy

Garbage in, garbage out, same as before.

An LLM may take the interesting parts of my job but the parts that suck (dealing with people) will never be taken over by an LLM.
2005 Toyota Corolla.
Re:The behavioral cost of personalized pricing on Sunday January 25, 2026 @07:46PM (#46760379)
The day I learned of ghost Facebook profiles, I realized fighting back was impossible.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:58PM (#46579990)
Support for Youtube playlists please... having to lookup the watch ID on Google after a song is removed to guess what the track was is a highly sucky part of using Youtube for music.
Re:Why My Payment Agent Is Named George, Not Stripe-Agent on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @08:19PM (#46307882)
> I "just want to talk" to this CTO who named US East region 2 as "eu2".

How? Logically I don't get it.

Re:Replacing a Cache Service with a Database on Sunday August 31, 2025 @12:31PM (#45084451)
I disagree. For large search pages where you're building payloads from multiple records that don't change often, it could be beneficial to use a cache. Your cache ends up helping the most common results to be fetched less often and return data faster.
Samsung. Remember we made an exploding phone?
Re:Tokens are getting more expensive on Sunday August 03, 2025 @05:06PM (#44779817)
> The worst thing is they worked out you can blend costs in using AWS marketplace without having to raise due diligence on a new vendor or PO. So up it goes even more.

Not a bug, a feature.

It was such a masterpiece right up there with The Last Of Us.
The model is "outspend others until they're bankrupt".

Known as the Uber model or Amazon vs Diapers.com

Noone in cloud wants spend limits, everyone wants limitless billing.
Re:GPU Price Tracker on Sunday April 27, 2025 @10:00AM (#43811989)
It's a .ai domain.... they're selling "Wrapped LLM"
Re:Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad? on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @07:12PM (#43562871)
Yep, that would be my own personal hell.
Re:Show HN: Spawn – Build iOS Apps with English on Thursday August 08, 2024 @07:11PM (#41197383)
It's the fact that iOS use iOS-specific APIs when generating projects using XCode.
Years ago, I texted the engineer guy telling him his videos were good and he took time out of his busy day to reply to good old college kid me. It's still a vivid memory to this day and I'm super happy he's back on Youtube again.
> After two years of development and some deliberation, AMD decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on AMD GPUs.

Oof x2

Re:HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @11:34PM (#38717051)
> New brother lasers printers check tonner drm

Source, because I am surprised by this.

Re:Blackmagic Camera for iPhone on Monday October 09, 2023 @08:03AM (#37819520)
there's a dedicated person usually called a focus puller.
Re:Bambu Lab A1 Mini on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:47PM (#37620438)
These poop instead of waste blocks... but generally, no.
Re:Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max on Sunday November 06, 2022 @07:01PM (#33499138)
I will argue against this.... apple's camera ecosystem is more consistent that the Android cluster.
Re:Best radios to use in an emergency (2021) on Saturday July 09, 2022 @11:26AM (#32035909)
It's not illegal to have but it is illegal to misuse. However, this is a post about radios for emergency use and most readings of the HAM and GMRS rules state that emergency use is allowed.
Fiber to the pole.

It's copper from the telephone pole to your home. It's cheaper to implement and gives you less overprovisioning.

Re:Making traditional light switches smart on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @02:52PM (#31264377)
You mean 'SwitchBot'? We use them in the house
Fines... Which won't matter if the company's bankrupt
I have worked on legacy devices and the only version of iOS I can no longer target is 7.2 for iPhone 4.

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