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Re:Ask HN: How fast is your CI these days? on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:34PM (#50261729)
We were at about 20 minutes, with minutes 5-20 being just the ~55 accessibility tests running, loading chromium browsers, navigating to the different pages and looking for color issues, aria, keyboard navigation tags, etc. A couple months ago, when I got beat to merging on deploy day three times making me rebase and rerun, I parallelized them and now we are at 6 minutes for the full suite.
Re:Siri is so bad at everything on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:54PM (#50106550)
I worked around by adding the shortcut to my control center. Ultimately I'd prefer to have the integrations in place, if Siri ever ends up not sucking.
Re:Siri is so bad at everything on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:49AM (#50105425)
Apple Intelligence broke the ability for Siri to run a shortcut that I use daily. I have a shortcut named, "What's for dinner?" I used to be able to activate Siri and says, "What's for dinner?" and it would set off to my personal mealie server, use an API key to fetch the information, then speak the result. Now, Siri looks through my messages and finds a dinner reservation from OpenTable from months ago and declares that to be fact.
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:41AM (#50086102)
I made a few bucks back off of a game I built for it. So best negative ~$250 I've spent in my case.
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:53PM (#50075811)
I'm still using the Dev Kit version that was shipped out before the 3rd Gen launched. tvOS26 was the last version supported so I'll be updating finally. I'd consider 14 years a pretty decent run.
Re:Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:36AM (#49879719)
Even still, the majority of things being built on the web perform largely the same if it's being built in Ruby or Rust or Node or Go. Only very niche things, that an LLM would probably fumble over anyway, really benefit from picking the perfect language/framework. The only real advantage to naming your language in the initial prompt is that you can be assured that you'll be able to understand the code when the GPU spins down and output is in front of you.
Re:Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:46AM (#49877886)
How exactly does specifying the language, framework, and architecture in advance save a meaningful amount of tokens? I'd expect saying "make me an app" and "make me an app using Swift and SwiftUI" would be pretty close in terms of token usage. You save maybe one look up by the LLM for "what is the preferred language for writing an application for iOS?".
Re:OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API on Friday September 25, 2026 @03:16PM (#49848712)
Duo.
Re:Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:01PM (#49745773)
Yes it is, but 100%? Typically someone goes through and touches something to clarify or add a detail.
Re:Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:27PM (#49743883)
I put the text in to gptzero's AI checker and it came back with being Highly Confident it was 100% AI written. I don't think I've ever seen it that confident that the entire thing was AI before.
> At the same time, about every two minutes, code checked that the camera was still running and logged the message, “Who’s a good boy?!” More than 12,000 of those messages appear in the recovered logs.

> When the camera did restart, another service left a final message in the logs: “A reboot was requested! ¡Adiós, Amigos!”

Cool, so they were programmed by someone with the maturity of a teenager.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @08:52PM (#49690475)
Been working on a replacement for my Git GUI of choice, Tower, for the last few months. I've been using Tower 2 for almost a decade now, refusing the monthly subscription to upgrade to a fresher version. I'm going to keep mine a one time purchase with support guaranteed for a year. If a major version releases after that, it'll be another perpetual license for the new version. If you want the new features, you can choose to upgrade, if you don't stay on the version you're on until new feature warrant it.

https://www.harborgit.com/

Re:Show HN: Clawfight.ai MCP-driven agentic game play on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:58AM (#49660574)
This is very similar to https://battlellmrobots.com that I made, and didn't get any traction on. Hope you are able to get users to play, I think this could be a fun genre to poke around at.
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:56PM (#49633231)
My guess is the reason is, "how much screen would a user be willing to lose to the rear cameras?"
My weekly usage randomly reset this morning. I was only at ~25%, and my normal reset is Saturday at 4:00am. So, not sure what happened there.
No, I barely want to talk to the human that I need to talk to in the first place. Adding an additional human just to ask to talk to the person I want to talk to sounds awful.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:58AM (#49536356)
It really comes down to the parents, like most things. If parents are heavily engaged, then the kids turn out more well rounded, regardless of where they go to school, public, private, or home.

I can also usually tell just based on the kids if their parents will be helpful or not. If I ask for a parent to help with setting up at the beginning of practice, or if an assistant coach can't make it and I need a hand, the way a kid acts is a pretty good indicator if their parent will get out of their chair on sidelines and come help.

There are outliers, but its a pretty good rule of thumb.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:14AM (#49535719)
I couch youth sports, and same experience. It's getting better now that the kids are getting older (10-11). But when they were in 1st or 2nd grade, the home schooled kids were so far behind their teammates in social skills.

I only had one on my baseball team in the spring, while he was definitely not on the same level as the rest of the team socially, it could have just been that he is a shy kid by nature.

I'd have to do more manual work, but nothing major would happen. We don't use AI in our product at all.
That doesn't help with the not wanting to send confidential information to a cloud though. No amount of cost savings can negate that.
Re:Native Apps Why? on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:38AM (#49508958)
For users, ease of use.

For companies, ease of additional tracking.

It really isn't some _deep_ thing. Users like to be able to quickly access the content they want to consume. Companies want data. Apps fulfill both of these requirements.

Re:Ask HN: What's a Good Physical Printer? on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:35PM (#49494577)
EcoTanks all the way. I have a 5850. It'll print full color for about 2-4¢ a sheet.
There was a similar service that I participated in for a couple of years back in ~2019 that was free. I can't for the life of me remember the name of it right now though to check and see if it's still free.

Edit: Went through my LinkedIn connections to see when I connected with some people that I remembered from the service, turns out it was 2021 that I participated. Was able to cross reference the connection dates with my calendar and found it was Lunch Club (https://lunchclub.com). It looks like it was still free, but it also looks like it no longer functional though.

Re:GLM-5.3-Flash on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:11PM (#49457649)
The specs that were written are what I found surprising, not that it removed the flag in the same way.
Re:GLM-5.3-Flash on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:24PM (#49453572)
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B and Opus 4.8 the same task in the same codebase. They both came up with the same diff. It wasn't a particularly challenging task (removing a feature flag and updating applicable specs), but it was character for character.
Re:Ask HN: What are you using to access x.com at the moment? on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:20AM (#49449717)
Nothing. Same as what I've been using to access it for the last ~5 years.
Re:Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:17PM (#49437405)
Umbrellas are great at keeping your head and shoulders dry, but kind of suck beyond that.
Re:Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:11PM (#49437334)
Paging Colin Furze.
Re:Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:07PM (#49437274)
I have one problem that keeps me from doing something like this. Weather. I don't want to get wet walking out or back because it happens to be raining.
Re:Ask HN: What Did Anthropic Bill Me For? on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:39AM (#49434980)
I'm guessing you bought $20 of API credits, plus tax.

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