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Re:The new iPad mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:42AM (#50244584)
Right? Pro devices should be 240hz now
Re:Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:35PM (#50107182)
The default setups are also _crazy_.

So you search for company A wanting to buy their product. You check out. Basically every setup I've audited has every tracking product ever for everything.

So you buy X, and the company sends that purchase event with your information to Meta, Google, TikTok, Applovin, Klaviyo, and 10 others.

This idea is hopelessly entrenched in every marketing department, who has leadership's ear: We HAVE to send EVERYTHING to EVERYONE otherwise our ROAS will go DOWN!

Every platform works this way, they're all set up to put giant red banners on your marketer's dashboards

"You could be getting 50% better results if you sent <customer_2nd_grade_report_card>!"

Re:Device detection and occupancy monitoring for Airbnb hosts on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:08PM (#49994765)
Low risk there, Android users are way less likely to throw a party
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:06AM (#49645039)
Yep. Flutter has been dead-end for a while. RN won't last through 2027.
Re:iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:19PM (#49634510)
Introducing SwiftUI2: Every UI is a simple prompt, and all the underlying code is generated.
Re:LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:08PM (#49628803)
>All smart TVs should be disconnected from the internet.

Not good enough. The device has sufficient storage for YEARS of conversation data.

You connect it once to update the firmware and boom everything is backfilled. Your neighbor sets up an open SSID? It all gets out.

Re:Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX on Saturday August 29, 2026 @01:05PM (#49491487)
>The way I review it is to let it finish a PR sized slice and then I review the whole diff in a separate terminal as if it’s a PR from someone else.

Insanely inefficient. It's 10x more productive to watch the thinking traces and edits in real time and steer the model appropriately.

If your workflow is typical no wonder my team members who use claude code are so much less productive.

The true-local AI chip, codename "buddy", will be the M8
Re:Felony Bench on Saturday August 22, 2026 @10:15AM (#49399961)
>how is Grok not at the top of the list for deepfaking millions?

How is this the top comment? I can go on just about any provider and make realistic "deep fakes" of anyone.

Generating images isn't a crime?

I had this and it turned out to be my unifi firewall block triggering a false-positive in the browser.
>The vast majority of CVEs are not exploitable

Perhaps in isolation. The issue is when you can chain exploits to bypass multiple layers.

>which are the biggest contributor to the glints we can see in the night sky.

>They're such an enormous part of the problem

What an incredible life of privilege you must live to perceive a few glints in the sky as a huge problem.

>and if ao he has done more harm than good

Unbelievably ignorant take and sadly typical for HN these days.

Lobby wait time is rather extreme, and false-starts are really tough (40m to get full team -> get it balanced -> launch game -> someone disconnects on start, or went AFK because of the long wait time -> re re re re in chat -> launch new lobby -> only 60% rejoin -> match is now unbalanced -> wait 20m -> some god among men with 2500k ELO joins -> match is un-balancable
>Rust is perfect for writing all of code using LLM. It's strict type system makes is less likely to make very dumb mistakes that other languages might allow.

100%. I've been telling everyone who will listen this for 2 years. LLMs are infinitely more productive with swift code like

let engineCycleCount: Int = 5

vs

let eC = 5

They still make mistakes, but forcing _explicit_ typing in a strongly typed language makes them make far fewer mistakes + the compiler is catching >90% of what you try to catch with a billion rspecs in trash languages like ruby.

>but living in an environment with background radiation levels 50x higher than on Earth

We can park a big honkin magnet at the mars-sun lagrange point and cut that down massively.

Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Friday April 17, 2026 @10:22AM (#47806280)
Came here to post this. 4.7 is absolutely useless for binary/firmware analysis on our own freakin products.

Anthropic needs to get their ish together I've got real work to do.

>I worked on the Xcode team for years

Why did you guys remove the ability to detach the console and move it to another window?

Re:The political effects of X's feed algorithm on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:03PM (#47093138)
>How is it illegal? It is their platform to do what they want with it.

It was illegal for the officials who did it, not for Meta/Google to follow their orders. That part was merely unethical.

Re:Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:02PM (#47093127)
>The law was written specifically to allow blocking imports from a country.

The precise wording is regulate. The idea that "regulate" means you can turn it on or off with no in-between is beyond parody. Absurd. Hilarious. Farcical.

That said the headline is misleading and should be renamed, nothing is changing from this ruling.

Re:Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court on Friday February 20, 2026 @01:59PM (#47092266)
Extremely biased comment.

The SC ruling today:

1) Does not stop the president from enacting tariffs, at all. The dissents even spelled out that no actual change would come from this ruling.

2) The ruling creates the absurd scenario where the president can (under this specific law) totally ban ALL imports from a country on whim, but not partially via tariffs. It's akin to being able to turn the AC on or off, but not being allowed to set the temperature.

As usual, interesting discussion about the nuances of this ruling are happening on X. Reddit and HN comments are consistently low-signal like the above.

Re:The political effects of X's feed algorithm on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @04:08PM (#47066415)
Or from the other perspective: Meta and Google have had their finger on the scale for more than a decade (along with old twitter).

In twitters case, you had regime officials directing censorship illegally through open emails and meetings.

It's no surprise that the needle moves right when you dial back the suppression of free expression even a little bit (X still censors plenty)

Re:There Is an AI Code Review Bubble on Monday January 26, 2026 @05:31PM (#46772515)
>The SOTA isn't capable of using a code diff as a jumping off point.

The low quality of HN comments has been blowing my mind.

I have quite literally been doing what you describe every working day for the last 6+ months.

>the slippery slope fallacy

I see the slippery slope fallacy-fallacy more than the base fallacy.

Re:There is no memory safety without thread safety on Thursday July 24, 2025 @02:37PM (#44674404)
Swift 6 is only painful if you wrote a ton of terrible Swift 5, and even then Swift 5 has had modes where you could gracefully adopt the Swift 6 safety mechanisms for a long time (years?)

~130k LoC Swift app was converted from 5 -> 6 for us in about 3 days.

We need to apply sanctions, and end all intelligence sharing with the UK until they stop this nonsense.
Re:More Efficient Thermoelectric Cooling on Thursday July 03, 2025 @03:05PM (#44458211)
HN hasn't been a good place for technical discussion in at least 5-6 years, maybe longer.

X is much better for this kind of stuff these days (just follow the right people and stick to the following tab)

Not in most of the US, but the ones in Alaska can mummify a water buffalo in under 5 minutes.

Running joke is that the mosquito is "Alaska's state bird"

Re:Retreating Glaciers Expose 1,500 Miles of Coastline on Friday March 28, 2025 @09:54AM (#43505458)
Only 1500 miles? Obviously they didn't measure it precisely.
Nothing MB has is anywhere close to FXD 13.2.x

So if the SAE standards don't reflect that, they are poor standards

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