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Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:23PM (#50277217)
Apple perfected the trackpad to the point where a touchscreen never felt necessary; and that’s how they got away with not building one.

This feels more like a marketing gimmick, anyone remember the Touch Bar?

Re:Speech-to-Text Accuracy in 2026: Open-Weight vs. Cloud on Saturday September 26, 2026 @08:41PM (#49862097)
Not affiliated in any way, just found this benchmark interesting and worth sharing.
Re:The Last Question by Isaac Asimov – This Is Ageless on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:27PM (#49743881)
If you haven't read this yet, read it now. It hits differently in the age of AI.
Re:The CSS Zen Garden dream shipped on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:01AM (#49722285)
I can't wait for AI watermark checks to be widely available to stop such guessworks and the resulting ridicule. I'm not saying you're wrong, your guess could be.
Re:Apple Watch Series 12 on Friday September 11, 2026 @10:46AM (#49659387)
Yeap, probably EU's gonna be a different game for Apple Watch 12.
Re:Apple Watch Series 12 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @05:43AM (#49640997)
> In fairly certain there are a non-zero amount of laws prohibiting audio recording without consent

But it's not audio recording. It's a text (which is obtained from an audio by a not so accurate system and thus not admissible in court).

This is frustrating. Just to beat the competition and make a few extra bucks, they’re willing to destroy a century’s worth of human knowledge (good or bad).
With all due respect, I would say it wouldn’t hurt not to downplay this.
Amazing project, I love it!

One naive concern, though: this seems to make it very easy to spread malware. Someone could add malicious code to a compressed app, share the slide with others, and have it propagate. What are your thoughts on this?

I guess this will happen soon. There are two catalysts needed for this to happen:

1. Evals that can quickly tell you how much downside there is to switching 2. Something like OpenRouter that can help you run those evals quickly

Now #2 is starting to become popular, and I think we'll soon see more people adopting a model-agnostic approach. Of course, there will still be high-intelligence use cases where nothing comes close to Claude or GPT.

Re:Squillions – two books about money-laundering on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @12:49AM (#48366201)
Here's an anecdotal thought: AML laws surprisingly work well to discourage offline transactions by tax-paying citizens, helping maximize tax reporting and improve tax collection. As a result, governments continue to strengthen and expand laws in that direction.
Re:A few interesting modern pixel fonts on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @02:21AM (#48290397)
Amazing! Thank you for sharing.
I don't think any company is cutting headcount because of AI. I think that's just what they say. The reality is that they're facing a cash crunch due to a bad economy. And if you state a cash crunch as the reason, your stock will fall or VCs will run away. But surprisingly, if you state AI as the reason for layoffs, your stock will rise or VCs will get excited. Same thing, just different clothes, and it works.
Sorry, but that’s not the correct analogy. There’s such a thing as taste, and only 1 out of 10 people can get it right, while 9 out of 10 can get code right.

Show HN: EmailAjent – an AI executive assistant for your email threads

https://emailajent.com/

I just built this with a basic set of guardrails and a limited skillset, and it’s still pretty rough around the edges.I’d really appreciate any feedback.It’s free for the first few users — you can use the invite code DEMO34.Note: This is experimental and not fully tested. It can and will make mistakes, so use it carefully, especially in important or sensitive email threads.

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Re: on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @09:50PM (#47871482)
This reminds me of the book title "Fooling some of the people, all of the time".
Re:Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer on Thursday April 09, 2026 @10:10PM (#47712780)
This is impressive! Thanks for sharing.
Sorry for the bad experience. The blocking of Firefox is not intentional. It's a decade old code and seems to be breaking on Firefox.
Sorry, the app is not available anywhere, it's old code. But you can play it on web-browsers.
Sorry for the bad experience. This was build many years ago, and those nudges to ask user to download the apps are from that time. Though, there's no app, the code is not updated since then.
Re:Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) on Thursday March 26, 2026 @12:24PM (#47532474)
"cd -" is a lifesaver. Thank you so much for this.
The most sensible continent on this planet...
Re:Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:21PM (#47304136)
I think every moderator on every platform is struggling with this issue, and no one has succeeded so far, so it doesn’t seem that easy.

I think a simple solution (and one that eventually every content platform will have to adopt) is to allow users to tag AI-generated spam. I think that a few years from now this feature should be the norm, like existing basic features on forums such as upvote, downvote, favorites, hide, etc. I know this will require much more development effort than simply blocking new accounts from posting at all. But on the other hand, you can’t block new accounts forever.

Re:Where things stand with the Department of War on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:33AM (#47271260)
Thanks for sharing. This is very interesting.

Watching this, I realised one thing: Germans, once upon a time phenomenally intelligent folks, got eroded by a bunch of stupid politicians’ ambitions.

Re:Where things stand with the Department of War on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:59PM (#47270698)
BTW, this deal went south when Anthropic argued that AI systems should never make kill decisions without meaningful human oversight.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/anthropic-pe...

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