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Re:Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:37PM (#49999718)
Sorry for the misleading wording on this page; we’ve updated it to clarify that the Claude Agent SDK can still be used with subscriptions.
Re:Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:36PM (#49999702)
Sorry that that help center article was misleading; we’ve updated it to clarify that `claude -p` has not been removed from subscriptions as part of this change!
Re:Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:47PM (#49999240)
Nothing is being removed as part of this!
Re:Anthropic acquires Stainless on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:41PM (#48186091)
in what sense did Anthropic “kill” Bun?
Re:Anthropic acquires Stainless on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:35PM (#48186029)
No, the generator itself is being made source-available for previous customers
Re:MacBook Neo on Thursday March 12, 2026 @12:47AM (#47346569)
The indicators are controlled along with sensor access at a very low level within a secure “exclave” from the main kernel; this is how the on-screen indicators have worked on iPhones for a few years. The indicator is rendered within the display controller at the firmware level, so can’t be affected by anything in _either_ user mode or kernel mode. [1][2]

1: https://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c...

2: https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/#...

Re:Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:30PM (#47144238)
WSJ published a video yesterday with the first pictures of those servers: https://twitter.com/yiningkarlli/status/2026176857541075274
This whole repository is a bunch of vibe-coded boilerplate that doesn’t include almost any of the core thing it claims to do. The README is generic slop and the “performance metrics” (“Pose Detection Accuracy”; “Person Tracking Accuracy”) appear to be completely invented / hallucinated. In other words, it isn’t real.
The current plan was announced here a few weeks ago: https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/...
Referring to this type of optimization program just as “AI” in an age where nearly everyone will misinterpret that to mean “transformer-based language model” seems really sloppy
Re:Optimizing a WebGPU Matmul Kernel for 1 TFLOP on Monday November 11, 2024 @04:37PM (#42110648)
Source?

Edit: I just pressed “Reset All to Defaults” under “WebKit Feature Flags” on my device running 18.2 beta, and the switch for WebGPU is on!! <3

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.

I do not believe that “Jews as a collective” are “bribing and blackmailing the whole Western world.”

I do believe that American lobbying groups—including but not limited to those that support Israel—use money as a tool to influence American politics in a manner akin to bribery, including in the few examples I linked about AIPAC.

Your casual conflation “Israel (Jews)”—as if the two were a single group with congruent interests—is misleading, dangerous, and antisemitic. Not all Jews are Israeli, and not all Jews are pro-Israel.

This article falls under “reported pieces,” not “op-eds and critical essays”
Re:Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @02:47PM (#39921379)
The IDF uses Palantir’s technology, and Palantir is outspoken about its support for the state of Israel:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-10/palantir-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/13/palantir-ceo-says-outspoken-...

On AIPAC in the US:

1. “How the Israel lobby moved to quash rising dissent in Congress against Israel’s apartheid regime”

2. “Top Pro-Israel Group Offered Ocasio-Cortez $100,000 Campaign Cash”

3. “Senate Candidate in Michigan Says He Was Offered $20 Million to Challenge Tlaib”

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/27/israel-democrats-aipac-b...

[2]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ocasio-cortez-aipac-offer-con...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/us/politics/hill-harper-r...

The original thread has now been restored by mods

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245

Now removed from the front page even without being labeled as flagged.
Not an exaggeration—Apple’s primary “location services” API, used on iOS/macOS, is just a lookup table for wireless APs’ MAC addresses. [1]

WiFi scanning is much less power intensive than GPS, much more reliable indoors, and often (in dense areas) more accurate even outdoors. iirc the iPhone only connects to “real” GPS in specific situations, such as when visible wifi signals are insufficient (e.g. highway driving).

[1]: https://www.appelsiini.net/2017/reverse-engineering-location...

Re:Desmos 3D graphing calculator (beta) on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:57PM (#37859805)
It’s WebGL, not WebGPU
Re:QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed on Saturday February 11, 2023 @01:12PM (#34754691)
Looks like they have Github sponsors set up too: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS
Re:Ask HN: Why haven't bookmarks been re-invented? on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:09PM (#34176544)
I’ve been loving https://mymind.com/, which brings a lot of new innovations to a product that’s more or less bookmarking.

It tries to do a lot of curation and organization automatically, and it does a very good job at resurfacing what I’m looking for, given that I just throw things in there with minimal hand-categorization effort.