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Re:Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:15PM (#50136550)
Looks like it does have a toggle for Romanji further down.
Request for higher contrast please for my old eyes.
I virtualized a bunch and they seem to work well. At one point, I even had Ultima running on one. =D
Re:iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:30PM (#49631389)
I went from a 13 Pro to 17 Pro and the battery life has been great.
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:25PM (#49631248)
You could do the leasing route if you upgrade every year. Might pinch less.
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:24PM (#49631209)
I was quite surprised to see the under display camera. Wasn't expecting that.

Other than that, looks like there are some nice Duo specific features on iOS. $1999 is also surprising given that news outlets were reporting up to $2500. Plus it's price competitive with other foldables in the market.

Re:Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? on Friday September 04, 2026 @06:19AM (#49562684)
FWIW, it appears that using the gh cli is much more token efficient than MCP so that's a plus.

https://medium.com/@ravi.madabhushi/mcp-is-up-to-32-more-exp...

Re:OpenPrinter on Sunday July 05, 2026 @07:32PM (#48799030)
Seems interesting but I would like a laser version of this. Not ever going back to inkjet.
Re:Apple is increasing my cortisol levels on Saturday May 09, 2026 @07:37PM (#48079399)
I do not think this is the right way. The right way would be for Apple to allow for a free Developer ID for distribution if the app is free and has no in-app purchases.

This provides IMO all-around goodwill while still adhering to good release practices.

FWIW, first two sections worked for Chrome on Windows.
I wonder if this would port nicely over to rustybgp.
Re:Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac on Friday April 03, 2026 @03:49PM (#47631327)
Saw this in an another thread previously and immediately installed it.

I have a new prompt to test LLMs much like simonw's pelican test.

"What is 9:30am Taiwan time in US, Pacific?" For some reason, the answers are quite inconsistent but all wrong.

  ./apfel "what is 9:30am Taiwan time in US, Pacific?"
  Taiwan is 12 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM Taiwan time would be 9:30 PM Pacific Time.
  Taiwan is 13 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM in Taiwan is 10:30 PM in the Pacific Time Zone.
  Taiwan is in the China Standard Time (CST) zone, which is 12 hours ahead of the Pacific Standard Time (PST) zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM in Taiwan is 9:30 PM in the Pacific.
  Taiwan is typically 11 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM in Taiwan is 8:30 PM in the Pacific Time Zone.
  Taiwan is 13 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM in Taiwan is 10:30 PM the previous day in the Pacific Time Zone.
One thing I discovered tonight is that it appears smaller models are remarkably bad at converting time between timezones.

I tested the following using almost all available models on Locally and did not get a single model that got the right answer.

"What is 9:20-9:30 am (Taiwan Standard Time, TST) in US Pacific?"

This is quite interesting. I wonder if AFM is smart enough to do spam classification.
Re:Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics on Monday February 23, 2026 @04:19PM (#47129017)
I wonder if Comma.ai will ever be open to incorporating this into openpilot.

I always thought the argument that humans are adequate drivers and hence only cameras was not great. Why not actually be better than humans at sensing and driving?

Re:Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @04:58PM (#46981737)
It appears that Gurman has been the one pumping the timeline. He's now clarified that Apple has only ever said 2026 with nothing beyond that.
Re:Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:02AM (#46922163)
Nope but a cool project nonetheless
Re:Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home on Thursday February 05, 2026 @03:18PM (#46904620)
You can use one of these to act as a local personal WWVB station amongst other things.

See https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus and https://github.com/GOTO-GOSUB/Txtempus-Passive-Antenna

Re:Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected on Thursday January 15, 2026 @11:26PM (#46642988)
There is no support for ed25519 host keys (confirmed using ssh-audit). Would be nice to have though.

As an aside, you should use ssh-audit to get recommendations for what to disable as far as less than ideal options/configs go.

I currently use Banktivity which is OK. Would love to hear from any others that have used Banktivity and migrated to something else. Ideally, there should be OFX support.
Re:Winamp for OS/X on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:59PM (#45932128)
Missed a chance to call this swiftamp instead and avoid namespace collision.
Agreed. I also wonder why they chose to test against a Mac Studio with only 64GB instead of 128GB.
Re:Decoding Netflix's AV1 Streams: Here are 10 things I found on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @03:19PM (#45442038)
Does anyone know what was used to produce the graphs?

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