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Chickens have come home to roost. Someone had to pay for the servers and the debt, and its us!!

Arrogant. End users decide by deciding what they want to use. Thats all there is to it.

Interesting to see this stuff. I really enjoyed cracking this back in the day, just for friends, but took a different approach of using sector editors to read the code on the disk …

Indeed context awareness is the big difference here, GPT5 is a vast improvement. It doesn't lose track (as easily)

A discussion of the victim is not relevant. A discussion of the root cause is.

NO. I work on very public software, I receive pretty terrible criticism in reviews and email. Generally a vocal minority of people are unkind scammers and want it all for free and …

I agree (and its not often I agree with folk on Hacker News), Apple provide a far superior password service inside a far inferior UI. The handling of authentication codes is partic…

Blah Blah Blah. I use ChatGPT for this every day to write code to save my own efforts and it is doing just fine thanks. I also use it for creative content in my apps, although I ed…

Terrible idea, the reason why Apple is so popular is that the apps are extremely diverse. Being suggested here is an app store with apps curated by computer nerds who think they ar…

A book called "Astronomical Algorithms" was written back in the 80's or 90's. It was very exciting and inspirational for me that the sun and moon and the position of planets - natu…

Outstanding blogs, really enjoyed reading them. Someone talented actually performing a hack, rare these days.

This comes up often in various postings and forums, and I enjoy it every time I read it. I like the perspective.

It is important here that he wrote LETTERS. Not emails. LETTERS. Folks are firing off emails all the time. Taking time to write a letter is more likely to get a response, from just…

Whatever laptop you already own.

Looks amazing, but the youtube video on the site is so frustrating, endless demos and credits, not much gameplay - takes nearly 3 minutes of viewing to get to anything Prince of Pe…

This. Especially on the app store. I have several successful side projects myself and am semi retired. But it is a waste of time trying to tell people that discoverability is the k…

A lot of vocal small developers are unimpressed. A vocal minority is not a majority - most just don't care knowing what the outcome was going to be already - lawyers making a lot o…

My unpopular but realistic opinion as a successful financially app dev is - just post a Google compliant link to a payment system. Take the 15% hit. The payment link is likely to b…

The scanning is to take place within iCloud Photos, which handles images / videos etc on an individual basis. It would be a pretty easy thing to do for Apple to calculate hashes on…

This article focusses too much on the individual case, and not enough on the fact that Apple will need multiple matches to report someone. Images would normally be distributed in s…

Once you've been around in this software business for long enough you see the same articles written over and over again... there will always be articles about estimating software, …

An analogy... I live in Australia, here there are endless straight highways through the outback. Beside the highway there are thousands of huge termite mounds with thousands upon t…

Very cool. Especially the code that moves pieces out of the way as other pieces jump over them or are removed from the board! A lot of programming in that.

A similar concept is the Snowy Hydro project in Australia - essentially it is a battery for clean energy generators such as wind and solar when they cannot generate. There are two …

There is more than two options - you can be anywhere in between - there is no need to choose one or the other. I find having a specific technical skill helpful in getting your foot…