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I found this video review to be much more informative and compelling. https://youtu.be/6Wv1btxCjVE?si=_1mvIHT3r_CQsuTZ

The Google Maps situation is a great example of why this will be hard. When Apple switched to their own maps it was a huge failure resulting in a rare public apology from the compa…

The ChatGPT integration was heavily gated by Apple and required explicit opt-in. That won't be the case with the Gemini integration. Apple wants this to just work. The privacy conc…

The biggest NEW thing here is that this isn't white-labeled. Apple is officially acknowledging Google as the model that will be powering Siri. That explicit acknowledgment is a pre…

All while Waymo is expanding to more and more cities, including Detroit where it will deal with snow and ice. Waymo is years ahead of Tesla in the self-driving race. It's possible …

>>> Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity. It's not the main point of the article, but it is there.

Amazon has their own PaaS offering called Elastic Beanstalk, with support for running docker containers and other popular platforms. It's not complicated to set up and is customiza…

This is a fantastic article! It's really eye-opening to someone like me who wasn't aware of these changes. Great job!

There was an excellent podcast covering this on Endless Thread! https://overcast.fm/+PCa9DKnMg

Finally! This is incredibly good news. I hope the adoption of this feature is fast - looking at you Safari.

The use case I have encountered was for anonymous users where the company wanted to prevent unauthorized clients (copies of the app) from relying on the same server-side HTTP API u…

There are occasions where you just want to make it a little harder to impersonate an official client where it can be useful to store a secret in the binary. It's still vulnerable b…

garble actually sounds like an excellent utility to add some protection around things like keys/secrets in a binary. Is there anything like this for Swift binaries?

I added a Dark Mode style for Hacker News that you can use on your iPhone or Mac. It's free. I hope your eyes appreciate the softer colors while you read the headlines in bed in th…

An AI assistant lessens the fear of the blank page. It gets you started creatively so that you can work and it offers ideas which, even when they are bad, can lead you to something…

I write all my scripts with the hash bang as "#! /bin/bash" so even though fish is my interactive shell, I still use bash for all shell scripts. I think the restrictions you mentio…

>>> This is feasible in cases where the total number of distinct values in the column 'a' is reasonably small (think tens or hundreds, perhaps even thousands for very large composi…

This is a super useful thing to know and I'm thankful for this article highlighting this aspect of Postgres. But I would disagree with the takeaway to focus on optimizing your inde…

Proofreading.

> We now have smooth scrolling support in popular Java library called "awt." Many Java applications use this library underneath, including IDEs such as Eclipse, IDEA or Rider. Ecli…

This is great hard data to back up common perception. But I wonder how YouTube views for the Daily Show clips have changed over that same time period? Looking... They are rarely ov…

One big difference is that physical things exact an on-going tax since you have to store them in your house and maintain them. Hence the "does it spark joy?" question. That said, t…

> research suggests that people are often happier when they spend their money on experiences rather than things I concur.