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You don't need to pay Apple $99. You can make perfectly good apps that run great with a free account. They expire in a week instead of 3 months (for TestFlight builds). That's it. …

Have you gone around and surveyed Apple corporate employees to gather this insight? I’m amazed that your manager didn’t get a call from Apple security, if so. They weren't handing …

Wow. The reactions here. So negative! I skimmed various sections. I found the animations pleasant, the text readable, and the content clearly not slop. The historical context of th…

LEO is not the place to worry about Kessler syndrome. Mostly, Kessler syndrome isn’t something to worry about at all; there are just a lot of orbital planes available. But in LEO, …

For agentic work, you just cache the prefill kv cache of the relevant system prompts. TTFT is a little slow (10s of seconds, oh no!) the first time you boot up a new harness. I kee…

This is one of those questions non-parents ask. Kids come out as a person, with strong opinions and desires. You can shave off some rough edges, and maybe bend a few branches of th…

Yup. $1/year is a great price point for avoiding squatters and proving there’s someone paying attention, truly de minimis. I’m happy with my .xyz domain for my homelab. Setting up …

The pacific northwest’s vast hydro capacity makes it maximally attractive to own an EV. The rest of the country isn’t nearly so lucky.

Before I drove an EV, I drove a 50 mpg Prius. At California prices of ~$4/gallon, that’s $.08/mile. My post wildfires NEM2 off peak rate for electricity is $.40/kWh. My Bolt gets 4…

As a committed market-socialist, the extent that the HN commentariat has turned into a reflexively nihilistic anti-free-enterprise is a fairly astonishing turn. It’s like my belief…

The idea that 1:1s with devs adding very little value to the team is… pretty wild. If you think 1:1s don’t add value, your slice of the reality of what even modestly sized teams ne…

There are many projects where one shot is the right answer! But surely you aren’t suggesting literally every software project is composed of one-shot-able building blocks, or that …

This is orthogonal to the Interchange Fee Settlement. The settlement allows stores to decline different *classes* of Visa cards. It was always possible to accept Visa but not Maste…

Yes, but you’re perhaps missing OP’s point? Incidence is very much on customers, but (high interchange fee) credit card users are getting a rebate of most, if not all, of that. It’…

This used to be true. But the 2025 Interchange Fee Settlement abolished the “Honor All Cards” regime. Perhaps, I know it’s crazy, but… perhaps segmenting the market into extremely …

Normies very bad at the concept of statistical calibration. News at 11! But yes, I agree with you that it's surprising to hear people on Hacker News having the 180 degrees wrong im…

This is The Way.

I wasn't in the room when it happened, but this is very different than the story told internally about why Apple became allergic to Nvidia. Arguably more petty. SJ has been dead fo…

Cmd-W closes the current *document*. In tabbed apps, the document is the tab. It is true that Finder is always running, you can’t quit it or kill it.

A 486 in 2003? Pentiums were shipping by the mid-90s, did you just have super old hardware lying around? I retired my 486 in ‘95 or thereabouts…

Huh? Your conclusion does not follow. A large fraction of the interchange fee is kicked back to customers. The size of the pie being so much bigger means the issuer’s tolerance for…

Because adding friction will deter many impulse purchases. Americans use credit cards constantly . The equilibrium would be perturbed in a way very much not advantageous for the cr…

oMLX makes prefill effectively instantaneous on a Mac. Storing an LRU KV Cache of all your conversations both in memory, and on (plenty fast enough) SSD, especially including the f…

“Scared” to “take risks”? This is a bizarre way of saying “if they ship it and it has reliability problems, they know they’re skating on thin ice”. Apple’s brand has taken a beatin…