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Insisting that code is the hard part is like insisting that spelling & grammar are the hard part of being a writer

Fortunately all you need is one clanker to maintain the patches. What used to be immensely expensive human work (and tedious!), is now just ”claude please re-enable manifest v2 and…

Extremely competent military expert: "Sir, we should hold back up strikes to preserve the stockpile of valuable high-precision missiles" Someone higher up the chain of command: "Fi…

It was picked as the KPI for someone responsible for community / communications?

Movies like Forrest Gump, Return of the Jedi, Men in Black or Harry Potter 5 all managed to lose money, according to "GAAP". If that's not creative accounting, I don't know what is…

1) Slap AI on the pitch deck 2) Acquihired by one of the AI companies, probably after a bidding war because everyone has infinite money and wants to block competitors from getting …

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Exhibit A: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40093420 Decades of people desperate for a fix, utter stonewall from Google Some PM somewhere decided that autocomplete belongs on all…

The trackpad is not "locked", it's moving just as much as it used to, but the driver running the haptic fake click feedback is dead. Apple's haptic technology is some deep black ma…

The only way for commoners to reach the actual devs is HN or similar, bug trackers are as useful as a wishing well. The odds of Safari devs reading the comments on a Safari-related…

It’s impressive that pinch-zooming reddit.com in-out-in-out has reliably crashed ios safari for at least a few years already. One would assume Apple gets telemetry from iphone defa…

Essentially nothing, fractions of a penny on a dollar, because players who could afford paying real money won't risk the crusty old hardware - so you're limited to buyers who still…

It doesn't do anything? Au contraire! Now the creations of the LLMs stand on legal ground. This was an excellent deal for Anthropic

To be clear, bot spam and social media manipulation are legitimate business needs for the business selling said services.

They've seen the ruckus that follows from controlling / curating the app store experience. For example, see the comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028

It's so weird to look at the patents list for H.264 and see multiple patents granted after the H.264 specification was released. Was the situation similar for MPEG-4?

The same problem also exists in countries that use English as their first language. If you don't speak passable english, you will have a hard time integrating or finding an enginee…

How is your English compared to her German?

Fibre to the house and calling over wifi is the most typical way. Hasn’t the US moved to wifi calling? It’s such a simple win, as screaming packets to a distant 5g tower eats much …

But what were the huge, established companies that had refused to deliver a better product before Google came along?

Dropbox is an AI-company, according to to Dropbox https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product/introducing-AI-power... The challenge in 2026 is finding the company that's not AI-powered…

They sleep very well, in a fully-paid off house, on a mattress filled with benjamins

It's some variant of chesterton's fence, where you believe all of these huge, established companies in a space are just stupid and refuse to release a product thats 10x better

In BC, the government bought all the unsold, unfit units to prop up the housing market. Your tax dollars at work!