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I’ve worked with flip phones for years, and I think this is the first one I’ve seen with Sailfish! I didn’t see the specs, but it’s got to be comparable to a budget Android phone t…

What happened to kit homes and plan books? Rather that bring down the cost of custom design, can we bring down the cost of partially pre-fabricated, modern code-compliant homes tha…

The work of a true masochist, but in all seriousness, it’s a solid article explaining aarch64 assembly in plain language.

Hi HN, Last month at a SundAI hackathon, my team built a prototype for an app called iClaw. The goal was to develop an AI agent using Apple Intelligence. I've since continued hacki…

Hi HN! I built a CLI tool called ShellTalk for macOS, Linux, and web (WebAssembly) that maps English text to the corresponding Bash commands. ShellTalk is written in Swift and avai…

A local, safe AI agent for macOS that uses Apple Intelligence and lives in the app sandbox https://github.com/lastbytellc/iclaw

I love SQLite and have ran it even on networked drives with queued writes for read-heavy applications. It’s an incredibly robust piece of software that’s often cost me pennies per …

Hi HN! I built an on-device coding agent called Junco, designed to explore what's possible using the AI (Apple Intelligence) you already have on your Mac. Junco is a ~9MB Mach-O bi…

Subjectively, AFM isn’t even close to Qwen. It’s one of the weakest models I’ve used. I’m not even sure how many people have Apple Intelligence enabled. But I agree, there must be …

Sent a LinkedIn request. I’m building a language-specific coding agent using Apple Intelligence with custom adapters. It’s more a proof-of-concept at this point, but basic function…

Rig sounds cool, I just joined the waitlist! I’m building something similar although with a much narrower purpose. Excited to learn more

That’s awesome! I’ve got a similar project for macOS/ iOS using the Apple Intelligence models and on-device STT Transcriber APIs. Do you think it the models you’re using could be q…

Neat! I’ve actually been building with AFM, including training some LoRA adapters to help steer the model. With the right feedback mechanisms and guardrails, you can even use it fo…

I’m also working on agents in Swift with the AFM, just having it locally already installed is a huge selling point. I think narrowly-focused agents with good tooling and architectu…

Location: Boston, MA Remote: true Willing to relocate: Seattle Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, AWS, Docker, Android, React, Svelte, CSS, Etc Résumé/CV: https://re…

Pretty nice to have menu bar integration. For macOS 26+, why not use the already-installed on-device speech transcription models?

Love the idea, would be great to see a modes to switch to circular interface for the Time Round 2. Definitely lots of potential for rapid iteration on new watch faces and apps!

I tried Elixir a few months back with several different models (GPT, Claude, and Gemini). I’m not an Elixir or BEAM developer, but the results were quite poor. I rarely got it to g…

How do sites stop background playback? I’m guessing there’s more than just FocusEvent on the window.

Cool app! It’s quite polished and scrolling is smooth on a 13 Mini. Some quick thoughts: - I didn’t see any loading indicator, and some videos took multiple seconds to load - When …

Kind of like the Axiotron Modbook from 2008 but cheaper and as an accessory, not a full mod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modbook

I run a podcast app for flip phones called PodLP. Revenue hasn’t always been $500/month, but averaged over the past 5 years it’s been over $500. It’s been primarily from sponsorshi…

As a counterpoint, consider reading Kevin Kelly’s “The Inevitable.” I also avoid most social media and have an aversion to all things “smart,” but these may actually be “inevitable…

Are there viable options? I run Asahi on my M1 Air and it performs quite well, but certain software like Android Studio has issues and hiccups. I’d love a decent ultrabook to repla…