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New comment by 00deadbeef in "Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription"

00deadbeef — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:28:41 +0000

One good thing to come of vibecoding is native apps are less effort, so hopefully there will be more alternatives to Electron crap apps.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

00deadbeef — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:53:47 +0000

I don't understand the point you're making.

It can be both the most powerful LLM on the market, and have no adoption in critical infrastructure.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

00deadbeef — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:51:36 +0000

I think this could kill LLM development. What's the point in pushing boundaries, when your business model is already hard to profit from, only to be blocked from selling your work to the entire world? Where's the incentive to continue?

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Claude Fable 5"

00deadbeef — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:43:12 +0000

The first number is which generation of their LLMs it belongs to.

Fable is the first model in the 5th generation.

The second number is an incremental release, not a generational leap forward.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Claude Fable 5"

00deadbeef — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:38:11 +0000

They do

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/struct...

> Structured outputs are generally available on the Claude API for Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Mythos Preview, Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Claude Fable 5"

00deadbeef — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:36:00 +0000

I doubt they'll phase out Haiku, some work needs speed more than intelligence. Haiku can answer a lot faster than Sonnet.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Claude Fable 5"

00deadbeef — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:28:23 +0000

I haven't tried Fable yet but my experience with Claude is it does not engineer things well. Without direction from me, it will either over-engineer things to the point of absurdity, or do the total opposite and have little to no abstraction with repeated code everywhere.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Claude Fable 5"

00deadbeef — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:21:41 +0000

But it doesn't make you the good guy, it makes you the best of a bad bunch. The least bad. Dario gets a boner every time he talks about taking your job.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Claude Fable 5"

00deadbeef — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:17:29 +0000

Opus 4.8 already drops to Sonnet when you ask it cybersecurity or biology questions

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Claude Fable 5"

00deadbeef — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:15:01 +0000

Of course. You use their AI to ship code full of bugs and security holes and then they conveniently have the tool to fix them, for an extra fee.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "UK sovereign LLM inference"

00deadbeef — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:36:53 +0000

5 minutes to load and it just dumps me to a documentation site with no useful information about that this is, who made it, what it can do, etc.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

00deadbeef — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:06:27 +0000

What if they have an actual back-end with long-running processes and scheduled tasks?

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

00deadbeef — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:04:25 +0000

Maybe that's why all these vibe coded slop apps also use Clerk for auth alongside Supabase etc

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

00deadbeef — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:38:57 +0000

I bought a 24TB for £365 last June. It's £905 now.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

00deadbeef — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:07:24 +0000

I like it so far.

Some features I'd like:

- XL bar size - even large feels a bit small on a 6K display

- I have grouped windows off, but it would be nice if there was an option to still sort the chips by app, so all the app's windows are listed adjacent to eachother

- If not using the suggest idea above, it would also be nice to be able to drag and drop chips to sort them in the order I want

- Make the Applications menu open for clicks on the entire bottom left area of the screen so I can slam my cursor in the general direction, where it ends up at the bottom left pixel, and click like I could in Windows to open the Start menu

- Ability to give a desktop a name

- Ability to map a key or sequence (e.g. opt, opt) to open the Applications menu, again like how you could open Windows' Start menu with a key

Bugs:

- Clicking a chip to minimise a window, then clicking it again to restore it sometimes causes the window to change size.

- Quitting boringBar spawned three stacks of these: https://postimg.cc/WhmwHGNz even though it already has permissions granted. Clicking "Allow" just spawns another one so they never go away. boringBar is not running in Activity Monitor. Had no choice but to reboot.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

00deadbeef — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:57:11 +0000

I leave it there because I have a large screen and it looks pretty

New comment by 00deadbeef in "MacBook Neo"

00deadbeef — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:36:01 +0000

But the Mac has a huge trick up its sleeve: it can run iOS and iPadOS apps. Meaning developers only have to make relatively minor adjustments to make it nice in the desktop and bin off the electron app on Mac.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "MacBook Neo"

00deadbeef — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:34:19 +0000

WhatsApp has a native Mac app

New comment by 00deadbeef in "MacBook Neo"

00deadbeef — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:31:57 +0000

> I wouldn’t even care about the 8GB of ram if I could just add some myself.

I think that’s pretty unreasonable when they’re using an iPhone SoC to keep it cheap because they have massive volume. It was only ever available in 8GB and never designed for user upgradable memory because it’s for a phone.

New comment by 00deadbeef in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

00deadbeef — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:22:30 +0000

What everyone else said, plus the cuteness factor