Hacker News: 46493168

New comment by 46493168 in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

46493168 — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:14:20 +0000

What is it about China that makes you trust them more?

New comment by 46493168 in "Aids Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance"

46493168 — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:28:54 +0000

False choice. The US can choose many paths besides “maintain forever” and “cut off entirely without warning.”

New comment by 46493168 in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

46493168 — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:43:20 +0000

Absolutely no one whose job it is to scan barcodes gets paid enough to give a single fuck about how that barcode was created

New comment by 46493168 in "Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend"

46493168 — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:28:54 +0000

This is cool. You can make something like this using Journals + Templater + Share Note plugins with Obsidian.

New comment by 46493168 in "Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months"

46493168 — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:33:02 +0000

So the Neo wins on things people care about

New comment by 46493168 in "Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s"

46493168 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:43:00 +0000

In what way does prohibition not “work”? It would be helpful to understand the success metric when evaluating whether a solution will enable the metric to be achieved

New comment by 46493168 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

46493168 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:02:37 +0000

Finland has a VAT of ~25%. The price you are seeing includes that tax. Apple doesn’t control how much a country charges in tax. The price for a new battery is 70.9 up to 109 Euro without VAT

New comment by 46493168 in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

46493168 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:13:45 +0000

Who else would fund a study?

New comment by 46493168 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

46493168 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:09:35 +0000

Apple’s replacement program is $99 for out of warranty battery replacement

New comment by 46493168 in "The Gemini app is now on Mac"

46493168 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:36:53 +0000

What would that get you over just the chrome version?

New comment by 46493168 in "Sam Altman Attack Suspect Had 'Anti-AI' Document with CEO Names"

46493168 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:07:11 +0000

Ted was right

New comment by 46493168 in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

46493168 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:26:10 +0000

Indeed, a lot of the people that bought iPhones are now buying Macs with a binned version of the chip they already bought. So much so that Apple is in danger of running out of them.

New comment by 46493168 in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

46493168 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:59:17 +0000

Apple is almost 2 years out from their announcement of Apple Intelligence. It has barely delivered on any of the hype. New Siri was delayed and barely mentioned in the last WWDC; none of the features are released in China.

In other news, people keep buying iPhones, and Apple just had its best quarter ever in China. AAPL is up 24% from last year.

New comment by 46493168 in "In California, wildfires are prevented by crews of unlikely firefighters: goats"

46493168 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:39:01 +0000

(2023)

New comment by 46493168 in "AI's fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users"

46493168 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:17:15 +0000

Now do Deepseek.

New comment by 46493168 in "Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers"

46493168 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:11:39 +0000

> I don't really understand why we need a US Postal Service in 2026

Mail in voting.

New comment by 46493168 in "Medical bill analyzer that runs client-side (OCR and 3.3M CMS rules in-browser"

46493168 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:25:13 +0000

The software mentioned in the article is Orbdoc. https://orbdoc.com/blog

New comment by 46493168 in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

46493168 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:56:30 +0000

I’m only marginally aware of how these systems work, can someone more knowledgeable tell me the difference between Google’s implementation of this restriction and the restrictions already present on GrapheneOS? Is it correct to say that both are implemented for security reasons?

New comment by 46493168 in "People Cheering Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What Theyre Cheering For"

46493168 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:52:33 +0000

This strikes me as a distinction without a difference.

New comment by 46493168 in "People Cheering Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What Theyre Cheering For"

46493168 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:32:29 +0000

There’s a few books I recommend for you, if you’re open to learning more about this subject.

The first is “Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas” by Natasha Dow Schüll. The second, and arguably more direct and fascinating, is “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” by Shoshanna Zuboff. Both are incredibly eye-opening in their treatment of technology and how it is designed to influence behavior.