Hacker News: 72deluxe

New comment by 72deluxe in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

72deluxe — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:12:11 +0000

Hopefully it has a built-in jev-limiter.

New comment by 72deluxe in "Claude Opus 5.5"

72deluxe — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:08:48 +0000

I am a native speaker, and "pacing the frontier" is absolutely meaningless to me.

New comment by 72deluxe in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

72deluxe — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:08:44 +0000

Yes I think that's the guy. He did a talk at an Apple developer event when they released the initial APFS all those years ago after HFS and HFS+ were deprecated. Seems like only yesterday.

New comment by 72deluxe in "I am done with this shit"

72deluxe — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:07:03 +0000

I think we'd all be surprised how bad most software is within businesses, and they somehow still run.

New comment by 72deluxe in "I am done with this shit"

72deluxe — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:01:22 +0000

Is this a recipe for brain drain, where you'll lose actual programming skills and thinking ability?

New comment by 72deluxe in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

72deluxe — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:54:47 +0000

Perhaps it is because the last 20 years has seen a shift in developer culture away from lower-level understanding and native applications so that all the vibe-coded apps you use on the desktop are Chromium-based web "applications".

If you apply AI to low-level applications, it is quite good and you avoid the runtime bottleneck of webness, I have found. Eg. https://github.com/Redrum624/Vitrine is very good but has a horrible UI due to the webby nature of its rendering - all vibe coded. If you used a native toolkit it'd feel completely different.

New comment by 72deluxe in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

72deluxe — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:50:07 +0000

Which OS is this on? I have a Windows 10 machine I keep alive for development and actual weekly use - is this issue a Windows 11 thing? I don't use the Windows 11 machine I have at all.

New comment by 72deluxe in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

72deluxe — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:49:09 +0000

Is that because more people are signing up to use Cloudflare as a MITM to block the increasing avalanche of AI-generated traffic though??

New comment by 72deluxe in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

72deluxe — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:53:03 +0000

Are you the man who helped work on the new Apple file system / spotlight after working on BeOS' filesystem? If so, thanks!

New comment by 72deluxe in "iPhone Duo"

72deluxe — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:48:47 +0000

I celebrated your reply.

(No, I don't know what "celebrate" is meant to mean either! It's daft!)

New comment by 72deluxe in "My business partner sent a 5K vibe-coded PR that he didn't even test"

72deluxe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:29:43 +0000

I must seek these out then! I avoid YouTube a lot as its noise I don't need in my life, and I hate the "facial reaction" / pointing thumbnails, or thumbnails with arrows, all designed to make you look.

New comment by 72deluxe in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

72deluxe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:27:57 +0000

I wonder what the solution to this problem is?

New comment by 72deluxe in "I think I hate the internet"

72deluxe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:25:53 +0000

It did. The Internet has always had awful views on it, because it was used by humanity, who also had awful views on things.

What is a hatred of the Internet seems to be a hatred of humanity or at least its ability to freely express itself.

The solution is to reduce the noise, in much a way someone 100 years ago would only visit clubs or establishments they enjoyed.

New comment by 72deluxe in "iPhone Duo"

72deluxe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:37:08 +0000

I had a Motorola Atrix and Lapdock years ago, and wished that concept had taken off. The phone was lacking in performance which made it difficult to use in "laptop" mode.

The modern phone I have is a "cheap" Xiaomi POCO F7 Ultra which has incredible performance, only hampered by the USB2 connectivity. If a dock existed for other phones, I would use this all day.

New comment by 72deluxe in "iPhone Duo"

72deluxe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:33:57 +0000

Emphatic gestures are one thing and descriptive gestures are another. But gesturing for the sake of gesturing is the irritating part.

You see it a lot on YouTube videos where people are talking to the camera and they're waving their hands around all over the place and pointing for no discernible reason. It doesn't change the information they're presenting, nor does it add to it. In fact, it just distracts you with someone waving their hands around.

So the same applies to presentations from a company. If you watched two people talking in a park, you wouldn't see this many gestures.

New comment by 72deluxe in "iPhone Duo"

72deluxe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:28:21 +0000

What are you doing on your laptop that this could replace? A functioning tactile real keyboard is not something to be trivially dismissed.

New comment by 72deluxe in "iPhone Duo"

72deluxe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:27:12 +0000

Perhaps they'll dedicate one screen to advertising so that you can't scroll past them? The horror

New comment by 72deluxe in "iPhone Duo"

72deluxe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:25:31 +0000

I think it's always been the way they talk. When they were introducing Apple News, they were talking as if the fonts and colours were something absolutely revolutionary and talking about the "beautiful typography" and breathtaking style, when in fact it is just a web page.

I think it's a cultural thing to promote everything as absolutely amazing and astounding. Just being "good" is never enough, and it's wearying.

New comment by 72deluxe in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

72deluxe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:08:23 +0000

Which country is this? In the UK they take your licence off you straight away as soon as there is a dementia diagnosis, I believe.

New comment by 72deluxe in "AirPods 5"

72deluxe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:06:13 +0000

But did you notice at the time that it sounded chronically awful? Cymbals and hihats sound like someone eating with their mouth open.