Hacker News: CharlesW

Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can't catch

CharlesW — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:54:44 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/hank-green-found-the-ai-problem-that-youtube-labels-cant-catch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188880

Points: 2

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Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes" for old.reddit.com

CharlesW — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:46:23 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/reddit-signals-ominous-upcoming-changes-for-old-reddit-com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188775

Points: 14

# Comments: 7

New comment by CharlesW in "Zed DeltaDB"

CharlesW — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:29:08 +0000

So is this basically Beads + Dolt? This isn’t to diminish it, it’d be great if this ends up being a less “vibe code-y” alternative to those.

New comment by CharlesW in "The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You"

CharlesW — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:07:51 +0000

This is absolutely true, although I'd broden it to "systems design" since software is part and parcel of the advancements. An example that comes to mind is AssistiveTouch for for Apple Watch (2021), which ultimately drove the requirement for a faster low-power Neural Engine, and which then evolved into Watch's mainstream Double Tap interaction (2023).

New comment by CharlesW in "Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search"

CharlesW — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:03:59 +0000

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-crime

Tear Here: Condiment Packet Archive

CharlesW — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:18:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.condimentpacket.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176605

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

AI music generator Suno loses copyright infringement legal case

CharlesW — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:46:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nme.com/news/music/ai-music-generator-suno-loses-copyright-infringement-legal-case-3960760

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175650

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

Why cartoon characters curse like this [video]

CharlesW — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:39:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ottUEiIm8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174766

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

CharlesW — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:30:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1140927/a-fundamental-flaw-leaves-llms-vulnerable-to-attack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174636

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

The hidden logic behind #, @, & and §

CharlesW — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:20:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSsyG2pE-GY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173599

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

CharlesW — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:55:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/973098/reddit-ai-search-seo-marketing-brands-spam

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173229

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Preparing for next year's Rosetta 2 demise

CharlesW — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:44:00 +0000

Article URL: https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/08/preparing-for-next-years-rosetta-2-demise/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163148

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by CharlesW in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

CharlesW — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:46:36 +0000

> There's no way I'd dare to take on a full Apple-platform app project alone on my own, but I've started dabbling in it again thanks to AI: Codex even converted an old app I made in Visual Basic 900 years ago and had it running in SwiftUI within minutes!

You may like my project https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/ (FOSS). I was in the same place a year ago, and initially created Axiom as a private skills suite before deciding that it was too helpful not to share.

New comment by CharlesW in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

CharlesW — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:09:02 +0000

> I've noticed that developers who started with UIKit really have a hard time working with SwiftUI.

I think this is true. SwiftUI became "very good" as of iOS 26 (in part because the performance gap mostly evaporated) and continues to get better in iOS 27. Over and over, I see UIKit developers trying to do things "the UIKit way" in SwiftUI, and they'd rather write TFAs instead of considering that they may need to skill up and learn to write effective and idiomatic SwiftUI.