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Apple UK Age Verification Chaos

DeusExMachina — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:10:15 +0000

Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-uk-age-verification-chaos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573835

Points: 7

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The Myth of the MV pattern: Why SwiftUI developers just reinvented MVC

DeusExMachina — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:02:21 +0000

Article URL: https://matteomanferdini.com/swiftui-mv-pattern/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506697

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by DeusExMachina in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

DeusExMachina — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:12:31 +0000

The same should be said of the senile old women that damage Europe's reputation. That is, if they were actually elected and not appointed by bureaucrats.

New comment by DeusExMachina in "Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites"

DeusExMachina — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:00:50 +0000

One thing you learn from game theory is that you need to understand the rules of the game everyone is playing. You cannot change them, you can only play by them.

"Making a cultural change" is not something you or any group of people can do. The superstructure of the game decides those, not the players. You can try, but nobody will play your new game.

New comment by DeusExMachina in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

DeusExMachina — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:38:40 +0000

I don't disagree with providing people with more privacy, but what you present is a false dichotomy.

For a long time we lived with private messages over SMS that were easily readable by third parties.

New comment by DeusExMachina in "How will OpenAI compete?"

DeusExMachina — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:55:48 +0000

You are forgetting all the money Google pays to be the default search engine in every browser.

New comment by DeusExMachina in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

DeusExMachina — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:11:12 +0000

The same way you avoid it doing anything else illegal that involves cash.

Crime is risky, but not pure anarchy. It is still based on trust and rules, just not those written in the law.

There are plenty of regular people who interact with criminals, for example drug dealers, without getting murdered or robbed of all the cash they are carrying.

In Argentina, years ago, you could exchange dollars/euros for pesos on the street and get a far better exchange rate than in a bank. It was obviously aimed at tourists, who didn't get robbed, or the whole enterprise would stop.

New comment by DeusExMachina in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

DeusExMachina — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:44:32 +0000

Then the others should also not be shielded from criticism instead of focusing only on the one you personally dislike, or his social media.

There is plenty of toxic behavior on other platforms, especially Reddit and Bluesky, to name a few. That does not excuse the one coming from X, but the opposite is also true.

New comment by DeusExMachina in "I’m joining OpenAI"

DeusExMachina — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:05:24 +0000

> If you're the type of programmer who thinks of yourself as just a programmer, and take pride in your secure code, ability to optimize functions and algorithms, you're exactly the kind of programmer AI will replace.

I'm not sure how this follows logically from the comment you are replying to, which states:

> We have someone who vibe coded software with major security vulnerabilities.

New comment by DeusExMachina in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

DeusExMachina — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:02:05 +0000

I also use it every day. It does its job, but it has many usability issues that make it less than ideal.

For example, copy and paste retains the text color (probably by design). So, sometimes I get black text on a black background, when the app is in dark mode.

The editing process to remove the formatting is pretty annoying.

It takes me time to find the edit button, which is buried in the menu but prominent in the desktop version. Then, I have to toggle the HTML mode and delete the retained tags, which on a phone takes time. The desktop version, instead, has a button to remove all formatting.

New comment by DeusExMachina in "Yes, It's Fascism"

DeusExMachina — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:56:59 +0000

That can be said about any post that goes against the guidelines. At that point, why even have guidelines in the first place?

New comment by DeusExMachina in "Bugs Apple loves"

DeusExMachina — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:53:46 +0000

The same happens with their developer frameworks. I used to submit tickets (radars, as they call them) for framework bugs clearly reproducible in a few lines of code. They never got fixed over multiple OS releases, so I stopped bothering.

Why VIPER and MVVM in SwiftUI are the same pattern

DeusExMachina — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:40:28 +0000

Article URL: https://matteomanferdini.com/mvvm-vs-viper/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704866

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by DeusExMachina in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

DeusExMachina — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:44:56 +0000

> One of the main reasons we end up with populist leaders [...] is social media and the attention economy.

This problem of democracy was already discussed in ancient Greece. Social media might have exacerbated it, but it's not new. Over the millennia, nobody found a valid solution, or at least one that is devoid of other problems.

Education is not the solution, as we are probably the most educated populations in history and we are all still prone to the same problem. And who decides what is the correct education? Every side has their own definition, so there you have another problem.

New comment by DeusExMachina in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

DeusExMachina — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:44:38 +0000

It is amazing the lenghts Apple is willing to go to make exceptions only in individual places that force them to.

New comment by DeusExMachina in "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"

DeusExMachina — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:39:32 +0000

Where did you pull those numbers out from?

But ok, if we want to play with made up numbers, pop-ups working with the 0.01% of viewers that are willing to spend money are worth alienating even 10% of people that will never spend a dime.

You are assuming every visitor is the same, when most are just a waste of resources.

New comment by DeusExMachina in "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"

DeusExMachina — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:23:11 +0000

Revenue is how businesses and even no-profits survive. You can be idealistic about it all you want, but if there is no cash flow, those websites will go away.

New comment by DeusExMachina in "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"

DeusExMachina — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:00:24 +0000

> I understand that some companies depend on ads, but this is not my problem

It is their problem, though, and they have figured out that pop-ups work. It is not their problem, however, if you decide to never go to their website again. They likely do not want you to go anymore to their website if you are never going to contribute anything.

From broken to testable SwiftUI navigation

DeusExMachina — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:04:39 +0000

Article URL: https://matteomanferdini.com/mvvm-coordinator-swiftui/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46287537

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Stanford Medicine study shows mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis

DeusExMachina — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:19:08 +0000

Article URL: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/12/myocarditis-vaccine-covid.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46244920

Points: 19

# Comments: 43