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Apple rolls out encrypted RCS messaging in beta

Doches — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:08:16 +0000

Article URL: https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/05/apple-rolls-out-encrypted-rcs-messaging-in-beta/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098468

Points: 2

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New comment by Doches in "Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes"

Doches — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:02:04 +0000

EVs aren’t exactly new; there’s a deep, accessble secondhand market by now. I’ve been using a 2019 Nissan Leaf as a primary family car for two years now, that I picked up off Gumtree for around £3k. It’s been one of the best (little) cars I’ve ever owned.

Not saying new EVs aren’t pricey, but if you want into electric on a budget (i.e. because you don’t feel like you can afford to fill up on diesel) it can absolutely be done.

New comment by Doches in "Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)"

Doches — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:00:34 +0000

Oh, man; I got my hands on a (dead) one of these when I was a freshman in college (2004) and instead of trying to restore it my friends and I gutted it and used it as an original Xbox case mod. It was pretty satisfying to show up at LAN parties with what looked like a Solaris box and watch people boggle when we played Halo on it...

New comment by Doches in "If AI has a bright future, why does AI think it doesn't?"

Doches — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:59:40 +0000

Garbage in, garbage out.

(If OP was trying to make the bull case then the same snark would still apply.)

New comment by Doches in "Claude Experiencing Elevated Errors Across All Platforms"

Doches — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:35:40 +0000

I've spent the last couple days building out an automated classifier on top of the batch API, and just this morning (about a minute before the outage began!) started running my first live tests. I thought I was going mad!

New comment by Doches in "Europe Worries About Another Trump Blowup, This One on Tech"

Doches — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:03:02 +0000

Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/jDjGZ

Europe Worries About Another Trump Blowup, This One on Tech

Doches — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:02:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/world/europe/europe-united-states-trump-digital-services-act.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072491

Points: 5

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New comment by Doches in "Light Mode InFFFFFFlation"

Doches — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:56:37 +0000

I’ve noticed this tendency in my own UI work as well: dark designs tend to get darker, and light designs lighter, when updated or refreshed in isolation. Is there a term for this kind of ratcheting effect?

New comment by Doches in "The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022)"

Doches — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:19:27 +0000

It's not clear from the linked page, which seems to have been last updated in 2022, aside from user comments asking for support. Thank you for the clarification!

New comment by Doches in "The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022)"

Doches — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:17:49 +0000

> When someone already has a broken system...

To be fair, this tool doesn't claim to fix a broken system; as near as I can tell it doesn't actually remove the underlying Windows installation, so the core problem will remain.

New comment by Doches in "The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022)"

Doches — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:11:10 +0000

This should have a (2022) in the title, which begs the question: is this still a relevant tool for de-shittifying Windows 11, or is it limited to 10?

(Asking as I don't have a Windows box of any kind around to test, as I'm not a masochist and therefore all of my machines run Linux or macOS)

New comment by Doches in "10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13"

Doches — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:57:25 +0000

> We're not bragging (okay, we're bragging a little) but it turns out that not burning through VC cash on ping-pong tables and "growth at all costs" actually works.

Have an internet fist-bump from a fellow successful bootstrapper; this is the way, and you're calling it out!

New comment by Doches in "Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud"

Doches — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:28:26 +0000

I wonder if this includes Skywise, the Palantir-built data lake and design stack that they use for many many internal operations (design, airline support, manufacturing). Not sure what difference it really makes where the data is hosted if the folks doing the hosting call home to Colorado…

New comment by Doches in "The Java Ring: A Wearable Computer (1998)"

Doches — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:05:03 +0000

Me, too! I worked at Sun from 2002-2004, and some of us got them as pointlessly fancy door badges for datacenter access. In hindsight it was such a novelty, almost a gag, but they were kind of awesome for what they were. And you felt like an absolute badass when using one to badge in!

New comment by Doches in "Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds"

Doches — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:19:38 +0000

Presumably most of Farage's personal income at this point is ultimately denominated in USD, so he's probably benefiting just fine from sterling's fall...

New comment by Doches in "Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds"

Doches — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:17:59 +0000

Reform UK is still technically defending Brexit; they've just switched to the no-true-Scotsman argument that real Brexit was never delivered and that they're the ones that can make good on the promises from the referendum.

Which is horseshit, obviously.

New comment by Doches in "The Most Joyless Tech Revolution Ever: AI Is Making Us Rich and Unhappy"

Doches — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:06:26 +0000

"Us"? Who exactly is the broad category of "us" that's getting rich off of AI, other than shareholders of NVDA? And even then, unless you're actively managing your investments and have an uncanny knack for timing the top of the bubble all those recent gains are going to evaporate when it pops...

UK to Create New Fast-Track Residency Path for High-Earners

Doches — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:01:40 +0000

Article URL: https://parliamentnews.co.uk/uk-to-create-new-fast-track-residency-path-for-high-earners

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Europe Worries About Another Trump Blowup, This One on Tech

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New comment by Doches in "Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds"

New comment by Doches in "Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds"

New comment by Doches in "The Most Joyless Tech Revolution Ever: AI Is Making Us Rich and Unhappy"

UK to Create New Fast-Track Residency Path for High-Earners

Simulating a Planet on the GPU: Part 1 (2022)

New comment by Doches in "What Palantir Sees"