Hacker News: EastSmith

New comment by EastSmith in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

EastSmith — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:33:41 +0000

There are two things here:

Allowing Siri competitors. EU is 100% right to demand from Apple to give the same data that Siri has to any other app (competitor) that the user chooses to install, trusts and has granted access. The grant should be the gate keeper, not Apple.

User privacy, data retention, pii, etc - I am not 100% sure here - if you send user data somewhere to a LLM, it gets very complicated, very fast, and probably the rules should be revisited / simplified / relaxed.

New comment by EastSmith in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

EastSmith — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:30:19 +0000

I've used Windows since 3.11 and I am using macOS for 5+ years now for work (requirement).

Switched to Linux on my personal devices 2 years ago and using Ubuntu and PopOS! on two different laptops. I've had very small number of issues. Can't understand people moving to Mac - it is the same messed half backed OS as both Windows and Linux (flavors). With the llms these days, any linux issue is fixable within minutes.

With Linux at least I don't have to worry about privacy.

New comment by EastSmith in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

EastSmith — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:01:00 +0000

Why the f this was downvoted? Literally from the article:

> Tesla has indicated it will appeal the verdict to a higher court.

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

EastSmith — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:10:26 +0000

With OpenClaw we are seeing how the app layer becomes as important as the model layer.

You can switch models multiple times (online/proprietary, open weight, local), but you have one UI : OpenClaw.

New comment by EastSmith in "The Codex App"

EastSmith — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:28:30 +0000

Really hoped you'd say Linux next.

New comment by EastSmith in "ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway"

EastSmith — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:22:44 +0000

> For example, in the UK sophisticated gangs steal cars and phones and ship them around the world where they're resold.

This does not happen almost anywhere else - car theft. This is UK issue with local law enforcement / insurance companies.

Phones - just fix your streets, elect politicians that are tough on crime. Simple.

New comment by EastSmith in "xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app"

EastSmith — Wed, 28 May 2025 21:44:37 +0000

"No deal has been signed" per Elon Musk's post on X just now.

New comment by EastSmith in "xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app"

EastSmith — Wed, 28 May 2025 21:44:07 +0000

"No deal has been signed" per Elon Musk post on X.

New comment by EastSmith in "Ghost artists on Spotify"

EastSmith — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:15:14 +0000

Wait, the music mafia industry is finally getting out-mafia-ed?

DHH's dev setup for Ubuntu: Omakub

EastSmith — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 23:18:05 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1798466733222838758

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40591760

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

I'm no longer involved at Signal

EastSmith — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:29:39 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1781144255848997330

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40091592

Points: 71

# Comments: 49

New comment by EastSmith in "Grok"

EastSmith — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 21:14:31 +0000

There is a friendly warning here from Groq: https://wow.groq.com/hey-elon-its-time-to-cease-de-grok/

New comment by EastSmith in "Grok"

EastSmith — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 21:07:55 +0000

> Which is the only valuable thing Twitter (X) has left. reply

They have a very valuable user base (all kinds of world leaders for example), so the data is not the only valuable thing they have.

New comment by EastSmith in "Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account"

EastSmith — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:06:11 +0000

I have not played Fortnite in years, but I am buying the new battle pass.

New comment by EastSmith in "Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames"

EastSmith — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:26:00 +0000

When they announced usernames I thought I will be able to install Signal on my TV desktop (linux) and send / receive messages from to it (links, files, etc).

Now that I know it still needs phone number I assume it will need to be unique so my use case fails.

For the record, I am still a happy Signal user and a monthly supporter, thank you very much.

Why Facebook's Lack of Customer Support Is a Problem

EastSmith — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 17:07:33 +0000

Article URL: https://techblog.bozho.net/why-facebooks-lack-of-customer-support-is-a-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252040

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

35 VC firms have signed the voluntary Responsible AI commitments

EastSmith — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 02:05:36 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/htaneja/status/1724454074249273477

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38272488

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by EastSmith in "Verifying your identity on Twitter will require taking a selfie"

EastSmith — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 23:32:02 +0000

If it is going to be an "everything app", that also includes banking thus the KYC. I presume this is related to financial services, banking, etc.

New comment by EastSmith in "WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)"

EastSmith — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 21:20:39 +0000

I guess the Q that bothers me the most is who has access to my activity, when it was accessed and why.

TypeScript sucked out much of the joy I had writing JavaScript

EastSmith — Sun, 07 May 2023 22:55:34 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1655076668787097607

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35856393

Points: 26

# Comments: 12