Hacker News: NightlyDev

New comment by NightlyDev in "Apple M3 Ultra"

NightlyDev — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:15:17 +0000

Most recent GPUs will do. An older RTX 4070 is over 400 TOPS, the new RTX 5070 is around 1000 TOPS, and the RTX 5090 is around 3600 TOPS.

New comment by NightlyDev in "Apple M3 Ultra"

NightlyDev — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:02:43 +0000

The full deepseek R1 model needs more memory than 512GB. The model is 720GB alone. You can run a quantized version on it, but not the full model.

New comment by NightlyDev in "Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing"

NightlyDev — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:01:13 +0000

The CPUs aren't cheap, but they don't cost more than the Mac mini.

The Mac mini will definitely draw more than 20W. TDP numbers can also not be compared between manufacturers at all. And last but not least, for a single core test, maximum power consumption is irrelevant.

New comment by NightlyDev in "M4 MacBook Pro"

NightlyDev — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:54:48 +0000

I don't think tax evasion is something one should recommend people do.

New comment by NightlyDev in "Security research on Private Cloud Compute"

NightlyDev — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:08:54 +0000

This marketing is dumb, and if Apple believes that not even they themselves can get access to the information running on the platform, then they could put their money where their mouth is. Increase the max bounty reward from $50 000 to $50 000 000 000 with no other rules than if you can get access to users' request data without having the phone it's sent from, then you get the money, and Apple will not legally pursue the attacker.

Is it as secure as they say? Then it doesn't matter if all the money Apple has is the reward, because nobody can get it. A max bounty of $50 000 for "Accidental or unexpected data disclosure due to deployment or configuration issue" is silly low.

New comment by NightlyDev in "Why TCP needs 3 handshakes"

NightlyDev — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:09:24 +0000

Who is this? What? No! You called me!

New comment by NightlyDev in "Throwable tactical camera transmits 360° panoramic thermal images"

NightlyDev — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:11:29 +0000

You just said it: Omnidirectional, meaning in every direction :)

New comment by NightlyDev in "Learning to Reason with LLMs"

NightlyDev — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:55:24 +0000

Did it hallucinate? I haven't looked at it, but lowercase i and uppercase i is not the same number if you're getting the number from ascii

New comment by NightlyDev in "DOJ claims Google has "trifecta of monopolies" on Day 1 of ad tech trial"

NightlyDev — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:35:27 +0000

To be fair, Google as done a lot for the web. Google is also the one who has been pushing for the web as an alternative to native apps, while Apple has been the one to actively sabotage. If only everyone used Firefox and Mozilla was the one with the most influence...

New comment by NightlyDev in "Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026"

NightlyDev — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:06:18 +0000

No, it's not two or three years old. It's published in December the following year.

New comment by NightlyDev in "Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026"

NightlyDev — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:59:49 +0000

I agree. The author seems to be confused about the difference between EU and Europe.

Some places in Europe, peoples personal income, fortune, and tax, is already publicly available. But that is not true for the EU.

New comment by NightlyDev in "BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time"

NightlyDev — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:34:51 +0000

No, BYD passed Tesla in sales in Q4 2023. Tesla was ahead, but that is no longer the case.

New comment by NightlyDev in "BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time"

NightlyDev — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:24:35 +0000

You're not the odd one out. BMWs cars generally have less faults that most other brands, but as with all brands, the number of faults varies greatly based on the model.

New comment by NightlyDev in "BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time"

NightlyDev — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:14:45 +0000

BMW has not abandoned it. i3 was a cool cheap car, with a carbon fiber cell. It was ugly as hell, but cool tech.

BMW platforms now are both for ICE and EV, but "Neue klasse" that will start to arrive soon is a from-scratch, new, electric only platform. That will really make the cars more spacious. The sportiest platform is supposedly architected for 1350 hp, so it will be interesting to see if BMW will take up the lap time fight with Porsche. That would be interesting.

New comment by NightlyDev in "BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time"

NightlyDev — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:59:43 +0000

I don't know what models sell the most, but BYD passed Tesla on sales of fully electric cars in Q4 2023. And they're growing very very fast.

New comment by NightlyDev in "I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it"

NightlyDev — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 18:55:05 +0000

Can confirm that Paddle support is really bad. Onboarding and calls was very hands on(at least before they opened up for all), but everything after that was terrible and frankly idiotic. At least they can switch to using LLMs now, cause even those would do a better job.

And yeah, VAT and GST is annoying. Terrible for small businesses.

New comment by NightlyDev in "Ask HN: 19yr old child suffering from internet gaming disorder? Any suggestions?"

NightlyDev — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:49:11 +0000

Internet gaming disorder, so 1 year plus where "every waking moment is literally spent gaming", while still getting OK(but not great) grades?

Either you're not looking at this clearly, or it's actually quite impressive that they can spend no time on school and still get ok grades.

New comment by NightlyDev in "Using alternative browser engines in the European Union"

NightlyDev — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 09:05:59 +0000

Safari has been holding back web development for many years. In this announcement Apple requires support for X features to allow a browser, but if you look at the page, Safari is worse than Firefox and Chrome/Edge.

The browser is unstable, has had large amounts of bugs and race conditions, refuses to add features that can make the browser a better competitor for apps unless forced to by regulation, and so on... Safari on iOS is garbage, and that's the way Apple wants it to be. It just has to be OK so that iOS users don't understand how bad it really is.

Literally 15 minutes ago a customer asked me if I could add push notification support for iOS, as Apple has refused to do so on iOS for many many years. But Apple did add it when the pressure around competition increased, so now it should work with updated iOS.

Apple is a shit company for consumers, and they are actively sabotaging the web to increase their profits. This is not just something I'm saying. When Apple was forced to allow other browsers in the EU, they announced that they would turn off support for progressive web apps in the EU(apps added to the home screen, push notifications they just added because they were afraid of this and so on). They did go back on it after developer pushback. I haven't looked into this, but I'm pretty sure that Apple has done something to make sure other browsers can't develop PWA features. Cause that is what Apple does.

New comment by NightlyDev in "Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple ditching Intel"

NightlyDev — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 02:12:41 +0000

P4800X is around 5K. And you probably want them in raid, so at least 10K.

New comment by NightlyDev in "iOS 14 will let you change your default email and web browser apps"

NightlyDev — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 22:01:09 +0000

With android it varies. Samsung has a camera icon on the lock screen by default that you just use, so that is very easy to figure out.

By default, quickly doubletapping the power button also opens the camera, screen on or not.

Gesture navigation is also better on Android, but this is probably because iOS never had a back button.