Hacker News: aerodog

Apple sells me a MacBook to deliver $1700; cancels 5 days later quoting $2000?

aerodog — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:01:44 +0000

I got the basic Macbook Pro for $1700 pre tax. They changed the prices after I had already signed (through Apple Business). Before sending me the purchase order, they cancelled my quote, sent me a new PO at the higher price, and the Apple Business Rep had to argue with them to undo this. I ended up just paying in full rather than going with the lease. But isn't this super lame for a company like Apple and even illegal?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48800210

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by aerodog in "Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks"

aerodog — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:45:24 +0000

Is there a good way to find out how this happened? Who is in charge of Apple Maps? This is a huge offense to the semitic people of Lebanon; dare I say this is a tremendously anti-Semitic offense

New comment by aerodog in "Iran warns U.S. tech firms could become targets as war expands"

aerodog — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:06:04 +0000

what percentage of inference globally happens from datacenters in middle east and israel?

New comment by aerodog in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

aerodog — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:16:43 +0000

Wasn't this acquisition just a bit money laundering operation from Israel?

New comment by aerodog in "Iran's Internet Blackout is Unprecedented [video]"

aerodog — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:13:39 +0000

These guys are idiots. The news sources (Iran International etc) that claimed the 30,000 figure have since backtracked on their claim. Mossad and CIA were using Starlink to incite terrorism in their country so the Iranians shut the internet down, discovered the Starlinks (these idiots didn't bother to research how), and apprehended the terrorists who were operating them.

Now that the government has published the list of those dead, all those thousands of excess "killed" could come out and claim their deceased are not on the list. But such a thing hasn't happened. Let's wait and see.

A Dilettate's Philosophy of Mind

aerodog — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:01:42 +0000

Article URL: https://mtmason.com/a-dilettantes-philosophy-of-mind/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877243

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by aerodog in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

aerodog — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:22:56 +0000

"was called" - who was behind that?

The Next Robotics Revolution

aerodog — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:03:10 +0000

Article URL: https://mtmason.com/the-next-robotics-revolution/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153733

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aerodog in "Don't Trust Smart People"

aerodog — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:57:25 +0000

From Berkshire Grey's Chief Scientist, CMU Prof. Emeritus Matt Mason

Don't Trust Smart People

aerodog — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:57:25 +0000

Article URL: https://mtmason.com/dont-trust-smart-people/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840966

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by aerodog in "The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979"

aerodog — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:57:22 +0000

I had the fortune of being at the top of the twin towers as a child in the 90s. A total shame what Larry Silverstein coordinated against these fantastic structures.

New comment by aerodog in "How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?"

aerodog — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:15:55 +0000

Seriously - how did that go down?

How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?

aerodog — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:15:55 +0000

Article URL: https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068215

Points: 107

# Comments: 172

The Greatest Comeback in History: Heraclius and the Sassanids [video]

aerodog — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 07:14:35 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769450

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aerodog in "Japan births fall to lowest in 125 years"

aerodog — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:01:04 +0000

https://archive.is/20250227064326/https://www.ft.com/content...

New comment by aerodog in "Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control"

aerodog — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:49:13 +0000

Interesting timing - same day MSFT releases https://microsoft.github.io/Magma/

New comment by aerodog in "OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web"

aerodog — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 02:03:51 +0000

Wow, you had agencies and friends to do these things for you?

New comment by aerodog in "Iran successfully launches indigenous Chamran 1 satellite into space"

aerodog — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:38:27 +0000

The namesake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostafa_Chamran

New comment by aerodog in "Iran successfully launches indigenous Chamran 1 satellite into space"

aerodog — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:30:26 +0000

Israel has won the hole competition

New comment by aerodog in "Imec demonstrates logic and DRAM structures using High NA EUV Lithography"

aerodog — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:34:02 +0000

Can someone add some context here? What does this translate to for the future of semiconductor tech?