Hacker News: afruitpie

New comment by afruitpie in "ChatGPT Work"

afruitpie — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:25:04 +0000

Sad, I liked that ChatGPT had a native app on macOS. I don’t understand why OpenAI and Anthropic have to rely on vending universal apps when their whole MO is code being dirt cheap.

New comment by afruitpie in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

afruitpie — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:28:37 +0000

Just canceled my subscription! I immediately received an email with the subject “We’d love your feedback on why you canceled your ChatGPT plus subscription” and a link to a survey.

I linked to https://notdivided.org/ as the reasoning why.

New comment by afruitpie in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

afruitpie — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:12:14 +0000

As far as I’m aware, Xfinity fiber customers have to use the provided “Xfinity Wi-Fi Gateway” and cannot enable bridge mode.

If anyone knows a way around this, please share! I want to connect my Xfinity ONT directly to my UniFi router.

New comment by afruitpie in "Marine pilot loses command after ejecting from F-35B that kept flying"

afruitpie — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:10:33 +0000

> The crash is Marine's third in several weeks

Should be “the Marines’ third.” I don’t mean to be a stickler, but for a moment I thought this one pilot was crashing a plane a week!

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

afruitpie — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:30:56 +0000

Rate limited to 30 messages per week for ChatGPT Plus subscribers at launch: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/

New comment by afruitpie in "Ask HN: Performance of Apple Sillicon vs. ThinkPads (Or Other Linux Laptops)"

afruitpie — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:55:51 +0000

In my much shorter 5 years, I’ve seen devs exclusively using Apple hardware.

And in my team, our dev environment has become increasingly local!

New comment by afruitpie in "T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next"

afruitpie — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 03:43:02 +0000

Now that porting between MVNOs with eSIM is free and dead simple, I can’t think of a reason to stick with the big 3 carriers.

The MVNO I stuck with even has a slick way to port between networks!

New comment by afruitpie in "Vercel completes $250M Series E round at $3.25B valuation"

afruitpie — Thu, 16 May 2024 21:50:46 +0000

They do also charge (dearly) for usage.

New comment by afruitpie in "SWPC issues first G4 geomagnetic storm watch since 2005"

afruitpie — Fri, 10 May 2024 16:01:27 +0000

My concern comes from my own naïveté. I don’t know enough about flying to know how concerned I should be.

Hearing there’s a storm that affects navigation is an eyebrow-raiser, especially when sitting at an airport gate like I am.

New comment by afruitpie in "“Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today's dollars”"

afruitpie — Sun, 05 May 2024 22:38:22 +0000

I’m surprised how “cheap” the Manhattan Project and Apollo Program were.

It’s bizarre we put people on the Moon in the ‘60s for an amount of money similar to Apple’s recent stock buybacks.

New comment by afruitpie in "I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs"

afruitpie — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 04:52:16 +0000

Amazon Smile was shut down, unfortunately: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing...

New comment by afruitpie in "Improve Writing (AI) for Apple Notes?"

afruitpie — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:06:00 +0000

I’m a huge fan of Raycast for everything.

The AI plugin included in the Raycast Pro subscription [0] can be configured with some neat “improve writing on whatever is highlighted” features.

[0]: https://www.raycast.com/pro

New comment by afruitpie in "Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls – Paywalled"

afruitpie — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:43:57 +0000

Apple News+ is trying to be that. I get it through my Apple One family plan.

The home page is shamefully Trump spam and tabloid garbage, but the magazine section isn’t terrible. I read The Atlantic and The New Yorker frequently on it.

New comment by afruitpie in "Ford Mustang Mach-E using BlueCruise at time of crash: NTSB"

afruitpie — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:46:51 +0000

I wish headlights + taillights were required to be always on, or at least on by default.

New comment by afruitpie in "Welcome to the VAIO Library"

afruitpie — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 16:44:10 +0000

The VPCSB [0] had a switch at the top that could manually switch between integrated graphics for better battery, or discrete graphics for better performance. It always felt cool turning it on before gaming.

[0] https://vaiolibrary.com/index.php/VPCSB

New comment by afruitpie in "World Backup Day"

afruitpie — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:34:36 +0000

They might have meant rclone: https://rclone.org/

New comment by afruitpie in "MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan"

afruitpie — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:57:24 +0000

Even in dense US cities, being on two wheels is dangerous.

Many people buy a car for safety, which ends up making the road even more dangerous!

(To clarify, I’m not taking a jab at people looking out for their personal safety.)

New comment by afruitpie in "D2 Playground"

afruitpie — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:32:28 +0000

The proprietary layout engine is named TALA. IMO the docs are pretty transparent about TALA being closed source and behind a paywall.

TALA docs: https://d2lang.com/tour/tala/

TALA product page: https://terrastruct.com/tala/

New comment by afruitpie in "VW is reviving a storied American brand to sell electric SUVs"

afruitpie — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 01:53:41 +0000

Seems like an odd revive since International Scouts are relatively unknown outside enthusiast groups.

New comment by afruitpie in "AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server"

afruitpie — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:23:45 +0000

Another great (and free!) option is Mullvad’s ad-blocking DNS over TLS or HTTPS.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls