Hacker News: ajdude

New comment by ajdude in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

ajdude — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:05:13 +0000

I'm trying to find this myself. Since I upgraded to the latest version of iOS, I have found no way to disable these stupid writing tools. Whenever I try to take a screenshot, the AI tries to give me suggestions on what to do with the photo before I can properly crop it, and speech to text continues to insert grammar into the output after removing the toggle that disables the auto insertion of grammar (it also seems worse now).

My guess is that we need some tailored configuration profile that will run on the device, which seems to be how this project solved it for macOS.

New comment by ajdude in "An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows"

ajdude — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:00:21 +0000

I use Orion (because pay for Orion Plus to support them) specifically because it is not a fork of Chromium.

We need more rendering engines out there in the wild, as the situation with chrome's monopoly is already critically dire.

Thoughts on HTML's proposed previewsrc attribute

ajdude — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:20:35 +0000

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/some-thoughts-on-htmls-proposed-previewsrc-attribute/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867417

Points: 3

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iPhone 18 Pro Max SSD drops lower than hard drive at 1.1 MBs during heavy writes

ajdude — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:59:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/iphone-18-pro-max-storage-can-drop-lower-than-a-hard-drive-at-1-1-mb-s-during-heavy-writes-qlc-nand-offers-higher-capacity-but-reportedly-suffers-38-percent-drop-compared-to-tlc-based-pro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824379

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Asymmetric Agents

ajdude — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:32:38 +0000

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/asymmetric-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360687

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

RSS/Atom Feeds Are Critical

ajdude — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:41:58 +0000

Article URL: https://fyr.io/post/feeds-are-critical

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329322

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ajdude in "The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later"

ajdude — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:38:55 +0000

Not just that, I've been seeing a huge effort in the Ada community to leverage LLMs to convert a lot of libraries into formally verified SPARK code. One of the biggest issues I see with vibe coded stuff is that it's difficult to review and difficult to prove that it's doing what you think it's doing, but with a strongly type language like Ada and formal verification with SPARK, LLM output is easy to read and easy to prove.

Ranking Kickstarter Games I Backed but Never Finished or Ended Up Playing at All

ajdude — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:04:08 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.curiousquail.com/ranking-kickstarter-games-i-backed-but-never-finished-or-ended-up-playing-at-all/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319685

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ajdude in "Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?"

ajdude — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:48:26 +0000

I live out of my RSS reader for everything from YouTube to Reddit, and in this case I leverage this feed for the HN front page:

   https://hnrss.org/frontpage

The front page of HN has always been pretty good at filtering out AI generated articles (and if one makes it it's usually flagged by the time I get to it). Then I just glance through the list of articles that made it to the front page and decide which ones I want to read.

Metadata for AI Generated Outputs

ajdude — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:36:24 +0000

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/metadata-for-ai-generated-outputs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209466

Points: 3

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New comment by ajdude in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

ajdude — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:57:48 +0000

I reported a blatantly sexual adult ad on Facebook the other day, they got back to me and said that their moderators reviewed the ad and that it was appropriate.

Google Calendar "Unable to launch event" – caused by missing DTSTAMP

ajdude — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:05:40 +0000

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/google-calendar-unable-to-launch-event-caused-by-missing-dtstamp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094270

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ajdude in "Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota"

ajdude — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:02:52 +0000

I think this is a [dup] of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048819

A24 Reportedly Copyright-Striking Backrooms Indie Games and Artwork

ajdude — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:29:56 +0000

Article URL: https://kotaku.com/backrooms-a24-copyright-strikes-kane-parsons-2000716667

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942764

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by ajdude in "Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback"

ajdude — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:08:27 +0000

> A few weeks ago, we conducted hour-long conversations with 10 of our users to dig deep into how you manage your preferences and configurations in Thunderbird desktop

Is only 10 people representative of the population of thunderbird users?

12-year-old founds AI-powered receptionist business

ajdude — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:34:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-alpha-founder-ai-receptionist-small-businesses-young-geniuses-2026-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859016

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ajdude in "Show HN: Analog Watch"

ajdude — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:52:09 +0000

Technology Connections did a really great video on this a few years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeopkvAP-ag

Apparently being raised with analog clocks vs digital changes how one intuits the passage of time.

New comment by ajdude in "Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition"

ajdude — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:35:22 +0000

I was just watching Tom Scott's latest video, he mentioned firing a trebuchet and the guide pointed this out that you don't "fire" a trebuchet since it doesn't involve gunpowder, you launch it.

Tom's commentary later was that he disagreed with that sentiment. "I disagree with those potential comments. Words change their meaning overtime. In modern English, you can fire an arrow, you can fire a torpedo, we were gonna fire that trebuchet"

Language Design Impacts Security

ajdude — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:20:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.adacore.com/blog/how-language-design-impacts-security

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732404

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Which Copyleft Licence Is Suitable for an SVG?

ajdude — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:36:47 +0000

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/which-copyleft-licence-is-suitable-for-an-svg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619835

Points: 5

# Comments: 1