Hacker News: antfarm

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

antfarm — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:20:19 +0000

Yes, see my comment in this thread.

In Xcode, go to Window > Devices and Simulators in the menu bar (or press Shift+Cmd+2), then select the Simulators tab in the sidebar to open the list of simulators. Here you can select and delete simulators.

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

antfarm — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:38:30 +0000

In my opinion, AI belongs in the application level, not the operating system level. I hope Apple will revert their decision soon.

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

antfarm — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:35:44 +0000

In Xcode, go to Window > Devices and Simulators in the menu bar (or press Shift+Cmd+2), then select the Simulators tab in the sidebar to open the list of simulators. Here you can select and delete simulators.

New comment by antfarm in "President Donald J. Trump Inaugurates the Era of Super Intelligence"

antfarm — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:50:42 +0000

Why would they want a person with subpar intelligence as the mascot of their rebranding?

New comment by antfarm in "President Donald J. Trump Inaugurates the Era of Super Intelligence"

antfarm — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:57:07 +0000

The sycophants have already adopted the new terminology.

https://youtu.be/lMGJPikgcSs?t=365

https://youtu.be/lMGJPikgcSs?t=676

New comment by antfarm in "Trump orders US Government to call AI 'Super Intelligence'"

antfarm — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:41:49 +0000

No, they are allowed to call it "SI" [1]. Even Elon calls it that now [2][3].

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inau...

[2] https://youtu.be/lMGJPikgcSs?t=365 [3] https://youtu.be/lMGJPikgcSs?t=676

President Donald J. Trump Inaugurates the Era of Super Intelligence

antfarm — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:40:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-inaugurates-the-era-of-super-intelligence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908060

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

New comment by antfarm in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

antfarm — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:04:46 +0000

It looks like Tahoe is about to become the new Snow Leopard.

New comment by antfarm in "Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor"

antfarm — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:11:23 +0000

Today, even most Apple devices are round rects.

New comment by antfarm in "Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor"

antfarm — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:53:38 +0000

Round Rects Are Everywhere! (Andy Hertzfeld, 1981)

https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html

New comment by antfarm in "Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor"

antfarm — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:28:53 +0000

  "workbench.experimental.modernUI": false,

New comment by antfarm in "English: A vs. An"

antfarm — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:27:58 +0000

Funny how that short article has a sentence where an article that should be there is omitted. "The word starts with vowel letter..."

When I see this, I always assume the author to be Russian.

New comment by antfarm in "Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce""

antfarm — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:10:22 +0000

I remember finally getting what closures and reduce are when I learned Ruby in 2008 for my first Rails job.

A pivotal moment on the same level as when I finally understood how recursion and pointers work in 1995 in my first semester CS classes (taught in Modula 2), two concepts I had only ever read about in programming books, but not been able to understand on my own.

In 2024 I did Advent of Code in Swift, without using mutable state, custom data types or loops, and used reduce rahther generously. [1]

[1] https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aantfarm%2FAdventOfCode202...

New comment by antfarm in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

antfarm — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:34:17 +0000

Reverse centaur at an organizational scale.

New comment by antfarm in "Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019)"

antfarm — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:38:14 +0000

Judging by what people who worked closely witb Sam Altman say about him, you should not trust an organisation led by him.

New comment by antfarm in "I have a theory that software drives people insane"

antfarm — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:47:44 +0000

Sprint is a terrible misnomer, it should be iteration. It's about seeing work as a series of opportunities to gather feedback and apply the learnings to the way future work is done.

New comment by antfarm in "Stop Omarchy"

antfarm — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:08:26 +0000

What part exactly? I hope not the one about DHH publishing essays promoting far-right talking points.

New comment by antfarm in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

antfarm — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:23:30 +0000

It works fine for me, I use the column view (unless I want to sort) and don't use groups (uncheck Edit > Use Groups). Back in the MacOS 7.5 days I had a system extension that gave me the column view I knew from my university's NeXT workstations. For more complex file operations, there is Terminal.

New comment by antfarm in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

antfarm — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:55:27 +0000

Why not just use the original title of the blog post? It's "Merchants of Insecurity".

New comment by antfarm in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

antfarm — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:50:13 +0000

Not to forget the fact that websites nowadays can be real memory hogs, are dynamically assembled on your machine and burn cycles on pure eye candy UX like animations and transparency. The web's focus on design and cleverness over content and functionality is partly to blame.