Hacker News: astafrig

New comment by astafrig in "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"

astafrig — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:02:03 +0000

How is the title misleading?

New comment by astafrig in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

astafrig — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:18:11 +0000

Everything involving geography is a regional feature because it takes time to create things for physical stuff across the physical world; its not just some arbitrary limitation like streaming media.

New comment by astafrig in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

astafrig — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:39:23 +0000

> no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch

I regularly use hiking and topography maps on my Apple Watch with the first party maps app, so it sure what you’re talking about

New comment by astafrig in "Zed 1.0"

astafrig — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:36:40 +0000

Some of these are questionable, but 3 and 5 stick out. Being included makes it sound like whoever wrote this list doesn’t really know what Zed is?

It’s a local text editor. The only thing an account gives you is access to their specific flavour of coding agent and a collaboration server.

> If your payment lapses, they reserve the right to delete your account and all associated data with no liability.

Pretty much the only associated data is your payment info.

New comment by astafrig in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

astafrig — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:47:21 +0000

> Your statement uses the presence of bugs to indicate a product is worth using.

This is not correct; "If a product is worth using, then it has bugs." (P→Q) does not imply its converse "If a product has bugs, then it is worth using." (Q→P). Buginess is presented as a necessary condition of being worth using, not a sufficient one.

It does, however, imply "If a product has no bugs, then it is not worth using.".

New comment by astafrig in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

astafrig — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:47:22 +0000

The thing they “didn’t want to [do]” was infringe on the Linux trademark.

New comment by astafrig in "Apple Business"

astafrig — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:16:29 +0000

> including a new option coming this summer that will enable businesses in the U.S. and Canada to place local ads in Maps during key search and discovery moments.

The enshittification knows no bounds.

New comment by astafrig in "“This is not the computer for you”"

astafrig — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:21:22 +0000

What else is a shame is claiming that some single language feature supports a foregone conclusion that the writing's been 'molested'. It's hard to imagine what a constructive comment this could've been with the minimum of effort to know that the author has written this way consistently since at least 2021, before the first public release of ChatGPT.

New comment by astafrig in "“This is not the computer for you”"

astafrig — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:13:41 +0000

I think this’d be a good comment if it weren’t for the superiority complex :/

New comment by astafrig in "“This is not the computer for you”"

astafrig — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:11:19 +0000

I’m fairly confident that the Venn diagram of (a) nine-year-olds that are playing with a computer and (b) people who claim that access to kernel source code is a prerequisite to “learning about computers” is two circles that are barely touching.

New comment by astafrig in "MacBook Neo"

astafrig — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:43:47 +0000

> about money in the bank?

Yes, generally. That's the entire idea behind the stock market.

New comment by astafrig in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

astafrig — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:59:27 +0000

as an end user it is my problem when trying to complain in the right place

New comment by astafrig in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

astafrig — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:01:55 +0000

Not what iBeacon does but an entertainingly dramatic description nonetheless.

New comment by astafrig in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

astafrig — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:12:15 +0000

It is trivially easy to know that this isn’t true.

New comment by astafrig in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

astafrig — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:31:56 +0000

The API surface becomes the lowest common denominator of all the platforms it supports, possibly with a path to support platform-native features, but probably in a way that’s necessarily not as good as native.

I think we already have plenty of avenue in ‘solutions’ like Electron to let people build bad apps.

New comment by astafrig in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

astafrig — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:27:49 +0000

> locally-installed software you own is usually a better choice.

It’s a good thing that’s exactly what this is, then.

New comment by astafrig in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

astafrig — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:51:23 +0000

Up Bank provides an API that enables these use cases: https://developer.up.com.au/

New comment by astafrig in "John Giannandrea to retire from Apple"

astafrig — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:24:22 +0000

Making privacy some end-goal that PMs cut to meet targets is how you end up with Google redefining privacy to mean "only we have access to every aspect of your life, now and in the future".

If Apple takes the position that the UX has to fit in around the privacy requirements, so what? Privacy is a core pillar of their product identity—a built-in hallucinating compliments machine isn't.

New comment by astafrig in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

astafrig — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:22:34 +0000

> nominally "selling" plots to people but with terms of service attached that restrict what you can do with the land you bought and that allow the company to change the terms at any time.

So, a lease.

New comment by astafrig in "Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code"

astafrig — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:43:35 +0000

It’s not misleading to measure the performance of WebAssembly in a web browser.