Hacker News: avarun

New comment by avarun in "Rhombus Language 1.0"

avarun — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:07:39 +0000

Extremely poor reasoning to assume that an author, upon reading his own primary writing once, is guaranteed to catch a typo of this nature.

New comment by avarun in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

avarun — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:13:51 +0000

There's plenty of incentive if it causes your users to churn.

New comment by avarun in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

avarun — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:06:55 +0000

Every single employee who joined prior to this year will make 8 figures+ off this exit.

New comment by avarun in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

avarun — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:04:59 +0000

They've tripled on "cloud servers" (shared hardware) as well.

New comment by avarun in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

avarun — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:04:23 +0000

Buried multiple links and scrolling deep, but looks like they're tripling prices for cloud servers in the US.

What's the next best option now?

New comment by avarun in "AI is slowing down"

avarun — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:57:42 +0000

New comment by avarun in "AI is slowing down"

avarun — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:59:35 +0000

There is no substance to the article to tackle. Ed Zitron is a clown that makes seven million dollars a year writing unsubstantiated bullshit on the internet. He has been consistently wrong in every single one of his predictions and will continue predicting the sky is falling, because his content has zero educational value. It is purely a confirmation-bias inducing dopamine hit for the perpetually aggrieved.

New comment by avarun in "Apple WWDC 2026"

avarun — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:19:53 +0000

Has to be a fuckup. watchOS 26 supported the Series 6 onwards. I don't think Apple has ever cut 3 generations of devices with a single yearly OS upgrade unless there's an underlying architecture reason for it before.

This might be the list for Siri AI supported watches or something.

New comment by avarun in "Apple WWDC 2026"

avarun — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:00:38 +0000

You didn't say seemingly.

New comment by avarun in "Apple WWDC 2026"

avarun — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:58:49 +0000

It is literally not. They clearly said that it uses their cloud.

New comment by avarun in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

avarun — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:57:34 +0000

Wait what? Where did you see this? It would be crazy if the Series 9 doesn't get updated to the next watchOS

New comment by avarun in "Apple WWDC 2026"

avarun — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:52:36 +0000

Agreed, but seems like we're the odd ones out. I keep hearing how Liquid Glass is ok on iOS and terrible on macOS, but I actually think it's (slightly) better on macOS than on iOS.

At least macOS has configurability to turn off all the transparency. iOS just looks bad no matter how you configure it right now.

New comment by avarun in "Siri AI"

avarun — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:46:58 +0000

1Password has been able to do this for five+ years. Frankly, it doesn't even really need agentic AI, although a talented team could probably make it perform better with agentic AI.

I don't really believe in Apple being that quality team.

New comment by avarun in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

avarun — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:56:07 +0000

Lol. What exactly have you based this "fair valuation" off of? Vibes?

New comment by avarun in "I made a browser alone and barely got any users"

avarun — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:24:20 +0000

Distribution is a challenge, but there is also much prior art for how to solve it. From what I can tell you didn't do any of those things. Regular product update changelogs are what inspire trust that a product as critical as a browser will stick around for the long term. There's also an expectation that something like a browser is open-source and on Github, where it's very easy to see release history and how actively developed the project is. After all, you don't seem to have the institutional backing that would justify a closed-source browser.

Without any of that, there's no reason for people to just click download on an untrusted website and then use that software for the kind of sensitive tasks that are commonplace inside a web browser. Like it or not, you have to consider the user's perspective here.

New comment by avarun in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

avarun — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:23:09 +0000

Around 20 years ago Facebook made the same choice, so you're in good company in terms of technically sophisticated shops.

New comment by avarun in "California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down"

avarun — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:17:33 +0000

Huh? The point is that game developers would never be able to use commercial libraries again. Thus making all development significantly more expensive.

New comment by avarun in "Googlebook"

avarun — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:07:34 +0000

Link?

New comment by avarun in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

avarun — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:17:10 +0000

This is a textbook case of competition pushing profits down to 0. That's an ideal case scenario. Why would you want to change this?

New comment by avarun in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

avarun — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:34:30 +0000

On the contrary, I find it a highly effective way to convey something that should be obvious but is often not. As you said, privacy is a universal right, but many don't consider it important until viscerally presented with examples of why it is. Kelsey's writing is immediately effective at doing so.