Hacker News: avree

New comment by avree in "Show HN: Things to Do API"

avree — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:54:13 +0000

It seems to use a (probably AI generated) list of common event sites, Instagram, and a few hardcoded ones related to the region (like Makeout Room). There's no de-dupe so you'll see tons of the same event copied across Eventbrite/Tixr/etc.

New comment by avree in "Tesla Roadster"

avree — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 03:33:52 +0000

Yes, the assertion is that it's not the car they'll sell. For example, they demo'd a "Cybertruck" with a never-before-seen durable single piece exoskeleton and then sold a Cybertruck with a unibody construction similar to the existing Honda Ridgeline.

New comment by avree in "Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat"

avree — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:11:22 +0000

Someone at Qualcomm.

https://www.androidpolice.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-elite-ge...

New comment by avree in "Sergey Brin says Google's AI models are reaching recursive self-improvement"

avree — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:38:47 +0000

Does Sergey still work in the day to day at Google? I thought he mostly stepped back after that affair he had with the product marketing woman for the Google Glass project.

New comment by avree in "Apple HomeView"

avree — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:33:08 +0000

Because they don't "use Gemini".

"These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence experiences. "

New comment by avree in "Sonnet 5.5"

avree — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:14:19 +0000

Crazy bad front-end design. Site hijacks my gestures so I can't swipe back anymore, starts with a full page autoplaying video...

New comment by avree in "There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027"

avree — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:03:28 +0000

https://www.apple.com/applecare/

AppleCare specifically covers water damage of any kind, and is what I would assume OP would be referring to as a "premium warranty and repair service".

New comment by avree in "Is OpenAI Taking Everyone for Fools?"

avree — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:19:23 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_existenc...

Going off the believable citations in the wiki page here, it seems more complicated than "who solved it", as there's a mathematician, Anthropic, and OpenAI having a priority dispute.

New comment by avree in "AirPods 5"

avree — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:04:40 +0000

The first version was "Apple AirPods", there's two of them so it makes sense.

New comment by avree in "Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product"

avree — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:44:17 +0000

Users so technically inept they can't use chatbots? Have them vibecode changes to your product today!

New comment by avree in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

avree — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:37:41 +0000

GHA still beats Circle CI or trying to run your own Jenkins - even with all the downtime. I'd move in a heartbeat if there were good alternatives.

New comment by avree in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

avree — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:30:11 +0000

The official YCombinator stance is that Flock was a huge success as an investment - which it seemingly was, given that they managed to sign deals with what seems like every tiny municipality/sheriff/government organization.

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/N0-unpopular-ideas-that-...

New comment by avree in "Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight"

avree — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:53:34 +0000

Surely writing 374 lbs is easier than 26st 10lb.

New comment by avree in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

avree — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:49:43 +0000

I've seen Eve Online corporations that do a better job of steganographic marking than this.

New comment by avree in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

avree — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:18:54 +0000

No, it's for IoT. Don't install an IoT Operating System if you are planning to do normal Operating System things.

New comment by avree in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

avree — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:12:16 +0000

Xbox/Microsoft Store Auth is used for a ton of logins, not just games. Similarly, you can be dismissive of Edge (another thing not included), but the Microsoft Webview Framework is Edge-based (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview...) and will break a variety of useful applications if it's not available.

Be derisive as you want, but your advice is awful. The IoT enterprise release is for IoT use cases. The types of things people do on consumer OSes are not fully supported.

New comment by avree in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

avree — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:42:47 +0000

Terrible, almost consultant-level advice - particularly on a thread about how the actual Windows 10 release is getting extended support until 2027. The IoT release is missing a ton of installed things, such as Microsoft Store Login (needed for Microsoft apps). If you want security updates, stay on your existing OS instead of using one designed for a totally different purpose, and Microsoft will continue to push out the date...

New comment by avree in "Midjourney Medical"

avree — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:09:26 +0000

Good luck. Had a friend do a startup that was using similar algos to how Google Maps detect roads in satellite imagery to detect cancer in tissues. Actually worked pretty well - ended up dying in the super long FDA approval phase.

The images and description of the launch seem like they are behind where my buddy was 10+ years ago - so I expect a pretty difficult road ahead, between getting to where it's actually medically viable, and then stomaching the FDA process.

New comment by avree in "Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code"

avree — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:58:51 +0000

Like with most full products that are vibecoded, there's very little to no originality in this - just strange packaging of things that already exist.

New comment by avree in "FTX's former Anthropic stake would be worth about $75B at today's valuation"

avree — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:42:48 +0000

Yeah, and if he had taken all that money, bet it on black, and won in roulette a couple times, he'd have also made a killing. Didn't mean it was the right strategy or a moral decision with people's savings.