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New comment by behnamoh in "Apple releases iOS 15.8.7 to fix Coruna exploit for iPhone 6S from 2015"

behnamoh — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:40:44 +0000

Am I supposed to be impressed by this? This is part of the Apple experience: long-term updates in exchange for absurdly high markups up-front. I'd be impressed if the markup got lowered and iDevices still got such updates, but that's not happening.

New comment by behnamoh in "CNN Explainer – Learn Convolutional Neural Network in Your Browser (2020)"

behnamoh — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:21:03 +0000

I like these explainers and I wish there was an AI tool to make customized intuitive explainers like these. For example, if I want to learn about Channel Capacity (in Information Theory), it'd be nice to see in action why the limit exists.

New comment by behnamoh in "M5 Max MacBook Pro Review: Preeminent Power in the Same Old Shell"

behnamoh — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:47:39 +0000

You can even run Crossover and play Windows games on it! I've been RDR2'ing on my M1 Pro and can't wait to crank up the graphics on the incoming M5 Max!!

New comment by behnamoh in "Ask HN: Is Claude Down Again?"

behnamoh — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:45:16 +0000

Weird because it shows green but obviously things aren't working.

New comment by behnamoh in "Ask HN: Is Claude down again?"

behnamoh — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:43:42 +0000

I feel ashamed writing code while Claude does it way better than me... I've found my forte is at designing systems and making project-level decisions, something that Claude still doesn't do very well.

New comment by behnamoh in "Ask HN: Is Claude down again?"

behnamoh — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:42:39 +0000

Yup, I get:

    OAuth token has expired. Please obtain a new token or refresh your
     existing token.

And their /login page doesn't work.

claudown

M5 Max MacBook Pro Review: Preeminent Power in the Same Old Shell

behnamoh — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:48:55 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/m5-max-macbook-pro-review-preeminent-power-in-the-same-old-shell-2000731479

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329200

Points: 10

# Comments: 13

New comment by behnamoh in "Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner"

behnamoh — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:59:06 +0000

Guitar tuner as a service was not on my 2026 bingo card but here we are. Creative project!

New comment by behnamoh in "Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran"

behnamoh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:28:58 +0000

> When was the last time you were in Iran? For me it was 2018.

I was there until after you. You can oppose this war as much as you want; in the end the majority of Iranian people support it.

New comment by behnamoh in "Lil Finder Guy"

behnamoh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:38:38 +0000

Honestly, who cares about anything AI-related that Apple does? Their head of MLX team just quit after months of threatening to leave due to MLX not being Apple's priority. Their Siri is a joke even Samsung Bixby works better than that. They switch between AI providers (OpenAI → Google) like you can "just change the LLM bro", and their M-series hardware is held back by lack of quality software and compute despite people literally begging them to improve it.

I was looking forward to upgrade my M1 Pro to M5 Max (128GB) until Awni (MLX head) quit. The new team isn't that responsive on X, and bugs keep getting piled up like they don't care if MLX is actually used in practice. After 3 years they still don't have a decent MLX server. Wanna try Qwen3.5? You can't use mlx_server because Qwen is a VLM. For that you must use MLX-VLM but that is not official and has tons of bugs. Apple refuses to open-source ANE source code even to their own MLX team.

New comment by behnamoh in "WSL Manager"

behnamoh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:23:14 +0000

I ssh directly into WSL but for setting it up (auto-start, recovery, etc.) I ssh into PowerShell (which I hate). A TUI would go a long way there because no one wants to learn PowerShell.

New comment by behnamoh in "FrameBook"

behnamoh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:37:15 +0000

Ugh, those bezels are so 2000. Maybe a good laptop if you don't wanna look at it all the time (e.g., as a home server).

New comment by behnamoh in "WSL Manager"

behnamoh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:34:44 +0000

I wish it was a TUI. Windows is a plague I try to stay away from as much as possible, and it already gives me headaches to setup WSL and manage them over ssh. Some things you just can't do w/o remote desktop... And sometimes WSL crashes and there's literally no way to recover except to restart the whole machine.

The only reason I use Windows is because Nvidia drivers are easier to setup. But once I'm inside my Fedora WSL, that feels like home, not the Windows host.

New comment by behnamoh in "Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran"

behnamoh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:51:39 +0000

> Are you confident this war is targeting a regime change vs causing a failed state scenario?

To the best of my knowledge, yes. Iranian people are the most pro-West people in the middle east. It's in the US's interest to support them for a better future, and we've seen successful examples of this in the past in Germany, South Korea, Japan, etc.

Not every country should be compared to Iraq and Syria.

New comment by behnamoh in "Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran"

behnamoh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:47:49 +0000

> Would the world be safer (or more endangered) if Iran had a nuclear weapon?

No. The fanatic muslims in charge of the government in Iran are already targeting civilians (not military bases) in UAE, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, etc.

Can you imagine if they had nukes?

New comment by behnamoh in "Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text"

behnamoh — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:44:24 +0000

That's not "ancient". That word often means thousand(s) of years ago.

New comment by behnamoh in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

behnamoh — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:35:01 +0000

I don't think there's been much of an impact, really. Those who know how to use AI just got tangentially more productive (because why would you reveal your fake 10x productivity boost so your boss hands you 10x more tasks to finish?), and those w/o AI knowledge stayed the way they were.

The real impact is for indie-devs or freelancers but that usually doesn't account for much of the GDP.

New comment by behnamoh in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

behnamoh — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:06:18 +0000

qwen models are basically sonnet. 397b runs at Q8 on m3 ultra. for mbp m5 max I'd use the +120b qwen model.

New comment by behnamoh in "Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons"

behnamoh — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:04:38 +0000

I never said such a thing. Read my comment again.

New comment by behnamoh in "Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons"

behnamoh — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:54:46 +0000

> If you can demonstrate that, I would put it to Strominger and his colleagues, and I imagine they would be obligated to cite your contribution in the peer-reviewed publication.

There's one little problem: OpenAI isn't actually open and doesn't reveal which dataset they used for training.