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New comment by caro_kann in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"

caro_kann — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:27:10 +0000

It's wild that iPhone 16 Pro has better benchmark than macBook Air. I think this Neo is gonna be a good sell, especially among students and people don't do heavy stuff and just need decent laptop.

New comment by caro_kann in "Glaze by Raycast"

caro_kann — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:06:13 +0000

I haven't used v0 or replit before, I have the same feelings as you. But I've been thinking about building macOS apps for my personal use for a long time now. Also I'm a long time Raycast user. I have a bias here, so I've joined the waitlist, I can't be sure until I try, right?

New comment by caro_kann in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

caro_kann — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:34:06 +0000

As a non-native and I could understand only down to 1500s. And it sounded (read?) like scottish for me.

New comment by caro_kann in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

caro_kann — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:25:28 +0000

I think this is the best way of using Youtube if you're trying to avoid brain rot and doomscrolling. This way helped me alot and gives you full control over what you consume.

New comment by caro_kann in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

caro_kann — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:23:54 +0000

When I saw the first liquid glass demo I decided not to upgrade both my phone and macbook for couple of years to come till they fix it.

New comment by caro_kann in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"

caro_kann — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:36:36 +0000

Looks like I'm in that path you've already passed. From January I have to learn CDK because my current job requires me to do. Also planning on to obtain those AWS Cloud Certificates.

New comment by caro_kann in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

caro_kann — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:30:09 +0000

I tried three different genre books, for each I got 1984 - George Orwell recommendation.

New comment by caro_kann in "Why Are So Many New Cars' Gear Selectors So Stupid?"

caro_kann — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:44:14 +0000

It seems replacing every knob and physical buttons with just one big screen is much cheaper for car manufacturers.

Why Are So Many New Cars' Gear Selectors So Stupid?

caro_kann — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:57:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15092769/why-are-so-many-new-cars-gear-selectors-stupid-column/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760091

Points: 7

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New comment by caro_kann in "Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';"

caro_kann — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:07:56 +0000

It's easy to be on the moral high ground when you don't have to risk anything.

New comment by caro_kann in "macOS Tahoe"

caro_kann — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:05:14 +0000

I hope they'll acknowledge what they've done and fix most of this nonsense. I like macOS how it is right now, and I switched from Linux partly for this. I always wonder why don't they just add new stuff based on user feedback?

New comment by caro_kann in "iPhone Air"

caro_kann — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:38:28 +0000

I'm dying to find an answer to this. The last decent company to product sub 6 inch phone was Asus, but they stopped :(

New comment by caro_kann in "Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up"

caro_kann — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:40:16 +0000

Especially Steam games graph as well. Most of the non game developers at least once wanted to release their own games and feels like this is the good time to do that.

New comment by caro_kann in "Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up"

caro_kann — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:38:15 +0000

Even scaffolding a new project is not easy work, especially a new stack or new versions of existing tools. For example, I have never been able to create a Vue 3 project with Vite and Tailwind setup correctly. I tried top SOTA models. Maybe my prompting skills are not good, but everytime it fails to set up a project correctly. Everytime it gives me some old configurations that's not relevant anymore.

New comment by caro_kann in "Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS"

caro_kann — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:05:43 +0000

That's why marketing/distribution/sales is very important. As a developer most of us think if we build a good product everyone will start using it, which is very wrong in 99% of the cases.

New comment by caro_kann in "Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS"

caro_kann — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:01:42 +0000

This is exactly was my first thought. Having good paid product which at least covers the expenses of the developer is much better than having a product for just a love of it.

New comment by caro_kann in "Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?"

caro_kann — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 05:40:51 +0000

My company is still hiring engineers like it was doing before. About the work itself I can say LLMs are good with PoC or new projects, I can't say the same about already existing codebase. For me it's a good tool, but not THE solution. Lately I'm making a lot of AWS Serverless configurations with Cloudformation and LLMs hallucinate a lot for that. At this point, I always verify if it exists in the doc or not, because it spits out stuff that doesn't exist at all.

New comment by caro_kann in "Coffee-shop pitch change helped founder unlock traction for laptop campers"

caro_kann — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:35:31 +0000

I don't usually work from the coffee shops, but when I'm grateful enough to order some coffee (that amount I'd spend it anyway if I were somewhere else). Also coworking spaces are expensive for irregular visitors like me. In my city, even a day pass is 4-5 times the price of a cappuccino. So a couple of days of visit to a cafe is excellent for me.

New comment by caro_kann in "Coffee-shop pitch change helped founder unlock traction for laptop campers"

caro_kann — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:29:14 +0000

Cafe owner can pay the commission after/if the user spends. Also a user who books a space and skips the spending can be marked in the app so that next time booking can be impossible or hard.

New comment by caro_kann in "A receipt printer cured my procrastination"

caro_kann — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:48:15 +0000

I've been thinking gamification of my daily chores too and this article pops up! Amid health concerns of receipts, I think I'm gonna try this with just sticky notes and a jar. But how about making this a platform on its own, that just runs on a secondary monitor (I think everyone has one of those nowadays anyway). The idea is to just make this a GAME. For example, various stats of a player can be shown, history of every achievement, goals, chapters etc. Great article by the way!