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New comment by clueless in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

clueless — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:14:14 +0000

that Qualcomm chip that apple uses is a modem, so not sure it's that relevant to the phone's security in this case...

New comment by clueless in "Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models"

clueless — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:53:46 +0000

My guess is, the US government (aka DJT) won't really acknowledge AI risks until folks at NSA start to freak out while using latest models for various tasks...

New comment by clueless in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

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

same, I saw the exact same weird transition from 27 -> 26.7... def seems like a bug

New comment by clueless in "Things That Annoy Me About Cars"

clueless — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:33:06 +0000

This is the most important reason not to have them...

New comment by clueless in "Things That Annoy Me About Cars"

clueless — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:32:29 +0000

One Pedal Drive Option tends to cause motion sickness.

New comment by clueless in "Claude is a Contrarian"

clueless — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:29:29 +0000

sounds on point since most LLMs have been MBTI tested as INTJ (and derivatives)

source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computational-neuroscie...

New comment by clueless in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

clueless — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:05:16 +0000

I might be missing something but conceptually, “safe, battle-tested, stable” vs “could be amazing future-tech” IS about conservative vs progressive... am I missing something?

New comment by clueless in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

clueless — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:25:28 +0000

I remember reading this back in 2015, but how is this not just the age old conservative (don't do more than needed) vs progressives (lets try some new risk things) debate? As much as I can relate to a more conservative choice when choosing tech that might power a giant consumer company, sometimes using riskier tech in a startup makes more sense to get the real innovation flowing... and the idea of "Choose New Technology, Sometimes" just feels like a little cheat to get away from the bigger issue with the overall thesis. In this way, the idea in this blog just feels so out of touch.

New comment by clueless in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

clueless — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:02:39 +0000

it's a new venture that he can then sell back to google, and continue his ongoing loop

New comment by clueless in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

clueless — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:16:56 +0000

see the show Ozark on Netflix

New comment by clueless in "The Ask"

clueless — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:01:58 +0000

This is unrelated to this article, but I see such simple titles posted on HN often and given how many articles I read per day on HN, I don't know if it's worth me reading or not until I click it. I wish we had a feature on HN that semantically defined who the intended audience for an article is, specially for such opaque titles. Something like the following (used gemini for this):

Here are the 1-2 tags defining the intended audience for each article on the front page:

Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims Tags: AI Researchers, Machine Learning Engineers

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos Tags: Digital Content Creators, General Tech Consumers

A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot Tags: Computer Scientists, AI Researchers

AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes Tags: Linux Users, Hardware Engineers

I analysed 20 years of my chats Tags: Data Enthusiasts, Hobbyist Programmers

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit Tags: Tech Entrepreneurs, Product Managers

Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave Tags: Gamers, Creative Coders

AI sticker shock hits corporate America Tags: Corporate Executives, IT Managers

SimCity 3k in 4k (2025) Tags: Retro Gamers, Game Developers

Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter Tags: Programming Historians, Language Enthusiasts

What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications Tags: Mobile Developers, Privacy Advocates

Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act Tags: E-commerce Professionals, Tech Policy Analysts

Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin Tags: Software Engineers, Web Developers

I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum) Tags: Network Enthusiasts, Maker/DIY Community

More Whimsical OEIS Sequences Tags: Mathematicians, Recreational Math Enthusiasts

Libwce: The entropy layer of a wavelet codec, on its own Tags: Compression Engineers, Systems Programmers

The Ask (the article you previously asked about) Tags: Engineering Managers, Tech Leaders

Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar Tags: Computer Vision Researchers, Optics Engineers

Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle Tags: Hardware Hackers, Rust Developers

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode Tags: Search Engine Marketers, Privacy Advocates

Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025) Tags: AI Prompt Engineers, NLP Researchers

Go: Support for Generic Methods Tags: Go Developers, Systems Programmers

Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife Tags: System Administrators, CLI Power Users

FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home Tags: General Audience, Intelligence Buffs

RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring Tags: Job Seekers, AI Engineers

Warm up your MacBook (2019) Tags: Mac Users, Hardware Hobbyists

Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests (GitHub) Tags: DevOps Engineers, Software Developers

A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025) Tags: Academic Writers, Technical Writers

Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference Tags: Neuroscientists, Psychology Researchers

Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term Tags: Tech Finance Enthusiasts, General Tech Consumers

New comment by clueless in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

clueless — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:11:26 +0000

This sounds like a great capability to be added to immich

New comment by clueless in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

clueless — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:33:33 +0000

Super confusing... seems like some sort of in with the VCs that can pull this program's guests was enough to create a new podcast that is now seen as influential. My best is, this was a side liquidity event for the openAI VCs that had somehow invested into the podcast, looking to get some money out of openAI stake.

New comment by clueless in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

clueless — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:30:19 +0000

60K followers on youtube for low hundreds of millions? seems steep

New comment by clueless in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

clueless — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:05:36 +0000

> It's only true in a universe where Iran would have collapsed from within before the expiration of the sunset clause, and that clearly was not going to happen.

No one can know this hypothetical, but some def bet their entire futures/careers on this: that an Iran with a more prosperous middle class (as a result of JCPOA) might have had a better chance for social/internal reform, i.e. regime change.

New comment by clueless in "Let yourself fall down more"

clueless — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:11:47 +0000

> If you take a lot of chances, that adds up eventually and you'll have some big wins. Just do it safely, so that they don't add up to a lot of big losses, too.

And here is great contradiction in this whole essay. You can't "safely" take a lot of chances and not lose big, when in most cases to have big wins, one has to do unsafe things...

This is also why folks who have a safety net (in terms of family wealth, etc) tend to do better as entrepreneurs. Not sure this essay is helpful.

New comment by clueless in "Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide"

clueless — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:29:23 +0000

What are some sample real world cases folks are using to fine tune their own small/medium models?

New comment by clueless in "MIT Living Wage Calculator"

clueless — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:35:37 +0000

This whole dataset needs to be downloadable, instead of being behind their UI..

New comment by clueless in "Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future"

clueless — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:26:43 +0000

> When the system rewards cheating, the rational choice is to cheat—or be disadvantaged.

Doesn't the current president of the U.S. and indeed his posse sorta of espouse this when you look at their backgrounds? This feels like a bigger cultural issue around what the advantaged folks have been doing all along

New comment by clueless in "Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai"

clueless — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:46:36 +0000

Could Q.ai be commercializing the AlterEgo tech coming out of MIT Lab? i.e. "detects faint neuromuscular signals in the face and throat when a person internally verbalizes words"

Yep, looks like that is it. Recent patent from one of the founders: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...