Hacker News: curvaturearth

New comment by curvaturearth in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

curvaturearth — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:35:20 +0000

Spotlight has been broken for me for sometime. Nothing seems to fix it

New comment by curvaturearth in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

curvaturearth — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 04:40:27 +0000

Where will LLMs be trained if no-one generates new posts and information like this? Do we sort of just stop innovating here in 2026? Probably not but it's a serious consideration.

New comment by curvaturearth in "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash"

curvaturearth — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:10:44 +0000

A fluent conversation was a great party trick but the novelty has worn thin. It had some value but overall having to have a conversation with a tool to get something done is frustrating. Like tasking a junior employee on their first day with advanced tasks and wondering why they keep missing the mark. I want a tool not an opinionated support unit, and often will stop that conversational experience by prompting it away. Having to do that is annoying.

I personally also don't have much use for generating images and videos, at least not regularly. I feel like they want us to use AI tools full time, when really we just need to jump in and use them when required, which might be quite infrequently (obviously dependent on circumstance). But who is going to pay the huge cost of having the tools available when you do want them?

So yeah, agreed. Stop making it hard for me to use my tool without accidentally engaging the LLM integration or just flat out forcing it's usage. I don't want that future price hike that comes with LLMs

New comment by curvaturearth in "Asus Ascent GX10"

curvaturearth — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:34:50 +0000

Written by a LLM?

New comment by curvaturearth in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

curvaturearth — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:49:57 +0000

Nope nope nope

New comment by curvaturearth in "Ask HN: Am I the only one not using AI?"

curvaturearth — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:13:41 +0000

Yep agreed

New comment by curvaturearth in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

curvaturearth — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:38:58 +0000

If Facebook would lay off jamming all the AI features in my face that would be nice. Applies to basically all big tech really.

New comment by curvaturearth in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

curvaturearth — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:15:37 +0000

But wait! 35% of Microsoft's code is now written by AI so surely it will get better

New comment by curvaturearth in "QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files"

curvaturearth — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:44:04 +0000

Love this

New comment by curvaturearth in "'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app"

curvaturearth — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:27:11 +0000

I like Spotify but it has got a bit bloated with audiobooks, podcasts and features like videos that I do not care for. I also find Spotify makes finding and listening to albums less intuitive, it feels like everything is setup for passive listening to algorithmically generated playlists. That's fine and it is how I listen to music sometimes, particularly for music discovery. But I use other services and means to have a library because Spotify's UI for it isn't great. I can't help but think that's intentional for some reason.

I will also throw some points Spotify's way for having half decent support for API clients, decent hardware support (that is for consumers, not sure what the experience is like for a developer). I have an NFC card system setup for albums and playlists so I can have a limited physical library. This uses Spotify's libraries because the support is good.

For no fuss music Tidal has been good, but it certainly has fewer artists.

New comment by curvaturearth in "macOS Tahoe"

curvaturearth — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 02:24:52 +0000

I still hurting from the crappy System Settings. Please Apple, make System Settings better... It's a mess

New comment by curvaturearth in "Hosting a website on a disposable vape"

curvaturearth — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:42:02 +0000

I used to see disposable vapes dumped on the street until they were banned (thankfully). All those wasted batteries and microcontrollers is really wasteful.

New comment by curvaturearth in "What to do with an old iPad"

curvaturearth — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 05:14:40 +0000

The hardware could absolutely be made useful too. For example Apple could have a decent low bloat long term support OS that can be deployed on a device. Maybe it doesn't have all the bells and whistles but who cares, at least it would be usable. They won't do this though because it makes them no money.

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

curvaturearth — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:14:06 +0000

This is the way

New comment by curvaturearth in "Grok Code Fast 1"

curvaturearth — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:56:24 +0000

Go touch some grass

New comment by curvaturearth in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

curvaturearth — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:24:04 +0000

This is terrible, and like search engines and the internet in general should be audited closely and the companies held responsible. In my opinion these tools shouldn't talk like a human, and should be banned from "making friends" (if we can define that). I always try and tell an LLM to not be conversational and usually get more succinct answers. Even using cursor AI is painful if it keeps saying "I need to xxx".

New comment by curvaturearth in "How to build a coding agent"

curvaturearth — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:59:50 +0000

I'm already surprised by the amount of things they think they can do but can't

New comment by curvaturearth in "Pixel 10 Phones"

curvaturearth — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:53:13 +0000

This. I tried Gemini, twice, and each time my usual use of hand free tasks were no longer possible. This is what I don't understand, all these big tech companies think I want to have a conversation and ask questions to an AI in every part of my life but I do not. All I want is to tell my phone to put in a calendar invite, play a song on an specific app, navigate to somewhere, etc. My android phone triggers itself when listening to podcasts too, which is fun.

New comment by curvaturearth in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

curvaturearth — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:41:49 +0000

Pretty sure no one wants AI slop stored away forever even though that's the unavoidable future

New comment by curvaturearth in "Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow"

curvaturearth — Tue, 20 May 2025 20:28:10 +0000

The first video is problematic? the owl faces forwards then seamlessly turns around - something is very off there.

The guy in the third video looks like a dressed up Ewan McGregor, anyone else see that?

I guess we can welcome even more quality 5 second clips for Shorts and Instagram