Hacker News: etothet

New comment by etothet in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

etothet — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:45:30 +0000

Related, it amazes me how many seasoned developers don't know how to do basic tasks in their editor/IDE with the keyboard and instead rely on their mouse. Most people don't need to be super users, but it baffles me when I see a developer who hasn't at least learned the keyboard shortcuts for opening files and jumping to functions/methods, etc.

Lucid Introduces Air UX 3.0

etothet — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:22:47 +0000

Article URL: https://lucidmotors.com/stories/lucid-air-ux-3-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898970

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by etothet in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

etothet — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:58:11 +0000

Just because a provider is charging less, doesn't mean their cost went down. This is probably especially true with the big players that are trying to stay competitive.

New comment by etothet in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

etothet — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:12:27 +0000

For API usage, sure. But plenty of people have subscriptions where these differences effectively don’t matter.

New comment by etothet in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

etothet — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:19:28 +0000

I thought the exact same thing. Of course, a key difference is that those of us who choose to pay for an iPhone, use iOS, and often pay for additional services are already giving Apple our money. They're trying to extract more and more from us and it's honestly insulting. I give techradar credit for providing us their user-hostile experience for free.

New comment by etothet in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

etothet — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:05:27 +0000

I agree. I noticed recently an ad directly inside of 1Password. I’ve paid for a 1Password subscription since 2013, and have had a family plan for many years. I know the company changed hands several years back after AgileBits sold to VC, but this type of disrespect caused me to cancel my membership. There are plenty of alternatives that haven’t turned their focus to the “Enterprise” and aren’t trying to extract as much money as possible from their paying customers.

New comment by etothet in "Xcode 27.1 Beta Release – Support for iPhone Duo"

etothet — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:58:03 +0000

Update: I should have linked directly to: https://developer.apple.com/iphone-duo/

"Xcode 27.1 adds development support for iPhone Duo. This includes updated SDKs and a simulator that supports the all-new poses and orientations of iPhone Duo."

Xcode 27.1 Beta Release – Support for iPhone Duo

etothet — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:58:03 +0000

Article URL: https://idmsa.apple.com/IDMSWebAuth/signin?appIdKey=891bd3417a7776362562d2197f89480a8547b108fd934911bcbea0110d07f757&path=%2Fdownload%2Fapplications%2F&rv=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758654

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by etothet in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

etothet — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:43:55 +0000

Very cool. I want to do something similar to ressurect old Orb disks from over 25 years ago.

New comment by etothet in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

etothet — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:09:15 +0000

I'm in the process of migrating away from my custom domain on Google (I'm grandfathered in from back when they offered it for free). So far getting all my old email, contacts, and calendar info FastMail has been seamless. All that's left is to repoint the DNS.

Like another comment, I too have a couple of services connected to "Sign in w/ Google". Until I actually delete my Google org, those will still remain active. Since I'm not paying, I feel OK about this.

New comment by etothet in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

etothet — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:47:32 +0000

Thank you, Mr. Tuttle!

Meta's New AI Photo Tool Feature Removed

etothet — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:09:07 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/the-public-got-so-mad-at-metas-new-ai-photo-tool-that-its-scrapped-already-2000784400

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880908

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by etothet in "Fable 5 Access Extended Through July 12"

etothet — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:30:32 +0000

Not a huge surprise

Fable 5 Access Extended Through July 12

etothet — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:30:32 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/claudeai/status/2074548242386178258

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826791

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by etothet in "OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files"

etothet — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:40:05 +0000

Great job on this. I can see this being extremely useful for my teams!

New comment by etothet in "Claude's Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job"

etothet — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:24:06 +0000

Hate on the Claude desktop app on macOS all you want (I personally think it’s fine), but I don’t understand how Gruber can think the ChatGPT app is that good. It’s also…fine, but certainly not special IMO, despite being a native app.

New comment by etothet in "CarPlay Is Additive"

etothet — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:01:43 +0000

I owned a Model Y for several years, but, at least in my city, I always felt Tesla’s navigation had pretty poor route selection during busy times of the day - like dorecting me to streets that were notoriously stop and go during rush our when the highway alternative was known to be much quicker.

New comment by etothet in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

etothet — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:07:05 +0000

Perhaps “charlatan” in the literal sense isn’t true. I was speaking more colloquial, but that was lazy of me.

I will ask though, has he been honest when he’s testified before Congress? At best, I think we can say he hasn’t been very transparent many of those times. If that’s not for power and/or financial gain, what is it? [0]

- [0] https://dispatch.techoversight.org/top-report-mark-zuckerber... - which was previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060486

> “we're told to not like Facebook…”

I didn’t have to be “told” to not like Facebook or Meta. The company’s actions for well over a decade and those of its executives, including the CEO, allowed to form that opinion on our own. I’d be willing to bet that experience is not unique to me.

New comment by etothet in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

etothet — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:23:26 +0000

I definitely didn't mean this as a personal attack.

New comment by etothet in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

etothet — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:53:58 +0000

Those are fair points, though I didn't say he wasn't a good business person. I could probably concede that he is, but I don't see him as the tech visionary he's often propped up to be.