Hacker News: gehsty

New comment by gehsty in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

gehsty — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:52:19 +0000

How many companies on that list make money by manufacturing a physical product and selling it to customers? How many other consumer goods companies 11x their market cap? How many other consumer goods companies have revenues remotely approaching Apple?

The business you mention are pure service / zero marginal cost businesses, and in that time internet usage has expanded both in reach and depth (it is being used for more things in more places), so their opportunity for profits has grown. Apple turns aluminium and silica into a laptop. They didn't even miss a beat during COVID.

Yay for Tim Cook for scaling this to the absolute behemoth of supply chain and manufacturing that modern Apple is.

New comment by gehsty in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

gehsty — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:17:33 +0000

My washing machine still only washes clothes!

New comment by gehsty in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

gehsty — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:19:12 +0000

As a parent you feel the push and pull of not ignoring your child while also not mollycoddling them. For me let the kid do what they want - if your kid wants to stay home let them, if they want to climb trees and go off on their bike let them. Help them learn what is safe (which rods can they cross), what are their boundaries. Hopefully they get it, maybe they don’t. Don’t restrict access to devices or screens too harshly. Encourage games of any kind. Wear sunscreen.

New comment by gehsty in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

gehsty — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:15:22 +0000

It doesn’t just work though - icons are hidden from users, with no way of users knowing they are hidden.

macOS is still better than windows, but my feeling is it’s more of a glass of cheap warm whiskey in hell than a cool glass of ice water.

New comment by gehsty in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

gehsty — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:02:15 +0000

It’s a bit more complex than that. Octopus do a deal where you can lease a car and get the energy for it for free provided you agree to have it plugged in > x hrs a month. My read on that is that the cost of balancing the grid is greater than the cost of generating power. So grid is expensive, but power is cheap.

New comment by gehsty in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

gehsty — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:00:14 +0000

There are several lined up for construction over the next 5-10yrs (eastern green link 1-5)

New comment by gehsty in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

gehsty — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:57:42 +0000

Most of the day 28p/kwh, 1-5am 17p/kwh, 4-7pm 39p/kwh.

New comment by gehsty in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

gehsty — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:54:00 +0000

Could be higher - multiple Scottish windfarms are fully curtailed (developers paid for generation but the grid can’t distribute so they don’t use the power). Once the grid is upgraded with Easter Green Link 1-5 & Western Link 2, and the Scotwind Windfarms built this would be even higher!

New comment by gehsty in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

gehsty — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:05:11 +0000

I guess I mean for apple to remain as apple, they would not do this due to company culture.

New comment by gehsty in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

gehsty — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:01:58 +0000

Why should Apple have done this? It doesn’t fit their business in anyway shape or form. Where does data centre hardware sit relative to electronics / humanities cross roads that is foundational for Apple?

New comment by gehsty in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

gehsty — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:58:15 +0000

If my Grandma had wheels she would be a bicycle. Apple would need to transition from being a consumer electronics company to being a B2B retailer for data centre hardware to take advantage of this.

Obviously Siri from WWDC 2yrs ago was a disaster for Apple. Other than that they seem to have done pretty well navigating the new LLM world. I do think they would benefit from having their own SOA LLM, but I don’t think its is necessary for them. My mental model for LLMs and Apple is that they are similar Garage Band - “Now everyone can play an instrument” becomes “now anyone can make an app”. Apple owns the interface to the user (i don’t see anyone making nicer to use consumer hardware) and can use what ever stack in the background to deliver the technical features they decide to.

New comment by gehsty in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

gehsty — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:24:41 +0000

They should be allowed to make money from their work. Their work is MIT licensed, if it goes south it is rescuable by the community.

Things come and go, let’s not beat up some dudes who made some cool stuff, made everyone’s lives easier and then sold up. There is a timeline where this makes UV / python better.

New comment by gehsty in "AirPods Max 2"

gehsty — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:11:34 +0000

One is a fashion item, another is an education focussed laptop. People will pay a lot of money for how things look.

New comment by gehsty in "How I write software with LLMs"

gehsty — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:07:34 +0000

When I use Claude code to work on a hobby project it feels like doom scrolling…

I can’t get my head around if the hobby is the making or the having, but fair to say I’ve felt quite dissatisfied at the end of my hobby sessions lately so leaning towards the former.

New comment by gehsty in "You gotta think outside the hypercube"

gehsty — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:37:16 +0000

The only reason we can’t fly is that we don’t have wings.

It’s a limitation created by our brains evolving to process 3D environments. If we were LLMs we have no 4D training data.

A great example is the film Arrival.

New comment by gehsty in "The MacBook Neo"

gehsty — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:33:14 +0000

To stop comparison to the old 12” 1 port MacBook?

If you were to align the MacBook line with iPhone line logically this would be an ‘e’ class device, the Air would just become the MacBook, pro remains pro, and there would be a nice gap for a new ultra light MacBook Air, a modern Apple silicon version of the 12” MacBook - expensive, small and fast, analogous to iPhone Air.

Also new names are fun. This name is a fun name. Nice to see some playfulness from Apple.

New comment by gehsty in "The MacBook Neo"

gehsty — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:24:52 +0000

I agree that it isn’t as good as it was but compared to windows (with adds in the start menu, and two different settings menus for a decade as examples) it’s still better. More of a glass of warm cheap whiskey, than a glass of cool ice water in hell.

New comment by gehsty in "My Homelab Setup"

gehsty — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:21:16 +0000

I’m using a refurbed m4 Mac mini, connected to a unifi nas pro 8, super fun and straightforward. Feels like I only have to do the tinkering I want to do.

New comment by gehsty in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

gehsty — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:18:53 +0000

Some times it feels amazing, sometimes it feels like doomscrolling.

New comment by gehsty in "QGIS 4.0"

gehsty — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:58:48 +0000

Another project that makes me want an equivalent for 2D or 3D CAD! CAD is missing a QGIS or Blender…

Congrats to QGIS team, looking forward to native apple silicon support