Hacker News: generalpf

New comment by generalpf in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

generalpf — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:27:15 +0000

I just got a Docusign and it didn't work in Firefox, I had to use Chrome. That's a huge blow right there. (I sent negative feedback about this to Docusign.)

New comment by generalpf in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

generalpf — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:29:05 +0000

>There'll probably be a startup tomorrow that digests user input and boils out the noise to provide a robust enough signal to guide some monitoring agent, and it'll help some cases, and train us to be even worse at others.

This sounds like Enterpret.

New comment by generalpf in "Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent"

generalpf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:39:13 +0000

Come on now, you're going to need Xcode at some point during development.

New comment by generalpf in "Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent"

generalpf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:38:55 +0000

It does.

New comment by generalpf in "The Slow Death of the Power User"

generalpf — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:18:16 +0000

By default on a Mac, "smart quotes" is enabled that turns "" into “”. I don't think that's a sign of an LLM. I believe Microsoft Word on all platforms does this too.

New comment by generalpf in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

generalpf — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:25:15 +0000

Swift doesn't use a garbage collector.

New comment by generalpf in "Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford"

generalpf — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:12:56 +0000

This is the course I used online to learn Objective-C and UIKit to make iOS applications, and now I am a Staff iOS Engineer. Nice to see him still doing this.

New comment by generalpf in "Wealthy foreigners 'paid for chance to shoot civilians in Sarajevo'"

generalpf — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:08:45 +0000

Mac and Dennis: Manhunters

(It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S04E01)

New comment by generalpf in "Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line"

generalpf — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:22:04 +0000

It doesn't matter what Steve Jobs would or wouldn't do, Tim Cook took Apple to a $3T company and that's where we are.

New comment by generalpf in "Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan"

generalpf — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:46:27 +0000

Another Forbes 30 under 30!

New comment by generalpf in "FreeDroidWarn"

generalpf — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:22:21 +0000

You don't need this library, it's just an `AlertDialog` wrapper with a check in `SharedPreferences`. It's not particularly well-written.

New comment by generalpf in "I'm worried it might get bad"

generalpf — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:43:56 +0000

Referencing Marc Benioff making bold claims about AI isn't much evidence, he's pulling these numbers out of thin air. Despite claiming they won't hire software engineers in 2025, there are plenty of positions open at Salesforce for software engineers.

New comment by generalpf in "Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved"

generalpf — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:34:53 +0000

When did this guy stop writing about engineering and start running a tech gossip rag?

New comment by generalpf in "I can’t understand Apple’s Critical Alert policy (2023)"

generalpf — Thu, 08 May 2025 23:18:46 +0000

Nice to see PagerDuty mentioned here. I was on the mobile team at PagerDury that battled to get the entitlement to use Critical Notifications in the app. We were refused multiple times before we got the entitlement.

New comment by generalpf in "Windows File Manager (WinFile) repository archived on March 1, 2025"

generalpf — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:14:34 +0000

Who would want to work on this thing? It hasn't been a standard part of Windows for at least a decade.

New comment by generalpf in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

generalpf — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:07:05 +0000

It's been argued a lot that such a move would cause a good portion of American billionaires to just pack up and move to another country. Rich people are mobile in a way that poor people are not.

New comment by generalpf in "Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale"

generalpf — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 01:22:32 +0000

Forbes 30 Under 30!

New comment by generalpf in "Apple acquires Pixelmator"

generalpf — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:45:00 +0000

BuddyBuild was acquired by Apple and used for their server CI platform, almost immediately cutting off Android support. That was a shame because it was a great platform for Android builds.

https://www.biv.com/news/technology/bye-bye-android-apple-ac...

New comment by generalpf in "Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages"

generalpf — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:25:45 +0000

“Shoot that guy” “Ok”

Super valuable stuff.

New comment by generalpf in "I attended Google's creator conversation event, and it turned into a funeral"

generalpf — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:01:53 +0000

I was reading this on my iPhone 11 Pro and my phone was turning warm in my hand. My music kept stopping and starting again. Eventually I had to kill the browser.

I am sorry this is happening to the authors. Maybe it’s related to the scumminess of their blog, maybe it isn’t.