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New comment by ghoulishly in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

ghoulishly — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:35:58 +0000

I’ve seen this at work and it drives me nuts. I don’t value my time extraordinarily highly but even still I find it disrespectful to offload my question and make me read something they didn’t even bother to read.

New comment by ghoulishly in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"

ghoulishly — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:59:42 +0000

“OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership” the english language is rapidly running out of brand new sentences.

New comment by ghoulishly in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

ghoulishly — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:31:05 +0000

I promise I am fine lol, I actually had a really productive chat with their panel last year and found it wasn’t the right role for me anyway for some logistical reasons.

New comment by ghoulishly in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

ghoulishly — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:28:10 +0000

Do you genuinely think that was earnest?

New comment by ghoulishly in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

ghoulishly — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:37:50 +0000

(author of the post here) I cut a paragraph how Figma costs cuckoo bananas money for your entire team for the privilege of enduring this byzantine nightmare. And they paywall certain features, which you likely can't get authorization for, so you have to do more hacks on top of hacks on top of the “gold standard” practices I shared in the blog post. The price ramp is not gradual.

New comment by ghoulishly in "“This is not the computer for you”"

ghoulishly — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:08:58 +0000

Author here, it’s all me. I ran it through Claude before publishing to spot check me on grammar/typos and it caught a few syntax things, but this is just my writing style.

Here’s a satire piece I wrote in the summer of 2021. Tonally very different but you can pick up on my voice between it and my essay yesterday: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20210803-localhost/

New comment by ghoulishly in "“This is not the computer for you”"

ghoulishly — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:03:48 +0000

I actually gave a de-gendered draft of the essay to some friends a few days ago and heard that it landed with a thud — the essay is largely written about myself, in the third person, retrospectively, so removing the pronoun made the autobiographical thread harder to follow. I switched it to "he" to make that clearer.

I think if I used "she" it would've made the "That kid was me" transition harder — it would either involve some gymnastics to make it make sense or it would introduce a reading I didn't intend.

New comment by ghoulishly in "“This is not the computer for you”"

ghoulishly — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:02:47 +0000

ARM macs are too new for us to know how the reuse/hand-me-down/legacy support world will shake out for them. There’ll be signs when the first M1 machines get axed but for now, I have no clue.

New comment by ghoulishly in "“This is not the computer for you”"

ghoulishly — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:18:49 +0000

(Author of the post here) The post was inspired by the Neo and provoked by a certain YouTuber’s review of it, but yeah it’s about the Neo in the same way that The Old Man and the Sea is about fishing.

I wrote about the Mac in general since that’s what I know, but I imagine if I grew up in the Windows world and liked Windows more, I would have a similar experience with my dad’s old ThinkPad or something.

New comment by ghoulishly in "“This is not the computer for you”"

ghoulishly — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:09:28 +0000

Author of the post here. You nailed it here; I used Chromebook as the example in my post since the one I used in high school was locked down to basically a kiosk. Couldn’t even open dev tools, much less root it. Such a wild departure from the eMacs I used in my elementary school’s library where I could set bonkers `defaults write` commands and customize every aspect of my account.

If I got a Chromebook as a personal machine as a kid, I probably would’ve rooted it and see what I could do, but growing up, the beauty of the Mac (in that Snow Leopard era) was progressive disclosure. I could start on the happy path and have a perfectly stable machine, then customize the behaviors through the terminal, see what it does, mess with the system files, see what breaks, revert it, then go back to using iMovie like normal.

In my (admittedly limited) time using a rooted Chromebook, it’s much more like a switch flip. You go from mandatory water wings directly into getting pushed into the ocean and Google shouting “Good luck!!”

New comment by ghoulishly in "MacBook Neo"

ghoulishly — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:26:01 +0000

I’m curious what the use case for that would be. Where would someone opt for that over a Mac mini? They’re already pretty cheap ($500 on sale)

New comment by ghoulishly in "The fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010 was 20 bytes"

ghoulishly — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:17:22 +0000

Author of this thread here, thanks for sharing! This was the first time I publicly went into assembly code so I was a little nervous about screwing up a detail but glad it’s getting a warm reception.

I QA iOS Apps

ghoulishly — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:22:47 +0000

Article URL: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20250923-qa-ios-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45349178

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ghoulishly in "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"

ghoulishly — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:01:55 +0000

They told me they would need a notarized letter signed by both me and my mom. I figured at that point I’m just gonna die with this account name.

New comment by ghoulishly in "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"

ghoulishly — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:54:59 +0000

Hey, developer of this experiment here. I screwed up the calculation on the demo video, but it’s patched in the latest version on the repo.

I thought it was centidegrees but it turns out the sensor was reporting the raw degrees.

New comment by ghoulishly in "Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever"

ghoulishly — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:43:49 +0000

Might have to do with it being the last OS available for purchase (i.e. not a free download)

It’s a shot in the dark though, I’ve also wondered this.

OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August

ghoulishly — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:11:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/712950/openai-gpt-5-model-release-date-notepad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672450

Points: 98

# Comments: 74

New comment by ghoulishly in "Malimite – iOS and macOS Decompiler"

ghoulishly — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:34:59 +0000

That’s a rude thing to say to a stranger; her voice is perfectly fine.

New comment by ghoulishly in "The ancient discovery that put a Silk Road city back on the map"

ghoulishly — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:11:59 +0000

It’s been a big year for Silk Roads

New comment by ghoulishly in "[dead]"

ghoulishly — Thu, 30 May 2024 21:14:50 +0000

“while i’m not a fan of donald trump, it is chilling to realize that this could happen to any one of us after livetweeting 34 consecutive crimes” –https://x.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1641566644924297218