Hacker News: guessbest

New comment by guessbest in "I'm Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store"

guessbest — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:05:24 +0000

If he's making over $1 million annual, Apple’s App Store commission is 30%, but the App Store Small Business Program sets the commission to 15%.

New comment by guessbest in "App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours"

guessbest — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:28:56 +0000

This is funny because they aren't approving anything right now

Developers are wondering if they are the only ones on their forums: https://developer.apple.com/forums/topics/app-store-distribu...

New comment by guessbest in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

guessbest — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:56:48 +0000

Thirty years old. Hard to believe

New comment by guessbest in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

guessbest — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:01:55 +0000

I don't know why people hold on to all this extra software and features when with the tools its easier than ever to strip that out and refactor the end product in to a much more compact deliverable. Maybe once upon a time it was useful to keep legacy parts of the software solution around, but it can be recreated with fresh eyes if needed given the power of the new LLM models. My philosophy is if its not needed, it needs to be removed.

New comment by guessbest in "Car touchscreens are cheap, not good"

guessbest — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:15:10 +0000

It is so much easier to add internationalization to a touchscreen over physical buttons

New comment by guessbest in "Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?"

guessbest — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:24:55 +0000

I just do iOS development and my opinion is this: Start with XCode then use an LLM to design and develop it out from there its great. The newer models work great with project files where they used to struggle. Using the Visual Code development tools alongside XCode, claude skills and 3rd party libraries and frameworks with SwiftUI and Swift 5/6 is really convincing me I should make apps full time again. Coding apps has become my dream job.

https://github.com/LeoMobileDeveloper/ios-developer-tools

https://github.com/AvdLee/SwiftUI-Agent-Skill

New comment by guessbest in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

guessbest — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:05:58 +0000

That's a lot of money just for network topography, but may someone let them in and it has a whole map of an otherwise hidden or inaccessible network.

New comment by guessbest in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

guessbest — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:35:16 +0000

Do you have a link to the note app? Just curious what could make it unique, not criticizing anyone.

New comment by guessbest in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

guessbest — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:30:07 +0000

But who will buy it? No knocks against building old projects, but the market will be flooded with extremely speciality projects. I miss when every app had a spec on the box. I think we need something like that for usage. A new modeling language or something.

New comment by guessbest in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

guessbest — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:16:17 +0000

Feels like from the before times.

New comment by guessbest in "Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool"

guessbest — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:13:50 +0000

Thanks for showing this. What would you say the differences between the classic version of oleo and your neoleo version?

New comment by guessbest in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

guessbest — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:15:54 +0000

I'm guessing willingly Maduro surrendered as he took the cash offer from Dec 1, 2025 while publicly rejecting it. After all, he left with his wife.

> “You can save yourself and those closest to you, but you must leave the country now,” Trump reportedly said, offering safe passage for Maduro, his wife and his son “only if he agreed to resign right away”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/trump-maduro-u...

New comment by guessbest in "Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS"

guessbest — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:52:46 +0000

It was Firebird. Thanks for correcting me.

New comment by guessbest in "Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS"

guessbest — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:57:16 +0000

Maybe it hit trademark issues, but the reason I remember from slashdot was that phoenix was already a semi-popular open source project in the debian repository, so firefox had to be named from phoenix to mozilla-phoenix. But firefox at the time still named phoenix just ran so much better on windows than linux, it was funny.

New comment by guessbest in "Show HN: XPipe, a brand-new type of remote file browser and shell connection hub"

guessbest — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:39:02 +0000

Are those still being used? I haven't used Konqueror in awhile.

New comment by guessbest in "I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs"

guessbest — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 04:33:46 +0000

I have Objective-C software for iOS that was built for iOS 3 that still runs on the latest version of iOS and people still pay for it. Strange how language stability is an achievable goal.

New comment by guessbest in "Pharo 12"

guessbest — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 03:58:23 +0000

How would you compare this to say, writing WinForm applications in Visual Basic 6?

New comment by guessbest in "We hacked Google A.I."

guessbest — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:23:50 +0000

Its seems like a combination of 90's seo spam pages combined with running unsigned/unchecked executables. I think we're going to have certifications and positions for AI Tools Security Officers in the near future if we don't already.

New comment by guessbest in "Ask HN: What prevents Google from having the leading LLM?"

guessbest — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:05:34 +0000

I have a hard time believing that, but if that website says so, it must be true. I would wonder if they are including gmail users as well as all android users, but I don't know their methodology. If they include all android users, they should include all ios users for Apple Music and iTunes since Apple stores their music on Microsoft Azure, which last I checked is the same thing OneDrive uses.

New comment by guessbest in "Ask HN: What prevents Google from having the leading LLM?"

guessbest — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:36:56 +0000

People don't like advertising. Google is an advertising company. The more these AI models get corrupted with advertising the more likely they are to take a lead. That the reason they don't dominate in cloud storage. Where's the competitive advantage in embedding advertising in people's personal and publicly shared documents?