Hacker News: joshuat

New comment by joshuat in "EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules"

joshuat — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:52:34 +0000

what about...

New comment by joshuat in "In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words"

joshuat — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:03:52 +0000

I find it odd that many of both the blog comments and the HN thread comments are focused on debating the merits of the feature itself rather than the broader point of the article, that a small isolated change made by one person can have a massive, long-lasting impact on software and on how billions of people interact with it for decades after it was implemented.

It’s like no one ever took a humanities class

New comment by joshuat in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

joshuat — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:01:39 +0000

Using a physical clearflow keyboard sounds like a nightmare - they're just designed for very different input models

New comment by joshuat in "Aikido Code Audit"

joshuat — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:33:00 +0000

This looks promising, but I find it a little odd to bury the bulk of plan limitations under "fair-usage limits". When the limitations are specifically coupled to plans, it feels less like an FUP and more like plan-specific caps that should be surfaced more directly.

New comment by joshuat in "Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding"

joshuat — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:44:54 +0000

I don't disagree that they're not getting the best reception, but a freemium product is hardly a new/rare thing.

New comment by joshuat in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

joshuat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:39:43 +0000

That's disappointing to hear, I remember the reboot news and thought they had a pretty solid team behind it. I guess gaining traction proved too difficult.

New comment by joshuat in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

joshuat — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:24:21 +0000

Is the eventual goal to move most formula/cask behavior into declarative install steps and treat Ruby as an escape hatch?

New comment by joshuat in "macOS Container Machines"

joshuat — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:22:33 +0000

And a legitimate business interest to further incentivize the adoption of Apple Silicon devices. Same with Rosetta deprecation after macOS 27.

New comment by joshuat in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

joshuat — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:28:26 +0000

From past experience, it is when you are physically in the EU, but this implementation could obviously differ from how they've gated features in the past.

New comment by joshuat in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

joshuat — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:22:56 +0000

In their defense, they asked the LLM to make no mistakes

New comment by joshuat in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

joshuat — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:44:11 +0000

fast.com is my go-to in the rare case I need to check network speed these days

New comment by joshuat in "Last.fm is now independent"

joshuat — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:56:02 +0000

NepTunes on macOS is nice - and it (optionally) adds the current track info to your menubar.

I haven't found anything reliable for iOS, however.

New comment by joshuat in "Does anybody like React?"

joshuat — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:40:14 +0000

"Does Anybody Actually Like ____" is such HN engagement bait

New comment by joshuat in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

joshuat — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:16:54 +0000

Especially when Apple has provided an approved path with iMessage for Business. If this isn't trying to send spam/abuse, which alone wouldn't prevent Apple from shutting it down anyway, it is trying to avoid the registration/vetting process implemented by iMessage for Business.

At least with Beeper the pitch wasn't to enable A2P but to allow real people to use iMessage alongside other platforms.

New comment by joshuat in "[dead]"

joshuat — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:00:39 +0000

How did you gather five years of dating data when you built the platform "in 14 days with Claude"[0] just under three weeks ago?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783187

New comment by joshuat in "NASA Force"

joshuat — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:31:39 +0000

My MBP M5 couldn't handle it with Firefox but it was fine on Safari, betting it's a WebGL issue or something

New comment by joshuat in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

joshuat — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:37:58 +0000

-_- I love the internet

New comment by joshuat in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

joshuat — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:19:03 +0000

Why would pinning the exact version in this case not have solved the problem? I agree `--ignore-scripts` would be a sensible default at this point, but my understanding is that this vulnerability exclusively impacts two newly released versions.

New comment by joshuat in "MacBook Neo"

joshuat — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:36:11 +0000

I think they mean not reflective like current models, not that it isn't illuminated like the MacBooks of yore

New comment by joshuat in "iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life"

joshuat — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:54:42 +0000

Because people want the rumor to be true