Hacker News: kylec

New comment by kylec in "The MacBook Neo"

kylec — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:45:25 +0000

I feel like Apple wouldn't want to make full Linux work on their hardware, but they could enable their Darwin kernel to emulate Linux syscalls and provide a way to boot into a mode that basically loads the kernel and whatever Linux shell you want

New comment by kylec in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"

kylec — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:39:16 +0000

I'm going to echo what others have said, Xcode will run on 8GB but the moment you need simulators or iOS canvas previews it will need more memory. You can probably get by on the Neo, but it won't be ideal. I suggest an M4 Mac mini instead.

New comment by kylec in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

kylec — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:20:14 +0000

I'm assuming you're in the EU or UK, Apple is required by law to not include a power adapter:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/10/15/eu-gets-what-it-a...

In the US they provide one in the box free of charge.

New comment by kylec in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

kylec — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:16:01 +0000

Apple doesn't tend to use "RAM" in their marketing materials, they usually use "memory", which appears 9 times in the press release.

New comment by kylec in "Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you'"

kylec — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:41:34 +0000

I wonder if a similar system is in place at McDonald's because they never fail to ask if I'm using the app, it's pretty annoying

New comment by kylec in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

kylec — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:27:30 +0000

"I don't know what did it, but here's what it does now"

New comment by kylec in "Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews"

kylec — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:19:02 +0000

Huge win on the name change. I'm never going to install an app called Pingstalker on my computer, it would feel gross and I'd worry other people might see it and be alarmed by it.

New comment by kylec in "AI is a horse (2024)"

kylec — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:06:22 +0000

A tractor does exactly what you tell it to do though - you turn it on, steer it in a direction, and it goes. I like the horse metaphor for AI better: still useful, but sometimes unpredictable, and needs constant supervision.

New comment by kylec in "Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades"

kylec — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:22:20 +0000

The M4 starts with 16GB, though that can also be tight for local LLMs. You can get one with 24GB for $1149 right now though, which is good value.

New comment by kylec in "Modern Walkmans"

kylec — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:56:37 +0000

Yes, pretty much:

https://www.theverge.com/24295971/we-are-rewind-fiio-cassett...

New comment by kylec in "People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows"

kylec — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:21:52 +0000

What about a Mac? macOS isn't exactly Linux, but you can run a lot of Linux command line things just fine on it, and Apple will always make sure macOS works 100% on the Macs they sell.

New comment by kylec in "Feedback doesn't scale"

kylec — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:22:41 +0000

When I worked at Netflix many years ago, they loved to boast about how they didn't have any "processes". My experience was that process ALWAYS exists, but at Netflix you just had to figure it out and hopefully not step on the wrong toes along the way.

New comment by kylec in "Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot"

kylec — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:24:14 +0000

This could backfire on Microsoft - if a company's leadership sees low Copilot by their employees, cancelling the subscription is an easy way for the company to save money.

New comment by kylec in "Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers"

kylec — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 02:47:53 +0000

I’m astounded, this has been a problem for 10+ years and I just assumed they didn’t care and would never change it. Better late than never, but why the sudden change?

New comment by kylec in "Why do some gamers invert their controls?"

kylec — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 02:22:31 +0000

I REALLY wish this was a setting I could set once on my computer and ALL games respected it. I prefer inverted X and Y but there’s SO many games out there that just don’t provide this as a setting. I’ve tried playing with non-inverted but I end up just getting frustrated and stopping.

New comment by kylec in "MIT says AI isn't replacing you it's just wasting your boss's money"

kylec — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 02:41:04 +0000

Cynically, it doesn't matter if AI actually replaces jobs, but as long as the stock market BELIEVES that it does, then it gives companies permission to do layoffs without taking a hit to the stock price.

New comment by kylec in "Why tail-recursive functions are loops"

kylec — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:35:56 +0000

You can do it by managing your own stack, but I would argue that doing so makes the algorithm LESS easy to scan and has its own sets of problems.

New comment by kylec in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

kylec — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:25:32 +0000

What mechanism does the UK government have to extract fines from Wikipedia?

New comment by kylec in "I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it"

kylec — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:04:29 +0000

This is well after the fact though, and it does sound like in this circumstance he was treated unfairly. I don’t begrudge him some annoyance/complaining now.

New comment by kylec in "Binary Wordle"

kylec — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:02:29 +0000

Got it in one on my second game! Felt pretty good till I realized that's like 1/32 chance.