Hacker News: lozenge

New comment by lozenge in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

lozenge — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:08:15 +0000

I just checked and there's 4 levels of data speed (including USB 4 Gen 4) and 3 levels of power (up to 240 W) but I wouldn't be surprised if that is an outdated answer.

New comment by lozenge in "Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening"

lozenge — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:53:27 +0000

Garmin Pay? My Vivoactive lasts about 7-8 days with sleep tracking and phone notifications. 20 days if you disable phone connectivity.

New comment by lozenge in "AirPods 5"

lozenge — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:46:07 +0000

Err, phones removed the headphone port, largely to sell more accessories.

New comment by lozenge in "AirPods 5"

lozenge — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:40:44 +0000

As I understand it the codec used in Bluetooth headsets is from 2003 and doesn't use the bit rate effectively compared to a newer codec. Sometimes a device will support a newer codec especially with the aptX branding, and even rarer will both devices support it!

New comment by lozenge in "Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit"

lozenge — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:47:59 +0000

I think I've heard about this before, apparently Apple encourages its employees to use the same iCloud account for personal and business use.

New comment by lozenge in "Monzo Stand-In"

lozenge — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:32:46 +0000

Monzo I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up

New comment by lozenge in "When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python"

lozenge — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:09:50 +0000

Yes, involving the Public Suffix List. It's quite ridiculous you need to register your domain on a list of you want to offer subdomains.

New comment by lozenge in "Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals"

lozenge — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:06:47 +0000

This is about tracking not actual functionality .

New comment by lozenge in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

lozenge — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:23:30 +0000

Most probable usually means for a specific prompt. How can this operate without the the original prompt?

New comment by lozenge in "What I love about Django"

lozenge — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:47:00 +0000

I think there's an argument for throwing AttributeError instead of silently going to N+1 behaviour.

New comment by lozenge in "London’s most equidistant pub"

lozenge — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:02:09 +0000

It's cute but after a paragraph or two I immediately thought, let me choose what Burroughs I care about and get a result. However, the link to do this was way, way down the page.

New comment by lozenge in "Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added"

lozenge — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:31:07 +0000

Has anybody reported a refusal and managing to complete their task? I just see 0% whatever I input.

New comment by lozenge in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

lozenge — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:11:06 +0000

No, commits always display the files in a fixed order, and then display changes from line 1 to line N. An AI could select the order to display in, add per hunk commentary and automatically adjust how much context lines are displayed.

New comment by lozenge in "Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index"

lozenge — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:17:15 +0000

A lot of these pdfs contain steps which are optional or only apply in certain situations. Does that decrease the complexity because there are less steps to do? Or does it increase.. the cyclomatic complexity!

New comment by lozenge in "GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization"

lozenge — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:13:55 +0000

It is lean-verified, so it can be trusted unless the Lean statement of the hypothesis is not an accurate description of the hypothesis.

New comment by lozenge in "Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes"

lozenge — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:28:16 +0000

That's likely because of antitrust. If they let their software hook into Windows Update, then they would need to let everybody do the same.

New comment by lozenge in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

lozenge — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:50:53 +0000

It is the em dashes and the excessive wordiness as well as a lot of "not this, but that".

Eg:

"Not dramatically. Just quietly. " -- This is filler words. Whether it's dramatic or quiet has no relevance to the point they're making.

It also loves threes: "Well-modelled, properly sourced, beautifully visualised to requirements" - again, all irrelevant. The point they're making is that it's measuring the wrong thing, not that "beautifully visual things can be incorrect".

"There’s a piece of this conversation that most leaders miss, and it’s the part I care about most" - this hook of "most people miss" it is very common in AI writing.

New comment by lozenge in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

lozenge — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:15:19 +0000

It really isn't. There is no official "Chinese Export" mark. And it's legal to use the real CE mark just to indicate that you (the manufacturer) believe the product complies with European regulations. Some manufacturers might not know or care what it means and just put it on anyway. And some manufacturers might put a version with the incorrect dimensions on their product. It still doesn't mean "Chinese Export".

New comment by lozenge in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

lozenge — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:04:38 +0000

At least they get recalled. I don't think any Temu products are getting recalled.

New comment by lozenge in "A History of IDEs at Google"

lozenge — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:27:21 +0000

I can understand Android (including the Linux kernel) being "too big" and "too separate" to go into Google3, but why Chromium? When it was forked from KHTML/WebKit it was probably not that big compared to the rest of Google's codebase.