Hacker News: michelb

New comment by michelb in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

michelb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:20:39 +0000

Yeah I think so too. I'm just wondering if the people on software are still the right people. Mac OS has quite a few regressions, and seems to just chug along instead of really using the power of the chips, or massively improving file i/o. Apple still has a chance to do some cool stuff with AI integrations, but they have had interesting local models 3 years ago and apparently nowhere, or no vision, to use it. We're all clapping for Craig Federighi's jokes but I have no idea if he is a great manager or a great presenter.

I think Liquid Glass is an abomination and usability nightmare, but they're doubling down on it now, so that's that I guess.

New comment by michelb in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

michelb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:32:35 +0000

Earlier than I expected. Seeing that Johny Srouji got promoted as well, this reshuffle might have been a way to make sure he stays for a few more years as well?

New comment by michelb in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

michelb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:29:15 +0000

Maybe, but I think we have to wait for Craig Federighi to leave first.

New comment by michelb in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

michelb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:19:27 +0000

>The App has not launched, they published the source code in order to invite external review.

I read that from many reactions in discussions, but not from their own channels? (Maybe I missed that)

It is ready for deployment: https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/european-ag...

The message is that it is ready, 'ticks all the boxes' (the published code does not) and that is now ready for integration by other countries. https://xcancel.com/vonderleyen/status/2044340323120193595#m

Then in the article I read that what we see now is a 'demo' version. So the code on Github is not the current code?

New comment by michelb in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

michelb — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:35:43 +0000

Because so many people are being ground down. You have time to organize something, instead of making rent? Well now you have to fight to even get your voting rights back, that you were silently stripped off because of your skin color and demographic, or social status. Then you need to see if you can ever get the gerrymandered border back to where it should be so the other party will ever have a chance at winning in your area, instead of losing by default. Pretty sure the next election is only about two swing-states again.

New comment by michelb in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

michelb — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:46:08 +0000

They might be out of courage.

New comment by michelb in "I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI"

michelb — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:35:03 +0000

I disagree on us average joes not standing a chance. It's pretty easy to ride the wave of popular stocks or commodities simply by following the macro trends in the news and staying informed on global developments.

It's more risky than index funds, but being able to ride a bit of the Nvidia hype and then de-risking those proceeds into an index fund is nice.

You'll probably never win with day-trading or HFT though.

(not financial advice!)

New comment by michelb in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

michelb — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:48:02 +0000

I think there is a massive market in waiting for something that uses a way better UI/UX. I’d say chat is only great for developers/technical people.

New comment by michelb in "I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI"

michelb — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:42:17 +0000

The real moat of the Bloomberg terminals is the messaging feature that connects you to the other traders.

New comment by michelb in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

michelb — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:13:42 +0000

And PLENTY of people simply accept the ads everywhere.

New comment by michelb in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

michelb — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:09:21 +0000

'The new guy' is one of the driving forces behind Apple Glass....

New comment by michelb in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

michelb — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:06:58 +0000

A lot of the controls are unreadable depending on the background behind it, for example. Which is crazy. Sometimes it's also hard to figure out if something is a control, part of a site/application, a visual bug, or something else.

They've even doubled down on it, I don't see this going away in the next 2 major OS versions. I expect them to have a lot of WWDC sessions about it again this year.

That said, Apple's own apps are a crazy mixed up mess of different design systems and technologies, so maybe it will all fall apart and something new comes along in ±3 years time.

New comment by michelb in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

michelb — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:46:39 +0000

Sure they are spending like crazy. I do think now they have bought Manus, they will try to compete. We'll have to see what all the talent they bought is going to create.

New comment by michelb in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

michelb — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:37:16 +0000

It probably distracts from the AI race. With the newly bought political power it makes far more sense for Meta to align with whatever this administration seeks. And it’s not gaming or VR.

New comment by michelb in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

michelb — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:32:08 +0000

So, a fraction of the AI investments? It’s pretty clear where the focus is bow and who/what no longer has a future at Meta.

New comment by michelb in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

michelb — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:51:36 +0000

I’m not a professional developer but I can find my way around several languages and deployment systems. I have used Claude to migrate a mediumsized Laravel 5 app to Laravel 11 in about 2-3 days. I would not have dared to touch it otherwise.

In my day job I’m currently a PM/operations director at a small company. We don’t have programmers. I have used AI to build about 12 internal tools in the past year. They’re not very big, but provide huge productivity gains. And although I do not fully understand the codebase, I know what is where. Three of these tools I’m now recreating based on our usage and learnings.

I have learned a ton about all kinds of development concepts in a ridiculously short timeframe.

New comment by michelb in "MacBook Neo"

michelb — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:56:55 +0000

I'm interested in seeing how these changes affect the supply chain of components. I would figure it would be cheaper to just use the existing components with all features, instead of making a different one with 1 or 2 parts less. Maybe this is just how good manufacturers are now?

New comment by michelb in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

michelb — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:29:48 +0000

Simply scrolling through (or at least trying to) a large conversation in any of the Electron LLM apps would show many opportunities for performance that native can bring.

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

michelb — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:27:04 +0000

I have this issue as well on multiple Tahoe Macs. Opening a new Safari window is 500ms to 1000ms. Adding a tab is faster most of the times. But Safari frequently loses tabs turning them into a blank page without a URL. Searching in the passwords app talkes multiple seconds. This is on multiple macs with different icloud accounts even.

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

michelb — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:24:46 +0000

I'm at 100% after 128 cycles. You should go to an Apple Store.