Hacker News: newman314

New comment by newman314 in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

newman314 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:30:26 +0000

I went from a 13 Pro to 17 Pro and the battery life has been great.

New comment by newman314 in "iPhone Duo"

newman314 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:25:33 +0000

You could do the leasing route if you upgrade every year. Might pinch less.

New comment by newman314 in "iPhone Duo"

newman314 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:24:11 +0000

I was quite surprised to see the under display camera. Wasn't expecting that.

Other than that, looks like there are some nice Duo specific features on iOS. $1999 is also surprising given that news outlets were reporting up to $2500. Plus it's price competitive with other foldables in the market.

New comment by newman314 in "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"

newman314 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:19:54 +0000

FWIW, it appears that using the gh cli is much more token efficient than MCP so that's a plus.

https://medium.com/@ravi.madabhushi/mcp-is-up-to-32-more-exp...

New comment by newman314 in "OpenPrinter"

newman314 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:32:25 +0000

Seems interesting but I would like a laser version of this. Not ever going back to inkjet.

New comment by newman314 in "LFM2.5-8B-A1B: An Even Better On-Device Mixture-of-Experts"

newman314 — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:05:48 +0000

I wonder if Apple will acquire them?

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/28/apple-to-make-on-device...

New comment by newman314 in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

newman314 — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:37:20 +0000

I do not think this is the right way. The right way would be for Apple to allow for a free Developer ID for distribution if the app is free and has no in-app purchases.

This provides IMO all-around goodwill while still adhering to good release practices.

New comment by newman314 in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

newman314 — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:59:21 +0000

FWIW, first two sections worked for Chrome on Windows.

New comment by newman314 in "A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)"

newman314 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:54:27 +0000

I wonder if this would port nicely over to rustybgp.

New comment by newman314 in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

newman314 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:49:30 +0000

Saw this in an another thread previously and immediately installed it.

I have a new prompt to test LLMs much like simonw's pelican test.

"What is 9:30am Taiwan time in US, Pacific?" For some reason, the answers are quite inconsistent but all wrong.

  ./apfel "what is 9:30am Taiwan time in US, Pacific?"
  Taiwan is 12 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM Taiwan time would be 9:30 PM Pacific Time.
  Taiwan is 13 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM in Taiwan is 10:30 PM in the Pacific Time Zone.
  Taiwan is in the China Standard Time (CST) zone, which is 12 hours ahead of the Pacific Standard Time (PST) zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM in Taiwan is 9:30 PM in the Pacific.
  Taiwan is typically 11 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM in Taiwan is 8:30 PM in the Pacific Time Zone.
  Taiwan is 13 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM in Taiwan is 10:30 PM the previous day in the Pacific Time Zone.

New comment by newman314 in "Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs"

newman314 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:56:49 +0000

One thing I discovered tonight is that it appears smaller models are remarkably bad at converting time between timezones.

I tested the following using almost all available models on Locally and did not get a single model that got the right answer.

"What is 9:30 am (Taiwan Standard Time, TST) in US Pacific?"

New comment by newman314 in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

newman314 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:02:39 +0000

This is quite interesting. I wonder if AFM is smart enough to do spam classification.

New comment by newman314 in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

newman314 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:19:03 +0000

I wonder if Comma.ai will ever be open to incorporating this into openpilot.

I always thought the argument that humans are adequate drivers and hence only cameras was not great. Why not actually be better than humans at sensing and driving?

Apple Confirms Revamped Siri Is Still Coming in 2026

newman314 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:38:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/12/siri-ios-26-launch-confirmed-apple/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997885

Points: 1

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New comment by newman314 in "Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again"

newman314 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:58:35 +0000

It appears that Gurman has been the one pumping the timeline. He's now clarified that Apple has only ever said 2026 with nothing beyond that.

New comment by newman314 in "Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home"

newman314 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 08:02:38 +0000

Nope but a cool project nonetheless

New comment by newman314 in "Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home"

newman314 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:18:53 +0000

You can use one of these to act as a local personal WWVB station amongst other things.

See https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus and https://github.com/GOTO-GOSUB/Txtempus-Passive-Antenna

US science after a year of Trump

newman314 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:18:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715908

Points: 12

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New comment by newman314 in "Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected"

newman314 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:26:40 +0000

There is no support for ed25519 host keys (confirmed using ssh-audit). Would be nice to have though.

As an aside, you should use ssh-audit to get recommendations for what to disable as far as less than ideal options/configs go.

New comment by newman314 in "Hacker conference installed a literal antivirus monitoring system"

newman314 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:15:13 +0000

Here is the CO2 monitor https://github.com/oseiler2/co2monitor