Hacker News: nick_

New comment by nick_ in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

nick_ — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:24:30 +0000

A 15" MacBook Air with a 120Hz OLED would be perfect IMO.

New comment by nick_ in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

nick_ — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:23:42 +0000

Just as a counter-point, I have in fact said this since I first installed it in 2004.

Why does checking for software updates often take so long?

nick_ — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:45:59 +0000

It seems like a lot of the desktop software I use (including the OS) takes on the order of 10 seconds to check if an update is available.

What is happening that takes longer than network round-trip plus (a generous) 10ms to check for a higher version number?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065929

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by nick_ in "The Escalation of War in Ethiopia"

nick_ — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:04:01 +0000

Ethiopia was never colonized.

New comment by nick_ in "Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7"

nick_ — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:19:54 +0000

I'll gladly sell my soul first thing every morning in exchange for a laptop that lasts longer than two hours on battery, wifi/audio/webcam work after waking from sleep, and not needing to learn a complexity fractal of CLI commands to do basic things.

New comment by nick_ in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

nick_ — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:38:50 +0000

> I don't get how folks who hyperventilate about Trump being a threat to democracy can look at stuff like this and cheer.

It really stretches my imagination to the limit to see how your suspicion carries this move all the way to being comparable to what Trump has been doing.

New comment by nick_ in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

nick_ — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:03:12 +0000

AdGuard as well.

New comment by nick_ in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

nick_ — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:02:55 +0000

I use Dark Reader on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, but I've found Noir to be better on Safari.

New comment by nick_ in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

nick_ — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:58:13 +0000

Interesting. Bugs on mine were from using core apps, IIRC. I wonder if bugs manifest on some iPhone hardware versions? Or maybe even which iOS version the phone was upgrade from?

New comment by nick_ in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

nick_ — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:04:05 +0000

Are you exaggerating? I tried the latest beta about a month ago and experienced multiple bugs within half an hour. Had to downgrade back to 26.

New comment by nick_ in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

nick_ — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:16:13 +0000

I too feel the keyboard is broken but I haven't identified exactly what is broken about it.

New comment by nick_ in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

nick_ — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:24:37 +0000

*Privatized profit. The ~210mil € of public funding wasn't private. It is now I guess, lol.

EDIT: Title has been updated so my comment seems out of context.

New comment by nick_ in "Intrusive linked lists (2019)"

nick_ — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:39:02 +0000

Are the Rust devs not expanding the surface area of safe Rust over time? Just curious.

New comment by nick_ in "Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is"

nick_ — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:15:52 +0000

gpt-oss is about a year older than qwen 3.8 27b

New comment by nick_ in "Go 1.27"

nick_ — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:23:20 +0000

Nice additions to go.

I like to imagine that one day we'll have a language that launched with all the features languages eventually add. The whole ecosystem of packages would be built on them instead of a legacy of more primitive language feature sets.

New comment by nick_ in "The Psychology of Software Teams"

nick_ — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:32:00 +0000

My most recent manager was exactly like this.

New comment by nick_ in "Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me"

nick_ — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:44:14 +0000

I fully agree.

I think a major meta-problem with patterns is that the straight-forward ones get written about the most, and/or read about the most. Now we have tons of devs out there who pledge allegiance to some subset of whatever patterns they've come across. I wonder if that prevents/delays pattern transcendence to see the nuance.

New comment by nick_ in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

nick_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:30:17 +0000

Are you asking what A) the countries that meddle with US elections, and B) their relationship to the US, has to do with Israel, on this comment thread?

New comment by nick_ in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

nick_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:29:21 +0000

Does the UK or Japan engage in election meddling in the US?

New comment by nick_ in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

nick_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:43:46 +0000

Are North Korea and Russia "allies" of the US?