Hacker News: notfried

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

notfried — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:10:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-groundbreaking-macbook-pro-with-proled-xdr-display/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276928

Points: 19

# Comments: 3

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

notfried — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:46:53 +0000

Article URL: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274565

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Apple Announces iMac with M6

notfried — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:03:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-new-imac-with-m6/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258557

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New iMac with M6

notfried — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:02:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/imac/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258538

Points: 373

# Comments: 484

MacBook Pro with M6

notfried — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:01:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258529

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by notfried in "Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce"

notfried — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:59:22 +0000

That bureaucracy is there for a reason, you often need bureaucracy to serve bureaucracy. About 85% of Microsoft's revenue comes from B2B/Enterprise/Governments. From their latest fiscal year report [1], the top 4 revenue groups were:

Server products & cloud services (39% of revenue) M365 Commercial products & cloud services, excludes Consumer (30.7%) Xbox / Gaming (6.6%) LinkedIn (6%)

[1] https://app.edgar.tools/companies/MSFT/disclosures/segments

The "canal" in the Amazon that breaks the rules

notfried — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:06:55 +0000

Article URL: https://signoregalilei.com/2026/10/25/the-canal-in-the-amazon-that-breaks-the-rules/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238986

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by notfried in "Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case"

notfried — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:20:18 +0000

Meta will surely appeal, and will likely get the fine reduced to like 10% of that. But for comparison, in the recent multistate settlement over social media addiction by 47 states for $17 billion, there was a provision in that settlement to get $459 million [1] in exchange for releasing Meta from any state claims related to Cambridge Analytica. So those 47 states got $459 million for what New Mexico will likely get a few billion for.

[1] https://www.techpolicy.press/the-459-million-cambridge-analy...

Mistral Advances AI for Engineering with Nvidia

notfried — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:24:08 +0000

Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-nvidia-ai-for-industrial-engineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179724

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Scope: Open-source evaluation for AI coding agents

notfried — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:57:44 +0000

Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/10/19/introducing-scope-open-source-evaluation-for-ai-coding-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50157945

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Who Owns the Machines?

notfried — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:45:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-10-15-who-owns-the-machines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140211

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

We're Missing a Kind of Asteroid

notfried — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:00:08 +0000

Article URL: https://signoregalilei.com/2026/10/11/were-missing-an-entire-kind-of-asteroid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135960

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by notfried in "David Rudnick on "borderline impossible" process of designing Arsenal typeface"

notfried — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:05:58 +0000

MyFonts (I'm not affiliated to it) has a visual search for fonts, and searching for this design yields 94 results that are not identical but collectively share the same patterns. Now, fonts are horrible when it comes to licensing. Like, in this case, a font I picked has a 2M page view limit per month and you pay $660/year for that highest tier, so I get why a company would find a custom font a reasonable decision, visually and/or financially. But 4.5 years is absurd.

New comment by notfried in "Apple HomeView"

notfried — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:04:22 +0000

It makes sense they'd eventually do that. The Apple TV didn't launch with an App Store, and it took 8 years after its first generation to get an App Store! I'd guess Apple sees that most apps wouldn't make sense for the HomeView, and they'll likely restrict what categories of apps can launch on it.

New comment by notfried in "Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?"

notfried — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:00:46 +0000

No one with real money or power wants to cross OpenAI or Anthropic just yet. It's a closed ecosystem. OpenAI hacks HuggingFace, Nvidia soon after buys HuggingFace while it also before backed OpenAI. In the end, they just handle it all behind closed doors like family business.

New comment by notfried in "I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around"

notfried — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:57:05 +0000

I saw the landing page and I was like, "no way, Claude built that in real-time? Incredible." And then it loaded and it looked like a videogame from the 1990s. Pretty impressive for AI to have built it , and for something like that to run in the browser, but it's so clunky and ugly that I couldn't try it for more than a few seconds.

I hate it when products promise something so breathtaking in posters or trailers that is utterly detached from how the products looks or works. I might have tried it longer had that landing page not set this high of an expectation.

Overselling a product may getting you a higher conversion rate up to a point, but it will only hurt you and crater the rest of the funnel.

New comment by notfried in "ChatGPT Pro 500"

notfried — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:10:38 +0000

They also said this in the email announcement I got:

> As a thank you for being an existing subscriber and to help you continue to build your most ambitious ideas and transition, we’re also giving you a one-time grant of 62,500 usage credits (a $2,500 USD value). You’ll see these appear in Settings > Usage. They will expire on December 31, 2026, and use of the credits is governed by the Service Credit Terms.

I have no idea how much 62,500 usage credits are. Given the value they suggest I feel it's like one extra week of usage.

I Have a Fetish for Rounded Corners

notfried — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:29:54 +0000

Article URL: https://elnahla.com/i-have-fetish-for-rounded-corners/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883928

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

AI Abundance Requires a 4-Hour Workweek

notfried — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:54:47 +0000

Article URL: https://elnahla.com/4-hour-workweek/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49808710

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Burnout by the Kindness of Agents

notfried — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:35:13 +0000

Article URL: https://elnahla.com/burnout-by-the-kindness-of-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726006

Points: 2

# Comments: 1