<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nxc18</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nxc18</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:54:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nxc18" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nxc18 in "AirPods 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had the exact same issue with it suddenly amplifying bass (my air conditioner and motor vehicles being big triggers) on my AirPods Pro 3, and the memory foam eartips did actually fix it. Kind of a surprising result.<p>I hesitate to share an Amazon link but it might help rescue your investment if you still have them: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0G16F5VVP" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0G16F5VVP</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:58:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645922</link><dc:creator>nxc18</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nxc18 in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Try $12,000 for that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:51:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49634931</link><dc:creator>nxc18</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49634931</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49634931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nxc18 in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Android version is useless though, TBD if Apple can do better.<p><a href="https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:44:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49634845</link><dc:creator>nxc18</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49634845</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49634845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nxc18 in "iPhone Duo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple sold plenty of minis. It just wasn’t a blockbuster. They also didn’t sell many pluses. They also didn’t sell many Airs.<p>For context, Apple sold 6 million minis, most Android manufacturers (other than Samsung and Google) can only dream of that volume.<p>Apple can do it, they just choose not to. It’s not like AVP is a roaring sales success.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:38:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631613</link><dc:creator>nxc18</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nxc18 in "AirPods 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you tried replacing your eartips? I find that radically improves performance - I think they must either get clogged or brittle in a way that causes problems.<p>Cheap foam eartips from Amazon are even better than stock for my AirPods Pro but they need to be replaced more often.</p>
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<p>Even if they’re just matching battery life while adding frequent HRV readings, they’ve made a big advancement. Frequent HRV is a requirement to be a WHOOP/Garmin competitor.<p>Previous Apple Watch can do it if you tell it you have afib, but that hurts battery life.<p>FWIW I have told it I have afib. I used to have problems with battery life, but I find the Series 11 can finally last all day and overnight with always on display+afib/HRV monitoring; and it charges fast enough I can get close to 100% in the shower, meaning it effectively does not have battery issues.</p>
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<p>I see a ton of AI generated images and descriptions on DoorDash. I get the sense the restaurant is not doing it themselves, I’m not sure if they have any control over disabling it or perhaps they are opting in.</p>
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<p>No, no, no. Guise. You’ve got it all wrong. Microsoft cares about Windows and its customers again. Don’t trust your lying eyes.<p>It’s a big initiative and you know Microsoft is always serious about those.<p><a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/what-is-windows-k2-everything-you-need-to-know-saving-windows-11" rel="nofollow">https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/what-is-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:40:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600235</link><dc:creator>nxc18</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nxc18 in "Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Please don't post shallow dismissals<p>I’ll point out you also violate this guideline.<p>Do you seriously read the article and not see that it is extremely low signal-to-noise? And full of non-sequiturs and strange unnecessary clarifications? And passed off as a research project.<p>“Claude, write an article about why agents use grep instead of LSP”<p>This would have saved everyone the pain of reading this.<p>As another user pointed out: “Training support is a hypothesis consistent with these results, not something this study proves.” is not a sentence a human would write, nor is it a sentence that a human should ever be made to read. I apologize for reproducing it; the article is chock full of these “gems”.</p>
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<p>It is astonishing how easy it is to see the AI hand at work in the writing. Really, it is almost impossible not to see. I don’t get how these people feel it is appropriate to pass off slop like this and not even bother to edit it.<p>Just painful to read.</p>
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<p>Americans don’t like this, isn’t rubbing their face in the stupidity they elected the opposite of coddling fascism?<p>Noting that they actually do also coddle fascism, but in this case I’m not sure they’re doing Trump any favors.<p>If they wanted to do him a favor, they’d come up with a reason to wait until after the midterms to update.<p>Please don’t forget the American people voted (either actively or by default) for this.</p>
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<p>Why do you think that? We’ve had this exact problem since the GPT3 moment and it has not improved at all. Not even a little, unlike agentic coding. Why do we expect a horizontal line to suddenly go exponential?<p>Also, it seems that writing encodes far more information about personality and mental state of the writer than it seems at first glance. A key problem is that machine-generated writing does not have this, it is obvious that it doesn’t have this, and there is no path towards fixing it.</p>
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<p>I’m sorry you had a bad experience.<p>The monorepo I work in has 2-5x as large (depending on how you count) and I don’t see crashes or major performance issues. Even when bloated with plugins (testing, GitHub PRs, formatters, copilot, vim emulation, codelens turned on, etc). And I have an older presumably slower Mac.<p>I wonder what the difference is.</p>
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<p>What counts as large? There can be some perf issues if you don’t exclude node_modules and build outputs from search, but I’ve never seen it crash.</p>
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<p>If you work on web tech (and who doesn’t these days?) VS Code has the advantage of using the same tech stack you’re already familiar with. If you need to debug a problem, just open devtools. If you want to run a performance profile, do the same. If you want to fix a bug in the extension you’re using, just open a PR and fix it.<p>It is a very flexible system and still quite fast and easy to configure. I’ve been trying Zed and WebStorm looking for better alternatives, but it turns out they have their own problems. Zed isn’t nearly as configurable, WebStorm’s config system is an absolute nightmare (xml for days - and constantly changing, mingling actual config with transient state).<p>People complain that VS Code is slow; perhaps on some metrics and perhaps it is slower than a much less featured system like sublime. But I don’t think it is meaningfully slower in practice than Zed, and they make a lot of compromises to get that edge.</p>
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<p>Randomly the new tab page stops working. And when the new tab page stops working, all browsing activity stops working until I restart the app. I think the pages load, but I can’t actually see them because it is hidden by the new tab page.<p>Also sometimes tabs disappear from the tab picker, which makes tab management confusing.</p>
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<p>I think the real problem is we don’t have a native-quality UX toolkit on the web - the built in controls are just horrible. So every app has to reinvent the wheel from scratch, or use one of a few hundred (thousand) web component libraries that have all also had to reinvent the wheel from scratch (I guess a div and some text rendering isn’t scratch per se but you get my point)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442433</link><dc:creator>nxc18</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nxc18 in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Portland put out portable toilets during the pandemic. They had big signs on them about how toilet access was a human right, or something like that.<p>One by one, they were all burned down. Homeless people seem to be really good at destroying stuff. My apartment building is taking on new low income tenants and the rate of fires - with sprinkler activation - is boggling. The public park I walk by often is losing a little bit more greenery to homeless fires every few months, but I’m still saddened by the loss of a large, beautiful tree - torched by a camper.<p>The problem isn’t removing public resources, it’s keeping them in working order against a persistent opponent.</p>
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<p>Everyone who is buying into RSI/AGI hype. That hype is the only thing sustaining this investment cycle. The bubble will pop as soon as people realize “AI” is a normal technology.</p>
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<p>Two different audiences. Unfortunately for them, messages cross streams. I think it is a good message if you’re trying to scare people into giving you money (or else they lose out on unlimited profits down the road).</p>
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