Hacker News: phillco

New comment by phillco in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

phillco — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:04:55 +0000

I think the random capitalization problem has gotten much better in iOS 26, or one of its minor releases (I recall in the 26.0 beta it was still there). I would have sworn before they would never fix it…

The streaming dictation they also added in that release is also much appreciated although occasionally buggy.

How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment

phillco — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:30:54 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458678

Points: 2

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New comment by phillco in "macOS Icon History"

phillco — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 21:03:58 +0000

Most people think of the brushed metal, but I've always liked the iTunes 10 dalliance with vertical window controls as a good example of this.

New comment by phillco in "O3 Turns Pro"

phillco — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:19:12 +0000

Do you have any specific tooling for querying all three at once beyond just copy paste?

New comment by phillco in "From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you.""

phillco — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:37:18 +0000

The idea of any official Apple presentation today beginning with a humorous rendition of _God Save the Queen_ is so absurd I can't help but smile at what we've lost.

New comment by phillco in "Apple M3 Ultra"

phillco — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:14:41 +0000

Don't forget CI/CD farms for iOS builds, although I think it's much more cost effective to just make Minis or Studios work, despite their nonstandard formfactor

New comment by phillco in "Query Apple's FindMy network with Python"

phillco — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:18:43 +0000

Even within Apple's platforms, there's pretty limited support for automation -- you can say "Siri find my keys" but there's no App Intents / Shortcuts support for automating anything within Find My (AFAIK), which is a bit disappointing.

New comment by phillco in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"

phillco — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 03:27:52 +0000

I was thinking their version might be making the Apple logo itself t beinghe [overly] touch sensitive power button, like the Cube.

New comment by phillco in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"

phillco — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 03:06:17 +0000

I believe build-to-order upgrades are also discounted, so it may not be a fixed discount.

New comment by phillco in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"

phillco — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 23:00:32 +0000

After buying one, I actually like it. I know exactly where it is, and can reach for it by feel more easily; I could never tell you whether the power button was on the left or right side of the old Mini/Studio without checking each time.

It's also larger, more satisfying tactile/clicky, and concave compared to the old button (which was rounded into the outside curve, not particularly be satisfying to press). I think the old one being so small and indistinct feeling, and also being so close to the cables meant you would never try to reach for it blindly. You do have to lift it up a bit, but the device is so light you can do that with the same finger you're using to push the button (of course you need another finger to push the top of the mini _down_).

I think neither old nor new button were really meant to be used more than occasionally, since you typically wake your Mac from the keyboard, and both designs reflect that. I do sympathize that the new version could be less flexible in different mounting positions though.

(that said, I'd bet Jobs/Ive Apple would never have shipped this, unless the height underneath was exactly perfect for even the larger fingers to fit)

New comment by phillco in "New iMac with M4"

phillco — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:09:52 +0000

There are Thunderbolt 4 KVMs now (can't speak to any myself, but they exist!). DSC will give you quite a bit of spare bandwidth with the Studio Display.

New comment by phillco in "New iMac with M4"

phillco — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:54:49 +0000

Incidentally, it was observed that the new iMac can support an external 8K 120Hz display: https://x.com/vadimyuryev/status/1850929080281321899

New comment by phillco in "Riven"

phillco — Sun, 19 May 2024 21:06:24 +0000

Day9 / Mostly Walking's is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_TqymY5fCU

I agree it's tricky to find the balance of a truly blind playthrough, sans hints, and one that's also enjoyable to watch because the inferences are made reasonably quickly.

New comment by phillco in "Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor"

phillco — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:43:32 +0000

> when the Bakers ran Dragon Systems

For those who don't know what happened next, and why Dragon seem to stagnant so much in the aughts, the story about how Goldman Sachs helped them sell to essentially Belgian Enron, months before they collapsed, was quite illuminating to me, and sad.

https://archive.ph/Zck6i

New comment by phillco in "Git tips and tricks"

phillco — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:03:10 +0000

Julia Evans wrote a nice blog post about this recently, in that sometimes it's helpful to think commits as snapshots and sometimes as diffs.

https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/01/05/do-we-think-of-git-commits-a...

I guess while it's true the storage layer is snapshot based, as you say, that only gets you so far conceptually, and it's probably best to focus on the _operation_ you're doing, as rebase, cherry-pick, apply-patch, etc are easier to think in terms of diffs.

When I used to use Phabricator, the fact that I could always fall back to handing it a raw patch file to submit changes also made it easier to reason about (regardless of what the server and client were actually doing).

New comment by phillco in "Changes we're making to Google Assistant"

phillco — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 02:56:07 +0000

I just discovered this today, but if you whisper to your Echo, it will skip all of the "by the way" BS (it will also reply in a whisper, which is kind of creepy, but you win some, you lose some).

New comment by phillco in "Carta CEO's response to the unsolicited outreach to their customers' investors"

phillco — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 04:22:20 +0000

This Medium post by the same CEO a few months ago (https://henrysward.medium.com/what-i-tell-employees-about-ne...), presumably written in response to a few ongoing scandals, isn't much better.

New comment by phillco in "macOS Sonoma Boot Failures"

phillco — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:29:54 +0000

I've used a Thunderbolt cable as well successfully, but one note is that they're very picky about which port you use. On my Mac mini, I had to use the exact port outlined here or it did not show up: https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-configurator-mac/reviv...

New comment by phillco in "The History of Cover Flow"

phillco — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 22:10:56 +0000

Funnily enough (re GP), apparently Stage Manager was actually originally prototyped in the OS X days (2006). https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/stage-manager-was-a-thi...

Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code [video]

phillco — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:39:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcUJnmBqHTY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873296

Points: 7

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