<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: radley</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=radley</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:10:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=radley" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>First laptop was a Powerbook 100. First computer was Atari 800. Currently use an MX Master 4 mouse. I totally get the irony.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:54:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602557</link><dc:creator>radley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My iPad is mounted next to my Macs. I use it as a media player, checking deliveries, personal messages when I'm on my work laptop, and such. All of that is done via touch. When I need to flip over to my Mac to do the same thing, I have to use a 40 year old interface (a mouse).<p>It's not hard. I don't think we need to make everything touch-size on Mac. Small icons & buttons are perfectly fine in a production environment, and they're considered to be accessible. Just let us touch the screen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:58:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591885</link><dc:creator>radley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591885</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reevaluation postulates that the participants didn't deviate by mistake, but deliberately. The participant could have waited for the respondent to be in a state in which they could answer. (Reminder: the exercise was officially about answering questions, not enduring shocks).<p>Instead, most participants rushed through, most likely to end their own negative experience. Which is much more nuanced that "gosh, they told me to do it."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:08:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589512</link><dc:creator>radley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It just feels ancient and weird now that I can tap every screen I own, except my Mac. I don't want to replace the Mac's keyboard & mouse with a touchscreen, I would simply like it to support touch.<p>(This also made me realize the impending obsolescence of the Studio Monitor XDR: <i>no touch support</i>.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:06:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579705</link><dc:creator>radley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "Figma's MCP Update Reflects a Larger Industry Shift"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Figma has demonstrated that kind of aggressive lock-in many times. For example, they couldn't get enough companies to subscribe to FigJam and Slides, so they simply increased Figma's subscription price by that amount, and then said those apps are included for free.<p>BTW: that's usually illegal, but with the current administration, it's a Tuesday.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:19:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569700</link><dc:creator>radley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh, I completely agree. But they can get away with it because we depend on the platform more than the individual apps.<p>And yes, Tahoe is shiny hot garbage piled on top of so much broken software, just to push an effect trick. I'm not sure how I feel developing with SwiftUI when Apple clearly can't make it work for their own apps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:11:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569641</link><dc:creator>radley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "My MacBook Keyboard Is Broken and It's Insanely Expensive to Fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah, that timeframe is helpful to know. I had to replace the keyboard in my 2012 MBP twice, and was able to do it myself both times.<p>Since then, I always use keyboard skins.</p>
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<p>I've never worried about AppleCare for my Apple products, until this year when I signed up for AppleCare One. I bought a few new devices, including the Studio Monitor XDR. For the XDR alone it's worth it, since replacing the screen is a multi-$1k repair.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:15:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567406</link><dc:creator>radley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If you want a repairable machine, buy one. They exist. Others have already mentioned Framework<p>But that means Windows or Linux, not macOS. There's serious trade-offs that you're dismissing because you personally don't need macOS, but that's not the case for everyone.<p>#hn-bingo</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:06:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567316</link><dc:creator>radley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567316</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "Figma's MCP Update Reflects a Larger Industry Shift"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actually... their MCP reflects more than just supporting AI. It demonstrates the future of closed, walled garden MCPs.<p>While Figma advertises that their official MCP "can now write directly to your Figma files", in reality it is restricted to create and read (as in CRUD), but not update nor delete. Currently, there is only one option to edit/update using the Figma MCP and it requires going through a third-party service with its own subscription and tiny token allocations.<p>Meanwhile, several developers have figured out how to use Figma's <i>plug-in system</i> to work-around these limitations, for a more robust CRUD MCP solution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:02:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564953</link><dc:creator>radley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People will drink poor quality champagne after they've had one or two good glasses, so the analogy may be appropriate to modern software development.</p>
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<p>I agree. I always have to do it, except at the rare restaurants. Not just splinters, but rough edges too.</p>
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<p>I live in Oakland, and the Easy Bay has had its share of random outages without incident. The last outage was just a split-second blip, but it broke a $1k computer monitor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:39:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394974</link><dc:creator>radley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394974</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm pretty sure it comes down to radio vs interactive music licensing. A general radio license doesn't allow users to pick the track they want to hear. They only get a shuffled playback and face other limitations like "can't play an album all the way through". Interactive licensing allows users to pick exactly what they want, including playing full albums, but it's much more expensive per track.<p>It appears that Spotify's engines use a mix of these licenses to reduce costs. Since AI isn't explicitly user-made selections, it's quite possible that the AI playlist generator is limited to a radio license model for playback, simply to save money (considering the additional cost of providing AI).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:11:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388793</link><dc:creator>radley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>5x Max is the plan I use because the Pro plan limits out so quickly. I don't use Claude full-time, but I do need Claude Code, and I do prefer to use Opus for everything because it's focused and less chatty.</p>
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<p>> you still can't Sign in with Apple on the website.<p>Apple forces developers to offer <i>Sign in with Apple on iOS</i> devices if any other sign in service is used. Apple can't force them to do it on non-Apple platforms.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/bart-bay-area-san-francisco-transit.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/bart-bay-area-san-francisco-transit.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338149">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338149</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:00:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/bart-bay-area-san-francisco-transit.html</link><dc:creator>radley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338149</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radley in "Oil is near a price that hurts the economy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> it's hard to see how we ever would have been able to create the modern forms of renewable energy in the first place without fossil fuels as an intermediate technological phase.<p>That wasn't the point. It's clear that fossil fuels are a phase, one that can't last forever because they're finite. At some point they'll run out. But long before that can happens, we're more likely to transition away. Perhaps not completely, but to the point that they're something like whale oil.</p>
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<p>They did say M3, not M3 Pro. You're probably okay.<p>(Notice how they listed the M1 chips individually.)</p>
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<p>Didn't we go through this same kind of uncertainty with PCs, the internet, and smartphones? It's early and we're all noodling around.</p>
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