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New comment by ricw in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

ricw — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:49:05 +0000

But how? In the states you can’t even take legal action but are forced into arbitration?

New comment by ricw in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

ricw — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:24:34 +0000

Munich is a bad example - they were effectively „bought out“ by Microsoft by investing hugely into the local economy in the form of offices and employees. It was also two parties that kept flip flopping with different priorities. Linux itself had some hiccups but was fine from what I recall.

New comment by ricw in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"

ricw — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:19:43 +0000

Had similar thoughts until googling what the cheapest Chromebook on Amazon costs: $139.

I’d still get a Neo and for students it’s probably the right choice - chromebooks are just a browsers after all.

But pricing wise this laptop is a decade too late. The netbook of the day (chromebooks?) are just unbelievably cheap. Apple will still sell millions of these and keep on eating up market share.

New comment by ricw in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

ricw — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:27:05 +0000

Tidewave.ai does exactly that. It’s made Claude code so much more functional. It provides mcp servers to

- search all your code efficiently - search all documentation for libraries - access your database and get real data samples (not just abstract data types) - allows you to select design components from your figma project and implements them for you - allows Claude to see what is rendered in the browser

It’s basically the ide for your LLM client. It really closes the loop and has made Claude and myself so much more productive. Highly recommended and cheap at $10/month

Ps: my personal opinion. I have Zero affiliation with them

New comment by ricw in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

ricw — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:37:44 +0000

They do bin their chips. Across the range (A- and M-series) they have the same chip with fewer / disabled cpu and gpu cores. You pray a premium for ones with more cores. Unsure about the chip frequencies - Apple doesn’t disclose those openly from what I know.

New comment by ricw in "Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale"

ricw — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:59:46 +0000

All in one of course. That’s the biggest advantage. And why postgres is great - it covers virtually all standard use cases.

New comment by ricw in "Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale"

ricw — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:58:21 +0000

Depends on the query and I don’t have exact numbers of the top of my head, but we’re talking low 100ms range for something pgvector itself wasn’t able to handle in a reasonable amount of time.

New comment by ricw in "Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale"

ricw — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:03:25 +0000

I’ve been using this since early this year and it’s been great. It was what convinced me to just stick to Postgres rather than using a dedicated vector db.

Only working with 100m or so vectors, but for that it does the job.

New comment by ricw in "The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop"

ricw — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:28:13 +0000

Apple probably wouldn’t have changed to usbc for their phones. Lightning was a mobile phone / other development, whilst usbc and its contributions came from their Mac department.

They did not like each others standards. I know Apple engineers working on the phone who dislike the change even up to this day…

New comment by ricw in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"

ricw — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:06:59 +0000

Truetax | Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Elixir/Phoenix LiveView | San Francisco (Hybrid) or REMOTE (US) | Full-time

Truetax builds software to streamline government tax administration and make society more equitable. We're working with state and local governments to modernize their tax systems using GenAI agents and workflow automation.

We're looking for a Senior/Staff engineer who can ship fast while maintaining quality. You'll work directly with our co-founders (experienced entrepreneurs with multiple venture-backed exits) to design and build cutting-edge GenAI-powered systems.

If you're curious, self-motivated, and energized by complex government workflows, we'd love to hear from you.

For full details and to apply please visit: https://wellfound.com/l/2BLYjJ

New comment by ricw in "Apple M5 chip"

ricw — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:17:49 +0000

The beta has been accessible to the public including the electron devs for 2+ months.

New comment by ricw in "Qualcomm to acquire Arduino"

ricw — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:54:48 +0000

Curious what the better frameworks are these days? Are they tied to specific hardware like arduino was? And what language do they use?

New comment by ricw in "TikTok 'directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks'"

ricw — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:39:46 +0000

Instagram is the same. Had to install it for a dev project and it was disgusting. Social media just can’t be trusted.

New comment by ricw in "AI is ushering in a 'tiny team' era"

ricw — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 23:05:38 +0000

Just do both? Need an adequate network for that though which new school ai vibe entrepreneurs might lack…

New comment by ricw in "LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or deathblow?"

ricw — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:54:56 +0000

I've been using elixir / phoenix / liveview for a year now, basically since LLM coding has been a thing and it's been transformative. The usual "getting started" problems were so diminished that i feel like i hardly missed a beat. The usual "this won't compile / how do i do this in a new unknown language" issues that previously could have taken hours to resolve were basically gone. My LLM pair programmer just took care of it. Coming from python / django / cue, it's a breath of fresh air. It's so much easier as all the paradigms come built in with the stack (async workers, etc). The elixir / erlang library is surprisingly complete.

With regards to producing code, it seems to be doing very well. The most impressive thing it did for me was a PDF OCR from scratch using google cloud. All i had to do was plug in my credentials, hook up the code and it just worked. Magic.

Highly recommended.

New comment by ricw in "Web search on the Anthropic API"

ricw — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:32:50 +0000

No reference here but found this out the hard way too. Google search Ali is Utterly useless in fact and entirely different search results vs using the web. Bing is better. Haven’t tried ksgi yet

New comment by ricw in "Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O"

ricw — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:21:53 +0000

The question should be the other way around: why mongodb? It’s not ACID compliant so has major down sides…

New comment by ricw in "Heat stress mitigation by trees and shelters at bus stops"

ricw — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:19:26 +0000

It’s actually much more that the ozone layer, which filters uv, is much thinner than it was even 60-70 years ago. The ozone layer might be growing again, but at a very slow pace.

Simple fact is, we’re much more exposed to uv than prior generations.

New comment by ricw in "Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have been greatly exaggerated"

ricw — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:04:07 +0000

That’s entirely unfounded. There are more than 100 daily flights between the Bay Area and LA metro.

That’s ridiculously high demand.

https://simpleflying.com/san-francisco-los-angeles-flight-ma...

Apple Supplier TSMC May Operate Intel's Chipmaking Facilities

ricw — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 13:23:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/03/intel-tsmc-preliminary-agreement/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601275

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