Hacker News: saagarjha

New comment by saagarjha in "Why does paper fold so well?"

saagarjha — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:43:31 +0000

I'm a fan of tearing paper along a crease rather than cutting it for this reason, since the tear is straight and using scissors will invariably be all over the place.

New comment by saagarjha in "Apple Foundation Models"

saagarjha — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:41:01 +0000

Notably good models are not on that list.

New comment by saagarjha in "Restartable Sequences"

saagarjha — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:16:48 +0000

I don't think people will appreciate a loader that downloads a new, updated binary

New comment by saagarjha in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

saagarjha — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:36:51 +0000

None of those matter for compute

New comment by saagarjha in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

saagarjha — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:37:49 +0000

Firmware blobs for…what? It doesn’t matter if the camera or fingerprint sensor is working if you’ve harvested the motherboard.

New comment by saagarjha in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

saagarjha — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:04:32 +0000

Interesting that this is published under the MIT, rather than Apple’s more favorite Apache 2, license

New comment by saagarjha in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

saagarjha — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:03:19 +0000

I mean they’re doing both

New comment by saagarjha in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"

saagarjha — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:57:37 +0000

Where did you see that?

New comment by saagarjha in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

saagarjha — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:52:34 +0000

There are plenty of people looking, not just the Asahi people.

New comment by saagarjha in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

saagarjha — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:50:50 +0000

Secure Enclave is a completely different core, I don't understand why you are conflating it with TrustZone

New comment by saagarjha in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

saagarjha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:31:22 +0000

I have a moderate prescription so putting on Vision Pro improves my vision compared to unaided eyesight ;) It would definitely not prefer it to my Studio Display but it does the job when I don't have it.

New comment by saagarjha in "Apple WWDC 2026"

saagarjha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:28:38 +0000

Did it install?

New comment by saagarjha in "Apple WWDC 2026"

saagarjha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:20:36 +0000

No, they did it because it would cut out missteps and mistakes.

New comment by saagarjha in "Apple WWDC 2026"

saagarjha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:13:56 +0000

That's how people speak in presentations. If you talked like that in normal conversation you'd very quickly get odd looks.

New comment by saagarjha in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

saagarjha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:10:05 +0000

It's not.

New comment by saagarjha in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

saagarjha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:08:37 +0000

How are security researchers going to have access to the Nvidia GPUs that will be running this?

New comment by saagarjha in "Siri AI"

saagarjha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:04:13 +0000

Apple continually lies to the EU and the public about their DMA compliance efforts. Is that specific enough?

New comment by saagarjha in "Siri AI"

saagarjha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:00:55 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_speed_limit#Germany

New comment by saagarjha in "Siri AI"

saagarjha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:41:54 +0000

I can't read the whole thing but Apple has been building a knowledge graph for years already. Look up their efforts for proactive Siri, Duet, etc.

New comment by saagarjha in "The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++"

saagarjha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:35:47 +0000

Padding bytes are initialized to zero if you zero initialize the aggregate. It is hard to keep those bytes as zero but at initialization this much is guaranteed.