Hacker News: smith7018

New comment by smith7018 in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

smith7018 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:59:02 +0000

Hmm, three spam comments posted within 9 minutes of each other. The accounts were created 15 minutes ago, 51 days ago, and 3 months ago.

Interesting.

Hopefully these aren't bots created by Z.AI because GLM doesn't need fake engagement.

New comment by smith7018 in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

smith7018 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:25:00 +0000

I know that someone got Gemma 4 E4B working with MLX [1] but I don't know much more than that.

1: https://github.com/bolyki01/localllm-gemma4-mlx

New comment by smith7018 in "AirPods Max 2"

smith7018 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:43:12 +0000

Apple added wired lossless audio last year when they moved to USB-C iirc

New comment by smith7018 in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

smith7018 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:38:18 +0000

I completely agree. The tech industry has long been overrun by people sacrificing morals for money and it's destroyed society and presumably the world. We've given people a free pass to work for companies we've all known are harming the fabric of society and look where it's gotten us. I'm sorry, I would rather be poor and switch careers if my only option was xAI and making image generation models that explicitly allow people to undress others. At X's scale, technology like that harms an unfathomable amount of people. I could never have that on my conscience. All so I could make more money than a job at another tech company? I'd rather work somewhere innocuous like Figma, Cloudflare, Notion, Jetbains, Linear, etc. Hell, if you only wanted to work for an AI company then at least go to Anthropic.

New comment by smith7018 in "MacBook Air with M5"

smith7018 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:54:54 +0000

Yeah, the rumor mill says the redesign will feature their C1X/C2(?) modem for the first time.

New comment by smith7018 in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

smith7018 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:27:16 +0000

Apple makes some of (if not) the best hardware around. It makes sense that some people would want to buy a Macbook Pro for its hardware and run their favorite OS on it.

New comment by smith7018 in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

smith7018 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:21:10 +0000

Sure, but I've never experienced a 20 minute wait with CC before. It was an architectural question but it would have taken a couple minutes with a definitive answer on 4.5.

New comment by smith7018 in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

smith7018 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:28:17 +0000

I just asked Opus 4.6 to debug a bug in my current changes and it went for 20 minutes before I interrupted it. Take that as you will.

New comment by smith7018 in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

smith7018 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:07:46 +0000

According the MacRumors, yes but they cant confirm if its only for the new AirTags yet:

"watchOS 26.2.1 is also coming, and it expands Precision Finding to the Apple Watch Series 9 and later, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later. We have not yet confirmed if this is for the new AirTag only or also works with the original model."

New comment by smith7018 in "Apple Creator Studio"

smith7018 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:03:30 +0000

If a students needs Logic Pro for 3 months for a class then they can get it (with the other apps) for $9 total ($6 if you count the free month). That makes more sense than a one time fee of $200. On the other hand, if you're planning to use the software for over a decade like yourself then $200 is very cheap.

New comment by smith7018 in "Apple Creator Studio"

smith7018 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:58:53 +0000

> and yet the suckers are going to be telling us that being made to buy stuff we don’t want or use is “more value”.

You're making up an individual to get mad at for no reason.

> The other thing that’s going to go away is purchasing only what you need

There is no proof of this. So you're making up a situation to get mad at for no reason.

> I want exactly one of these apps

Perfect, Apple lets you buy the one app you want for a reasonable price! So what's the issue?

New comment by smith7018 in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

smith7018 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:15:40 +0000

Is it circular, though? Is an AI company giving Disney $1B?

New comment by smith7018 in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

smith7018 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:24:13 +0000

Beyond Hacker News, I haven't seen anyone actively asking for AI features. People have been complaining about Siri for over a decade but it's not like users are turning against Apple because it isn't using an LLM (yet). Rather, it seems like users are increasingly wary of AI features being shoehorned into products they were already using.

New comment by smith7018 in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"

smith7018 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:17:18 +0000

Could you go into detail what you take, how much, and when? I could always use a little boost for my sleep!

New comment by smith7018 in "You are how you act"

smith7018 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:30:52 +0000

Meditation is also extremely useful for this. In breath-based meditation, you focus your mind on your breathing and try to eliminate thoughts. Obviously your mind gets bored and you begin to think of other things. Once you recognize that you're losing focus, you simply return to your breath. Over and over. Over time, you gain the ability to view your thoughts and emotions as easily disposable. It takes time but you can actually recognize that you're being affected by emotion, able to let go of thoughts, and be more present in the moment.

It's not hard; you just have to commit to it :)

New comment by smith7018 in "Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust"

smith7018 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:33:06 +0000

Most of their profits come from software or ecosystem lock ins. So while they do profit off of each Mac sold, if those sales don't translate to more iCloud subscriptions, app purchases, or iPhones then it really doesn't make financial sense for them. Even if they only had 3 people and a PM dedicated to Linux support, that's still roughly a million dollars a year for a nebulous promise of "slightly more hardware sales." It sucks but it's the reality of the situation.

New comment by smith7018 in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

smith7018 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:47:14 +0000

I'm personally failing to see how "welcoming everyone" directly correlates to a company neglecting polish and detail. A cynical read of your comment is that DEI-style programs are lowering standards when, in actuality, the issue most likely lies in poor management and a corporate structure that rewards buzzy work over polished work. I'm not saying that was your implication, by the way; just that "everything's bad because we allowed other people to join" is a slippery slope.

New comment by smith7018 in "Apple M5 chip"

smith7018 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:39:37 +0000

You should wait until next Fall if you don't really need to replace your M1 Max. Rumors say that Apple's going to redesign the Macbook Pros next year with an OLED screen.

New comment by smith7018 in "Sora 2"

smith7018 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:40:34 +0000

OpenAI needing something to show to investors to say "See, this is why we need $1T."

New comment by smith7018 in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

smith7018 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 18:20:01 +0000

Unrelated to the conversation at hand but a strange fun fact is that it's actually legal to drink while driving in Mississippi and the Virgin Islands.