Hacker News: smugma

New comment by smugma in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

smugma — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:50:56 +0000

Short-lived. Down to flat now.

New comment by smugma in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

smugma — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:25:06 +0000

It appears up to 46 times.

New comment by smugma in "Epic Unhappy with New EU App Store Fee Structure"

smugma — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:19:38 +0000

Apple will charge: • 20% fee on alternative in-app payment options • 15% fee on links to make purchases outside apps • 5% Core Technology Commission on payments made in apps downloaded from alternative stores or the web

Epic Unhappy with New EU App Store Fee Structure

smugma — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:19:38 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/EpicNewsroom/status/2089787577062559951

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377486

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by smugma in "Anthropic revenue run rate tops $65B, source says"

smugma — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:17:02 +0000

"Anthropic is projecting 2028 revenue of roughly $190 billion to $200 billion"

A few months ago, people were decrying their May $47B MRR number as being gamed (up from $9B at end of 2025). That may be true but we're still seeing huge MoM gains and projections that they'll be held accountable to when then they go public.

Anthropic revenue run rate tops $65B, source says

smugma — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:17:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/anthropic-revenue-run-rate-tops-65-billion-source-says-2026-08-17/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351122

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by smugma in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

smugma — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:50:04 +0000

It's not that rare for games to offer a "remove ads" option for a few bucks. That model doesn't require a lot of extra "maintenance".

I think a few bucks for ad-free brings in more money for most developers, but that still pales in comparison to a recurring subscription model (or models where people keep spending in-app on consumables).

New comment by smugma in "Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection"

smugma — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:02:54 +0000

The author had fixed the bug. Had he cloned the repo, that bug would have not existed in the ripoff version, which points to the simplest explanation being that it was Claude, as the ripoff author said.

New comment by smugma in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

smugma — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:44:08 +0000

Unfortunately, I’ve seen MA ads for kids games on iPhone as well. Possibly not as bad but not great. It seems to be better than it was two years ago.

Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe

smugma — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:31:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/policy/966438/eu-google-android-ai-interoperability-search-data-dma

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009436

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

European Commission: Guidance to Google for AI Interoperability on Android

smugma — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:29:31 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/ec_google_guidance_android_ai_and_search_sharing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009400

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by smugma in "Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users"

smugma — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:37:45 +0000

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/apple-acquires-video-editi...

"MotionVFX, a Warsaw-based company"

New comment by smugma in "Show HN: 18 Words"

smugma — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:54:27 +0000

I’d prefer a timer, but when it runs out of time, you just don’t get credit for the word.

You click next and it goes to the next word.

I don’t want hints but I can see how others might want that. But you still don’t get credit for hints. Or it shows “x hints used”

Final score can show that you got the first N words in <30s (as it is now), and you can have other stats:

* Total number of consecutive words (even if over time)

* Total number of words

* total words <30 seconds

* Plus whatever hint based metrics you want

New comment by smugma in "Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T"

smugma — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:07:58 +0000

2017-2019… it sounds like maybe he did quit.

New comment by smugma in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

smugma — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:35:01 +0000

“This semester, probably because of the new evaluation system, 86 students signed up for the class"

"Of the 89 students who did the midterm exam, only 59 showed up for the final one. And of the 27 who did not show up"

59+27=86

Maybe the article was written with AI that doesn't check its math.

New comment by smugma in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

smugma — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:34:47 +0000

Tim Cook recently likened memory prices to a "hundred year flood." Looking here, it looks like 1988 was at least as bad, with prices going up 3X+ from $160/MB to $500/MB.

New comment by smugma in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

smugma — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:04:45 +0000

My wife changed carriers and for a day had lost her phone number. She was texting our son (who is in middle school) and his response was “prove it’s you”.

So digital native kids have learned to not trust people on the internet, don’t use your real name in an alias, etc.

“They were trained not to value privacy” is not what they are being taught in school.

New comment by smugma in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

smugma — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:55:18 +0000

Apple in China is a great book and shows how good China is on focusing on quality when that is the given objective.

New comment by smugma in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

smugma — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:48:37 +0000

> The players are not buying or selling the code.

Counter-point: many acquisitions are not for the code itself but for the engineers who designed and wrote the code. Acquihire is almost exclusively used to describe acquiring engineering talent that can… design systems and write code.

New comment by smugma in "Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M"

smugma — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:25:50 +0000

It was about the environment (response to wildfires). It’s just that shortly after it passed, the Supreme Court ruled that it applies to any project that needs government approval and subsequently became a NIMBY tool. CEQA + Prop 13 are the cocktail that are the center of almost all of California’s problems, which are fundamentally about housing.