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New comment by tomaskafka in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

tomaskafka — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:51:50 +0000

Thanks, I'll revisit that - it definitely wasn't working like this when I needed this 10+ years ago.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

tomaskafka — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:49:42 +0000

Afaik these are all single target apps. I was talking about extensions, watchos companion apps ...

New comment by tomaskafka in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

tomaskafka — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:48:26 +0000

China also supports and helps maintain North Korea, and has ties with Iran.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

tomaskafka — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:36:44 +0000

Sounds like something DARPA would be working on right now.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

tomaskafka — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:27:56 +0000

This. More people should read Simon Wardley.

Also China's silent but powerful support of Russia and its invasion.

New comment by tomaskafka in "How to build a circular LCD clock"

tomaskafka — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:59:01 +0000

Dude is literally showing the Pebble watchfaces in a screenshot (64 kB limit for both code and data).

New comment by tomaskafka in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

tomaskafka — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:55:45 +0000

Being Apple’s model, it will support like 8 languages and leave the rest hanging for 10 years, just like Apple impotently ignored 10 or 20 million countries even with basic “just download open dictionary and run a deploy script” keyboard autocomplete.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

tomaskafka — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:36:07 +0000

I find it hard to believe xcodegen is in a state where it would reliably generate xcodeproj for all edge states (widgets, watchos app, notification extensions …) - it certainly wasn’t when I last tried it for Weathergraph few years ago.

That said, it might be well enough for simpler apps.

New comment by tomaskafka in "How to hide from killer drones"

tomaskafka — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:25:46 +0000

Because otherwise the opponent absolutist regime would be the only one to wield the tech.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

tomaskafka — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:10:11 +0000

The remote access story for macOS is absolute sadness, without Jump Desktop there would be zero performant ways to access that “system under my control”.

And all of that because Tim Apple fears any feature that could mean people could have less than one iDevice per person.

Apple's AWDL causing periodic 90ms ping on LAN

tomaskafka — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:40:39 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/tomaskafka/status/2074963014596366670

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837782

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New comment by tomaskafka in "New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]"

tomaskafka — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:28:23 +0000

Today I saw a demo of Remarkable turned into Voldemort's diary from Harry Potter - you write to it, and it writes back, in handwriting.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe"

tomaskafka — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:58:28 +0000

We could probably redirect budget for next gen particle accelerator to building an experimental platform orbiting the black hole, and get better results, right?

New comment by tomaskafka in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

tomaskafka — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:28:00 +0000

I asked Claude to visualize 1M proposed SpaceX satellites in the night sky: https://static.tomaskafka.com/prototypes/1m-starlinks/

New comment by tomaskafka in "Free the Icons"

tomaskafka — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:23:06 +0000

Also imo touchscreen Mac tap targets. Sigh.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)"

tomaskafka — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:35:46 +0000

It is highly likely the 50k undocumented immigrants aren't "a drag on the economy" but "people increasing margins of business by being exploited in almost slave-like fashion, and doing the work you don't want your kids to do".

New comment by tomaskafka in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

tomaskafka — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:07:16 +0000

Yes. The PM’s “with AI I know enough to be dangerous, haha” means “I’m actually dangerous and I don’t realize”

New comment by tomaskafka in "Om Malik has died"

tomaskafka — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:41:53 +0000

I paused to read whenever a new Om’s essay popped up in the RSS feed; for me, Om was an uniquely observant voice of tech, who never compromised and always looked at the world from a human perspective.

This has been one of my favorite ones, reminding us to simply remain human in the face of incentive systems pushing us away from that goal: https://om.co/2026/04/08/banksy-satoshi-the-unmasking-impuls...

Om was attentive to details and generous to share - when he discovered my weather app (https://x.com/om/status/1579948290745176064), he was so kind as to write a whole article about it, without me asking for it in any way: https://om.co/2022/10/11/weathergraph/

I was so proud to be able to send Om a lifetime license. I wish he had gotten several more decades of use out of it.

Thank you, Om!

New comment by tomaskafka in "I built a GPU back end for Emacs"

tomaskafka — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:21:10 +0000

"That was the moment the architecture stopped being a promise and became a fact."

The post is AI generated as well, right?

New comment by tomaskafka in "Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs"

tomaskafka — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:36:39 +0000

Nice homage to MiniPCs - I have a fanless N150 box with usb-c HDD as a carefree NAS/docker host for years.