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Apple's New Wireless Protocol: SPR AVS

vallode — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:23:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.patentlyapple.com/2025/09/how-apples-new-wireless-protocol-spr-avs-powers-their-spatial-ecosystem.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45277882

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New comment by vallode in "How I fixed my blog's performance issues by writing a new Jekyll plugin"

vallode — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:51:29 +0000

They are most likely referring to the overall size of the whole website including all generated HTML for posts, static content, styles etc.

New comment by vallode in "Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device"

vallode — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:34:22 +0000

Certain smartwatches offer a "pebble mode" feature like the Xiaomi band 9, you can get a keyring case for it and just attach it like that. I don't think it has automatic switching between exercise modes just tracking for steps etc.

New comment by vallode in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

vallode — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:44:57 +0000

A fan chiming in. I'm really happy someone someone is tackling this and it's looking good. One thing: can we get a demo instance just for initial snooping? A screenshot or two is fine but to get a feel for features it would be nice to have something (even heavily limited) we can just interact with?

New comment by vallode in "Why hasn't Whoop's success been replicated?"

vallode — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:52:03 +0000

Whoop targets a pretty solid demographic of people who seem to want an auxillary training coach (the app tells you when to go to sleep) and don't want a typical smartwatch experience.

I'm not sure where modern smartwatches stand in terms of accurate readings but if I remember correctly it is still a minefield of inaccuracies. A watch for 50 dollars will _probably_ not do as well at reading your vitals as a watch for 200-500 dollars. Given Whoop markets itself as backed by science and seems to take the lead in studies on accurate heart rate readings[1].

Couple the above with great marketing and a decent kit of software and you have a difficult champion to dethrone. Hardware is expensive, marketing is difficult, a good app is hard to make, and putting together all three at once _while_ fighting a niche market is a struggle!

While 30/month can be difficult to swallow for someone that runs or swims as a casual hobby, someone that already pays hundreds a month for equipment, coaching, gym memberships, can have an easier time justifying it.

[1]: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/16/6317

New comment by vallode in "The Era of Solopreneurs Is Here"

vallode — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 18:50:01 +0000

I'm not sure how I feel about the take on "disappearing pillars". I think that knowledge and expertise in the different "pillars" the author describes has become easier to access, reducing the moat around the individual pillars and allowing greater overlap between professions. So while you might not need a "sales team", you do need "sales knowledge". Cloud solutions are amazing until they are not and you need "infra knowledge" to understand where you are going wrong and to evaluate potential solutions.

I would argue that at a given size, scale, and growth you would find yourself looping back to the "original pillars".

The example of Neartail[1] competing with Shopify is a prime example of this. Shopify has a large market cap, shareholders demanding profits, a large quantity of paying customers. Neartail has none of these, it may have paying customers and it may have some potential in the future but it is currently all within the sphere of control of a few individuals.

Obviously a lot of what I'm saying is self-inflicted, you don't _have_ to grow endlessly but if you _do_ you need many decision makers and domain knowledge simply starts to reach limits for individuals (even when using AI).

New comment by vallode in "Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?"

vallode — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 18:46:32 +0000

The market for TODO list apps is 1 for every person in the world, everyone has a slightly different subjectivity and therefore has a slightly different optimal experience when it comes to TODO lists. Subjectivity is formed over time and through the course of events, therefore the market for TODO list apps is 1 for every person in the world for a given timeframe.

It's an obvious hyperbole but I think it stands to show that, in a similiar fashion, there is a reader (and by some aggregation readers plural) for everything you might think of writing.

How to get started with web development in 2025? What is ray-casting? How to emulate a piece of hardware in ? What I had for dinner tonight!

It may not be that everything is viral or a hit but you should find that most of the content you right will resonate with _someone_ and potentially help multiple _someones_.

Sometimes being satisfied with that 10-100 readers is all there is to it.

New comment by vallode in "Show HN: Marksmith – a GitHub-style Markdown editor for Ruby on Rails"

vallode — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:33:27 +0000

I've had good success teaching markdown to a fair few non-techie people. At the end of the day it better serves as a machine-readable middleground between a user-facing WYSIWYG (markdown-powered) editor and the server responding to it.

New comment by vallode in "Programming SDF animations of Rick and Morty"

vallode — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:20:22 +0000

Both the work done here and the quality of explanation, as well as the thoughtful challenges to the reader, are top notch. Thank you for sharing.

New comment by vallode in "Fake thinking and real thinking"

vallode — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:15:21 +0000

The difference here might be the rather huge gap between putting together a solid "blog post" and a solid "paper" on a subject. I agree these "types" of essays are difficult to challenge and given the sheer length of this post, it is also not accessible to _discuss_. I understand the desire to write about a topic extensively and how intimidating it might be to do so in a "scientific" way, this seems to be the middle ground. Maybe it's a seed for the author, or someone else, to develop further.

New comment by vallode in "Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space"

vallode — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 10:49:18 +0000

I believe the bounty is closed but they haven't announced the winner(s).

New comment by vallode in "Yellowish Nodules on a Man Consuming a Carnivore Diet"

vallode — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:55:30 +0000

The abstract mentions the patients cholesterol level is 1000mg/dL which is at least 4 times more than the "highly dangerous" bracket. Evidence seems to show that xanthelasma (the nodules seen on this person) can have a link to a higher risk of atherosclerosis, which is linked to high cholesterol in the first place. This will not be "asymptomatic" for ever.

New comment by vallode in "Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad"

vallode — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:11:43 +0000

For what it's worth, I have a bookmarklet with these contents:

  data:text/html,type here...

I use this _all_ the time for very quick note taking and writing that will later be copied elsewhere, think one to three sentences and then offload.

New comment by vallode in "Anthropic raising funding valuing it at $60B"

vallode — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:43:33 +0000

Do I understand correctly you chat wıth Claude as a form of social relief or are you talking about drinking beer and chatting with it about work/ideation etc. Either way, just curious!

On topic though, I wholeheartedly agree that this valuation seems rather... unrealistic. I do think "hype" is how we currently handle a lot of valuations, for the worse in my opinion.

New comment by vallode in "Types are a basic tool of software design (2018)"

vallode — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:19:16 +0000

I could not disagree more, but I am obviously open to it being a personal preference. I've spent months updating JavaScript codebases that are between 3 and 5 years old, most of them written with vanilla JavaScript. A _few_ of them were written with TypeScript at least partially and those files were the least mentally taxing to upgrade.

Some of the codebases had tests, a good chunk of which could (and were) eliminated simply by using TSC as part of the build process. I think allowing the compiler and tooling like prettier to make choices for you leaves more space for you to think about the problem, not the myriad of problems _around_ it.

New comment by vallode in "Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?"

vallode — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:35:38 +0000

I believe that Claude has been running JavaScript code for itself for a bit now[1]. I could have sworn it also runs Python code, but I cannot find any post concretely describing it. I've seen it "iterate" on code by itself a few times now, where it will run a script, maybe run into an error, and instantly re-write it to fix that error.

[1]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/analysis-tool

New comment by vallode in "Show HN: A tool to generate dragon names"

vallode — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:46:23 +0000

Not to be an angry old person shouting at clouds but what is this? Seemingly just AI slop in the form of a ChatGPT wrapper (confirmed via the POST request it makes with a prompt every time you hit "generate"). There are very popular [1] websites for generating themed names already. Ugh.

[1]: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/dragon-names.php

New comment by vallode in "I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections"

vallode — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:38:56 +0000

Looks like the website is built with Laravel[1] using Livewire[2] (Alpine JS on the front-end) and the UI library used is Flux[3].

[1]: https://laravel.com/

[2]: https://livewire.laravel.com/

[3]: https://fluxui.dev/

New comment by vallode in "Show HN: Replace "hub" by "ingest" in GitHub URLs for a prompt-friendly extract"

vallode — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:43:22 +0000

Agreed, missing opportunity to be able to change a url from github.com/cyclotruc/gitingest to gitingest.com/cyclotruc/gitingest and simply recieve the result as plain text. A very useful little tool nonetheless.

New comment by vallode in "Passport Photos"

vallode — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 05:42:25 +0000

It was fairly random, someone in my network had mentioned that Max was looking for people to take part in the project and I reached out. I was given a date and time slot and that was that.