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New comment by xenonite in "AirPods 5"

xenonite — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:49:09 +0000

An iPhone is not sufficient. I had a perfectly working Find My with the AirPods Pro 1&2. I just bought the newest AirPods Pro 3 and they can’t be found with the iPhone unless I upgrade to the newest operating system. Fair enough they advertise a higher precision. But they don’t write that even for the previous low precision, you need now the newest operating system.

New comment by xenonite in "Smolts: A pedagogical IDE for a teaching language"

xenonite — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:59:58 +0000

The go-back debugger is great, I am providing this in my educational Python IDE here: https://primopy.com

New comment by xenonite in "My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”"

xenonite — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:38:38 +0000

Great idea! Would be interesting to see the raw SVG sources too, not only the renderings.

New comment by xenonite in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

xenonite — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:45:42 +0000

With my M1 MBA, I am still on macOS 15. To compile it, just remove the two lines with

  opts.languageVersion = .version4_0

or surround them with

  if #available(macOS 26.0, *) {
    opts.languageVersion = .version4_0
  }

You'll miss out on a prefill speedup of 2.4x (as it yields 11.24x faster attention), according to the git comments, but it works. (On the 8-GPU-core MBA M1, I get 5-6 tok/s.)

New comment by xenonite in "Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins"

xenonite — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:53:07 +0000

Yes see Dr Nehls for this.

and keto, beginning with MCT oil

New comment by xenonite in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

xenonite — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:15:39 +0000

No it isn’t racism as Germans had the same skin color. Keep in mind that Germans aren’t stereotypical anymore.

In Switzerland live over 41% migrants and children of migrants (just 8.4%). So the native Swiss are not just “surrounded” but greatly diminished.

New comment by xenonite in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

xenonite — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0000

> In Germany extra-EU immigrants are on average net contributors to welfare state too.

Interesting. By what cost does this measure loss of freedom due to increased surveillance, decreased freedom of movement especially for women. Also increased cost and decreasing quality of police, law, education, or even street cleaning…

New comment by xenonite in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

xenonite — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:30:55 +0000

Yes, we have a really well recognized Spanish team lead here, yet he’s mostly hiring Spanish people (in Switzerland), oh yes and one Italian is the exception.

Also we had a German team lead hiring Germans, well surprise it is easier being with similar ones.

Diversity back in the day meant Physics, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering working together…

New comment by xenonite in "A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU"

xenonite — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:02:48 +0000

Well sorry no, because already the torso to leg length ratio is covered by none of their question. (and yes, they list it as a limitation)

Discover how iOS apps are using the new design and Liquid Glass

xenonite — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:16:19 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/design/new-design-gallery-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674073

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by xenonite in "BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs"

xenonite — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:44:23 +0000

Thanks, but where did you actually find the new model? The newest one seems to be 11 months old, from Apr 15, 2025.

New comment by xenonite in "I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor"

xenonite — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:22:12 +0000

Interesting to read, thank you very much. Are you still eating ketogenic? The bacillus subtilis seems to metabolize glucose, so are yours still alive? And did you try other probiotica beforehand? I am having HIT and eating a mostly carnivore diet with mostly fresh/unfermented meat.

New comment by xenonite in "Variation on Iota"

xenonite — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:38:41 +0000

This is about the APL language.

std::iota is influenced by APL, see Notes in https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/iota.html

New comment by xenonite in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

xenonite — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:44:27 +0000

Sorry but no, the parent commenters looked for a global menu within an application (File -> Open, File -> Save, etc.)

by the way, on macOS the global menu is searchable, too. Shortcut is Command+Shift+/

New comment by xenonite in "Are we tired of social media? (2025)"

xenonite — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:09:13 +0000

On iOS, the grey scale filter can also be activated via triple clicking the power button:

It is the “zoom”, in which you can have 1.0 scale and add a color filter.

I like the combined grayscale and color inversion filter.

The triple click zoom is activated in Settings > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut: https://support.apple.com/111771

The scale can be set by activating the zoom controller once, zooming out, and then hiding it.

New comment by xenonite in "Gestational diabetes rose every year in the US since 2016"

xenonite — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:05:02 +0000

Hint: go for low carb, see for example Lily Nichols on that subject. Her book is called “Real Food for Gestational Diabetes”.

https://lilynicholsrdn.com/

New comment by xenonite in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

xenonite — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:30:22 +0000

Indeed, but I guess that the seller got compensated anyways for the extra two hours of delayed arrival.

New comment by xenonite in "Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling"

xenonite — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:13:51 +0000

This is great to hear.

Is there a similar free way for getting Windows signatures?

New comment by xenonite in "How to Enter a City Like a King"

xenonite — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:09:32 +0000

Specifically w.r.t to advertising: In socialist contries there is often only one single brand of a certain product. This removes the need for advertising. But without competition, productivity goes south with time.

New comment by xenonite in "Apple Debuts iPhone 17"

xenonite — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:24:13 +0000

Camera lens angles of the 17 Pro seem strange to me.

Either too wide (1x) or too narrow (4x), as seen in the live stream video, which was recorded with the iPhone 17 Pro.

I am currently on the 13 Pro, I find the 3x mode ideal for portrait photos and videos.

Is it only me with this impression? Could someone help me to jump back into Apple's reality distortion field?