Hacker News: xuki

New comment by xuki in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

xuki — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:34:12 +0000

Send it to the sun to get more helium!

New comment by xuki in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

xuki — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:32:05 +0000

I'm not sure in this instance, but for industrial plants, the expectation is for them to run 24/7/365 without disruption. They're not designed to be turned off and then on again. When you shut something down, how do you "reset" it to a clean state so production can start again? Think about all the existing stuff still in the pipes, residual, etc.

New comment by xuki in "Microgpt"

xuki — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:35:37 +0000

Human internet is dead. I don't know how we can come back from this.

New comment by xuki in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

xuki — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:42:26 +0000

Mac mini is a relatively low volume product for Apple, the margin hit would not be consequential to their bottom line. I'll believe it when they start making iPhone in the US.

New comment by xuki in "Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot"

xuki — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:05:06 +0000

You don't want to spend time and money to fight with a $350B company.

New comment by xuki in "Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user?"

xuki — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 04:19:38 +0000

This is Apple Pay on the web, not the App Store.

New comment by xuki in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

xuki — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:59:08 +0000

The original version removed the ESC key as well. By the time they added it back, the damage was done.

New comment by xuki in "If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app"

xuki — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:53:00 +0000

> why can't I disable network access entirely for some apps

Apple kind of do this in China. Each app on Chinese iPhone needs to ask for permission when they access WiFi for the first time. Combine with cellular blocking, you can effectively block internet access for an app.

New comment by xuki in "List of domains censored by German ISPs"

xuki — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:20:17 +0000

Spain ISPs block CloudFlare IPs during La Liga matches.

New comment by xuki in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

xuki — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:48:11 +0000

The author lives in Australia. You get points from supermarket for purchasing some gift cards during some promotion, it's around 10% of the card value.

New comment by xuki in "Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices"

xuki — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:59:44 +0000

Probably need a lawsuit in the EU before they allow downgrading OS. I would love to get my old phones to iOS 16 to jailbreak it.

New comment by xuki in "M5 MacBook Pro"

xuki — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:27:22 +0000

It has always been this way. Base M1's max RAM was 16GB, M2/M3's was 24GB, M4's was 32GB.

New comment by xuki in "The App Store was always authoritarian"

xuki — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:17:28 +0000

Tax is only on profit, Apple "tax" in 30% (15% in some cases) of revenue.

New comment by xuki in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"

xuki — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:57:43 +0000

It's just an entry on some computer. Maybe you can sell it on a secondary market, maybe you can't. You have to wait for an exit event - being acquired by someone else, or an IPO.

New comment by xuki in "Apple vs. Facebook Is Kayfabe"

xuki — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:23:05 +0000

There in a Safari Controller that’s isolated from the app, but it’s presented within the app. If Apple can just mandate any web browsing activity must go through Safari Controller, it would stop all this nonsense from Facebook.

New comment by xuki in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

xuki — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 06:18:06 +0000

Facebook certainly did not have the resources and experiences to make a mobile OS at that point. Microsoft tried and failed, there was no space for a 3rd mobile OS.

> They also tried to make mobile web a thing for a few years past when it was obvious that native apps were the way forward.

This was one of the first friction Facebook encountered with Apple. They wanted to make their own store in the Facebook app on iOS, but obviously Apple said no. Maybe doing Facebook app in HTML5 was a way to protest against the way Apple was moving things forward, but again it didn't work, their app was crap and they rewrote everything in native.

New comment by xuki in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

xuki — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:43:22 +0000

For the past 15 years, mobile has been the main revenue source for Facebook. As big as Facebook is, they're at the mercy of the 2 competitors: Apple and Google. Apple has been very hostile to Facebook, because Facebook make a shitload of money off Apple's platform and they refused to pay a certain percentage to Apple - unlike Google who is paying 20B a year to access iOS users. Apple tried to cut Facebook off with ATT on iOS 14, but it didn't work.

Because of this, Zuckerberg has to be incredibly paranoid about controlling his company destiny, to stop relying on others' platforms to deliver ads. It would be catastrophic for Facebook to not be a main player for the next computing platform, and they're currently making a lot of money from their other businesses. Zuckerberg is ruthless and he is paranoid, he has total control of Facebook and he will use all the resources to control the next big thing. I think it comes down to this: Zuckerberg believes it's cheaper to be wrong than to miss out on the next platform, and Facebook can afford to be wrong (to a certain extend).

New comment by xuki in "Intel CEO Letter to Employees"

xuki — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:47:19 +0000

I think you have it backwards. Because iOS/macOS can run fine on what Intel fabs can make right now, Apple is not totally dependent on TSMC. In the worst case scenario, they will simply buy all the capacity from Intel, they have enough cash to do so.

Nvidia on the other hand need the latest tech to squeeze the most performance out of their chips for AI companies.

New comment by xuki in "Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat"

xuki — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 06:33:34 +0000

> This happens on EBay too. Sellers list something and it isn't as described, and fraudulent sellers will say "but it is! This buyer is trying to scam me." and EBay usually sides with the seller.

This is not my experience at all and I've used eBay since 2008. eBay is pro buyer to the point that I don't sell anything on eBay (and buy all everything on eBay if price is the same).

New comment by xuki in "Apple's MLX adding CUDA support"

xuki — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:35:57 +0000

That particular MBP model had a high rate of GPU failure because it ran too hot.

I imagined the convo between Steve Jobs and Jensen Huang went like this:

S: your GPU is shit

J: your thermal design is shit

S: f u

J: f u too

Apple is the kind of company that hold a grudge for a very long time, their relationships with suppliers are very one way, their way or the highway.