Hacker News: xutopia

New comment by xutopia in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

xutopia — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:07:58 +0000

An IPO can be a very volatile moment for any stock. This isn’t about AI so much as it is about an unproven company h th at is actually losing money right now.

New comment by xutopia in "Shopify Is Down"

xutopia — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:37:16 +0000

You’ll work with Ruby but the rails part is barely relevant at Shopify.

New comment by xutopia in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

xutopia — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:30:50 +0000

Heat training does much of what EPO used to do. It's amazing how much science has caught up in this field.

New comment by xutopia in "GPT-5.5"

xutopia — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:45:16 +0000

With AGI we expect a huge return on investment and a GDP growth that could be accelerating at a rate we couldn't even comprehend. Imagine an algorithm that improves itself each iteration and finds ways to increase its capacity every day. Robots suddenly capable of doing dishes, grocery shopping, picking produce from the field. Imagine all your ailments handled... age becomes just a number.

Also with AGI we expect a winner take all situation. The first AGI system would protect itself against any other AGI system. Hence why it's go time for all these AI companies and why they stopped sharing their research.

New comment by xutopia in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

xutopia — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:27:17 +0000

How do you use this? Do you use opencode or another frontend?

New comment by xutopia in "Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving"

xutopia — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:40:17 +0000

2 reasons I can see.

Kia have way smaller and cheaper cars with less security features to market. Tesla had front page news at some point saying how they were the safest car ever produced.

Tesla is giving people driving their cars a false sense of security.

New comment by xutopia in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

xutopia — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:21:20 +0000

Well the notifications on your web site doesn't provide the full idea of how limited it is in Safari. We have to ask users to install the shortcut before allowing notifications with Safari. Guess how many users actually go through with installing the shortcut? Nearly none.

If we had to ask users to go into their settings and switch the "enable notifications" flag we wouldn't call that supporting anything. The whole process of installing a shortcut to even get to the point where we can ask for notifications is even more convoluted on iOS.

New comment by xutopia in "Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?"

xutopia — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:22:55 +0000

OMG my app just got rejected because I didn't have the right screenshots to their liking... an app specifically made to remember stuff like this LOL the irony!

New comment by xutopia in "Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?"

xutopia — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:59:17 +0000

For those wondering why this is a big deal it means that every developers attempting to run a development version of an iPhone, iPad or MacOS app cannot run their apps right now.

This is worse than Github being down and Apple Developers who pay 99$ a year for the privilege of writing software on this ecosystem aren't event getting a status page update: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/

New comment by xutopia in "Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores"

xutopia — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:11:28 +0000

Can we see this for Apple please?

New comment by xutopia in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

xutopia — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:36:20 +0000

I’m under the same impression. I don’t think LLMs are the path to AGI. The “intelligence” we see is mostly illusory. It’s statistical repetition of the mediocre minds who wrote content online.

The intelligence we think we recognize is simply an electronic parrot finding the right words in its model to make itself useful.

New comment by xutopia in "Why vampires live forever"

xutopia — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:43:42 +0000

Hemingway writes like that. Hemingway editor encourages that kind of style.

New comment by xutopia in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

xutopia — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:49:41 +0000

We are essentially saying that our kids should be allowed to smoke cigarettes and not doing anything about it.

New comment by xutopia in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

xutopia — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:17:21 +0000

Don't believe this has anything other than to do with the USA's recent attacks on NATO countries.

New comment by xutopia in "Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)"

xutopia — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:29:52 +0000

You clearly don’t know what Apple’s nano texture is nor have you read the article.

Nano texture is not a coating. It is different than the coatings offered by competitors because of this.

New comment by xutopia in "Travel Is Not Education"

xutopia — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:41:24 +0000

Having travelled the world I can say without a doubt that this person misses the point of travel.

It isn’t about winning a trivia night. It’s about connecting deeply on a level that a Wikipedia article just cannot offer.

New comment by xutopia in "How to Build Reactive Declarative UI in Vanilla JavaScript"

xutopia — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:36:52 +0000

For the life of me I don’t understand why people absolutely insist on using JavaScript to render HTML. Backend frameworks do HTmL just fine.

DOM manipulations can be simplified to just a few actions: remove, Add, change.

The other types of manipulations and interactive features can be sprinkles of JavaScript instead of hundreds of kilobytes of the stuff.

HTMX, Hotwire/Turbo, LiveView are just so much saner to me.

New comment by xutopia in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

xutopia — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:08:33 +0000

Cmd+~ switches windows of a given app in case you didn't know (not disagreeing with you but it is one shortcut I find super useful and it helps switch windows).

New comment by xutopia in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

xutopia — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:03:59 +0000

Zed feels way snappier to me than VSCode and I love the vim mode too.

New comment by xutopia in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

xutopia — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:23:55 +0000

It's been like this for a while. It has been assumed that Congress doesn't have that power anymore but the president does. Here is a letter that President Obama wrote on the subject that explains it a bit (but if you want to hear more about this check 99 Percent Invisible podcast on the latest constitution breakdown series).

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/0...