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by qcnguy | 2025-07-25 15:57:59+00:00
macOS is mature and has been for a long time. There's plenty of evidence Apple still cares about it - pooh pooh the new features all you like, but they're adding them! They keep improving security with every release in meaningful ways. And the recent acquisition of Pixelmator indicates that maybe the iLife suite (which is effectively a part of macOS) will soon come with a really great image editor for everyone who doesn't want to pay for a Photoshop subscription, something the Mac was historically quite weak at out of the box.

Doesn't mean prosumer level computing is done, though. Computers are such general and flexible devices, we'll probably return to innovating them at some point. Mobile and tablet were a chance to reset and fix the biggest problems computers had for regular people: horrific manageability and security issues stemming from the need for backwards compatibility. That was the Big Win of the past 15 years.

Adding something to excite computer geeks would require something much more paradigm shifting. My guess is that the next big feature to land will be a really slick integrated AI agent experience. "Siri, research dolphin speech and write me an app to decode it". Apple's in a good position to integrate AI agents directly with the OS instead of having them be hacked onto remote VMs or running in a terminal, and it'd finally yield ROI for all the effort they put into stuff like Shortcuts and AppleScript.

Be careful what you wish for anyway. Going further would require them to get serious about competing with the web. Air supply to OS innovators has been choked off by browser devs for decades; you can add cool APIs all day and nothing will use them because the browsers don't expose them. It'd mean extending Safari so people can write Mac specific web pages, applet style. You might not want that.
by cb321 | 2025-07-25 15:58:34+00:00
Well, then you might like Nim for writing small CLI utilities. It just defaults to a console-friendly traceback on uncaught exceptions. cligen makes pretty nice CLIs pretty easy. (If you set up a $HOME/.cligen then you can get a shared colorized help / customization for any such utility, for example. So, set & forget kinda thing, maybe even making useful programs in as few as 3..7 lines of code, really.) It's not an experience without rough edges (though I'm not sure what is such an experience). So, probably depends on your priorities.
by brudgers | 2025-07-25 15:58:43+00:00
You have been misusing the D-sub connector terminology

No I haven’t and the same is true for approximately everyone else.

Because we have not been using D-sub connector terminology at all. We have been talking about the things that come with (and without) DB9 connectors. We have been (mostly) playing —- as the witty Wittgenstein would say — a different language game.

That’s why you know what I mean. So bring me a slab.
by Crestwave | 2025-07-25 15:58:49+00:00
The US has committed more than its fair share of war crimes and notably even voted against the 2025 UN resolution condemning Russia for the Ukraine invasion, while China abstained from the vote.

China may potentially be able to stop the war, but at what cost? They've been licking their wounds and rebuilding their nation at breakneck speed for the past century, and it's only recently that they've finally reached a critical stage with innovations on all fronts. Going against one of their two allies now would be pretty ill-advised.

The US has also been very erratic, while China's current goals seem to be fairly consistent: reclaim everything they lost during the century of humiliation.
by lupusreal | 2025-07-25 15:59:07+00:00
There's no room in my garage, but I'd have no qualms about it being put in my backyard. Of course the power plant property is better, it doesn't need to get moved far and is easier to keep track of. When enough has piled up to compel somebody to do something about it, it can be dumped into the ocean.

I am 100% serious
by flying4781 | 2025-07-25 15:59:24+00:00
This isn't always an option any more. Everyone wants to bring their stuff onboard because of the horrors of checked baggage, so good luck having room in the overhead compartments if you're boarding zone 5. The article mentions "Royle says she was asked by an Air Canada representative to check her carry-on suitcase for her flight from Toronto to Newfoundland in March", so yeah Air Canada lost her carry on bag. I've witnessed pretty violating experiences with Air Canada with people trying to pack light and then getting stripped of their belongs "because there's no room in the cabin". At the end of the day you have to comply with airline employees.
by mhrmsn | 2025-07-25 16:00:56+00:00
I wish there was a European alternative to PayPal et al., but Wero seems too be too little too late and too slow.

Not enough banks participating, no ability to connect multiple accounts, credit cards etc., no payments integration with vendors and finally no incentives to switch vs. the incumbents in the space - I guess you would need a serious marketing campaign with discounts, cashback etc. to get people to use it and reach a critical mass. But let's see - maybe I'm too pessimistic...
by relaxing | 2025-07-25 16:00:59+00:00
> many people wouldn’t

Yeah, many people are stupid and/or crazy or just hotheads making rash decisions in the heat of the moment which kind of blows apart your rational calculus of armed deterrence.

I don’t know what your state is. I live in a rural part of my state, and the open warfare you’re describing doesn’t sound like anything I’ve heard about. I think it might be time to move, friend. Whatever’s holding you there can’t be worth your life.
by Veen | 2025-07-25 16:01:10+00:00
It's more that a human author has had an experience and writes to communicate it to other people. They have objectives that make sense in human contexts. They have learned things, run into issues, solved problems, developed arguments, evolved their understanding, felt emotions, considered and rejected actions, and integrated those recent experiences into a lifetime of experience. Then they order and condense all of that into a form that communicates it effectively to other experiencing beings.

LLMs, in contrast, experience nothing. When they "write", they are not even vaguely approximating what a human writer does.
by Andromxda | 2025-07-25 16:01:22+00:00
> you can still get identified and tracked even if you use a VPN

Sure, but that requires additional data about the user, which the GrapheneOS update server doesn't get. Both the update client and the update server are open source, so you can verify any of what I'm saying. The server only sees the user's IP address, which device model they're requesting an update for, and which update channel (alpha/beta/stable) they are using. The HTTP headers, etc. for the request would be identical across any GrapheneOS device, as they use the exact same updater app.

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/releases.grapheneos.org https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_Updater

> First, he is under no obligation to spend hours learning how GOS updates

That literally takes a few minutes to look up, it's all really well documented on the official website. https://grapheneos.org/faq#default-connections

But yes, I do believe that he's obliged to do some research before putting out such absurd claims entirely based on speculation with no technical knowledge or understanding.
by neilalexander | 2025-07-25 16:01:24+00:00
A platform does not need to have revolutionary changes year-on-year to still matter or be important to its users. That does not mean it "doesn't matter" — macOS works just fine for a lot of people.

Incremental quality-of-life improvements are nice from time to time, and bug fixes are always welcome, but otherwise I would be quite happy for them to leave good alone.
by Macha | 2025-07-25 16:01:41+00:00
I know in the case of some airlines, it's because their luggage fare structure encourages people to use carry on rather than checked luggage, which results in the overhead space being oversubscribed. Even if each bag technically fits within the carry on requirements, there's not space for all of them.

Also as an intermediate step before gate checking bags, they usually make people take backpacks etc. out of the overhead because they _can_ fit in the under seat area, even if you didn't bring any other carry on items, which also disincentivises packing light - really you want to use a hard carry on that _has_ to go in the overhead to ensure that it goes in the overhead rather than be forced to give up some of your already limited legroom.
by blitzar | 2025-07-25 16:01:41+00:00
> charging a fee for gate checking, which I've never heard of

You have lived a very sheltered life my friend.

So there is this thing that "other" people have to do when they need to get somewhere. Its like when you give your friends a ride on your plane, but you dont know them and none of you own the plane. Every person pays a bit to fly from point a to point b. Its known as commercial air travel, and it is as horrible as it sounds.
by sargstuff | 2025-07-25 16:02:17+00:00
Direct link to Datavzrd study overview with demonstrations/links.[0]

Non-technical summary[1]

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[0] : Datavzrd: Rapid programming- and maintenance-free interactive visualization and communication of tabular data : https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[1] : New open-source tool makes complex data understandable : https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-source-tool-complex.html
by 0x457 | 2025-07-25 16:02:21+00:00
In your mind, company that as a contract with a fab is not fabless? Do you think AMD can just stop ordering from TSMC today and call it a day?

AMD was fine with having GloFo as a fab until 20nm process. They were already behind, but not terribly.

AMD even used TSMC for their CPUs and GPUs before Zen. Ontario was fabbed at TSMC in 2011.

Point is AMD as free to shop around. Only in 2016 the agreement was amended that GloFo would be preferred for 14nm and 7nm, but since they decided not to work on 7nm, it freed up AMD.
Show HN: A macOS clock that stays visible when coding or binging in fullscreen
by muvich3n | 2025-07-25 16:02:23+00:00
Have you ever wished you could see the time while coding or watching videos in fullscreen or when your menu bar is hidden? Corner Time is a minimalist macOS app designed for those who value a clean desktop but still want the clock to be always visible.

Unlike other widgets or solutions, Corner Time sits unobtrusively in the corner of your screen as if it were a native part of macOS—even when you’re in fullscreen mode or using auto-hide for your menu bar. The app is highly customizable: you can choose your preferred date format, adjust the style, match your system language, and use it seamlessly across all your monitors.

My personal use case is using it on my MacBook with TopNotch, along with always auto-hiding the menu bar and dock, to create a maximized, distraction-free workspace.

Corner Time has quickly become a favorite among digital minimalists and power users. Many users describe it as a long-awaited solution, praising its simple but thoughtful design.

Feedback and suggestions are welcome!
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-07-25 16:02:43+00:00
I could see Ryan Air charging for gate check even when it's not your choice and the bag is of appropriate carry-on size. That's their niche, sell you a cheap ticket then charge you for everything else they can along the way.

In my experience generally it's a combination of oversold flights and increased seat counts. Seat width and legroom length changes allow more seats to get crammed into the plane. You have more people, but the amount of overhead bin space doesn't change with it. With oversold flights it's very common for nearly all seats to be occupied.

The net result is the overhead bins almost always fill up before everyone has boarded, at which point they start gate checking everyone's carry-on bags. When this has happened to me on major carriers, I have not been charged. It's still annoying. Particularly when I've packed light to fit everything in a carry-on and avoid checked baggage altogether.
by ako | 2025-07-25 16:02:46+00:00
So we can debate the quality of this particular article, but in general if an author closely instructs the ai what to write, edits it, and uses the ai to express his thoughts faster and better, I have no problem with the use of ai as a tool to write better.

You’re making assumptions on the quality of the article just because it’s written with the help of ai, I think that not justified in general.
by bezier-curve | 2025-07-25 16:03:14+00:00
I have so many things to complain about with Microsoft, especially the enshitification of Windows, but I think the way they handled the Microsoft 365 plan change was actually transparent. I got an email telling me the price was going to go up a month before my plan was going to renew, and I logged into my account and saw the option to downgrade back to the tier I was originally on. It's a hassle, but it's a one-time thing. Of course it's still not cool of them to opt-in people to a more expensive tier.
by arghwhat | 2025-07-25 16:03:17+00:00
RJ45 is a mechanically (slightly) different connector, but indeed all RJ specs were for phone lines, with RJ45 focused on several lines for high speed modem connections.

The regular ethernet 8P8C connector was defined by both an ANSI and ISO spec, neither of which gave the connector an actual name as it covers modular connector designs. :/
by smeej | 2025-07-25 16:03:25+00:00
Of course there is, but when the perspective being asked is, "What's it like to raise a child with DS?" the only people who validly have an opinion are parents of kids with DS.

A different N==1, a friend and coworker of mine had a son with DS at 23. He's now the oldest of six children. They're doing great, and he's a terrific big brother.

I think the studies matter because N needs to equal more than 1 to get a sense of how it goes for the people who do it.
by mikewarot | 2025-07-25 16:03:26+00:00
I live in a walkable neighborhood... I see people going past to use the trail at the end of the block all the time. There are plenty of food establishments within walking distance from me. The problem is there's one of THE major expressways through the US that goes around the southern end of Lake Michigan about 1 KM north of us, and our main street often, and unpredictably, is forced to handle most of that traffic.

I maintain we're in a special case, for just 3 roads (Ridge, Calumet, and 45th) walkability should only be a secondary concern, not the primary one.
by silisili | 2025-07-25 16:03:51+00:00
Is gate checking a bad thing to most people?

I used to fly a ton, and preferred to gate check my bag. Didn't have to find or fight over overhead space, and I don't remember ever waiting more than a few minutes at the gate. Around half the time it was already waiting for me by the time I actually got off the plane. It almost felt like a valet service rather than a burden.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-07-25 16:03:52+00:00
This 'improvement' is what tech sold us these last two decades. What we got was struggle gig work and tech bro's pushing eachother out of the way to be first to endorse Project 2025. And NFTs, man that sure improved things.

Also 'we have to keep what we're doing because if we don't the earth will be destroyed because of what I want us to keep doing' isn't the best selling point.
by danenania | 2025-07-25 16:04:35+00:00
OpenRouter also has an endpoint for listing models (with pricing info) in its api: https://openrouter.ai/docs/overview/models

A limitation though, at least the last time I checked, is that you only get a single provider returned per model. That’s fine for the major commercial models that all have the same pricing on each provider, but makes it hard to rely on for open source models, which tend to have many providers offering them at different price points (sometimes very different price points—like 5x or 10x difference).
by iwanttocomment | 2025-07-25 16:05:35+00:00
The scissor-switch keyboards on most modern laptops are radically and wildly superior to the membrane keyboards from the '90s or the horrific butterfly Apple keyboards from 2016-2020.

Perhaps a niche, but it is strange how objectively bad keyboards got before literally anyone complained, even though in retrospect we all look back at those terrible keyboards with disgust.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-07-25 16:05:42+00:00
We used the DD-50 connectors in the telephony world and called them "DD-50 connectors." I always wondered why they were "DD-50" and the 9 and 25 pin connectors were "DB-9" and "DB-25". Now I know... we were just using the nomenclature wrong.
by exiguus | 2025-07-25 16:05:44+00:00
I am a big fan of dwm and have used it for years on all of my Free- and OpenBSD desktops before switching to sway. The suckless people clearly stated that they would not support Wayland on dwm. At the time, I considered sway as the successor to dwm, at least for me, because it already had an ecosystem around it, and its behavior could be configured similarly if it wasn't already. I also took a look at dwl at the time, I think it was three years ago. I am now happy to revisit it.
by taeric | 2025-07-25 16:05:49+00:00
I had a similar one where a billing mistake had happened in a system and the other devs were trying to find out how to determine all of the bad values. I asked if they had simply looked at the top N that could fit on their screen sorted by value. The incorrect values were the obvious outliers. Only about 4 of them. They had been blocked on identifying them for about an hour.
by cynicalpeace | 2025-07-25 16:05:50+00:00
When I first moved to LatAm, the cashiers always asked how many "cuotas" I wanted to pay. I was initially confused and realized it meant I could take a (interest free?) loan to pay for my purchases in installments.

I never understood how this was common in high interest countries in LatAm, but unheard of in the USA.

Does anyone know? Like actually know, not speculating.
by frozenseven | 2025-07-25 16:05:55+00:00
>biggest AI companies in the world are not making any profit

Companies that are exploding in popularity and expanding as fast as possible are not expected to make a profit. This is not unusual in the slightest.

>the entire media industry is pushing for everyone, everywhere, all of the time

No, people use AI because they want to use AI. New users arrive on their own. If you take a closer look at what the legacy media is actually saying, they tend to have a negative slant against AI. Yet people still show up. And will continue to show up.

>Sam Altman, let him spew out utter gibberish, and not even question him on it

If Altman is pissing you and Ed off, he's doing at least something right. That said, I follow AI news every single day and I barely even glance at what Altman is saying. Here lies one of the biggest follies of the anti-AI crowd. Zitron et al. think that they can make AI go away by canceling Altman.
by thegrim33 | 2025-07-25 16:06:39+00:00
For the young people, 20 years ago the line was "nobody is coming for your cars you stupid conspiracy theorist", etc. Now such people, including actual politicians, have absolutely no issue openly advocating for the straight up banning of cars.

It's not specific to the car issue either, it's many issues. They lie to your face and gaslight you for years on end as to their true motivations, while they slowly pry the door further and further open for their ideology, until they've finally garnered enough support that they can switch phases and now be open about their true goals.

I'm not quite sure what the end plan is, since they're forever burning bridges with people like me. I guess they plan on the newest generations having the viewpoint forced on them from a young age, overriding people like me who are quite disgruntled.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-07-25 16:06:48+00:00
>Around the same time Clinton got caught lying about chasing (consenting and of age) skirt in the Office: nearly ended his presidency, definitely ended his policy agenda, real consequences and he caught a shooting star to avoid far worse. The public was not going to accept it, Congress was not going to let it slide on either side of the aisle. Today? Something like that barely makes the press. You have to be accused of sex trafficking to even get an investigation started and everyone will probably walk.

The same President Clinton, with the same Congress, repealed the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 and thereby effectively legalized much of the next 26 years of corporate malfeasance, starting with much of what enabled the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. And when they did this, it was popular and politically nonthreatening.

We got what we voted for.
by ako | 2025-07-25 16:07:16+00:00
Ai is just another tool, it doesn’t do anything by itself, in the hands of a person with a great story it can be a great tool to help write it. In the hands of a bad writer it will probably just create bad content. Ai is a tool controlled by a person.

Do you really care if Spielberg’s team manually edits the movie or uses an AI powered video editing tool? In the end Spielberg is responsible for the end quality of the movie.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-25 16:08:30+00:00
Ah, I thought we were talking about the language, not the broader way it fits into everything else.

I am familiar with all of this stuff :) I think you may be under-estimating Rust a bit. But that’s fine.

Incidentally, you can also get a Rust qualified compiler from AdaCore. I haven’t kept up with what specific standards they’ve qualified it against though.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-25 16:08:32+00:00
Checked bag fees have gone up and become pretty outrageous as ticket prices (airline and route dependent) are already high. Passengers have figured out that gate checking a bag is free so more people showed up with a carry-on and counted on gate checking. Then they realized that it's faster if you don't gate check because you can just grab your bag and leave the airport. Now, more and more people are showing up with bags they don't want to check, but the overhead bins are not able to store a full-sized carry-on bag for every passenger.

If people don't gate check enough bags, the flight gets delayed while people spend 20 minutes trying to fit their 10" wide bag into whatever 6" wide slots they can find, or you get the assholes that start pulling other people's bags down (I've had to stop a few people from doing this to my own bags) to make room for theirs. Finally the bags get gate checked anyways.

The aggressive push to get people to gate check is to prevent that last part, the delays. The airline makes no money on it (at least the non-budget carriers), but they lose money if flights are delayed and cascade into potential cancellations or delayed enough to trigger some kind of credit, reimbursement, or travel insurance coverage.
by elmstreetshawn | 2025-07-25 16:09:11+00:00
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