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by red369 | 2025-09-19 04:27:37+00:00
Have you tried it out, on an old phone for example? I've been trying it through the betas and I grew to hate it less than I expected. You might not, but it might be worth a try. Once again it's a shame that security updates and UI updates are inseparable. If you could do the security update without the feature update, I wouldn't even suggest you try it.

I actually think it's a shame that some of the most ridiculous levels of unreadable layering won't be seen by everyone. Most people will hate on something without ever having seen the full-fat, much worse version. Pulling the Control Centre down over the App Library was great (to giggle at in a beta on a backup phone, not on your main phone). There was also an entertainingly vibrant and dramatic distortion when pulling down the notification screen which has been toned way down. I can genuinely see why Apple thought it was cool, but common sense should have stepped in. Also, I think there's a good argument that UIs shouldn't be cool.

I won't upgrade to it quickly on my main phone but I wondered if I might be able to live with it, and there's a chance that the 26.1 might make it more useable.
by VerifiedReports | 2025-09-19 04:28:53+00:00
Saw a lot of words here. Not a lot of examples.

"Dark mode was one of the most requested features for Lighthouse. I refrained a long time from adding it because it adds additional work to every UI task."

This reveals a lot about the regression in OSes. Way back in the early '90s, Windows provided a color-scheme editor. Users could set up any color scheme they liked, and all properly-written apps would inherit it and work fine.

I think the major Unix GUIs offered something similar. Meanwhile, Apple's vaunted UI was crippled by hard-coded colors everywhere.

Fast-forward what, 20 years? Everyone finally realizes that inverse color schemes (black text on a white background) SUCK. But what does Microsoft do? REMOVE the color-scheme editor from Windows.

We're still running around trying to deal with a "problem" that was solved 25 years ago. And, as a developer, I can tell you it has been pretty shambolic on Apple platforms. I guess you can say they never understood proper color management, but... damn. So many broken controls in iOS after "dark mode" was first added. A massive design and QA failure.
by Razengan | 2025-09-19 04:29:15+00:00
Apple's "iCloud Keychain" API lets Facebook and other apps track you across multiple devices and even device resets, because it's tied to your iCloud account. There's no way for a user to see or delete that secret data, except asking and trusting those apps to delete it.

This "exploit" has been there for years.

I only ever used throwaway accounts on Facebook, just to access some services that were only accessible via FB. At some point FB banned my account. I created a new one on the browser. Worked fine. When I signed into that account on my iPhone: instant ban. Delete FB app on iPhone, reinstall FB, try new account, same thing. Try a new iPhone, same iCloud account, new FB account: instant ban again.

They can not only track you across app reinstalls, device resets, but also across multiple devices. And Apple facilitates it.
by mrtesthah | 2025-09-19 04:30:22+00:00
Macs make terrible servers. I’ve had to manage various on-premises Mac servers for the last 15-20 years and every year Apple breaks something extremely basic and obvious with no reasonable workaround. Especially these days with locking down all the administrative functions such that only a local admin user (with a SecureToken!) clicking a button in the GUI with a physically attached mouse/keyboard can enable them.
by apatheticonion | 2025-09-19 04:30:32+00:00
It's really not that hard. Node.js has a very mature C FFI for interacting with JavaScript.

Just agree on some basic bindings

wasb_create_u32(env: *const env, value: u32, result *mut value) -> status wasb_create_string_utf8(env: *const env, str: *const c_char, length: i32, result: *mut value) -> status

There is even a shim that ports the Node.js C FFI to wasm: https://github.com/devongovett/napi-wasm/blob/main/index.mjs...

Heck, just include that in the browser so it doesn't need to be loaded at runtime

Stack that with support in the browser for wasi and you have everything you need to work with the DOM from wasm as well as things like threading
by jppope | 2025-09-19 04:31:33+00:00
Its pretty easy to understand actually, and all of metropolitan California is the same way- A normal, dual income, middle class working family has an income of ~$250K-$500K (Doctor + teacher, Lawyer and a Doctor, Business exec and Accountant, etc) and they're going to spend upwards of ~40% of their income on their house. thats going to have them spending $6K-$11K. Now they can handle a $1M home no problem. 3 bed 2 bath shitbox from the 70s sure thing... Anything to live in California. Same house in Kansas City is $300K but whatever. However, for them to go after a $2.5M+ property you need real money, a $5M house even more... you aren't working a normal person job to spend the estimated lifetime earnings of most Americans on a house... it just aint happening. So anything after ~$5M is a VASTLY better deal then the rat race housing.

All of these dynamics can be figured out pretty easy thanks to prop 13, Californias insane income taxes, and the job market... if you can figure out a way to buy a house, hold on to it for dear life, never move, and work your entire life to pay for it. The only thing more consistent than people in the northeast wanting to move to California are death and taxes, which coincidentally prop 13 covers. lol
by never_inline | 2025-09-19 04:33:52+00:00
> One example is copy-paste, which doesn't always work as expected in Linux.

Give example.

> Another is things in OS X, such as deep Spotlight integration with apps, and a unified scripting and automation language between apps.

I am sure KDE has it too.

One time I needed a shortcut for concat-ing 2 images, and I was able to get the son-of-a-bot Gemini to script me a .Desktop file + .sh script which added it as a context menu option to Dolphin. I didn't even know it was possible. I am sure even more automation should be possible with D-bus.

> You can also use links between most apps

Android has this, and I think it can cause borderline security risks. Anyway its' not as important these days when everything that could use a deep link from another app is a react app in browser anyway.

> And drag and drop files and stuff onto and between apps, etc.

I need it maybe 2 - 3 times a day. I can always use Paths and paste them in the file picker. Its never a deal breaker.
by paxys | 2025-09-19 04:35:13+00:00
No, it can only access the tab you are currently on. And that too just the content that is already available. It can't scroll up and down to load more. It can't follow links. It can't run any actions. You'll get a ton more functionality by just taking a screenshot of the page yourself and pasting it in ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-19 04:36:18+00:00
> a combination of circumstances that have never happened before, which I think is one hell of a risk, a risk that has a good chance of ending disastrously for them, let alone the rest of the world. And what should happen to them if they fail

Geopolitically, if America is becoming an unreliable security guarantor, they have no choice. They don't need to be bombing Gaza into oblivion. But they do need to establish the precedent that they can intervene with force in the region at their discretion.
by jiggawatts | 2025-09-19 04:37:06+00:00
Open Telemetry is the XML of Observability, and is providing the same value XML did when it was first introduced: interoperability.

Eventually it'll have successors that are better in some way, more efficient, or whatever, but right now there are no alternatives at all. Open Telemetry is the first common standard that multiple vendors have signed up to.
by tjohns | 2025-09-19 04:39:08+00:00
For what it's worth, Apple closed my mom's account due to inactivity. (She hadn't used an Apple product since 2007.)

They do have phone support, but they refused to unlock the account and just said she'll never be able to use primary email account with Apple's systems because of the frozen account.

So yes, any cloud provider can lock you out for arbitrary reasons. Just because they answer the phone doesn't mean the customer support agent can actually do anything about it.
by amluto | 2025-09-19 04:39:27+00:00
Fun exercise for the reader: if you have that uniform hanging rope support a uniform flat suspension bridge (via a bunch of closely spaced vertical ropes), and the bridge is much, much heavier than the ropes, then you get a parabola instead of a catenary. Wikipedia gives a derivation involving differential equations, but it glosses over the actual fundamental difference between these situations. But you can explain what’s going on with just trigonometry and no calculus, let alone differential equations: consider how much weight a small section of chain that isn’t right in the middle is supporting. You’ll end up with a drawing involving a right triangle and some numbers associated with the sides, and those numbers will line up differently with the opposite, adjacent and hypotenuses in the two cases.

So your off-topic rambling isn’t off-topic at all :)
by Lammy | 2025-09-19 04:39:29+00:00
I'm not telling you to use Windows. I'm telling you I use Windows lol

It sucks a lot actually, and everything that's good about it is good despite what Microsoft do to it and not because of them. I love my Lunix too, but sometimes I just wanna click on some robot heads in MvM or make the cars go fast that both don't work so well on my OS of choice: https://old.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1nkpkoo/burnout_...
by altairprime | 2025-09-19 04:39:33+00:00
Solar charged vehicles, such as with a Tesla powerwall, would pay zero dollars of tax per mile driven if you depended on an electricity tax. Doesn’t really work out in road repair costs to leave a massive tax loophole open.

By weight and by tire count! Have to made sure to deal with four-tire axles and such, not to mention electric semi trucks.

I believe the California pilot determined that odometer reporting and occasional DMV drive-thru checks will be the solution. I’d post the newsletter to HN the next time it comes out but this isn’t really the sort of group that appreciates taxation.
by red369 | 2025-09-19 04:39:33+00:00
Only most of the amounts were tiny, so all the effort for the re-calculation was still needed for everyone (basically either building a payroll engine from scratch, or paying someone else to use theirs). You're right, that for most current employees, for the small amounts it actually is much simpler. You can just email and slip it into the regular payroll.

It is the former employees for up to 15 years that make the contacting step difficult. They all need to provide bank/tax details.

There are also some current employees who still have to provide details before they can be paid. The company I work for has a lot of people moving countries, and therefore tax jurisdictions. In addition, some employers decided it was worth asking if employees were prepared to voluntarily allow offsetting between the overpayments and the underpayments, as in some cases those were quite large.

I can understand not wanting to give large amounts of money where it effectively would just balance out, especially after spending staggering amounts on the recalculation itself. There are government departments that have been working on it for years (or perhaps worse, and paying consulting companies to work on it).

Edit: I should have said, I did see companies rounding all amounts up to some small amount, like $1, so your suggestion is good. It just doesn't save effort on recalculation, or much effort in getting people to dig the email out of their trash folder and provide their information to receive their $1.
by aix1 | 2025-09-19 04:40:21+00:00
The study you referred to sounded super interesting, so I looked it up to read later.

To save others a search, here is a blog post and the paper:

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089

Thanks for mentioning it.
by NicoJuicy | 2025-09-19 04:46:10+00:00
The firehose of falsehoods is a very successful propaganda technique, rediscovered ( or teached to ) by a guy that needed a fake public image ( see: you're fired) to hide all his public bankruptcies/failures.

Eg. they are very stupid at winning lawsuitts, but he had 4 years of training on who and what to bully and another 4 years to prepare.

A lot of stupid people turned a democracy into an autocracy ( Orban, ... ). It's easy if no one protests and you can give money to the rich and powerful.

It's amazing that this guy/administration grifts so publicly and a lot of people in the US just keep following him blindly.
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by tastyfreeze | 2025-09-19 04:47:52+00:00
I'm not convinced it was an oops. Hamilton was a power hungry twat that tried to expand federal power almost immediately after ratification.

But, the anti-federalists lost the argument at the time. That doesn't mean the argument was resolved completely. It just means the federalists convinced enough people the Constitution was "good enough" for ratification. We are meant to continue improving it.

Now that we know for sure that the anti federalists were right about the necessary and proper clause and the interstate commerce clause we should be arguing for amendments. Convince enough people and it happens.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-19 04:48:29+00:00
What is your honest belief. All of the things below are in the news, you can copy and paste any of these quotes to back that up.

> "Robinson's mother explained that over the last year or so, Robinson had become more political and had started to lean more to the left — becoming more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented," the court documents say.

> "She stated that Robinson began to date his roommate, a biological male who was transitioning genders. This resulted in several discussions with family members, but especially between Robinson and his father, who have very different political views.

> Robinson: since trump got into office [my dad] has been pretty diehard maga.

> Rounds in the rifle were allegedly etched with messages like "Hey Fascist! Catch!" and lyrics of the anti-Nazi and anti-Fascist Italian folk song Bella Ciao.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-19 04:48:32+00:00
What is your honest belief. All of the things below are in the news, you can copy and paste any of these quotes to back that up.

> "Robinson's mother explained that over the last year or so, Robinson had become more political and had started to lean more to the left — becoming more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented," the court documents say.

> "She stated that Robinson began to date his roommate, a biological male who was transitioning genders. This resulted in several discussions with family members, but especially between Robinson and his father, who have very different political views.

> Robinson: since trump got into office [my dad] has been pretty diehard maga.

> Rounds in the rifle were allegedly etched with messages like "Hey Fascist! Catch!" and lyrics of the anti-Nazi and anti-Fascist Italian folk song Bella Ciao.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-19 04:48:36+00:00
What is your honest belief. All of the things below are in the news, you can copy and paste any of these quotes to back that up.

> "Robinson's mother explained that over the last year or so, Robinson had become more political and had started to lean more to the left — becoming more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented," the court documents say.

> "She stated that Robinson began to date his roommate, a biological male who was transitioning genders. This resulted in several discussions with family members, but especially between Robinson and his father, who have very different political views.

> Robinson: since trump got into office [my dad] has been pretty diehard maga.

> Rounds in the rifle were allegedly etched with messages like "Hey Fascist! Catch!" and lyrics of the anti-Nazi and anti-Fascist Italian folk song Bella Ciao.
by bethekind | 2025-09-19 04:49:44+00:00
> the behavior of a complex system can simplify as it passes from one state to another. “Sometimes a high-dimensional system can tip,” said Lenton, “and when it gets near tipping, it starts to behave like a much lower-dimensional system.” The lesson, he added, echoes the one learned at Peter Lake: to “simplify without oversimplifying.”

Sounds a lot like what people WANT neural networks to do. Collapse a high dimensional situation into a very low dimensional network. Ideally a binary answer, yes or no. I wonder if this bifurcation chaos math has implications in ml work
by rmunn | 2025-09-19 04:49:50+00:00
The only AI-assisted software work I've seen actually have a benefit is the way my coworker use Supermaven, where it's basically Intellisense but suggesting filling in the function parameters for you as well. He'll type `MergeEx` and it will not just suggest `MergeExample(` as Intellisense would have done, but also suggest `MergeExample(oldExample, newExample, mergeOptions)` based on the variable names in scope at the moment and which ones line up with the types. Then he presses Tab and moves on, saving 10-15 seconds of typing. Repeat that multiple times through the day and it might be a 10% improvement, with no time lost on fiddling with prompts to get the AI to correct its mistakes. (Here, if the suggestion is wrong, he just ignores it and keeps typing, and the second he types a character that wasn't the next one in the suggestion it goes away and a new suggestion might be calculated, but the cognitive load in ignoring the incorrect suggestion is minimal).
by throw10920 | 2025-09-19 04:49:56+00:00
Yes, and here's some nuance: based on my experience, the majority of the people in the bureaucracy want it to be more efficient.

To effect cuts, you can either cut the budget without improving efficiency, leading to a loss of scope (which is what the current administration is doing, and is not great), or you can keep your scope while improving your efficiency such that you don't need as much money, which is vastly preferable.

Those in the general public who thinks that government budgets should increase monotonically are a linear combination between total idiots and outright politically malicious.
by mlsu | 2025-09-19 04:50:25+00:00
You’re right and it’s actually wild how many people lack the ability to just deal with it. I think they do it because having a medicalized identity gives you a kind of framework or structure to lean on in social situations. You don’t need to learn the complex social rules to get grace from other people, instead you can do this easy thing and demand it. I think it is downstream of social media displacing face-to-face social interactions.
by helloplanets | 2025-09-19 04:50:43+00:00
Definitely not much of a chef!

> When I get up, I have a cappuccino - that's breakfast. I don't have any food till lunch. I get into phases where I'll have the same thing every day. Lately I've been having feta cheese, olive oil and vinegar, tomatoes, and some tuna fish mixed together. Before that I was having tuna fish on lettuce and cottage cheese, but I got tired of that in about three months. I once had the same thing for lunch every day for seven years - a Bob's Big Boy chocolate shake and coffee at 2:30 every afternoon.

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by manchmalscott | 2025-09-19 04:51:03+00:00
I have some family members who updated this week so I have finally seen it in person (I don’t have any spare Apple devices to install beta software on), but I’ve also been watching videos of the various betas on YouTube over the past few months. For sure there have definitely been moments where I’ve seen like, an update in one of the betas where my reaction is “oh good they made that more readable than in the last beta” and then I looked at the same screen on my phone not on the beta and the consistency of the legibility is just night and day. Liquid glass can be presented in specific scenarios that look good, great even. It’s a very neat shader pack. Very “rule of cool”. Unfortunately, I prefer “rule of I can always read the words” and there are plenty of scenarios where liquid glass falls apart, even in the official non beta release.

I first realized that it might be a mess back at WWDC when they showed the apple TV ui, commenting on how the refractive glass “seamlessly blended into the content” or whatever all the while, in their own highly produced advertisement, I couldn’t help but find that the refractions were noticeably distracting. I couldn’t focus on anything else.

It feels like the UX equivalent of watching a Mr beast video, just maximum stimulation all the time. Maybe that’s their strategy for appealing to a new generation of smartphone users (</joking>).
by onion2k | 2025-09-19 04:51:36+00:00
The problem with that is Google has burned so many bridges with users over the past couple of decades that moving off the ad model to some sort of paid subscription service is going to be next to impossible. People just don't trust Google any more. I know many people who happily pay OpenAI every month but wouldn't pay the same for Google Gemini even if it was better.

Not to mention that actually giving Google money for anything other than an in-app purchase is oddly hard work - try buying a Google business subscription and behold an interface worse than AWS's console. Google has so much catching up to do that it's conceivable that they'll eventually fail.
by rmunn | 2025-09-19 04:52:24+00:00
Bingo. All my experience is on Linux, and I've never written anything for Windows. So recently when I needed to port a small C program to Windows, I told ChatGPT "Hey, port this to Windows for me". I wouldn't trust the result, I'd rewrite it myself, but it let me find out which Win32 API functions I'd be calling, and why I'd be calling them, faster than searching MSDN would have done.