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Ask HN: Apple locked me out of the developer program for a technical error
by LoganDark | 2026-02-27 20:08:33+00:00
I recently tried to verify my identity to enroll in the Apple Developer program, but the Developer app kept giving me errors like "Your identity couldn't be verified because the image you submitted is unclear or obscured." or "The photo of your ID didn't upload."

After about four attempts, I was locked out and not able to attempt to enroll through the Developer app anymore. I tried to enroll by browser instead, but that now also says "Your enrollment in the Apple Developer Program could not be completed at this time.".

So I emailed Apple Developer Support and they replied:

> After reviewing your account details, it looks like we can’t verify your identity with the Apple Developer app or provide further assistance with the Apple Account for Apple developer programs.

So am I screwed for life? Am I now unable to publish on the App Store or sign apps for distribution ever, just because of some stupid technical problem?

Are there any other channels I can try to use to get this resolved? It sounds like I could've been able to get help with the verification, IF I had asked before my account got locked out, but now support is refusing to help me because I was too persistent?

Any help/advice appreciated. Thank you
by p_bits | 2026-02-27 20:09:07+00:00
Oh, this btw actively being maintained (but it's not going to be bloated). A new version was published this morning to the Chrome store, waiting on their review.

## 1.1.0
- Added theme setting: dark, light or system
- Added open behavior setting: popup or floating panel
- Added source info setting: include page title, URL, author and date at the top
- Added More menu with Re-run, Download and Settings
- Improved code block and inline code styling for better readability
- Fixed link contrast in light mode
- Fixed tables missing from some converted pages
by archagon | 2026-02-27 20:09:08+00:00
This line of thinking is entirely foreign (and vaguely repulsive) to me. Can I imagine a situation where I'm forced to cause the death of someone in order to defend those close to me? Vaguely. But I would be racked with guilt for the rest of my life.

In any case, AI drones will largely be used for "defense" in the euphemistic sense.
by hinkley | 2026-02-27 20:09:26+00:00
Any await runs the logic that attempts to release the main message pump to check for other tasks or incoming IO events. And it looks like that takes around 90 instructions to loop back around to running the next line of the code, when the process is running nothing else.

If you’re doing real work, 90 instructions ain’t much but it’s not free either. If you’ve got an async accumulator (eg, otel, Prometheus) that could be a cost you care about.
by Slaboli | 2026-02-27 20:10:08+00:00
Thanks for your comment! You’re right that Portugal is full of "maybes." On one hand, having a job offer makes it feel within reach, but I worry about spending months with no professional or financial growth. However, I’m confused because I know millions in Turkey would love to be in my position.

Regarding my career, my CPA technical capacity is portable. I can convert it to US or UK equivalents with just a couple of written exams.

I definitely do not want to be 46 years old, holding onto a menial job or worse, being laid off and forced into call center work in Portugal.
by MarkSweep | 2026-02-27 20:10:09+00:00
.NET bothers with it, to support RuntimeHelpers.EnsureSufficientExecutionStack [1] and other things. See the pthreads calls used to here [2].

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime....

[2]: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/b6a3e784f0bb418fd2fa7...
by Paracompact | 2026-02-27 20:10:17+00:00
I think you may be focusing on this with a lens that isn't incorrect—and is in fact very worldly—but which fails to account for individuals' behavior on their own terms.

You define your own notion of collectivism and make claims about how it is necessarily in conflict with other principles, when in reality millennials aren't a monolith, collectivism isn't a monolith, and individualism isn't a monolith. Cultures and subcultures renegotiate the meaning of every -ism they import, and they practice these -isms only as bundles of other, historically correlated -isms.

When the American youth say they want collectivism, they are not saying they want a return to authentic rice farming culture. Most of the time, they are mourning the systematic loss of third places, they are mourning the obliteration of social safety nets, they are mourning the lack of public projects, they are mourning the death of individually influenceable local politics. At the same time, they do not want rigid social roles ordained from above (because "above" is powerful and corrupt). They also do not want a parochial existence taking care of grandma (because the elderly are in greater number and need than ever, and our infrastructure and way of life is ill suited to efficiently meeting these needs). None of this is contradictory cosplay. It is simply a fusion of individualism and collectivism that is unlike that which has existed before, as a result of cultural factors that are themselves unlike that which has existed before.
by bee_rider | 2026-02-27 20:10:36+00:00
Probably the idea is broad enough to get away with borrowing it or putting their own spin on the general idea (I mean, it is expected that stores will influence each other and ideas will spread). I’d rather guess that a studio executive thought the battery idea would be more understandable to people (if that is the case though, I think they were dramatically wrong, the computing idea makes much more sense and I think all of us in the audience would have been fine with it).
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-27 20:10:45+00:00
The other apps are clients. The apps themselves don't actually contain any content, they're just code. An app that itself contains an offline copy of a book with NSFW text is not the same thing.

Meanwhile Reddit is a doubly poor example because even though the service contains NSFW content, it marks it as such, and then the client not only doesn't itself contain it but gives the user a separate opportunity to select against it when using the app to download pages.
by VerifiedReports | 2026-02-27 20:11:26+00:00
Similar story! The first disc (and song) I heard was "Let's Dance," David Bowie.

I have hundreds of discs, but only have Let's Dance on vinyl.

I also have the second pop digital recording ever, The Nightly by Donald Fagen, only on vinyl. I use it to show people how good records can sound.

I'm glad I bought and kept so much music when I did, because now the labels have destroyed everything with dynamic (not data) compression. It's disgusting. Now that everyone has dirt-cheap access to pristine recording & playback technology, music sounds like absolute shit because some suits thought it needed to sound "louder."

It's possibly one of the biggest but least-understood crimes against art in all of history.
by casey2 | 2026-02-27 20:11:31+00:00
This is why I dislike sites like stackoverflow. If I needed a quick lookup the v7 manpage explains it better, the v6 doesn't have it, but that's because unix didn't have bourne shell til V7

https://man.cat-v.org/unix_7th/1/sh#:~:text=%3C%26digit%0A%2...

Seriously when it comes to unix RTFM RTFM RTFM and you'll get the top comment on SO and HN rolled into one.
by clarkmoody | 2026-02-27 20:12:01+00:00
Simmons opened new frontiers of thought for me with his Hyperion Cantos. A house with each room on a different planet. A heartbreaking tale of a daughter aging in reverse. A romance playing out over space and time. A grand piano on the pop-out balcony of a starship. The cruciform parasite. The Shrike.

Branches of humanity torn between decadent stagnation and radical evolution. The artificial intelligence civilization with its own agenda. The All Thing (Internet) as the third branch of government.

So much good stuff, published in 1989 no less.

Rest in Peace to a true legend.
by throw310822 | 2026-02-27 20:12:59+00:00
The depressing thing is that you don't know that the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed 178 years ago, and that territory can be legally ceded by means of peace treaties. The part of Palestine that is considered illegally occupied is the part that lies beyond the 1949 armistice borders and has never been legally ceded to Israel by any treaty.
by gamblor956 | 2026-02-27 20:13:11+00:00
Ellison is more pragmatic than his current activities make it appear. He's playing to the right wing now because Trump was in office, but during the last administration he played heavily to the left.

When push comes to shove, he'll follow the money. If Republicans lose the midterms, CBS will start shifting back to the middle to regain the millions of viewers it lost to NBC and ABC since Weiss took over and Weiss will probably be looking for a new job.
by goku12 | 2026-02-27 20:13:36+00:00
This:

> I'm zero Lisp expert

and this:

> I don't feel comfortable at all reading this snippet

are related. The comfort in reading Lisp comes from how few syntactic/semantic rules there are. There's a standard form and a few special forms. Compare that to C - possibly one of the smallest popular languages around. How many syntactical and semantic rules do you need to know to be a half decent C programmer?

If you look at the Lisp code, it has just 2 main features - a tree in the form of nested lists and some operations in prefix notation. It needs some getting used to for regular programmers. But it's said that programming newbies learn Lisps faster than regular programming languages, due to the fewer rules they have to remember.
by spijdar | 2026-02-27 20:14:11+00:00
To add to this: I can appreciate the significance of GNU, especially in early Linux distributions, but the position of "GNU was the real OS, Linux was just the kernel" is also deceptive, IMO.

Sure, a lot of the userspace was GNU, but a lot of it ... wasn't. Things like PAM, the init system, and the network config tools, off the top of my head. A lot of system-specific tools come from "not-GNU", too.

You can't discount how much of early Linux was "GNU", and how big a deal GCC and GNU libc (and the rest!) were, but it's disingenuous in my opinion to call GNU an "operating system" that you just plugged Linux, the kernel, into. Even today, as far as I can tell, there is still not a true GNU system. Guix comes close, in terms of being "GNU-ish", but the most usable Hurd distro (AFAIK!) is Debian, where, again, a lot of components come from Debian, rather than GNU.

And, as you say, modern systems have drifted even further from being GNU. They have lots of GNU components, but so did, say, the Sprite OS, or a lot of 4.4BSD derivatives.
by bpt3 | 2026-02-27 20:14:13+00:00
A large portion (I think it's the majority, but would be happy to be wrong) of our fellow man is a net loss to society, with some smaller percentage being a significant drain.

Giving more and more resources to those people does not make them magically more educated, productive, or congenial.

So it's not a "crabs in a bucket" mentality in that the greedy (which I assume means the wealthy here, as they're the ones funding the public system in the US specifically and the western world for the most part) are trying to keep the lower classes beneath them, it's that they are not interested in wasting their resources to no meaningful end other than increased consumption of low quality or worse goods and services.
by FarmerPotato | 2026-02-27 20:14:37+00:00
What I just learned is that OE scīnan, to shine, gives OE scimrian, "to shine fitfully" [1]. Fascinating: Gothic skeima - torch, lantern.

[1] Eric Partridge: _Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. sᴄᴇɴᴇ paragraphs 8,9.

Also fascinating: "prob from Old Norse skaerr" "is English sheer, bright, hence pure, hence sole, hence also transparent, perpendicular" under paragraph 10.

and further down the rabbit-hole, OHG filu-berht, full bright. Name of St. Philibert, "whose day falls on August 22 early in the nutting season". Norman French noix de filbert.
by rambojohnson | 2026-02-27 20:14:47+00:00
The subtext is peak tech-founder theology:

We built something amazing.
You built it, technically.
But now the real builders are smaller teams, intelligence tools, and whatever abstraction survives the next earnings call.

For the parade of mickey-mouse tech companies solving nothing and shipping products nobody asked for, the takeaway is simple: labor has become a narrative liability.

The whole thing reads like aestheticized detachment. A founder persuading himself, in pretentious all-lowercase, that mass layoffs are a principled design choice instead of the predictable invoice for years of vibe-driven growth theater. These seig-heiling, chest thumping technofascist founders are so cliche and nauseating, fucking Peter Thiel / Musk lord of the rings bunch of nerds.

Hard to imagine a better reminder of why walking away from tech back in 2023 for me felt like oxygen. I guess I consider it a luxury to read headlines like this and scoff at it from a safe distance. Dogshit industry.
by ddellacosta | 2026-02-27 20:15:14+00:00
As an American, Red Dwarf along with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy created a deep appreciation both for British humor and funny sci-fi in my adolescent self. I now own the box set on DVD and even have a random Red Dwarf novel I got at a yard sale (I forget which one of them wrote it though).

RIP Rob! Will be having a vindaloo, lager, and maybe some fish (Fish! Fish! Fish!) later in your honor

(EDIT: 100% talking about the UK version here, had no idea or forgot there _was_ an American version)
by VerifiedReports | 2026-02-27 20:15:21+00:00
The record sounds GREAT. I've never heard the CD.

I wonder if The Nightfly has now been ruined with dynamic compression (AKA "remastered") like everything else over the last couple decades.

My CD player came with Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits, as a demo of dynamic range. That album (a digital recording) has, shamefully, been "remastered" and dynamically compressed.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-02-27 20:15:48+00:00
What, in your view, does sending one markup language instead of another markup language tell you about whether the back-end executed some code or only pretended to?

The front-end display is a representation of what the back-end sends it. Saying "but the back-end doesn't send HTML" is as meaningless as saying that about literally any other SPA website that builds its display from API requests that respond with JSON.
by Slaboli | 2026-02-27 20:15:57+00:00
It is indeed a very personal decision. However, hearing others' opinions is helpful to challenge my logic and highlight any gaps I might be overlooking. Thank you for chipping in!

The situation is that while Portugal seems great for the short term, I don't believe the long-term job prospects and career growth will match what I have at home.

On the other hand, I try to remind myself that no one knows the future and that I should take it one step at a time. But at 36, this is highly taxing, as I feel way behind my peers regarding being rooted and starting a family and raising kids.
by Veen | 2026-02-27 20:16:21+00:00
It's not a soluble problem, at least not completely. The big frontier models are better at resisting prompt injection, but any LLM is vulnerable to some degree. If you give it access to arbitrary inputs like the web and to your personal data, there's a risk it'll disclose stuff you don't want it to.

It's annoying, because I love OpenClaw as an idea, but I don't trust it enough to give it what it needs to be useful.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-27 20:16:31+00:00
Related:

Lazard LCOE 2024 released [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40670270 - June 2024

Mentioned in:

Renewable Energy Defies Trump’s Attacks, Reaching a New Record - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-27/renewable... | https://archive.today/6Jhk8 - February 27th, 2026
Show HN: Goodfriendsbook.com Let's ask you, want opensourced to GitHub
by gitprolinux | 2026-02-27 20:16:39+00:00
I kindly ask if you in the public would like me to opensource to github the source code, or let it ride with proprietary as a second round of entrepreneurship. Or is development more of the small team scenario these days? This question is asked for discussion.
by Zigurd | 2026-02-27 20:16:45+00:00
Surgical robots, and robot pianos both exist. Neither employ humanoid hands. This all just illustrates how humanoid robots are, in multiple dimensions, going down technology rat holes. In some cases better solutions already exist without looking humanoid. In other cases, the humanoid form factor fails to address problems like a high center of gravity in a device that needs to not fall on grandma while helping her around the house.

I continue to be amazed that the wrong form factor keeps being pursued. Though I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised given the parade of failed "AI devices."
by danebalia | 2026-02-27 20:16:51+00:00
Built with ratatui + crossterm on top of a full async tokio event loop. Modal editing (Normal/Insert/Visual) with Spacemacs-style SPC leader keys, LSP support via rust-analyzer, syntax highlighting through syntect, and a streaming

Copilot agent panel that can read and edit files in your project.

The agent is sandboxed to your project root and all network calls go exclusively
to GitHub's Copilot endpoints — no telemetry, no analytics. CI runs cargo-audit,
cargo-deny, and GitHub code scanning on every push. Full network call inventory
is in SECURITY.md.

Largely AI-assisted build (Claude). Curious whether others have shipped
production tools this way and what the maintenance story looks like longer term.

MIT. Builds with a single `cargo build --release`.

https://github.com/danebalia/forgiven
by danielodievich | 2026-02-27 20:18:44+00:00
As fresh immigrant to USA, watching it on local PBS on the gigantic back projection jumbotron TV someone offloaded on us back in mid-90es, it made a huge impact with its absurdity and silliness.
I sing "Drinking Fresh Mango Juice" every time I get it out of the fridge, and when my wife and I visited Egypt and got room service with fresh mango juices, it was in heavy rotation. And every time I leave and it's cold outside, I tend to sing "It's cold outside!".
RIP
by theptip | 2026-02-27 20:19:45+00:00
They can try, but:

1) it’s pretty transparently obvious that Anthropic is not a supply chain risk, and that this is a retaliatory gesture. So I don’t support that usage.

2) if they do try, Congress or SCOTUS could well reduce or remove that authority. I give the Trump admin enough credit to assume that they are considering carefully which laws they spend in this way, DPA is a valuable chip they may need to spend for something more valuable than Hegseth’s temper tantrum.
by yunnpp | 2026-02-27 20:20:18+00:00
The idea that theory does not match practice is very foreign to a software developer or somebody that works in the information processing field. We are spoiled to have mathematicians do the hard work, and then we just get to botch it all with software that doesn't even work. But people with real jobs doing actual science/engineering know that the practice never matches the theory and that one needs to harden their balls in the thick of battle to come to a true understanding of things. That's why only a software developer, in their full command of hubris and ignorance, would suggest that you can replace a doctor with a computer program that has digested every book in existence and then statistically regurgitates its contents.
by robin_reala | 2026-02-27 20:21:02+00:00
I degoogled back when they announced AMP email, and am in broad agreement with the author here. The only things I’ve found it hard to replace are YouTube, Arts & Culture, Google Books, and Books ngrams. Everything else has great alternatives to move to 100%, and Books is just a backup alongside archive.org and Hathi.

Even if you just stop using one piece of Google you’ll find yourself in a better place.
by techblueberry | 2026-02-27 20:21:09+00:00
This is such a strange deal, and I can't tell if they're really smarter than I think they are, but I can't imagine trying to run any kind of right-leaning entertainment company having Taylor Sheridan, acknowledging that you have Taylor Sheridan by calling him a "singular genius and content creator" and then driving him away months later because you keep meddling in his creative work.

If I was trying to turn Paramount into a like right-leaning culture war friendly entertainment company, I would have given Taylor Sheridan whatever he wanted, and changed the name to "Paramount, brought to you by Taylor Sheridan".

I remember when this first started, I thought to myself, how are you going to bring back 80's style American jingoism with only one director doing it, then I find out it was worse then that, because they drove that one director away.
by kyrra | 2026-02-27 20:21:16+00:00
If you don't like the AI feature, Google at least lets you turn it off: https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/upda...

Specifically in Gmail Settings:

> Smart features: Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet - When you turn this setting on, you agree to let Gmail, Chat, and Meet use your content and activity in these products to provide smart features and personalize your experience.

My wife turned this off because she didn't want typing suggestions or even grammar correction. After disabling the feature, she was much happier.

(googler, opinions are my own)
by paxys | 2026-02-27 20:21:31+00:00
What is "clear room"? If he means clean room, no, this doesn't qualify.

I wish people would stop using this phrase altogether for LLM-assisted coding. It has a specific legal and cultural meaning, and the giant amount of proprietary IP that has been (illegally?) fed to the model during training completely disqualifies any LLM output from claiming this status.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2026-02-27 20:21:46+00:00
I've never used OpenClaw but as I understand it, it has a way of keeping a pseudo memory for context? That alone would be interesting, even if it was only allowed to read the generic internet. Like having a little robot buddy that remembers you and past conversations. Maybe you could have it give you reminders and stuff like you'd do with Alexa?
by arjie | 2026-02-27 20:22:07+00:00
To be honest, anyone with a Claude Code subscription can just write their own in moments. My own assistant has its own email address and Apple ID and interacts primarily via a Telegram bot. I share my calendar with it and my email syncs down and is indexed, but it sends email via its own Gmail account.

The interesting part about OpenClaw is that if you give a world-class model an arbitrary number of skills then emergent behavior mimicking intelligent assistance appears. The structural pieces of that are just long-term memory, an agentic loop, a messaging system, and self-modification.

You can get something quite functional out of:

* A memory.md

* A hand-rolled agent loop (this is just "keep calling till num tries exhausted or agent says stop") - claude knows how to write openai function call syntax and codex tool call syntax

* A Telegram bot

* Access to a persistent filesystem for it to build itself skills

It can be quite expensive to run, but a trick that is supported[0] is to use a Codex subscription by getting a codex cli token and using that. OpenAI explicitly supports this, so you can just use it.

You can try to make improvements to this structure in all sorts of ways using all sorts of tools and get somewhere but this much is all you need. You really have to just give yourself 2 hours with Claude Code and a similar prompt to get somewhere. This is the first time in history that personal software has been this accessible to everyone.

0: someone here told me about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151310