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I always hear people on hn asking for smaller screen. Apple actually made a small 12. It was the worst selling phone in the lineup.
We're mostly empty space so anything small enough and not charged can pretty much just fly through us.

If it does not hit anything then mass does not really matter as long as small enough not to have big gravitional effect.
Came to the comments to see just this : how small is it ? On this huge page there is no mention of the size.

Size matters for me : I'm looking for a compact Android phone, there is none now. Something close to the iPhone 12 mini.
On his Twitter account he seems to have rebranded, from Metaverse/Spatial computing enthusiast to a general AI person.

Frustrating, because his "Next year Apple will..." predictions in his AR/VR phase were wild and utterly out there. I remember he predicted Apple Glasses the size of small sunglasses were coming next year. There was also a prediction of a completely transparent iPhone, just a pane of glass. I still wonder how that would have worked in his mind.
Who said they are free market capitalists?

On Hitler about the Socialist moniker, I posted this earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43101676
Incredibly disappointing it’s so big. Bring back the small phones!!

You’ll have to pry the 13 mini from my cold dead hands…or just stop supporting it
60hz is really taking the piss at this point, if they must reserve 120hz for the Pro line then the least they could do is use 90hz further down the stack.
I feel like these comments complaining about modern screen sizes don't consider that Bezels have shrunk a ton since.

Both SE 2020 and 2022 had a body size of 138.4mm x 67.3mm, which gives a diagonal of 153.9mm or 6.1 inches.

The new iPhone 16e has a body of 146.7mm x 71.5mm, with a diagonal of 163.2mm, or 6.4 inches. So only 5% bigger.
I think the stomach punching is much more creatively articulated on Severance. All of those severed workers are getting metaphorically punched in the gut constantly, so much so that they need to be severed to do the job at hand.
People love biggest phone for some reason regardless of features.
France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes
You don't have to make money to be worth an astronomical amount. HN should know this better than anywhere.

I hate "fictitious" valuations as much as the next guy, but at the end of the day it's what people are willing to pay for equity that determines value, not what it's books look like.
This should be pinned as the top comment on 80% of these kind of blog posts as a reality check. Don't get me wrong, I'm (relatively) young, ambitious, and love growth and learning. So I eat these posts up.

But as I age and grow, I notice the challenge of the balancing act more and more.
I love hearing about these early forays in social media. Having been involved on BBSes in my youth there was a certain magic that hasn't been reproduced since, especially around that sweet spot of local, pseudo-anonymous networks - kind of like seeing the same crowd in a coffeeshop.

I read in college about the advent of city life in the 19th century where a new form of human interaction was explored, the "flaneur": someone a part of the urban crowd, but anonymous within it. Able to view on people's daily lives, but without being seen themselves. Wild to think that this was a new concept to people that had only know village/town living for generations. I feel early computer networks created something similar online, albeit briefly.
Not only on HN, everywhere around me. It has to do with country trends I guess. In France, so many people want small phones. They just cannot buy them anymore, they're not produced.
They cropped it out from the center of the 48MP photo. It’s the same on 16 and 16 Pro.
It's a 12mp crop of a 48mp sensor, so it's not digital zoom but it is a crop. It's just that that crop is still of good resolution.
He'll loudly abandon the tariff next week - just long enough for his family and friends to buy the dip.

Same deal with Gaza last week, Canada the week before, Denmark two weeks ago.

Just blurt out a new tariff or policy every few days and hop from one investment vehicle to the next.
Trump lies through his teeth with every word and is easily manipulated by sycophants. He is a bully and a sociopath. Everything he does is to benefit himself.

He is making himself complicit in the deaths of hundreds of thousands in Ukraine because he believes Putin more than his own country's intelligence.

I am independent and not a Democrat or a Republican because they are two sides of the same coin.
However, as the iPhone 12 and 13 mini demonstrated, the people who like small phones are a very vocal but extremely small minority (only 3% of US sales were the mini). They both sold so badly, it serves as a reality check for how small voices on the internet are compared to the market.
I'll be looking into getting a 'coronary CT scan'.
Appreciate the feedback! Sounds like you're looking for more of a deep dive into the tech and how it works. This post was more about showing results, but we’ll cover the process and technical details in another one
I can’t really understand this quantum stuff. What does this mean for Microsoft? Is it something that is unique to them? Or is it something that others like Google or Chinese companies can easily replicate? Does it change anything for encryption or cybersecurity?
In a democracy the three branches are independent. Democracy is not just 'you get to elect the guy on top', it also attempts to preserve the rights of the population. If the population does not have rights, democracy soon becomes very fake. E.g., I don't like this or that party so I throw anyone in jail during election day if I know that they would vote for the wrong party. The general principle is that if a person/organization has too much power they will generally find a way to abuse it. The famous split-up in three branches is employed to a greater or lesser extend in all countries where the rights of the population are respected.
Women who made America's microchips and the children who paid for it
Apple C1 modem versus a tried and true Qualcomm modem seems like a big internal difference.
I have a Razr. The touchscreen surface isn't glass (there's a TPU film on top for protection), but it's a very good experience and I rarely think about it not being glass.
Apple has no problem with self cannibalization. See the iPod or the iPad with keyboard for example.
I can never look at Wellness benefits the same again.

For someone who spent his whole career on camera, Stiller and company absolutely nailed every minute aspect office culture.
> Technology is necessarily a progressive force

Technology is a tool. It is not a culture or a system. In fact, I think state and corporate use of technology for things like surveillance, censorship, frankly pointless jobs that somehow attract VC money, mass propaganda and social media access, data tracking and advertising and behavior modelling to a T, hypothetical pointless-job-destroying-AGI, etc. that are currently in vogue are part of the conservative structure. Technology means moving, but is this outwards or inwards movement?
"Thinking Machines" evokes some deep AI history.
Agreed. Multi-multi billion. It is a fundamental change in the global energy dynamic -- including the fact that D-T reactors are still use heat exchange which means heat is also a useful output product for industrial purposes. MSRs are really good for this but of course are fission not fusion reactors.

It borders on a national security issue.
Looks great - well done!

Can you clarify the slack integration? I see you've mentioned it, but I'm unclear on the workflow.

A use-case I've thought about previously is support discussions we have on our slack channel, which indicate that we need to update our docs.

Is Promptless able to raise a PR with suggested updates on docs, based on question/answers in our support channels?
Part of the executive power in the US is that the president influences the judicial branch, and ultimately the judicial branch is going to determine who gets to do what. They do this in many ways, a big one being they can prioritize any case they want, and simply decline to even hear certain ones. So if the president wants to do something, congress pushes back and challenges it and it goes to court, the president can effectively “get away with it” as long as the judiciary is fine with it
Seriously? They could just make the battery a bit thicker, it wouldn't even change the overall shape in a really perceptible way.
Very eloquently stated.

I think socially we have mental-model of what a "good" job, or "good" life is, and this model is largely based on certain capitalistic/individualistic assumptions.

We tell ourselves that being isolated, feeling useless, feeling blamed, being punched in the stomache once doesn't really matter and aren't real problems if we get paid a lot.

So we save up a lot of money, but we aren't happy (despite insisting we should be), and ironically no amount of money can purchase back what we gave up -- a sense of purpose, respect, community, etc.

A friend once asked "What would be your ideal job if you had F-you money?" and my answer was "The field wouldn't matter that much, just a job where I had coworkers who genuinely liked and respected each other and cared about what we did." He couldn't understand me and kept repeating "No what field though, if you could choose?"
Can someone please explain the benefits of C1 chip?
How possible is it for there to be a "disruptor" to the smartphone market?

I think Apple's selling point is the app ecosystem, but I personally don't use apps all that much. Just a few big ones and they're all just for communication: FB Messenger, WhatsApp, SIM, SnapChat. And the web browser, maps. I'm 27.

Why can't someone just manufacture a screen, some buttons, little computer, then software for communication and make some good money?

Just seems Apple is a dinosaur nowadays Google too.
Bumble sunsets acquired apps, Fruitz and Official, to cut costs
> they can contact the ISP and ask them who had these IP addresses at the given time and thus determine with certainty who communicated with whom.

Public WiFi.

> I don't know about this Salt Typhoon, but as I interpret it, there was an excellent secure system

Hahahaha no. There was never an excellent secure system. Look at the past decade or so of SS7 attacks.
At a certain age they will make that decision for themselves - you can't micromanage or monitor your kids' activities all the time. It's the same in every generation, it was TV at one point, then games, then youtube, then tiktok, and I'm sure the next generation in 10 years or so will scoff at whatever the younger generation does to get their distraction / dopamine hits.

That said, in the Netherlands there's been a ton of schools that have banned phones on the premises for various reasons. It's IMO ineffective as long as they also get laptops or tablets from the school, but it's a step in the right direction. There was just too much distraction and abuse; in a local example, there were anonymous "gossip" accounts on the various social media that would record and publish loads of random shit happening at school, often leading to cyberbullying and whatnot.
thats why since nationalism started dying in europe and the usa they both have been on a downwards trend?
tl;dr - iPhone 16 with one camera, no MagSafe, and an Apple-designed cellular modem for $200 cheaper.
I'm debating on whether they will manage to stir up enough chaos to suspend the constitution, or whether there will be enough independent thought left in the military to oust them when the time comes for new elections - although I can't rule out Russian-style elections, one-man one-vote, and his vote is what counts.
In my cognitive landscape, abstract reasoning is a huge spike for me while linear reasoning is closer to average. I just don’t think I need help with all of that exploratory stuff — I need something that’s going to root me in reality with hard facts, figures, and processes. I can see how folks that don’t exist primarily in “shower thoughts” land, like I do, and have better intuition with the concrete linear stuff might get more use out of it than me. Conversely, perhaps I get a bit more out of traditional search engine workflows than others?

That would definitely account for the difference in my perception of their utility vs other peoples’.
The problem I have with uv is that it is not opinionated enough, or complete enough. It still needs a backend for building the package, and you still have a choice of backends.

In other words, it is a nice frontend to hide the mess that is the Python packaging ecosystem, but the mess of an ecosystem is still there, and you still have to deal with it. You'll still have to go through hatchling's docs to figure out how to do x/y/z. You'll still have to switch from hatchling to flit/pdm/setuptools/... if you run into a limitation of hatchling. As a package author, you're never using uv, you're using uv+hatchling (or uv+something) and a big part of your pyproject.toml are not uv's configuration, it is hatchling configuration.

I'm sticking with Poetry for now, which has a more streamlined workflow. Things work together. Every Poetry project uses the same configuration syntax (there are no Poetry+X and Poetry+Y projects). Issues in Poetry can be fixed by Poetry rather than having to work with the backend.

I understand that uv is still young and I am sure this will improve. Maybe they'll even pick a specific backend and put a halt to this. But of course Poetry might catch up before then.
Because people expected to have lower prices with smaller phones.
Why can't they release another mini version? I don't want a large phone!
Qualcomm still owns the patents.
There are lots of sources, the article briefly covers many of them. They all share in common the fact that there is very little real information and so we can only read behind the lines at trying to find the truth. Devereaux is one of the few takes that admit to this problem, and for that alone is makes him my favored source. It quickly becomes clear if you read these that most takes on the Spartans are using the lack of information to read some favored angle.

I'd be interested in another historian's take if different. I'm reasonably confident that they will be similar to Devereaux's take though, so I'm not looking.
Another nice write-up at NYTimes (gift):

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/technology/microsoft-quan...
Gridlock, disfunction, and completely incapable of governing are a bit loaded, but other than that, a slow moving legislature was a feature built into the system — not a bug.
Trump also rubbished the trade deals that he himself signed!
That sounds great, but those batteries are both too expensive right now and not available. People choose the cheaper alternative which are to use thermal energy where they burn gaseous hydrocarbons when the panels can’t see the power source. When the time and price is right we may stop building new such thermal power sources, but for now we can define them as the current best choice and even call them green since everyone has the intention to replace them in the future some day.
On 8bit computers (like Z80, 8086 etc)

XOR REG,REG

is often faster than

REG <-0

operation.
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Read Replicas
Apple has fallen off in every product category.
> because they were licensed from a third party

*or they were violating open source licenses like some startups just do.

But in either case a reasonable fine could be appropriate.
> I am guessing that's the end of the small phone line at Apple.

That really ended with the 13 mini on which I'm typing this comment and that I'll hold onto till it's no longer supported.
Because nobody buys them.

Apple tried with the iPhone 12 mini, and the iPhone 13 mini. They were only 5% of phones sold globally, and only 3% of phones sold in the US.

The desire for small phones is an internet thing, but not backed by the market. Take it as a reality check for how internet opinions can be mostly irrelevant.
It's probably the same as the 2x zoom in the iPhone 16 line. The 1x pictures are a 48MP sensor that does some pixel-combining to output a 12MP image. The 2x pictures are a crop of 12MP in the center of the sensor, that doesn't do any combining. So it's still "optical", but it's lower-quality.
Because asking an LLM to create a list of technologies used to build a recommendation system is not a skill they have?
I am still confused. Are these made of quarks? Electrons? Atoms? Ions?

All the article says is "a new material made from indium arsenide and aluminum".
There’s a lot of common sense “should” statements that are true and will never happen
LLMs are the "move fast and break things" of AI.
Probably because those of us who enjoy a lively discourse are tired of people trying to score some cheap karma with a thoughtless deployment of "slop" or "enshittification".
It is an iPhone 16, inside iPhone 14 Body, Single Camera from iPhone 16, with iPhone 14 OLED Screen, Apple Modem, Without UWB, Minus 1 GPU Core on A18, 7.5W MagSafe Charging same as iPhone 14. Wifi 6 instead of Wifi 7 on iPhone 16.

However at $599, higher than the rumoured $499 or $549 pricing. iPhone 14 previously at $599 and iPhone SE at $429 are now gone. Getting rid of iPhone 14 and iPhone SE as they are both using Lightning and not USB-C.

The lineup is a little strange. Will iPhone 15, currently at $699 dropped to $599 when they announce iPhone 17?

The most interesting part is of course the Modem. We will have to wait and see how it perform.
I feel like the 12 mini was objectively a subpar device, and maybe if 13 mini had come out first (after a long hiatus of not having smaller phones), then there might have been a chance. But probably not.
Vertical integration. No longer depends on Qualcomm for a very critical component. Slightly higher margin.
the only question is if there were enough sold to build a community like the spotify carthing, which now sell on Ebay for more than their original msrp (not inflation adjusted)

https://github.com/ItsRiprod/DeskThing
From what I've read, the tie-in with Dune is ostensible at best. Plus, the suit by Herbert is why it wasn't released in the US
> Hydrogen has its place in our energy economy

It certainly does not! (At least, not in any meaningful sense).

A) How do you store it?

Hydrogen does not compress to a liquid (except a cryogenic temperatures), meaning storage requires bulky, heavy and dangerous high pressure storage..... or cryo kit.

B) Where do you get the hydrogen from?

Electrolysis of water gives less hydrogen energy out than electrical energy you put in.... its more efficient to use the electrical energy directly. Currently we obtain hydrogen from natural gas, which itself is a finite resource (not to mention CO2 is emitted when extracting the hydrogen from gas).

Seriously, the sums don't add up and hydrogen is a looser however you look at it. The only people promoting it here are the natural gas industry who are looking to get money pushing the "hydrogen economy" vapourware.
Something as abstract as "techniques" is in general not copyrightable. Worst case, there is a software patent but that is not something that is granted automatically.
> I don't think it's particularly problematic, uv the concurrency library and uv the Python tool cover such non-overlapping domains that opportunities for confusion are minimal.

Google returns mixed results. You may assert it's not problematic, but this is a source of noise that projects with distinct names don't have.
You should get 5 years of updates out of it I suspect. It was originally released in September of 2021. So, 2026 might be the final year of iOS updates you'll get, then it's just a matter of how long they back port any security fixes. Sometimes devices end up getting longer support so it's tough to say for sure.

At this point one of these SE type devices is on my list for any future upgrades. I've gone to carrying a pocketable camera with me pretty much anywhere so having a good camera on my phone is no longer necessary, which means no more Pro model for me.
Just move to the EU.
"Come and take them" has long been a refrain of the gun crowd. This greek is a new version of the same thing.
I bought a 16 Pro after the camera on my previous iPhone stopped working. Despite being a camera-led purchase - and I do care about the camera on my phone - I would have bought this 16e in a heartbeat over the Pro.
Earlier official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103623
You're assuming most people even read the spec sheet and knew it was inferior on paper. I assure you, most did not. Most just looked at it, decided "too small," and that's about it.
Yup, sad news.

Anyone who disagrees should try teaching an older relative with less than youthful fine motor control how to use a FaceID equipped iPhone.
> Majoranas hide quantum information, making it more robust, but also harder to measure. The Microsoft team’s new measurement approach is so precise it can detect the difference between one billion and one billion and one electrons in a superconducting wire – which tells the computer what state the qubit is in and forms the basis for quantum computation.
I agree that the tech is not at the place where it was 25 years ago, but I fiddled with plastic screen protectors on top of these kinds of screens enough. I still use screen protectors, but glass on glass is a much better experience for me.

It's a matter of choice, and I'm not judging people who like it by any means, but I'm a bit boneheaded on these things and don't change my choices that fast. For example, I still don't think OLED is suitable for TV sized screens and laptops. I know how the color and contrast is better, but I don't want to replace my TV or laptop every three years because it develops subtle burn-ins for example. I come from CRTs, and can endure a good backlit LCD a couple of more years, esp if it has color temperature adaptive backlight.
Files will always exist conceptually as a way of expressing data. The notion of sharing exists because of sandboxing and the need to exchange data between apps. This has been extended beyond just apps to sharing between multiple users or endpoints. Actual file naming for some objects has been superseded by meta data and tagging because it provides a better way of describing the thing.

The goal has always been to pull file management away from users. Because they don't need to know or care how the internal data structures work. So yes, in a sense file management is trending towards more of a need to know basis.
Maybe depends on how poor? My experience was even poor parents were able to care. But I think more extreme cases could be different - like if they’re both rarely at home and they don’t have others to help raise the kids, then I think the family culture doesn’t really exist.
The post already contains the caution.

"I wouldn’t do it every year, because I would probably collapse from exhaustion, but I’m grateful to have been able to contribute to such a project."

Why should the comment be pinned when it doesn't even grasp that the blog post isn't advocating, at all, that people should be in high-growth sprint mode 24/7/365?
Post quantum encryption basics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
Couple decades ago I split my femur in half. Docs put a metal rod down the middle and had the PTs getting me on my feet the next day. It was not pleasant. After a couple days they sent me to a rehab facility for a week, then home with a walker which they replaced with a cane as soon as I was stable enough.

It took a while but I fully recovered. I'm not sure how relevant this is since the metal bore a lot of the load; I'm a little worried that may cause me problems eventually.
At least I can still buy a 700 eur phone when my 13 mini gives up.
Vatican, Monaco, Singapore, perhaps Dubai and San Marino depending on how tight a definition you wanted to make.
Isn't this the first time they have an actual zoom lens vs multiple lenses and thus CMOS?

Edit: reading below it's still unsure if they actually have a lens that moves back & forth to achieve the zoom.
It sold poorly, sadly.