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arrty88··on I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone
Older/earlier iOS was more simple, intuitive, and usable from my point of view (mid 30s tech oriented male). Now even i find myself getting lost in the endless settings menus and too many different home screen / option screen / extra screens. I don't even use MacOS Launchpad. Just give me a desktop, window manager, and simple notifications.

I dread the day my older mom updates her iOS and calls me for help.

arrty88··on Traefik's 10-year anniversary
I never understood why folks use Traefik. HAProxy feels more configurable and resilient.
arrty88··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
That’s salesforce for you! My employer left slack due to 7 figure bill for seats that were 10 times smaller due to shrinking company.
arrty88··on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
If they are going to be making Billions in net income every year going forward, as many years as analysts can make projections for, and using these works allowed them to GTM faster/quicker/gain advantage against competitors, then it is quite great from a business prospective.
arrty88··on Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo
their own L1 chain that supports the same EVM contracts that eth supports? WoW
arrty88··on Figma will IPO on July 31
Plus, their designs can scaffold easily to both web and native thanks to React framework. One day, you might be able to speak to figma AI, describe the UI, and the FigAI draws the flow/interface for you and then ships the bones of the app. Perhaps they will sprinkle in a backend too.
arrty88··on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
Are people just running headless / full chrome on *nix from data centers to scrape webpages for AI and data mining? Did the article mention anything about checking IP address?
arrty88··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
Better | Hybrid in NYC | Full Time

Seeking Senior Engineers for our Marketplace and AI teams.

On Marketplace, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining all things related to pricing & eligibility of loan files. Tech: React, Go, Node, Lambda

On our newly formed AI team, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining our AI agents available via voice and chat, as well as building new internal automation flows. Tech: OpenAI, Twilio, Node, React, k8, and more

https://jobs.lever.co/better

arrty88··on MCP in LM Studio
I concur. I just upgraded from m1 air with 8gb to m4 with 24gb. Excited to run bigger models.
arrty88··on Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts
im using AI to build a cloudflare replica :)
arrty88··on Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs
Would be cute to alias dnx to get ‘dnx app.cs’
arrty88··on Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI
it looks cool, but i wish i could just see the entire table that im about to query. i always start my queries with a quick `select * from table limit 10;` then go about adding the columns and joins
arrty88··on Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks'
> a) do away with the worthless cookie banners requirement

i recommend everyone gets the chrome plugin that auto accepts these banners so you never have to see them again

arrty88··on The Last Drops of Mexico City
Will any of the feet of snow that dropped on Colorado Cali and Utah make it down to CDMX supply basins?
arrty88··on A 10x Faster TypeScript
Now make it executable in the go runtime please:)
arrty88··on Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique
Most research that is pointed towards important things does get funding from NIH. Most research fails. NIH has a bucket of money for every major issue facing the population. Just takes a few PhD's and a hypothesis to write a proposal.
arrty88··on Calendar.txt
One event per line might just be better.

`YY-MM-DD:HH:MMa (Optional repeat cron definition) "Event string"`

arrty88··on Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
My uncle probably
arrty88··on Meta approves plan for bigger executive bonuses following 5% layoffs
Not surprised
arrty88··on Delta offers $30k to passengers in Canada plane flip
Tax free?
arrty88··on Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view
Very cool. I’ll be using this going forward
arrty88··on Why Tracebit is written in C#
i love dotnet / c# and i would love to work with it again. i have been in the typescript/node world for the past 10 or so years, and while productive, it leaves much to be desired.
arrty88··on Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?
Step 1: build reputation as if they are you

Step 2: offer to sell them to you for some inflated price

Step 3: make your life hell if you dont pay

arrty88··on UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
Some day our regulators at the fda, ftc, doj, etc should clean house and get some folks who can actually go after these greedy companies. Today they don’t because of the revolving door system.
arrty88··on Microsoft won't support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th
I’m planning on not supporting Microsoft in any way in the future myself. I wish they would stop making their suite of products less usable and more bloated
arrty88··on Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets
Why couldn’t nodejs with uWS library or golang + gorilla handle 10s of thousands of connections?
arrty88··on Starlink Direct to Cell
so they are copying https://ast-science.com/ space mobile
arrty88··on Understanding Round Robin DNS
The standard today is to use a relatively low TTL and to health check the members of the pool from the dns server.
arrty88··on Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting
I'm a big fan of self hosting. I have learned a lot on a small hobby project.

for those who are curious about my setup, I bought a used Dell R630 on ebay for cheap. 1tb raid 1 on ssds, 32gb ram, 32 cores, and i am enjoying running a few small hobby apps with docker, virsh, and minikube (yes i learned all 3). I have a 1gbps fiber connection. I use a 1m cronjob to detect if my IP changes, and i use the linode api to change my DNS A records.

arrty88··on DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine
i wonder if the community can figure a bolt on double boiler solution for this easily?
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