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hn8726··on LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
I've got my current, amazing, job from a recruiter cold messaging on LinkedIn. Honestly for job seeking, from what I could gather among my laid off colleagues, it's very decent. None of us had any real LinkedIn activity either, except filling in the profile and job history
hn8726··on Ember-1
Haven't looked into how accurate the page is, but the list of regressions on the bottom looks terrifying, at first glance?
hn8726··on Ember-1
100%, I wish for a legislation which would require the providers to give you at least a unique hash identifying the model (and infra running it, if it affects output) - such that the same hash must give the same output given the same seed. Right now it's all just vibes
hn8726··on Ember-1
Okay 5tb cloud storage is their most expensive plan. But what do you actually use video or image gen for? Or music gen? Antigravity is garbage, I guess you can do some stuff with Gemini models over API. I was paying for Google ai and then realized that between obscure limits and gimmick features I don't really need it. Canceled my subscription and didn't even notice a difference
hn8726··on There are no "rogue" AI agents
If you read the article it states clearly that the sandbox wasn't offline though? There were API calls to certain endpoint(s) allowed, and the model simply used that endpoint's feature to query data from the internet
hn8726··on OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
Fuzzer, then. It implies random behavior, which isn't unintended like you suggest. The agent's/bots/fuzzers have certain capabilities, so it's on their operator to make sure they don't do things they shouldn't
hn8726··on Java 27
Multiplatform and Compose come to mind as Kotlin differentiators. I agree rest of the language actually slowly falls behind
hn8726··on Homebrew 7.0.0
Except ~nobody uses declarative gradle in production yet, and groovy is mostly declining in favour of also turing complete Kotlin. It's yet to be discovered how declarative gradle fares and how much of imperative glue real-life projects will need
hn8726··on DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
Is it? You're still putting a lot of thought and guidance into the agent's harness, the final code is just a tiny bit of that. It's like giving a junior developer final code vs explaining the whys and nuance. Which I'm not sure I want to give Meta
hn8726··on GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
And send the content + PGP envelope over how many text messages? And for every single message?
hn8726··on Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
I also didn't know how to do that, and I'm certain that I've looked it up at some point. It's just so unintuitive that I'd need to do it daily to remember
hn8726··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
I'll take any scripting language over Lua any day. Every time I had to extend a tool that used Lua as a scripting language, I abandoned that tool because Lua was such a pain. I genuinely don't understand the praise it gets
hn8726··on The relay market powering token resellers and fraud
About the same way you'd know Anthropic is getting you the model you picked. Which to me is not really obvious, given clear differences in quality throughout the day and month
hn8726··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
It's hard to tell the difference because they nerfed Pro to oblivion, it used to be much, much better model (even for non-coding/chat)
hn8726··on Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
EU doesn't impose a minimum manufacturer warranty period. What it imposes is a _seller_ guarantee, for which the manufacturer's limited warranty conditions don't really apply directly anyway. Many companies will offer a 2-year warranty because they know that's how long they need to support the buyer anyway, but I've often seen conditions like "2 year warranty for EU, 1yr in US". Anyway, iiuc pebble is not doing anything illegal as long as they don't refuse seller warranty for these 2 years
hn8726··on A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals
I'd be surprised if Reddit wasn't selling tools specifically aimed at seting up and managing operations like that
hn8726··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
I think the idea is that _regular_ people will use CC client but via a 3rd party reseller, and the reseller intercepts the data for distilling (or anything). Requiring the users to use modified clients, or really do anything more than simply change the service URL, would add much more friction for people just looking to use CC for cheaper
hn8726··on Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
It doesn't, I get that it's _a_ benchmark. It's just not a good or insightful one, and having it posted so often on HN feels like low quality spam at this point
hn8726··on Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
Upvotes are cheap, the fact that something is upvoted doesn't mean it's valuable (see: Reddit). Another thing is how insightful is the discussion under a typical pelican comment are (and how much of it is related to the pelican and how often it's just where the general discussion happens).
hn8726··on A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
Care to share an example of this backrestless chair? Is it like a regular chair just without the backrest, or has some other differences? Does it have armrests for example, and if not - does it bother you?
hn8726··on Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
From my experience, these trucks make much more sense on a road in the US. European roads are fairly small so these trucks look _even bigger_, whereas in the US everything is massive so the cars fit. Still, having to look _up_ to see the windshield is crazy and I hope it won't be normalized in the EU
hn8726··on Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
> to fit two motorcycles in the back of the Ranger, you need to adjust the angle of the handlebars awkwardly to fit both on the bed.

can't you position one bike facing forward and one facing back, so the handlebars don't collide? Either way, going with an absurdly big and dangerous car to avoid _awkwardly positioning_ some cargo is pretty American thing to do

hn8726··on Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
Thank you, that makes sense. But in that case it doesn't do much for the op's argument, which seems to be that Europe _prefers massive cars_. US still has much more of obscenely big cars, and Ford F having less % pickup market share shows that there's much bigger market for these cars, if anything
hn8726··on Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
> The Ford Ranger actually sells better in Europe than it does in the US. And the larger F series trucks sell more than an order of magnitude more.

Do you have any sources for this? I looked online and found a couple of charts, none of them support this claim. The Ford Ranger sales in Europe vs US are similar (who buys more varies by year) but the F series seems to be mostly bought in US

hn8726··on Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
On Android most apps started bundling androidx/jetpack compat libraries that help deal with various API versions, and generally make the development much, _much_ easier. These days apps will also bundle the entire new Android UI framework (Compose) while in the past all the UI code was using framework classes.

Other than that, some popular and useful libraries will bundle native libs (for example for sql), and some ad/analytics/corporate SDKs will use native libs to share code between platforms and for obfuscation. These corporate SDKs (like Zendesk) will also notoriously break Android minification tools, because why bother

hn8726··on Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
Google Play offers such functionality already, it's called App Bundles. Instead of uploading an entire APK, the developers can upload the app assets that get bundled into device-specific APKs containing only the resources necessary for the end device. So you'd only get native libs for your phone CPU architecture, translations for the device language and image assets matching the device resolution for example. In fact, I think it's mandatory now to use the app bundles format (but you're still free to configure it to some extent)

I now see the article is about iOS app, but it looks like the Android app is anywhere between 50mb and 100mb (depending on the apk download side I look at) which is much more reasonable

hn8726··on enclose.horse
Yes but it would be nice to see the targets, so you know how far off from an optimal solution you are. I know I'd spend more time looking for better solves if I knew the current one can be improved
hn8726··on Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android
It's automatically granted but the app needs to declare it in order to access internet. Because of that it's not enough that the app _currently_ doesn't request internet permissions, because if it ever starts, it would be mostly transparent to a user
hn8726··on Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, from Windows XP to Windows 11
I'd love the same test but with various Mac versions, and with Intel and Arm machines
hn8726··on HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden
> I assume HSBC are using the "antivirus" use case.

There's an exception for banking apps

> Apps that have a verifiable core purpose facilitating financial-transactions involving financially regulated instruments (for example, dedicated banking, dedicated digital wallets) may obtain broad visibility into installed apps solely for security-based purposes.

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