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innagadadavidaon Iran is going after America's debt it's targeting the $40T America owes

The article is basically predicting the opposite. USA will become the sole energy supplier (with Venezuela) of the world. All outstanding debts will get paid off due to huge economic windfall. USA will only sell oil in USD so it really doesn’t matter what other oil producers do.

innagadadavidaon What do you do now as a software engineer?

You are basically any insurance policy to your employer now - they need someone accountable when things break.

innagadadavidaon I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

Jev is targeted to end users, and the tooling is really great. Unfortunately publishing papers without code or tooling or APIs will not attract the crowd as they want something usable quickly. That said, being second in this space is not the end of the world and the race is still on. If there is API access and proper tooling support like Jev, then it can win the game based on merit and not just marketing.

innagadadavidaon iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

Turn off all the web search and other domains that the index uses. Apple took a really brain dead decision to include web search in the results, and they are the worst. It is completely useless, and even though the recall has expanded, the precision is abysmal.

innagadadavidaon iOS 27 Released

I hope they've fixed the keyboard auto misspell and the horrible screen time feautures.

innagadadavidaon Herdr Studio

My setup is ghostty with herdr and this is so much better than using tmux or anything else. The one issue I have with herdr is its default key bindings are not familiar with anything I’ve used before. But it is easy to make Claude configure this - I found you can bind cmd-<key> sequences n addition to ctrl and alt modifiers. The only thing I’m missing is viewing rendered markdown and mermaid charts as part of the agent outputs.

innagadadavidaon Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy

The Ukraine war accelerated this as US sanctioned Russian assets. Blowing up this system seems like a deliberate decision in part of US and not some accident. Gold prices have been going up as folks are hedging the dollar risk and it is expected to continue.

innagadadavidaon Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

> When Google offered me the job of Director of Android Platform Security in 2017, it was impossible to refuse. Yes, Trump was already president—my family and I had qualms—but he seemed contained, even ineffective.

Why make this about trump and politics. It’s just a job.

innagadadavidaon Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app

Zuck has not accountability and total veto powers at the board level. If this was some other CEO making so many mistakes starting with the brain dead Metaverse, they would have been either fired or investigated for fraud. At Meta only the low level engineers are held accountable.

innagadadavidaon 1250-HP Chevy Corvette ZR1X Is Now the Quickest Car We've Ever Tested

Torque band of most engines is not flat like electric motors. So HP is not the only thing that matters for acceleration.

innagadadavidaon 1250-HP Chevy Corvette ZR1X Is Now the Quickest Car We've Ever Tested

https://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/chevrolet/corvette/chevrolet...

US sales is 25k cars a year. Canada buys around 2-3k per year.

innagadadavidaon U.S. science is in chaos

Any “investment” here directly translates to more human activity that will make climate change worse not better. It is hypocritical to have these climate conferences and fly there burning jet fuel. The need of the hour is to drastically reduce the GDP - we need to rewind the clock 50years. But this will never happen because folks will lose jobs and scientists will lose their funding.

innagadadavidaon Stop the Apple Music app from launching

The same thing happens with iPhone and car bluetooth. It is super annyoing and many times, a podcast will be playing in the background while the car has FM/radio selected. This is incredibly frustrating and bad user experience. The worst part is it is not clear if this is Apple's fault or some buggy old firmware in the car's audio stack that is at fault (this happens consistently on 2017 Tesla Model S).

innagadadavidaon Ask HN: How do you handle non-technical people dumping vibecoded changes on you?

I think you need to give them visiblity on how long it will take to review, test and understand how it works and the risks so engineering feels comfortable being on the hook for it.

innagadadavidaon All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

Legally can this be satisfied by shipping a MagSafe battery pack or is that considered insufficient?

innagadadavidaon Antirez is working on a Hacker News alternative

Can we have a more mobile friendly site. It’s impossible to read with larger fonts on my mobile device

innagadadavidaon Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview

These are all great statistics, but how do you explain ClawdBot explosion. Even in lower income countries like China. So much demand that Apple can’t keep up production of Mac Minis. Why aren’t these folks going towards cloud solutions? Is it cost or is there some consideration for having more control over their data?

innagadadavidaon The Mac screenshot tool for builders

All you need to remember is cmd-ctrl-shift-4. Apple chose some terrible defaults here but as you use this your fingers will remember without your brain getting involved. The app fails to mention this obvious built in option.

innagadadavidaon Apple Exclaves and the Secure Design of the Neo's On-Screen Camera Indicator

What happens when you screen share - does those pixels show as active or the kernel cannot read the state of those pixels and the capture has the video memory state?

innagadadavidaon macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)

I went down the sandbox-exec rabbit hole recently trying to get a “safe shell” for poking at random GitHub projects. I eventually realized I was solving the wrong problem.

For development you usually don’t need a kernel policy language - you mostly want: 1. builds not trashing your real $HOME 2. no dotfiles/config pollution 3. some basic separation if a project does something dumb

A much simpler (and more reliable) alternative on macOS is just a dedicated throwaway user account. macOS already isolates home directories, keychains, and app state per-user, so you get a practical sandbox without fighting SBPL quirks or mysterious denials.

My workflow now: I have a user called rsh. I clone and build everything there. My real home directory stays clean. If a project goes crazy, it only damages /Users/rsh

It also avoids the “1000 hidden files in your home folder” problem that a lot of language ecosystems cause.

Minimal setup :

sudo sysadminctl -addUser rsh -password $(LC_ALL=C tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c 16); sudo dseditgroup -o edit -d rsh -t user admin || true; sudo install -d -m 755 -o rsh -g staff /Users/rsh/projects

Then add this alias to your ~/.zshrc command:

alias rsh='sudo -iu rsh /bin/zsh -l'

After that I just run rsh, clone repos into ~/projects, and build there.

innagadadavidaon WebMCP Proposal

Demo I built 5 months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02O2OaNsLIk This exposes ecommerce specific tool calls as regular javascript functions as it is more lightweight than going the MCP route.

It's great they are working on standardizing this so websites don't have to integrate with LLMs. The real opportunity seems to be able to automatically generate the tool calls / MCP schema by inspecting the website offline - I automated this using PLayright MCP.

innagadadavidaon NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing

A key issue that often gets missed is that job growth and housing supply are tightly linked. When cities add office jobs without adding enough housing, the results are predictable: longer commutes, overcrowded housing, or both.

In that sense, it makes little sense to approve large amounts of office space without considering the housing capacity needed to support it. If the jobs-to-housing ratio grows too high, the costs are pushed onto workers and surrounding areas rather than being addressed directly.

This problem is compounded by limited public transit and inadequate road infrastructure. Framing the issue solely as NIMBY opposition misses the structural imbalance at the core of the problem.

Instead of treating symptoms or assigning blame, governments should focus on correcting the underlying mismatch between employment growth and housing supply.

innagadadavidaon FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

Is there a way to setup Mac disabling Touch ID if the linked phone goes into lockdown or Face ID requires passcode? Apple could probably add that.

innagadadavidaon Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

It’s not just the US based liberals. Al Jazeera doesn’t have a single mention on the number or people in Iran that were killed but they do have an article about all the Palestinians killed since over a year.

innagadadavidaon Judge orders release of man arrested in Minneapolis by ICE with a battering RAM

This is interesting, so for a non white legal resident, just carrying your firearm around these people is sufficient to signal that you should be left alone.

innagadadavidaon Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

Spotlight search relevancy is a complete joke. If only they did some embedding based search across the system and paid attention to basic precision recall numbers. This has gone from bad to worse quickly.

innagadadavidaon ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid

Another hypothetical is what if those 100 million turn out to be right wing radicals.

innagadadavidaon ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid

I think a more comprehensive and simpler explanation is that the people protesting just hate this administration. They don't go about making lists like this and then think they need to go protest. They just see a guy they despise and start protesting. Hate is really powerful.

innagadadavidaon ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid

I feel that the mob doesn't understand nuance and right now that mob is fighting for control for definitions of words and what is moral and ethical without giving you the freedom to choose for yourself and accepting it without malice. It's vicious and tiring and definitly not productive.

innagadadavidaon Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?

A while back there was a lot of hype on ultra wide band that is some sort of pulse code modulation and it being trails t to jamming. Can military jammers jam these too? Or is this similar to spread spectrum and the same jammers work for UWB as well?