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kenips··on Launch HN: Martin (YC S23) – Using LLMs to Make a Better Siri
> Making the log and associated binary software images publicly available for inspection and validation by privacy and security experts.

The measurement logs will be publicly available.

kenips··on Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW
What is your time estimate for a company to fix their assembly alignment and paint issues versus the technologies being years behind in a car? That’s the point here.
kenips··on Apple's long processor journey
Thanks for this. It’s a great read. Looking for part II on more of OS X‘s evolution (64 bit, Intel, DriverKit, etc).
kenips··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
1. This will be the last time I’m typing my decade prediction on HN

2. AR/VR will be complementary only, travel industry will be bigger than ever; shopping will happen as your travel (product placement in all your experiences)

3. Weather-related disasters to be more rampant and frequent

4. Governments go bankrupt and hyper-inflation in developed countries

5. Disney still owns everything

6. Intel loses leadership in CPU market, as Apple leads the post-x86 world

7. Facebook to be the Google of the decade; Tesla to be Facebook of the decade

kenips··on Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts
I was hoping that I can finally change night shift intensity based on time of day. Unfortunately night shift isn’t configurable by Shortcut yet.
kenips··on Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again
Apple is close to solving the market problem with XR being a success. The next interaction of the XS line can offer a smaller version without cannibalizing mainstream iPhones, just like the current iPad line up.
kenips··on JavaScript-Based Spreadsheet-Like Formulas in Google Docs
Wrong link?
kenips··on Show HN: Product Graveyard – Commemorating the most memorable dead products
That's cool. Definitely bringing some memories back. If scroll position is maintained when going back to the homepage I'd definitely stayed longer :).
kenips··on Ask HN: What motivates you to do what you do?
While this is funny it misses the point that life is a journey and not about the end result.
kenips··on iPad 9.7‑inch
I think you're missing the rumours on the new 10.5" iPad Pro. Hold your judgement before that. What if the future product lines are only iPad and iPad Pro? With iPad at 7.9" and 9.7", iPad Pro at 10.5" and 12"? Many have said that the 10.5" iPad Pro would be the 12"'s resolution at 326 ppi, and I think thats reasonable.
kenips··on Best Wifi Mesh Network Kits
Not sure if you have read the long article but cool to see that they did include a discussion on Ubiquiti even they aren't wifi mesh.
kenips··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
Planswell | planswell.ca | Senior full-stack developer | Fulltime ONSITE | Toronto ON, Canada

Planswell is a new FinTech startup based in Toronto aiming to deliver financial planning at scale.

What we're doing at Planswell is incredibly valuable to Canadian families. 95% of Canadians, because they are not yet wealthy, don't have access to quality financial planning. And we can give it to them, without human error or bias. And to deliver that, we've got some really compelling technology and and design challenges that are going to be lots of fun to tackle.

We’re currently forming our core team and we’d love to talk to you if you’re excited about:

• helping Canadians to live better

• being an early employee of a well funded startup

• solving problems in creative ways

• using developer friendly languages and frameworks such as Ruby, Elixir, Ember and React

Please PM me if interested and I can’t wait to hear from you!

kenips··on Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode
Probably was referring to the naming of private mode on these browsers?
kenips··on Apple Steps Back from Its iAd Advertising Business
Which 2011 MBP do you have? We have 4 of our 15" 2011 MBPs fixed by Apple for free under the recall without any issues.

https://www.apple.com/ca/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

kenips··on Anvil - a Mac app for Pow
Pow is great - except when you need to fall back on debugging multiple apps. Even with powder it's flaky at best.
kenips··on Ruby 1.9.3 released
Homebrew also updated: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commit/ae9b146fb64cc2db914b...

Just brew update and upgrade.

kenips··on Ruby 1.9.3 released
ruby-debug19 is still not updated...
kenips··on Rogers Phone Finder - What happens if you only learn jQuery
Exactly, and they don't - it does return a random location when I put in a random user_id (they simply expose a user object in the global space with all sorts of attributes in it). They totally upped Apple's "Find My Friends" with this "Find My Strangers" site.
kenips··on Rogers Phone Finder - What happens if you only learn jQuery
This is horrible, yet from Canada's largest(?) wireless carrier??

Checkout: https://www.rogersphonefinder.com/javascripts/conf.js https://www.rogersphonefinder.com/javascripts/fq.js

and you can bypass all the business logic, including checking someone's location I think.

Did I mention that they store your password in plaintext in a cookie? #facepalm

kenips··on Show HN: Quotica - A beautiful way to collect quotes.
Thanks for all the comments so far! We will be rethinking the backgrounds / design in the next iteration and definitely will improve the typeface.

Sign-in with Facebook will also be integrated soon.

kenips··on Show HN: Quotica - A beautiful way to collect quotes.
Thanks for the comments! The homepage isn't a good landing page at all. We're working on a video to show off the site a bit more, and will soon put the most popular quotes on the homepage to get people taste the site better.

Agree with the sign-in part. We're using Django (perhaps should have picked rails) and that's the default settings. We will rectify that issue soon. Thanks again for the feedback!

kenips··on Show HN: Quotica - A beautiful way to collect quotes.
Clickable: http://quoti.ca/?invite_key=showhn