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newman314

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newman314··on Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
I virtualized a bunch and they seem to work well. At one point, I even had Ultima running on one. =D
newman314··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
I went from a 13 Pro to 17 Pro and the battery life has been great.
newman314··on iPhone Duo
You could do the leasing route if you upgrade every year. Might pinch less.
newman314··on iPhone Duo
I was quite surprised to see the under display camera. Wasn't expecting that.

Other than that, looks like there are some nice Duo specific features on iOS. $1999 is also surprising given that news outlets were reporting up to $2500. Plus it's price competitive with other foldables in the market.

newman314··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
FWIW, it appears that using the gh cli is much more token efficient than MCP so that's a plus.

https://medium.com/@ravi.madabhushi/mcp-is-up-to-32-more-exp...

newman314··on OpenPrinter
Seems interesting but I would like a laser version of this. Not ever going back to inkjet.
newman314··on LFM2.5-8B-A1B: An Even Better On-Device Mixture-of-Experts
I wonder if Apple will acquire them?

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/28/apple-to-make-on-device...

newman314··on Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
I do not think this is the right way. The right way would be for Apple to allow for a free Developer ID for distribution if the app is free and has no in-app purchases.

This provides IMO all-around goodwill while still adhering to good release practices.

newman314··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
FWIW, first two sections worked for Chrome on Windows.
newman314··on A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)
I wonder if this would port nicely over to rustybgp.
newman314··on Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac
Saw this in an another thread previously and immediately installed it.

I have a new prompt to test LLMs much like simonw's pelican test.

"What is 9:30am Taiwan time in US, Pacific?" For some reason, the answers are quite inconsistent but all wrong.

  ./apfel "what is 9:30am Taiwan time in US, Pacific?"
  Taiwan is 12 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM Taiwan time would be 9:30 PM Pacific Time.
  Taiwan is 13 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM in Taiwan is 10:30 PM in the Pacific Time Zone.
  Taiwan is in the China Standard Time (CST) zone, which is 12 hours ahead of the Pacific Standard Time (PST) zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM in Taiwan is 9:30 PM in the Pacific.
  Taiwan is typically 11 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM in Taiwan is 8:30 PM in the Pacific Time Zone.
  Taiwan is 13 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone. Therefore, 9:30 AM in Taiwan is 10:30 PM the previous day in the Pacific Time Zone.
newman314··on Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
One thing I discovered tonight is that it appears smaller models are remarkably bad at converting time between timezones.

I tested the following using almost all available models on Locally and did not get a single model that got the right answer.

"What is 9:30 am (Taiwan Standard Time, TST) in US Pacific?"

newman314··on Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
This is quite interesting. I wonder if AFM is smart enough to do spam classification.
newman314··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
I wonder if Comma.ai will ever be open to incorporating this into openpilot.

I always thought the argument that humans are adequate drivers and hence only cameras was not great. Why not actually be better than humans at sensing and driving?

newman314··on Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again
It appears that Gurman has been the one pumping the timeline. He's now clarified that Apple has only ever said 2026 with nothing beyond that.
newman314··on Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home
Nope but a cool project nonetheless
newman314··on Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home
You can use one of these to act as a local personal WWVB station amongst other things.

See https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus and https://github.com/GOTO-GOSUB/Txtempus-Passive-Antenna

newman314··on Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected
There is no support for ed25519 host keys (confirmed using ssh-audit). Would be nice to have though.

As an aside, you should use ssh-audit to get recommendations for what to disable as far as less than ideal options/configs go.

newman314··on Hacker conference installed a literal antivirus monitoring system
Here is the CO2 monitor https://github.com/oseiler2/co2monitor
newman314··on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
I currently use Banktivity which is OK. Would love to hear from any others that have used Banktivity and migrated to something else. Ideally, there should be OFX support.
newman314··on Winamp clone in Swift for macOS
Missed a chance to call this swiftamp instead and avoid namespace collision.
newman314··on NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
Agreed. I also wonder why they chose to test against a Mac Studio with only 64GB instead of 128GB.
newman314··on Decoding Netflix's AV1 Streams
Does anyone know what was used to produce the graphs?
newman314··on Three farmers on monopolies and mismanagement in U.S. agriculture
I saw a TikTok of someone saying that farmers are not stupid (due to the wide variety of skills to successfully farm) and were just betting on Trump not actually going through with tariffs.

It's hard to have any sympathy for such cynical behavior while simultaneously asking for handouts. Especially since the same people probably voted against others getting social services.

newman314··on iPhone Air
It also hurts when I drop the iPad mini on my face. In fact, I was considering getting a Pro Max to replace both a iPhone Pro and iPad mini combo but figured it might too big of a compromise.

I wonder if anyone has successfully gone down this path.

newman314··on Mosh Mobile Shell
Do you have a link to a GitHub repo for this? Also, will it be mosh compatible?
newman314··on Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust
Does Whispering support semantic correction? I was unable to find confirmation while doing a quick search.
newman314··on Kiro: A new agentic IDE
It would sure be nice to have some standardized conventions around this. AGENTS.md etc. It seems insane to have to have multiple files/rules for essentially the same goals just for different tools.
newman314··on Show HN: Sink – Sync any directory with any device on your local network
I have been a Resilio Sync user for a while but find it increasingly fragile and prone to randomly breaking. Reconnecting always seems to be a roll of the dice if something gets deleted and I suppose this is a good time to figure out if there are better alternatives.

Syncthing on iOS still seems to be iffy so I'd be interested if Sink can help fill in this space eventually.

newman314··on DeskHog, an open-source developer toy
While cool, instead of buying this, I wonder if anyone has tried to used their Flipper for this use case.
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