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rock_artist··on Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries
Not sure what they'll do (Maybe they'll release Switch2 Lite or Switch 2 OLED in Q2/Q3 2027). but I guess like Apple stopped with Lightning until they finished their transition to USB-C they'll just let the transition work.
rock_artist··on MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds
No directly related to danger of MSI Center after years of suffering I've removed it.

As my work develop is focused on macOS and Windows apps, I need a Windows laptop and got a light Prestige 13 inch with 32GB and 125H.

It did the trick, but I had years of not understanding how the throttling works. Sometimes if I was using AC and battery was lower than 90% I had CPU throttled at 800Mhz or even 400Mhz never going over 1Ghz. it drove me nuts and my fiddling with MSI Center was always unexpected. I had some strange steps to like connect/disconnect charger, change MSI Center performance settings. none was reliable. (even with Windows Power Settings all the way to max)

Eventually I've found on a reddit thread this (strangely hidden) uninstaller: https://www.msi.com/faq/9934 https://download.msi.com/uti_exe/nb/CleanCenterMaster.zip

Leaving the throttling and fan to Microsoft + Intel seems to do much better work. I no longer look at the task manager for CPU frequency. it just works.

So I have no clue what are the advantages of MSI Center in the first place (maybe bios updating?)

rock_artist··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
Europe has lots of issues with companies. It's not just Germany.

And the EU knows, hopefully it will improve the situation: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/03/18/48-hours-and-1...

rock_artist··on Apple is going to raise device prices, but when?
> Aren't their storage prices so inflated that they could just eat the difference?

Yes but to a point. Like Microsoft raised their Surface series prices. There's internal threshold of what they can tolerate before raising prices.

You can see the price and trend here: https://www.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

Yet, remember that costs are more complex with currencies and shipping prices.

rock_artist··on Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout
I wonder how dramatic it is within latin languages. as you mentioned on macOS you only use latin typesets. For those things most annoying are spelling mess ups, but I mostly use English keyboard and long press when I need to write things like papanaşi (ro) or buñuelos (es). (but I get those red dotted lines).
rock_artist··on Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers
I'm not sure I've understood it correctly.

So, basically the model didn't agree to expose possible vulnerabilities but agree to patch those?

Regardless of the request to take Fable 5 down. Why is requesting the model to show vulnerabilities is being blocked if fixing it not? is it based on the assumption of the intention?

I don't quite get the benefit of limiting it. So if anyone can explain it better it'll be appreciated.

rock_artist··on Apple Foundation Models
I see an id based ability suggesting `modelId`. but in current docs I cannot find any context to it. The other limit is that it suggests Swift Packages. but I'm not seeing any model management hints similar to Docker/Ollama/etc where:

- Application can ask for specific model, if available use it. if not, ask to download it (or try some fallback / alternative)

- User can manage models. So as a user I can clean unused models (and for non-techie have something similar to offloading apps when unused for some period of time).

rock_artist··on Apple Foundation Models
Who’s “you guys” a developer from Bay Area? A student with a MacBook Neo? Or John Appleseed who bought basic iPhone 17e?
rock_artist··on Apple Foundation Models
While I'm happy with Apple introducing this abstraction. my main concern was with local models.

I'd love using Gemma4 as an example. but thinking of a user. if 10 Apps each uses same model and downloads it, the phone will be bloated.

I still didn't understand if Apple provided a way for multiple apps uses same on-device model (without tricky namespaces and permissions).

I didn't see anything suggesting that's the case.

rock_artist··on Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses
English nor Latin characters are my native language. My language is also written from right-to-left.

So if it was broadly used and what charset used by a reasonable amount of the population then yeah I’d of course learn it in early age as I had to learn English.

rock_artist··on Bring Siri AI to EU iPhone Users Safely
I live now in the EU and want Siri AI but not in that way.

I’m also not happy on how Apple ended up making 3rd party apps available in the EU. I don’t use it as a developer and as a user because it’s designed to work bad and be non profitable.

There was and I can assume still is bad behaving apps on the AppStore, my security and privacy is my right exactly as my right to compromise my privacy…

This petition vibe coded or not isn’t serving my interests of Apple designing balance that allows a user to decide on their device.

rock_artist··on Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses
> In that sense, it’s actually pretty surprising that so much of the world’s population wasn’t able to put their own name, in its native written form, in an email address until just 14 years ago.

Maybe for some internal usages. but imagine someone from a country using different language and characters gives me a card with their email. It's now far less portable for me to use it. Those days, I surely could picture it and find the email most likely getting it right.

But email as means of international communication, like passport, should be readable as possible or it kills its purpose.

Even with ASCII emails I have, I already sometimes struggle to pass them over phone or other methods :)

rock_artist··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
> imagine EU iPhones being imported into US to use with OpenAI or Claude Cowork

That's not the case. it's merely software (exactly like my iPhone 16 lacking the promised AI features claimed at WWDC24).

Anyway as I'm now within the EU with phone I bought before moving to the EU, regional features (or restrictions) depends on the logged in account and device regional settings. Except physical considerations (eSIM design, actual radio transceivers). The hardware is the same thank god.

rock_artist··on [dead]
On one hand they iOS 27 supports iPhone 11 from 2019 but on the watchOS they scrap a device with less than 3 years (as of today)
rock_artist··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
Framework in general is focused on developers. I think the general target audience is different. So the customization and OS makes a huge difference for a developer. I was excited about the Neo. But the 8GB and storage felt too limiting for development.

For daily / home/office this is where the competition is. And it’s not against the Framework.

In raw experience even with latest Swift Air, Apple has a great device benefiting from their optimized and existing production line.

We’re 5-6 years now from Apple silicon and yet the industry didn’t catch up completely.

Battery life, heat, performance and even arm64 isn’t yet a first class citizen on Linux* or Windows.

(* Linux is mostly power management assuming mobility experience is needed)

rock_artist··on Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
TLDR from the post itself.

No:

Colorectal cancer is going up in young people.

Yes:

Various kinds of cancer are going up in later generations. (Definitely at younger ages, possibly at all ages.)

Reminder

This blog endorses colorectal cancer screening. We don’t yet know if colonoscopies are better than other methods of screening (sigmoidoscopy, stool tests), but we do know that screening is better than not screening. When caught early, CRC is highly treatable, often with only surgery (no chemotherapy or radiation) and a return to normal activities within a couple weeks.

rock_artist··on Incident with Actions and Pages
Super odd make productivity useless
rock_artist··on Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda
Mail and shipping is tedious to begin with. Recently I've sent some hoodies and shirts to colleagues.

Everything is within the EU.

For sending few shirts I ended up paying about EUR20 each just for shipping! (I've wanted to ensure it gets to their house and not a pickup point).

Initially I've went with regular post office, but they've wanted so many documents I've used a 3rd party shipping company.

It always ends with compliance and regulations which shipping companies are being (and charging you) for.

It's crazy that things from china can come at ridiculous price or Amazon in specific region/countries and they 'hacked the system'.

We also had similar headache when my wife forgot her bag (with her work laptop!) on a train to the airport back home while visiting my parents in our home country. The bag was found and my parents took it. but sending it ended up being so complex we eventually found someone kind enough to travel with it. (or you need to have so complex procedures just to explain why it shouldn't be taxed as it's YOUR equipment).

TL;DR - personal shipping is broken. it might be cheaper to visit a friend in Uganda and give him the laptop in person.

rock_artist··on Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
I see a lot of discourse but without much context. With HN, I'd expect people to have more context than bashing what feels more politics than reviewing a banned or censored (still need more context).

All I can find which isn't enough (at least for me), to have an educated conclusion is the following:

Tweet re-tweeting Ahmed Shihab-Eldin:

"After weeks of trying to regain access to my @instagram account, which was temporarily suspended by @accessnow while I was wrongfully detained, I FINALLY got a backup code which allowed me to login only to receive this prompt that my account has been permanently disabled"

Access Now - that I can understand works for human rights. https://www.accessnow.org/about-us/

English Wikipedia:

"On March 3, 2026, Shihab-Eldin was detained by Kuwaiti authorities for resharing news articles about the Iran war;[13][17] the previous day, he had posted images of a U.S. fighter jet crashing over the country.[18] The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported that he had not been seen publicly in Kuwait, where he was visiting family, since March 2, and that he was under arrest over accusations of "spreading false information," "harming national security" and "misusing his mobile phone;"[13][19] the incident occurred as part of a wider wave of crackdowns targeting journalists across different Gulf states amid the war."

Then mentioning his Kuwaiti citizenship was revoked on 29th of April 2026 and earlier some implicit hint? he was released. (though he's American born so I can assume he also has a US Citizenship unless he gave it away at some point)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Shihab-Eldin

https://www.ahmedshihabeldin.com/

I see he has been a journalist and activist over the years within context of the Middle East.

But if someone have more details about why he was blocked it would be much more helpful to understand this story.

rock_artist··on LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction
> I'm not sure why people struggle with the fact that an abstraction can be built on top of a non-deterministic and stochastic system. Many such abstractions already exist in the world we live.

It depends on what's the abstraction.

Using LLM for coding is 'abstracting' the developer, adding extra layer that can produce code. But it's not abstraction layer of the code itself.

rock_artist··on Networking changes coming in macOS 27
In comparison to other 'changes' Apple usually do those one are realistic. Dropping deprecated networking practices that worth upgrading (meaning, if you already have newer macOS clients mostly with apple stack, update your servers)

I just hope they won't break anything they don't need to break (which is more concerning usually) and that they won't drop other things that do make sense to keep until transitioned properly (eg. OpenGL as one example)

rock_artist··on The Prompt API
I think it's a step into a future of proper Model API. But it's just a small step. It reminds me of Apple's Foundation Models [1]

While many AI integrations are focused on text communication / chat style. A lot of software benefits from non-text interfaces.

I believe at some point OSes and browsers should provide an API to manage models so you'll have access to on-device/remote ones with a simplified interface for the app. Making something standardized that is cross-platform would be fantastic. It also needs to be on mobile devices, so the players that can easily make it happen are mostly Apple and Google. (Meta will follow or vice-versa I guess)

Key-point: it shouldn't be exclusive to promoted models.

(1) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels So the app would be able to query and get the right model(s).

rock_artist··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
The age of AI seems to forget some lessons from Google (and history in general).

- Rapid changes hurts the trust of your brand and product. In Google case, using a new service product became something you’ll think multiple times as you are more likely to axe it than rivals or specialized equivalents.

- While models currently has no clear winner. Anthropic’s core product is coding. But just as Skype, IE, Netscape their can always be another game changer you cannot count.

- The Pro plan is already limited for true agentinc workflows. The limits now are so bad that a business that relies on it would need bigger plans.

- Anthropic is already in a delicate situation where many devs are frustrated. Dropping or crippling the use even more just means this sector (which I can only assume is a big chunk) would switch to competitors tool that already try to compete.

- Local models, whether as Google sees it “edge” or even further would also take bigger part in the future.

rock_artist··on America Lost the Mandate of Heaven
> When I was younger I used to think more negatively about jobs, I even called it the jobs problem in my 2019 agentic coding startup template. I have since come around, the point of a society is the flourishing of its inhabitants.

That’s the key. The world is a delicate fabric that changes over time.

It’s nice (or frustrating) reading opinions. Forecasting the future is tricky.

While the world and us humans waste our time arguing, conflicting or dreaming, earth and the universe can easily introduce earthquakes, meteors and other unforeseen events that will have more impact than human made events we already cannot completely forecast.

rock_artist··on Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'
Just worth clearing the point about Hezbollah in that context.

Hezbollah is not the “main” political party [1]

It is a major part of the government but not the main.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_L...

If they were the main party then it was Lebanon who attacked Israel following the war with Iran and not Hezbollah.

Lebanon is very pragmatic already and they actually have an army which isn’t Hezbollah.

rock_artist··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
If anyone who’s capable in Spain set a petition or the relevant steps and put it on HN. I’m pretty sure any Spanish resident in HN would be more than happy to take part even if it means to send a Bizum for the cause.

(Sadly as living in Spain for about a year I’m still not in such place to raise this or understand the full steps needed)

rock_artist··on Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user
It might be tricky when user upgrades while jumping the “headups” version.

There should be migration taken into consideration that is kept to any previous version allowed to be upgraded from.

rock_artist··on Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
Apologies if it's due to lack of understanding from my end. But why is it 'for AI-coded'?

Don't get me wrong, as I look for some simple backend for an app I plan it does look another awesome alternative.

But what I'm not understanding is, what makes it 'ai-coded' focused?

And least, vs. other backends, it seems to be TS focused. do you have plans to have some drop-in bindings for (native) mobile platforms?

rock_artist··on Gemma 4 on iPhone
I really believe in the future of local models.

From app developer and user, My main concern for now is bloating devices. Until we’ll have something like Apples foundation model where multiple apps could share the same model it means we have something horrible as Electron in the sense, every app is a fully blown model (browser in the electron story) instead of reusing the model.

With desktops we have DLL hell for years. But with sandboxed apps on mobile devices it becomes a bigger issue that I guess will/should be addressed by the OS.

For my app I’ve been trying to add some logic based on large model but for bloating a simple Swift app with 2-3GB of model or even few hundred MBs feels wrong doing and conflicting with code reusability concepts.

rock_artist··on Dobase – Your workspace, your server
The confusing thing for me related to that was Try Free which leads me to look for pricing. But with only Try free I get suspicious of even private or small team.

If it’s free for use. Try is a confusing term.

Off topic, I’d really wish any service or product with tiers would have pricing in a discoverable way.

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