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Hi, I'm Rich, not Jake (long story). I am a programmer in the Chattanooga, TN area.
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runjake··on Ask HN: Can Apple Ever Be Disrputed?
Several of the companies I mentioned also had this, some rather notoriously, such as Sun, IBM, and Microsoft.
runjake··on Ask HN: Can Apple Ever Be Disrputed?
I once felt that way about Zenith, RCA, Timex Sinclair, Acorn, Atari, Commodore, IBM (especially them), the old HP, DEC, SCO, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft.

In other words, all things have their end.

runjake··on Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?
The only viable solution is to reduce dependencies where possible and deal with it.

Nobody in the commercial space is going to follow step 4. It inhibits growth and innovation and increasing profit margins. LTS support would cost a lot of money and my guess is that would not gain enough traction to make it profitable for them. Otherwise, they'd already be doing all of this. I mean, it's talked about constantly in commercial circles.

runjake··on Ask HN: Which one do you use for planning and coding between sonnet and Opus?
Sonnet 5 Medium and GPT 5.5 Medium for coding.

I drop down to a Mini model for file-based tasks.

Codex keeps trying to revert me back to 5.6 but 5.6 seems to use too many tokens to do the same or slightly inferior job.

I am only on multiple $20 plans.

runjake··on French musician Kavinsky found dead
> How is this hacker news?

If it wasn't, it would've been flagged or not voted up, and you wouldn't be here complaining about it. :-P

> Hundreds of musicians died today.

Whom? With the status of Kavinsky?

runjake··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
It is a massive pain in the ass, but if the case is thrown out, the gov't may be less likely to arrest someone again. Who knows, under the current regime. They seem to go after whoever they want.
runjake··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
I'm waiting to see whether he is convicted before I form a strong opinion around this. I'm leaning toward thinking this case will be dropped or at least severely reduced charges.
runjake··on Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?
Fedora KDE or GNOME. I bounce between. Everything works out of the box.

I was always a Debian and Ubuntu guy, and hated RPM OSes, but between Debian's old releases and Ubuntu's decisions (snap), it was enough to drive me to Fedora. I get the latest versions and stability and a decent usable desktop.

runjake··on Ask HN: Has anyone built "HN front page, with all AI stories filtrered out"?
https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude

(not affiliated)

runjake··on How do you guys keep up with AI news?
+1. Unless you want to spend a huge amount of time trying to keep up with the state of the art, just follow simonw. The links in the comment above are great.
runjake··on Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Jerk City lives on, and is now known as Bonequest. Here's today's comic:

https://www.bonequest.com/

runjake··on Whoop 4.0 Without a Subscription
Flutter-based. Runs on Android and iOS. Requires being sideloaded (but no jailbreak) on iOS. No background sync on iOS yet -- you have to open the app to sync. Doesn't appear to be any Apple Health integration (yet).

Can't wait to follow it's evolution. Looks really promising!

runjake··on Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS?
I don't know if it meets your needs, but I use MacWhisper (Pro) for this. I was an early Pro user so I think I only paid $5 at the time.

https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper

https://www.macwhisper.com/

runjake··on Ask HN: How are you productive with GPT 5.6 Sol?
I have the opposite perspective. I primarily use Codex, but jump into Claude and Claude just feels dumber, generates worse code, and less productive.

I don't feel like Claude is awful or anything, just that Codex and it's models are significantly better.

runjake··on Show HN: 18 Words
This "esoteric" garbage is the catchphrase of white nationalists globally.

So it's about as esoteric as white nationalism is. For example, members of the current US administration know it/believe it.

runjake··on Ask HN: Does Apple not care about fake apps in the App Store?
Definitely. Good luck.
runjake··on Ask HN: Does Apple not care about fake apps in the App Store?
I missed those bits. Touché. I'd definitely place it in the category of scam/fake app, then.
runjake··on Ask HN: Does Apple not care about fake apps in the App Store?
> The App Store listing is pretty clearly a scam and the app is clearly pretending to be my app

What leads you to make these allegations?

As far as I can tell, it is not pretending to be your app or claiming any affiliation. The app doesn't even do the same things your does. It's just named the same. It seems a pretty obvious app name.

They probably just came up with the name and didn't bother to Google for prior art. Do you have a trademark on the name? If so, that should squash it from the App Store. Otherwise, I think you're hosed.

That said, it's at best a pretty low quality app with atrocious in-app prices.

runjake··on Ask HN: Does Apple not care about fake apps in the App Store?
clipgrab.org

See my other comment for further details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838328

runjake··on Ask HN: Does Apple not care about fake apps in the App Store?
After some sleuthing, the app appears to be ClipGrab.

Legit website: https://clipgrab.org/

App Store link to alleged "fake" app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clipgrab/id6761039605

As far as I can tell, the App Store app doesn't claim any affiliation with clipgrab.org or the open source app. It doesn't even do the same thing.

runjake··on Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?
This doesn't really answer your questions, especially as AI is permeating the field, but:

https://engineeringblogs.xyz/

https://lobste.rs/

runjake··on Amazon without the knockoffs
They acknowledge your project under the "Prior art" section of their README.md and the list is MIT licensed. Seems fine to me?

Great original idea, BTW. Wish I had known about your extension prior!

runjake··on The Safari MCP server for web developers
Federico Viticci went into a little more detail about what this means on MacStories, Mastodon, and the latest episode of the Connected podcast. It is also more approachable for laypeople.

Be sure to visit the links from the story, as well.

https://www.macstories.net/linked/safaris-new-mcp-server-is-...

https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/116847167023618099

https://relay.fm/connected/610

runjake··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
> I'm equally confused why you think that claiming that being in favor of "open borders" being a common perspective wouldn't generate reactions from the type of people holding the views that you mischaracterize as that.

I'm having trouble grokking your statement, but "open borders" is not a pejorative. It's a belief that people, more or less, should be able to freely flow across borders and live where they like.

Again, I am speaking from a US perspective. It may carry different connotations in other countries. It's too prescriptive to apply the same immigration policies at a global level. There's too much nuance and geographical differences.

runjake··on Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
Depends on your specific needs. What are your needs and use cases?

The M4 Max has more GPU cores, but the maximum amount of memory you can get is only 64 GB.

The M5 Pro, on the other hand, is faster at single core, has fewer GPU cores, but can go up to 128 GB memory.

Rumors are that the Mac Studio is getting updated to M5 in Fall or Winter 2026, if you can wait.

runjake··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
> Who supports "open borders"

It's a very prevalent idea among US immigration activists and left-leaning people.

> what do they support exactly

Generally speaking, that people can move anywhere, if they want to. This article/interview/book covers it in more depth:

https://www.nyclu.org/podcast/the-case-for-open-borders

runjake··on Microsoft Needs Windows Lite
This is essentially what the IoT Enterprise LTSC edition is.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-...

Aside from that, there are various tools and deployment files to automate a stripped down Windows 11 installation.

I don't really use Windows except on my gaming PC, but I like winutil:

https://github.com/christitustech/winutil

But there are better declarative tools out there that generate a stripped down installation. Despite it's reputation, Windows 11 is fairly modular for a commercial OS.

runjake··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
I am confused. Are you using multiple HN accounts or something? I was not reply to the saghm account and your saghm account isn't even present up the thread.
runjake··on Ask HN: Mullvad Alternatives?
What makes Berntsson a fascist? What makes the Örebro Party fascist?

(I am a Mullvad user, but I am not Swedish, or familiar with Swedish politics, so I only have Wikipedia to go from.)

runjake··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
From a US perspective, just up until a decade ago, it was a sentiment that left-center perspective that people like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton had.

I was caught quite off-guard by this new "open borders" perspective. It doesn't seem sustainable at all.

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