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tannedNerd··on Apple Is Quietly Building the Most Profitable AI Toll Booth
If anything this highlights that apple needs to be forced to allow third party app stores on even footing as the App Store.
tannedNerd··on I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok
Why though?

If only 1% of your user base is accessing your maps through the website, you aren’t going to keep supporting it.

tannedNerd··on I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok
This also skips over with some hand waving that a lot of mobile app uses cases simply can’t be replicated with web sites. Take gps or smart home control as two easy of the top of my head example the author skipped too.

Also the fact that people here would rather have their info stored in the cloud vs local on device is interesting.

tannedNerd··on No evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
This is the most reasonable take I’ve seen in this whole thread. Alcohol doesn’t reduce anxiety either yet tons of people take it as a social lubricant and it probably does more damage to those consuming it than those who consume weed. So shrug? Just be responsible folks and let people blow off steam how they like without judging it like weed is an 8 ball.
tannedNerd··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
Way to completely misunderstand and try in an underhanded way to the dismiss entourage effect.

It’s not smoking 10 strains in a row it’s the fact that you need CBD THC and all the terpenes to get the effects. So the current growing trend of just getting the THC number higher tends to result in plants that don’t actually give people the full spectrum of effects, beneficial or not.

So the correct way to do this would be a full spectrum isolate, which again you coincidently forgot to mention I’m sure.

tannedNerd··on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
Yeah some of it is probably related to me primarily using it for swift ui which doesn’t have years of stuff to scrape. But even with those and even telling that ios26 exists it will still at least once a session claim it doesn’t, so it’s not 100%
tannedNerd··on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
The problem with this is none of this is production quality. You haven’t done edge case testing for user mistakes, a security audit, or even just maintainability.

Yes opus 4.5 seems great but most of the time it tries to vastly over complicate a solution. Its answer will be 10x harder to maintain and debug than the simpler solution a human would have created by thinking about the constraints of keeping code working.

tannedNerd··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
Have zero stake in this, but I read it as they won’t accept blank checks from those companies, but if those companies want to pay for testing they can work something out. It’s poorly worded but I don’t think they are trying to be sneaky.
tannedNerd··on Serverless Horrors
Or simply returns 503? Why would you go directly to destroying things??
tannedNerd··on Dominion Energy's NEM 2.0 Proposal: What It Means for Solar in Virginia
I didn’t think I’d see corporate utilities propaganda on hacker news but here are.

The main rebuttal to this is why are non of the public utilities (Sacramento, Santa Clara, and La power) in California trying to get on nem 3.0 if it’s such a profit loss and causing so much “unfairness”? The answer is because it’s made up and the investor utilities want to be able to sell you all the power. They would love to get rid of rooftop solar.

tannedNerd··on App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)
Cool, but web apps still can’t do location tracking in the background. So please do tell me how my fitness app should be a web app instead?
tannedNerd··on Show HN: Minimal, self-hosted exercise tracker
Fitbod was pretty good about this. You can tell it what gym equipment you have and it will design workouts around that and the muscle groups that aren’t tired from the last session.
tannedNerd··on Electric cars could last much longer than you think
This post is 100% BS. I just checked the instructions for an engine swap on a fiat 500 are about 60% longer than the 500e battery swap. Also the engine weighs around 450 lbs, so its not like you aren't using a hoist or a lift for both any ways.
tannedNerd··on EU asks for views on plan to force Apple to open up iOS
The same can be said for modern android…
tannedNerd··on Show HN: Fed up of ugly and weird diving apps, I built my own
This looks cool and thoughtfully designed, but I high recommend you add a mobile app so that it’s possible to use it offline. 90% of my 200+ dives have been outside of cell phone coverage.

Also small piece of feedback. The affiliate model being so prominent and with only a lifetime price, I as a consumer don’t have a high level of confidence of this existing for a long time. Especially since it’s web based so you need to keep servers running.

tannedNerd··on Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?
I have them on a separate vlan that my iPhone can see. They can only see other govee devices and my iPhone so not super worried.
tannedNerd··on Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?
I’ve been super impressed so far with the Govee lights I’ve gotten. The app is pretty easy to use has tons of cool effects, and they have a LAN API (https://app-h5.govee.com/user-manual/wlan-guide) for most of their lights that have WiFi. Don’t have enough time this year to program a custom show but was going to start earlier next year now that I have a couple of these. The new scene stage thing they just released where you can map your lights and have them all work together is pretty slick too.
tannedNerd··on Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm
It can if you have someone knowledgeable driving it. Otherwise it gives out wrong or outdated information enough that it would quickly cause bugs in production code. And that’s the thing it can do narrow scopes of a job well but ask it to do the entire task it will often mess up somewhere slightly enough to cause a snowball effect of failures by the time it’s “done”
tannedNerd··on A framework to help B2B founders find product-market fit
Yes there is probably no next Google, but you know what there are a lot of. Companies that the googles etc buy because they have gotten to the point where they can’t really develop new products themselves. So yes you many not be able to make the next Google or Microsoft, but there are plenty of success stories to still be had.
tannedNerd··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
I have a SR+ and have done about a dozen trips from Lake Tahoe to San Diego and back about 10 hours in a ICE car and 11.25 in my SR+

You really should never be charging past 70% (the exception being before climbing in sub freezing temps in the sierras) on road trips and instead plan to make much shorter charging stops more often. I’m normally out of a supercharger in 15-20 min if I precondition the battery before charging and it’s about the time my wife needs to stop for a pee break anyways so it’s kinda great to stop. Use the restroom and be ready to go again. If you are charging 45 min you are doing it so wrong.

tannedNerd··on How to fix the disastrous new Xcode 15 console
I do wonder who is running developer relations at Apple. When I first started coding for iOS their documentation was actually pretty decent in 2012. Now you are lucky to have a new feature fully documented instead of being presented a partial implementation and a few random selections of the possible error states.
tannedNerd··on Panopticon
Sometimes I wonder how things like pop up to the front page with basically zero discussion. I would have thought the op would have at least made a comment as to why they decided to post it. Commentary on current surveillance society or just interested in the style of buildings (mainly prisons) this created in 1800s.
tannedNerd··on California slams San Francisco for 'egregious' barriers to housing construction
The key difference is that it’s not someone’s primary residence. Even I as a fairly libertarian person think it’s not a terrible policy to keep someone’s primary residence at a cheap tax level but increase the tax levels to prevent homes sitting empty for 50 out of the 52 weeks a year. Land is a finite resource. If we make the it more expensive to keep that house empty maybe it will be rented out to someone in which case you just increased the housing supply without having to build anything.
tannedNerd··on LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams
I feel like if US companies are proven to off shore jobs they should take a massive tax hit the same year. Like you are required to pay 5 years worth of the salary of the job you off shored into unemployment or retraining funds.
tannedNerd··on Tesla is launching their developer APIs
The charging api end points are also interesting here. I imagine thats it will get more fleshed out for the all the other manufactures in the US to start using the superchargers.
tannedNerd··on Tesla is launching their developer APIs
I would love Overcast. The podcast app sucks and the dev has mentioned he would probably do it if they released an SDK.
tannedNerd··on A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus
This isn’t eye for an eye. It’s simply amplifying their own statements. If they don’t like the attention, don’t make such horrible statements that blame innocent victims for their own deaths. Plus many organizations have realized that this letter was not appropriate, I think that putting more pressure on people who think that this statement is fine is American. I would think we don’t support people who murder innocents is a universal moral concept in the USA.
tannedNerd··on A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus
It’s also an anonymous source to a student newspaper. I wouldn’t exactly hold them to the highest editorial standard. They just they confirmed they saw emails which anyone could have sent. Did they look at the message headers or request IPs from the provider.
tannedNerd··on A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus
Who has been fired for being associated with these groups? Give me a link. The only one that has been fired was that NYU student sending out that horrendous newsletter
tannedNerd··on A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus
Should we tolerate people that advocate the murder of civilians?

There’s also an easy solution. You can very publicly state that you don’t agree with the group that you were once part of. But this is saying you should be able to make a heinous statement and then walk back it when you get confronted about it.

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