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tedd4u··on Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
The mail app is a native Mac app but it can use any email account. It's an SMTP/IMAP/POP client.
tedd4u··on Voyager Spacecraft Code
Watch the documentary "It's Quieter in the Twilight" to find out how the people currently responsible for Voyager 1 & 2 managed through a multi-month deep-space-network maintenance outage during the pandemic. (I was able to watch it on Amazon Prime Video).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17658964/

tedd4u··on I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
The solution I've seen work is have engineers and designers that can take much of the detailed spec writing on, and have the PMs spend time with users/prospective users, partners, etc, understanding the market and users better. When you pull PMs in to all the details, often they turn into project managers, shuffling bug tickets around etc, taking time away from owning the user and the problem and shifting them too much to the solution side. Have a lead engineer own much / most of that. Every org / product is different of course.
tedd4u··on I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
How does that 10-20% change when the cost of tokens rises to meet post-IPO earnings targets? For example if it increases 2, 5, or 10x, does this 10-20% gain net out? (Rhetorical question)
tedd4u··on U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
I got a nastygram from CARB once for something like that. I think they follow up.
tedd4u··on The Zulip Foundation
Multi-user/team-chat with Claude/Code. Today it's all 1:1.
tedd4u··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Thanks for sharing. That's too bad about ADP - anything in the future that could open this up?
tedd4u··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Cool, thanks for sharing. How would you compare Shellbox with exe.dev?

[1] https://exe.dev [2] https://blog.exe.dev/series-a

tedd4u··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Cool, thanks for sharing. Would love to see a longer "real" session on the website. If anyone is looking at this check out the Agent Guide to see the instructions for the agents themselves: https://aweb.ai/agent-guide.md
tedd4u··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
or eio.io
tedd4u··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
This is cool - thanks for sharing. I'd love to see a column for LXC in the comparison table (in the README).
tedd4u··on Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
It's also a convenient way to get press (and investor valuation) for a new model with releasing it (word is they don't have enough hardware to do so).
tedd4u··on Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to
The link you share is the link to TFA. I don't see the text you post here in that article. Is there another link that contains this text? Thank you.
tedd4u··on Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
Don't host your website in Utah and avoid having a business / tax nexus there.
tedd4u··on How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
This is literally old news - contemporaneous with Snowden, Prism, etc. in early 2000s. Go read about the current Section 702 / FISA authorization renewal battle about which Senator Wyden recently said:

    “I strongly believe that this matter can and should be declassified and that Congress needs to debate it openly before Section 702 is reauthorized,” Wyden said in a Senate floor speech last month. “In fact, when it is eventually declassified, the American people will be stunned that it took so long and that Congress has been debating this authority with insufficient information.”

Some articles:

https://time.com/article/2026/04/27/fisa-fbi-spying-surveill...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-congress-...

tedd4u··on Networking changes coming in macOS 27
If you're using Synology, a couple years ago they finally published a help article that lists (IIRC) 3-5 settings important to switching from AFP to SMB. I had tried before that but to no avail.
tedd4u··on Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different
I need to run a few utilities that only work on Windows and those work fine on Windows for ARM under UTM. These utilities are built for Intel but run fine - Windows for ARM translates the code on the fly. It has a translation layer called "Prism."
tedd4u··on OpenAI misses revenue, is the AI bubble bursting?
Yeah I bet you’re right. Data centers are not a hobby.
tedd4u··on OpenAI misses revenue, is the AI bubble bursting?
This CNBC article is based on a Wall Street Journal article.

https://archive.ph/mTiIs

OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO By Berber Jin

The company’s CFO and board have questioned the wisdom of massive data-center spending in the face of slowing growth

tedd4u··on Warp is now open-source
GitHub is going to go after this too (unsurprisingly). Working "Ace" prototype from Github "lab."

https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment/

tedd4u··on An update on GitHub availability
> multi-cloud

XXXXL size project. May not ever deliver. But if it fails, it will only do so after years grinding through people, resources, etc.

tedd4u··on An update on GitHub availability
I don't know their architecture but I would bet if FE devs wants to contribute to availability in a capacity-constrained world (as GH CTO mentions) they could focus on profiling and optimization, backend-access patterns for example, caching, etc. Maybe they already have people dedicated on that but if they are coming out of a "new features first" operating regime I would bet there's some fruit to pick there.
tedd4u··on FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger
Don't forget Ellison/Skydance also control TikTok, where according to Pew 38% of adult Americans get their news.

The internet has killed institutions of journalism that have a reputation to protect. Billionaires did the rest of the job (RIP Washington Post). Pretty bad outcome. We are left random YouTubers, people with a Substack or podcast, etc. No fact-checking standards / departments. Will Propublica and PBS Newshour/Frontline be around in 10 years. Federal funding cuts already killed Weekend Newshour.

tedd4u··on 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet
Re externalities, don't they use the temperature to calculate the length of the takeoff roll and other stuff about the flight, fuel load, etc? Maybe they use the plane's own temperature sensors for that though.
tedd4u··on To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets
One thing that may also help: an Amsterdam local told me that virtually all drivers there (and their parents/kids) are cyclists _also_, and so have more empathy for bikes and tend to operate motor vehicles safely them.
tedd4u··on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
"Billionaires Want You To Know They Could Have Done Physics" - Angela Collier (actually has a Physics PhD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJI6qIqURA

tedd4u··on NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
Watch the documentary "It's Quieter in the Twilight" to find out how the people responsible for Voyager 1 & 2 feel about it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17658964/

tedd4u··on Designing the Transport Typeface
I love Transport and it absolutely evokes Britishness for me whenever I see it. The "Highway Gothic" [1] font used on US Interstate highways (and apparently also in Australia and Canada) is also pretty good I think and similarly evokes the open road in my mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic

tedd4u··on Now is the best time to write code by hand
I think you'd have to start with 55+ years old and go upward to find an age range where more than 10% of programmers routinely wrote assembler code in their careers.

To find the same for machine code you'd need to start at 65 or older.

tedd4u··on Artemis II safely splashes down
The other reason is that the capsule can splashdown far away from the ship. In this case it was close (3km or so). It can possibly fall much farther away. In which case boats would be much slower. Add in the possibility of rough seas & bad weather the helos make sense. And just to keep things simple I think they just use them no matter what. Prevent errors. Also gives a chance to rehearse and debug the full recovery process in case it’s actually really needed the next time.
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