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I'd like to see anyone try to use this for, like, anything at all. A video of someone posting a HN comment on this thing would absolutely make my day.

> Best of all no advertisements pinging me every few hours.

Skill issue.

The first thing anyone should do when they get a smart watch is disable all notifications. It's so easy to do and it makes the experience so much better. It's completely backwards that notifications are opt out. Sadly, I've never seen anyone change their defaults.

The way faster higher measurement rate is interesting and does open up entirely new use cases.

Not like Apple will let us do anything fun with their APIs, though.

> I believe some of the Apple Intelligence features will be backported anyways.

Oh, I wouldn't count on it. The older hardware is capable, but Apple is running out of ideas how to make people upgrade.

Developers, developers, developers.

Your dream developer experience is already here; since I've switched to Linux, I feel like I'm experiencing Linux psychosis. It's such a breath of fresh air. I've reconfigured my entire workflow around terminal programs and every action feels instant, even with maxed out power saving settings. There's an upfront time investment, sure - a weekend or two to set things up and figure out how you want the basics configured - but I've found myself immediately productive, and after that it's all compound interest, baby. Over the next few months, I've pushed my muscle memory to a point that's completely unachievable on Windows.

Another big advantage of the platform is that some Linux distributions will come bundled absolutely no software, saving you from having to uninstall and disable annoying bloat you have no use for. Additionally, you don't even need to install WSL, because you've already got the L.

In game design, restraint can be a virtue.

Ok, sounds like a watermark of “this post was written by Claude” is sufficient then. Or don’t add any at all - the average joe is that Canadian politician whose speech included “here is a more natural-flowing version of that section that sounds more like legislative speech rather than a series of short points.”

It is absolutely possible that it would not continue to be picked 10% of the time with a given fixed watermark key. The implementation literally labels tokens using a keyed hash and then modifies their scores. The entire point of the watermarking system is to bias certain tokens against others, and - as you would expect - this reportedly results in a reduced response diversity.

Yes, it is silly. Stripping these is about as trivial as removing "this post was written by Claude" appended in plaintext. You could make a clipboard monitor that does this as soon as you CTRL+C, it's a 1-shot prompt. Not to mention that these wonky Unicode chars will break in every other program.

Stripping Anthropic's watermarking, however, is more difficult - probably about 2 prompts.

What if the next token represents a wrong or low-quality answer, but would have only been picked 10% of the time, but now it's picked 20% of the time? Doesn't that obviously decrease the model quality, even though "it might have picked that token anyway"?

> You place too much importance on your own opinion.

No, I don’t. It’s worked brilliantly for me for decades. You should try it sometime - if you have any decent opinions, that is.

I think I, and maybe even Jobs, would be more interested in whether phoneholders are happy with the phones they’re holding.

Hahaha, today I learned that we need to keep Google's advertising income intact (~75% of their revenue) so that the US economy doesn't fall apart. We can't stop projecting these ads onto people's eyeballs, or literally the entire world goes to shit! AHAHAHAHA

It's just called "a webpage" now.

All benchmarks I could find are Microsoft-reported. I don’t see it listed on any leaderboards. Still, looks interesting enough.

Also, I wonder what this means in practice, especially in terms of GitHub:

> MAI-Thinking-1 was trained on clean and appropriately licensed data, with AI-generated content excluded from pre-training.

Aaaand the question answers itself, because the above sentence is now gone from the page, replaced with:

> We trained it from the ground up on clean, traceable and enterprise-grade data, without distillation from third-party models.

Milo used to be a convenient edge case, but clearly, he’s outlived his usefulness. Because that’s all he ever was. Useful.

What frontier model did Microsoft train?

> but it's still plenty fast enough to comment on HN, even these seven years after it was cutting edge

While it’s still too early to tell, I don’t think that’s how intelligence scales. Better models get you better solutions even to trivial problems. The ceiling for getting it done better is very high even if you’re not doing anything complicated. And difficulty isn’t uniformly distributed anyway - it seems to me that “mostly simple” tasks often have annoying 1% tails that low-intelligence models struggle with. I think we’ll see people chasing the top models for quite a while, or indefinitely - depending on the cost curve.

Tool users.

I don't understand your sentiment - not sure about MacOS, but I'd definitely argue that Windows was much more of a real OS in 2006. These days, it's basically indefensible.

Cell phones weren’t always effectively the primary computing devices for most of the human population.

> N900 and the Palm Treo

Performance-wise, a modern iPhone is more closely comparable to room-sized (building-sized?) supercomputer of that era.

I mean, sure, I agree it would be ideal if BIOS updates literally couldn’t fail - I meant to ask what they could have done to resolve this situation now.

But yes, lack of an USB bios recovery path is a pretty terrible design fault, and I’m surprised that they haven’t improved this by now.

> a perfectly functioning main board

If I understand correctly, the problem was that the board was the exact opposite of that. The post title uses the phrase “bricked”.

I agree that FWs handling was pretty bad, but then again, what exactly is the proposed ideal-but-realistic solution they should have offered here?

Manufacturer forces you to throw away previous device and buy a new one: it's a conspiracy to make money

Manufacturer lets you replace each part separately: it's a conspiracy to make money

> because i've definitely already generated much more e-waste with my frameworks than any other laptop i've bought in the last decade

How so? Most FW parts seem quite resellable, did you just throw them away after upgrading or something?

I thought you were referring to this: https://underpassapp.com/news/2025/7/5.html

It looks like the pop up is part of the browser UI in Chrome, and displayed as part of the website if using non-Chromium browsers. I block ads and don't use Chrome, so I don't see any version of this often.

It's not the websites. Your browser has that popup.

How about we just get on with it and delegalize ads already? They’re a net negative in every form, subsidizing disgusting companies that shouldn’t exist, infringing on everyone’s privacy (including your children! think of the children!!!!!), and making us jump through all kinds of ridiculous hoops to minimize our exposure to them. I don’t think the solution is more hoops.

> you probably shouldn't be on HN. HN is for intellectual curiosity and debate, not Reddit-esque expressions of randomness conflated wuth humor.

Thank you for this beautiful insight. Just to clarify, you consider yourself an intellectually curious, HN-worthy individual?

> Nobody is inconvenienced by a 3.5s startup time of an application meant to run for hours or days.

For the record, I measure acceptable latency in milliseconds. I think it has something to do with my brain.

> which is literally admitting to being reflexively contrarian.

They’re very clearly stating that they’re expressing their opinion because it is underrepresented.

> Did you forget to make a point here?

No.

This is getting silly, I can’t tell whether you are kidding, never launched a Node-based app, or never checked htop.

> that can run their tool calls in a separate process/host

That indeed seems like a simple and elegant setup. I can’t recall a single instance of using a harness when I didn’t want the tool calls to be local, though. Why would I be SSHing into a SBC just to run the agent back on my laptop?

> You can have a single instance running that handles your sessions in parallel.

Sounds even more elegant! Presumably, they communicate via HTTP?

> implicitly asserts that you need that many instances running at once.

I don’t need to, but I can. That’s the entire point, in case you’re still missing it.

> Your arguments against Javascript appear to be based on fallacies, lack of understanding of technology, and strong emotions against JS rather than actual fact.

How beautifully ironic.