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It's the larger point. A device with a 64-bit SoC, higher-than-HD display, battery, gigabytes of RAM and storage being consigned to landfill is bonkers.

This looks like a solidly built app, but having used React Native to ship production apps I really don't think its the way forward – nor spending development effort on making apps "look native" with Liquid Glass and the like. It's so much more brittle than building a web app, even with the impressive steps taken with e.g. the New Architecture.

When nearly everything today is a walled garden, I find it really hard to understand why we'd want to fortify those walls with any more platform-specific code. Though it's imperfect and still in development, I see much more of a future in the open web platform and wasm.

Yeah that's one potential route they could take - repurposing the existing M1 air shell and components.

But I actually believe they'll do a completely new shell for this device, and one reason being they could probably save even more money and cut even more costs than the current prod cost of M1 airs.

There is a gap in Apple's offerings. Casual computer users like students probably can't justify dropping nearly a K on a MacBook, so they go for these 400-600$ dell/hp laptops, or a Chromebook. This fits that hole.

iPhone processor is surely cheaper from an economies of scale perspective, they are likely way easier to produce en masse and they already produce bajillions of them for the iPhone.

Over time the price of even a high quality LCD like on the existing MacBook Air will have decreased enormously. Apple is setting up to move to OLED on the rest of the line, so using existing LCD tech is likely to save a lot too

This is super cool, but I wonder what the application might be.

I can imagine wanting to use it to pepper in 3D elements into an existing RN app, but surely embedding the entire Godot engine is kinda heavy?

Then I can imagine wanting to embed a larger 3D experience into an RN app... maybe a 3D product preview or something? I guess that could be cool. But still, the heft of embedding the Godot frameworks...

I am actually developing an app that has 3d elements, but if i were to use this the Godot experience might just feel too separate from the rest of the app. like 2 siphoned off apps in one. Something like react native three might be more appropriate for a lot of the use cases I can imagine. But I'm probably missing something

I think I got as far as installing the Visual Studio Installer so I could install Visual Studio and I just bailed on that whole thing, lol. I'll have to take some time out on a weekend to take another look :)

I have waited for this for months... but it's still only an x86_64 binary!

I love my ARM Surface Pro, and Zed would make a wonderful editor on this hardware. If anyone from Zed is reading this, please think about it!

OK, a couple bad icons here. But am I the only one who thinks the wrench metaphor actually looks good?

If we do, we need to draw clear distinctions between different kinds of AI-driven development.

What % of human intervention was there? A module written for me by AI, that was tightly specced with function signatures and behaviour cases, is going to be far more reliable (and arguably basically is human developed) than something an AI just wrote and filled in all the blanks with.

I totally see what you mean - with minified js bundles and mobile walled gardens we've probably already been in that stage for a good ten years - and AI-driven development that we don't even monitor is likely going to make that worse in the short term...

But I do wonder if LLM-driven code analysis might actually increase code comprehension and agency for laymen?

I've been quite impressed with AI's ability to decipher and visualise code and system relationships in e.g. mermaid diagrams.

Perhaps the representation of code will become more elastic (i.e. you have literal code, or AI-produced translations you can directly manipulate)

I took virtual reality in this case to mean coaxing the text model into pretending it's talking about drugs in the context of the game, not graphical VR.

Imo any kind of p2p mobile app is DOA without background activity on iOS.

But i'm also firmly in conviction that p2p is the future, so i don't know how we get there. regulators getting on Apple's ass again?

Everybody is talking about how dystopian this is, which... well, yeah. That's kind of the point, no?

But at first seeing this, I unironically felt joy at the idea of being able to directly communicate with somebody real on the internet about anything I like. Like... yeah, back in the day.

Then, the reality sinks in and I realise my social skills are so atrophied post-Covid that I don't even know what I'd say. (half-joking.)

And yet I can rattle off to ChatGPT freely about any old thing...

It's a clever art project and makes you think. Hopefully the creator wakes up to a surprise little nest egg of cash out of $5 bills.

> Nobody would have believed it 10 years ago, but today AI is more likely to replace a concept artist than an accountant

Do you really think so? I understand the basic sentiment of your statement but having tried to use AI for concept art, I was very disappointed at its lack of originality. Especially in an inevitably oversaturated market of AI creative work, I see the value of good human conceptual artists only rising.

I think it's a little more like... Feed your neighbours, understanding the blessing of grain came only from God, and seeking to share and extend that blessing, rather than hoarding it away for self-preservation.

Would be fun to plug this up to an LLM and see how absolutely unhinged it lets itself go over long runs.

Alexa has integrations with a bunch of third party services - Uber, smart home, etc. - not to mention Amazon shopping, and Alexa+ taps into that preexisting wide ecosystem. So as an agent it's already a lot more effective than ChatGPT for "getting things done". I think they've beaten Apple at their own game by at least a couple years.

Absolutely. I had a 2017 machine and any Apple Silicon machine will run circles around what you already have.

Definitely interesting to read both sides. I think they both present compelling arguments. There's a need to ensure stability with the kernel and avoid interference with outside forces. I suppose balancing that principle with eventual change is an inevitable difficulty.

Could you stream the raw tokens into a server side filter which then streams censored tokens at near real time?

> All I want to do is play the same shit on ALL MY SPEAKERS. My living-room ones, my patio ones, and my backyard ones. All I need is A, B, and C speaker switches. But NOPE. As far as I can tell, nobody makes this. Nobody addresses the 99% use case for multiple "zones." There are at least NINE AMPS in my receiver, but I can't play the same source on three pairs of speakers.

Maybe a smart speaker switch like an Audioflow[0] is up your alley?

[0] https://flow.audio

mad perspectives. being a tech frontliner you saw so much. in fame, in lives of excess. amazing hearing from your perspective how the wealthy think and live. one of the best articles i've read on the web in a long time, thank you for writing it.

I’m not sure how political HN is allowed to get - but since this post is here, I’ll bite…

So it was found that an extra £20 payment to state benefit claimants sharply reduced the usage of food banks.

Yet, the UK government has invested £600,000 in curbing the rise of these organised food thieves.

This move feels like treating the symptom, not the problem.

It feels like blatant disregard for a starving population.

not quite what the parent comment was referring to - AirMessage is cool but needs a server Mac to run 24/7.

parent is asking if it’s possible to spoof the secure identifiers from the Mac in Beeper - extracting the secure IDs, inputting them into Beeper - at which point Beeper can communicate directly with Apple as if it is that Mac.

a clever workaround!

It worked for me. I got a Raspberry Pi when I was 12. I learned the Linux command line on it.

I built doorbells and game sites to use in school. I learned PHP on the thing, my first proper programming language.

Good times. :)

Give TotalFinder a go. Works on latest macOS on M1 chips. You do need to change the SIP policy to get it working, but you can fine tune it so that TotalFinder has the permissions it needs while preserving security elsewhere in the system.

Other than that initial setup quirk, it’s been flawless for me and even enables some extra customisation capabilities.

what you’re seeing in the iPhone sideloading space is a product of a lot of hard work by many different people over many years. AltServer and the like (what I assume you’re referring to) are the best solutions we have, but come with significant downsides - iOS updates breaking the software, limits on how many apps you can install (last time i checked, you could only install 3), time constraints (need to ”re-sign” apps every week), software constraints (still can’t use JIT or other private APIs without Apple’s blessing), and - relative to using the App Store or Android sideloading - the setup procedure is pretty complicated. on both Macs and PCs, AltServer can be kind of difficult to set up.

all of this has prevented a legitimate sideloading scene from truly emerging on the iPhone - which, depending on where you ideologically stand on this, could be considered monopolistic.

i think there’s definitely room to make the process a lot easier - even if it’s just for power users.

iTerm2 and lima [1] with a ARM64 Linux virtual machine w/ Rosetta (so I can still run x86_64 Linux code!) enabled me to fall in love with my MacBook Pro in this regard. i feel more productive than on a Linux machine now. MacOS is not without its developer power tools, if you dig around enough!

[1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima