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avreeon Show HN: Things to Do API

It seems to use a (probably AI generated) list of common event sites, Instagram, and a few hardcoded ones related to the region (like Makeout Room). There's no de-dupe so you'll see tons of the same event copied across Eventbrite/Tixr/etc.

avreeon Tesla Roadster

Yes, the assertion is that it's not the car they'll sell. For example, they demo'd a "Cybertruck" with a never-before-seen durable single piece exoskeleton and then sold a Cybertruck with a unibody construction similar to the existing Honda Ridgeline.

avreeon Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat

Someone at Qualcomm.

https://www.androidpolice.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-elite-ge...

avreeon Sergey Brin says Google's AI models are reaching recursive self-improvement

Does Sergey still work in the day to day at Google? I thought he mostly stepped back after that affair he had with the product marketing woman for the Google Glass project.

avreeon Apple HomeView

Because they don't "use Gemini".

"These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence experiences. "

avreeon Sonnet 5.5

Crazy bad front-end design. Site hijacks my gestures so I can't swipe back anymore, starts with a full page autoplaying video...

avreeon There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027

https://www.apple.com/applecare/

AppleCare specifically covers water damage of any kind, and is what I would assume OP would be referring to as a "premium warranty and repair service".

avreeon Is OpenAI Taking Everyone for Fools?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_existenc...

Going off the believable citations in the wiki page here, it seems more complicated than "who solved it", as there's a mathematician, Anthropic, and OpenAI having a priority dispute.

avreeon AirPods 5

The first version was "Apple AirPods", there's two of them so it makes sense.

avreeon Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product

Users so technically inept they can't use chatbots? Have them vibecode changes to your product today!

avreeon GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

GHA still beats Circle CI or trying to run your own Jenkins - even with all the downtime. I'd move in a heartbeat if there were good alternatives.

avreeon All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

The official YCombinator stance is that Flock was a huge success as an investment - which it seemingly was, given that they managed to sign deals with what seems like every tiny municipality/sheriff/government organization.

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/N0-unpopular-ideas-that-...

avreeon Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight

Surely writing 374 lbs is easier than 26st 10lb.

avreeon Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

I've seen Eve Online corporations that do a better job of steganographic marking than this.

avreeon Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

No, it's for IoT. Don't install an IoT Operating System if you are planning to do normal Operating System things.

avreeon Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

Xbox/Microsoft Store Auth is used for a ton of logins, not just games. Similarly, you can be dismissive of Edge (another thing not included), but the Microsoft Webview Framework is Edge-based (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview...) and will break a variety of useful applications if it's not available.

Be derisive as you want, but your advice is awful. The IoT enterprise release is for IoT use cases. The types of things people do on consumer OSes are not fully supported.

avreeon Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

Terrible, almost consultant-level advice - particularly on a thread about how the actual Windows 10 release is getting extended support until 2027. The IoT release is missing a ton of installed things, such as Microsoft Store Login (needed for Microsoft apps). If you want security updates, stay on your existing OS instead of using one designed for a totally different purpose, and Microsoft will continue to push out the date...

avreeon Midjourney Medical

Good luck. Had a friend do a startup that was using similar algos to how Google Maps detect roads in satellite imagery to detect cancer in tissues. Actually worked pretty well - ended up dying in the super long FDA approval phase.

The images and description of the launch seem like they are behind where my buddy was 10+ years ago - so I expect a pretty difficult road ahead, between getting to where it's actually medically viable, and then stomaching the FDA process.

avreeon Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code

Like with most full products that are vibecoded, there's very little to no originality in this - just strange packaging of things that already exist.

avreeon FTX's former Anthropic stake would be worth about $75B at today's valuation

Yeah, and if he had taken all that money, bet it on black, and won in roulette a couple times, he'd have also made a killing. Didn't mean it was the right strategy or a moral decision with people's savings.

avreeon I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

Wouldn't each plugin be a different piece of 'software'?

avreeon I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

CATIA licenses which are the most expensive I've seen are roughly $600/month per user. Where are you seeing "thousands of dollars per seat"?

avreeon Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)

The very article you're commenting on says "gluten free" pasta (or at least the one type of Barilla spaghetti they tested) becomes the "real deal" when boiled with salt, which you should be doing anyways.

avreeon Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI

Accounting still exists in Europe, it turns out. Tax preparation/filing software is only about 25% part of Intuit's business.

avreeon Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI

Gemini is a pretty bad choice for an LLM. Most people using it are doing so because Google bundled it for free with a couple things, not for its quality.

avreeon Going Full Time on Open Source

Man, that's a weird looking "f" in the font. Why does it have a tail? Feels like someone is trying to inject a company logo/function symbol into the otherwise normal-looking characters.

avreeon HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

Anthropic doesn't even use their own harnesses for their support chatbots (they're using fin.ai) - that's how little support matters to them. Seems like either you get attention on HN, know someone working there, or are at a large enough company to have an enterprise contact - otherwise, no reply.

avreeon Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

Hey Boris - why is the best way to get support making a Hacker News or X post, and hoping you reply? Why does Anthropic Enterprise Support never respond to inquiries?

avreeon Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Concepts

I think it's a very small chance. Look at how many absolutely technically useless CEOs, such as Elon Musk, are still perceived by many in the industry and outside of it. The WeWork guy got funding for a new startup immediately post collapse. It takes a lot to reach SBF/Madoff levels.

avreeon I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

Yeah, it's funny because they claim that we are reaching out to "Enterprise" support - but it's the exact same support experience as yours, a Fin AI Chatbot that replies with "Thank you for reaching out to Anthropic's Enterprise Support. We've received your request and a member of our team will be in touch soon for further assistance."

and then nothing else.