iamdamian

Plan 9 was cool.

(Submitting this news article rather than the press release, in part because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875565 was posted too early for people in the U.S. to see it.)

I'm curious if he's also in favor of banning biology books.

I agree. It also works if you mention it as a dealbreaker, leave without buying, and then buy at another shop. Yes, I realize this can be more work and may not be feasible for everyone.

There has been more pushback on car screens over the past couple of years, and the optimist in me hopes this leads to change. With enough pushback, manufacturers will have to listen to the market, cost savings be damned.

A concrete step I take to push this along: I mention physical buttons as a dealbreaker to car dealerships when I shop. Of course, I'm only speaking to dealer reps and not the decision makers at $CAR_CO, but if enough people do this, it does get back to the them and will make a difference.

I preordered a 13 Pro with Ryzen, which I'm already very excited about. Reading between the lines of your video announcement, though, it seems like the Intel experience might be more optimal (you pointed out Intel's new low power efficiency cores and Dolby sound being tested with Intel).

If I want the best battery life and sound possible with Linux, should I switch my preorder to Intel?

For me, this was an immediate buy.

Everything about this is what I've been looking for in a Linux laptop. (Also, how refreshing is it to not have to think hard about how much RAM you might need over the next few years because you know you can always upgrade it later?)

Apple’s music has mostly been DRM-free since 2009!

I love this about Apple and give them as much of my business I can to show that there is still a healthy market outside streaming. (7digital is another good source, although more expensive than Apple. They offer FLAC and 320kbps.)

Makes me wish e-book stores would get onboard…

Please consider reading the Hacker News community guidelines before you post again: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> It behooves you to not write like that if you don’t want people dehumanizing you.

I have to strongly disagree with you on this. It behooves us (as a species) not to degrade our own manner of speaking and writing simply because of a (possibly temporary) technical anomaly.

In my view, it would be really, really sad to lose expressive punctuation or ways of constructing sentences simply because they're overused by AI.

I, for one, won't be a part of that, and I hope you won't, either.

I think we'll have to disagree on that. Humans write that way, too, and they've written that way for far longer than AI.

(Where do you think AI picked up its writing habits from?)

>> This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding product-market fit in an environment that has fundamentally changed.

> Ironic, they use AI in their shutdown post that blames AI.

This… seems like regular prose to me. What makes you say so confidently it was written by AI?

This has been the first year in a very long time that I’ve thought about leaving macOS. They seem to have lost the plot on software and documentation.

It might be nice for someone to crowd source a reasonable list of features they need to improve or document. Could get traction.

This is, without hyperbole, the most exciting tech announcement I've read this year. I really hope something comes of it.

Motorola: Please double down on this and make mobile tech consumer-friendly again.

This is the way. In 2025, I don't think you can expect quality when the incentives aren't aligned (in this case, that you are a customer).

I would say that using a lot of em-dashes was always bad writing. You want to use them sparingly if you want them to have impact.

That said, yes, keep using them (and using them well!).

I don't really agree with the article in the sense that from a user POV, it wasn't very feature filled and it was much more stable than Leopard.

We need a new Snow Leopard.

Claude Code has an elegant solution to the problem you mention, without trying to cram everything into a single nested pane (which feels wrong to me).

In Claude Code, when you edit a file independent from the agent, it automatically notices and says something like "I see you've made a change. Let me take a look."

I wish Gemini CLI would've taken a similar approach, since it seems to fit better with a CLI and its associated Unix philosophy.

I self-host forgejo but still want a way to publish open-source. I've been using GitHub for this and didn't realize that codeberg.org was an option. Glad to see them getting the press.

I can’t disagree with that. There’s also wisdom in realizing that we are the tide.

I’m not really sure why we need to give in? Just keep writing high quality content that obviously wasn’t AI-generated, and keep using em dashes.

At least, that’s what I’m doing.

> Could anyone here waxing lyrically about Apple so called privacy stand explain to me what that actually is apart from a marketing point Apple keeps repeating?

The end-to-end encryption guarantees on this page seem pretty real to me and have little to do with marketing: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651

Forgejo is a really great self-hosted alternative to GitHub.

If you've wondered about hosting your own version of GitHub but have worried it's too hard to set up, I'd encourage you to spend even a few minutes spinning an instance up with Docker Compose and poking around.

https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/installation/docker/

> And gitea (originally a Forgejo fork).

I don't think this is right. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitea#Forgejo_fork.

> I see no definition for 'PDE'

Please see the second sentence on the page:

> The vision was 100 2-page spreads, each one giving exactly the most useful possible starting information about a different partial differential equation, with beautiful color illustrations.

This looks pretty compelling to me. I've been itching for a math-friendly language that makes it easy to work with arrays, vectors, vector spaces, manifolds, etc., but takes advantage of static typing. (Haskell is amazing but doesn't quite make linear algebra constructs feel native.)

On first read, it looks like this is designed with a healthy balance between mathematical insight (relationship of product types and tuples, basis in lambda calculus) and real developer needs (e.g., static typic is nice; dependently typed systems can be too much; types are great, but "nameless shapes" are useful, too).

I'd love to see an implementation of this to play around with.

Tucked at the bottom of the README:

> Privacy note: Shelly sends your requests, including your recent shell history, to Anthropic's API.

Why is acquiring music difficult? If it's DRM you're worried about, the iTunes Store is all (or at least primarily) DRM-free.

Relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/opinion/trump-hegseth-sig...