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jcrash··on Apple pulls iPhone 16 ad over Apple Intelligence mishap
Is it a mishap? Title made me think Siri said something similar to Googles ‘glue on pizza’ mishaps

More like, the feature advertised is cancelled for iPhone 16

jcrash··on Uncut Currency
I would love a source for this if you could find one. I tried searching and will search more in depth later. Any more keywords or information you remember about the story?
jcrash··on New Model Y
New Tesla Model Y. Thoughts?
jcrash··on Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBoUHay7XBI&t=345s

one of the few youtube links on this page that is still up

jcrash··on Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
It looks like the day of the week is off by one. Jan 1 2025 is a Wednesday, labeled Tuesday. Fridays is labeled as the weekend, for all weeks.

Other than that, this looks cool. Wish you could turn off public holidays though, some of us don't get those.

jcrash··on U.S. chip revival plan chooses sites
The locations of the two sites— .... Sunnyvale, Calif., .... Albany, N.Y. ...... The location of the third planned center ..... is still a matter of speculation.

Why would you add a 'saved you a click' comment and then literally post BS?

jcrash··on Apple Helping Police Use iPhones for Surveillance
Clickbait.
jcrash··on You can create your own holiday
Yup, your half-birthday!
jcrash··on Ask HN: What should I buy in Japan?
Yup went to uniqlo while in Kyoto and bought some pants.

They're my favorite pants now

jcrash··on Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?
> pressing on a cup, which stood upside down on plastic plate with holes, kinda inverted shower head

I think they still use these in bars

https://barsupplies.com/collections/glass-washers

jcrash··on NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They're AI
"I called my wife ... there was no one on the other end"

Disturbing! But cool.

jcrash··on Apple No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round
Is this a joke?
jcrash··on The internet is 90% Fake
What's the answer? Leave the internet?
jcrash··on Reddit Breaks Old.reddit.com
Yes. New reddit is working, but old reddit cannot access subreddits or posts...

I hope this is temporary.

jcrash··on After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days
Yelp sucks. I wish Apple Maps would drop it like a hot potato.
jcrash··on Was the Internet created to survive a nuclear strike? (2022)
I was going to share this story but you beat me to it. They're still claiming this in tours ~2017.

The building was called the Foreign Languages Building until very recently and is now called the Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building.

Relevant info from the UIHistory site:

"Located on the site of the former Old Entomology Building, ground was broken on the Foreign Language Building (FLB) on December 18, 1968.

A popular myth is that the building's distinctive architecture was a result of its being designed to house a supercomputer on campus called Plato. The building was supposedly designed so that if it was bombed, the building's shell would fall outwards, protecting the supercomputer on the inside. It is also rumored that the building's interior layout was a result of trying to confuse Soviet spies and prevent them from stealing secrets from the supercomputer.

In reality, the building's architecture is not actually all that unique and was a popular style of the day. In fact, just a few blocks to the west, one may find the Speech and Hearing Sciences Building, which a 2-story clone of the building. Plato itself was real, but refered not to a secret government program, but rather to the first "modern" electronic learning system, the forbearer of course software like WebCT and Mallard. The mainframe computer that ran the Plato system was located in north campus, in a building which used to reside on the west side of the Bardeen Quad." [0]

[0] https://uihistories.library.illinois.edu/virtualtour/maincam...

Hilarious that the myth extends to the interior design - the basement really is a maze the first few times you visit.

jcrash··on Apple Maps on the web launches in beta
I just wish Apple Maps would drop Yelp .. I hate Yelp
jcrash··on Apple Maps on the web launches in beta
Still working for me - Firefox on Win10
jcrash··on PSA: Safari URL Correction Being Exploited by Scammers
Thanks for posting this.

>It seems like Safari always puts `.com` when URL does not have a TLD

This doesn't even seem that helpful of a redirect! Plenty of sites don't use .com. Might be better to turn off this functionality completely.

jcrash··on Is Spotify using AI to make fake jazz music to fill up their playlists?
This is insane. Very glad I am moving away from Spotify. One of the commenters said it well - I don't want to pay a fee to listen to fake music!
jcrash··on Car dealerships revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider
National Auto Dealers Association (NADA). Once there was a large number of these independent dealers, they had the political sway to get it made into law.

https://caredge.com/guides/how-did-car-dealerships-become-so...

jcrash··on Car dealerships revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider
>Specifically, it's a place you can go to test drive cars and they have OEM-certified garages for warranty repairs. Can't test drive when you buy online.

Tesla doesn't have independent dealerships and it's quite easy to test drive their cars before you buy.

jcrash··on Pay $1 to Hear Wu-Tang Clan’s Secret Album (Eventually)
The other guy used to play it on his livestreams often. I'm sure it's on soulseek in some form.
jcrash··on Ask HN: Widespread Apathy?
Whoa .. that's weird. It was on the front page and now I can't even find it.
jcrash··on Your dishwasher is better than you think (tips, tricks, and how they work)
Huh. That's .. different.
jcrash··on Spotify Raises Prices 2nd Time in 12 Months, Now More Expensive Than Apple Music
I'm moving to using Navidrome on a Raspberry Pi. Should cost about 6$ a year to run...
jcrash··on 11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5
Dude I'm still using my PS3. Plays Skyrim, GTA5, and all the CODs I care about. Why upgrade?
jcrash··on I spent a year and $5,700 to see if ChatGPT can beat the market (S&P 500)
Lol what more do you want? The experiment was to beat the S&P 500. You are dismissing the results because ... it chose stocks that would do that?
jcrash··on Craig Steven Wright Did Not Invent Bitcoin
Gee what an awful take
jcrash··on Twitter is officially X.com now
I've seen 'eXcretions' being used, lol
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