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sampton··on ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser
I paid $20 for their interface builder and never got it.
sampton··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Technically solar is fusion.
sampton··on Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
Kids have done rogue. Stop the trainings!!
sampton··on Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap
OSM needs a way to ingest "signals" instead of edits.
sampton··on Karpathy’s Pelican
Pelican maxxing.
sampton··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
SwiftUI is gold compared to SwiftData.
sampton··on U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%
I wonder what the exit plan is. One time conversion of social security into Trump accounts and call it a day?
sampton··on Qwen 3.8
This is reminiscent of the operating system wars and browser wars. In the end there will only be 2 models that can survive. 1: give it away for free or 2: locked in with top notch hardware.
sampton··on Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks
It's nice but should be half as much.
sampton··on Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
MDM is just parental control for adults.
sampton··on GPT‑Live
I want this in my ear when I'm talking to people, so I can carry a real conversation.
sampton··on Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
Pour one out for the original A.I. (Actual Indians).
sampton··on Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud
MCP is a deadend. CLI use is the future.
sampton··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
Why do you need software when FPGA can solve everything.
sampton··on Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean
Without a proper supply chain 50m is just a fart in the wind.
sampton··on EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war
What is there to not understand. Given large enough population there's always someone ready to update.
sampton··on BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
Doesn't Tesla have a factory in China?
sampton··on Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs
Similar to how Hitler ushered in a whole generation of liberal demacracy and human rights protection across the world.
sampton··on GPT-5.4
That's been my experience as well switching from Opus to Codex. Reasoning takes longer but answers are precise. Claude is sloppy in comparison.
sampton··on Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
I started using Codex 5.3. Compare to Opus 4.6, it's more precise in pinning down bugs and more concise with code. Opus can be best described as distracted and easily agreeable. Codex actually digs deeper for root causes and push back when I'm wrong.
sampton··on “Car Wash” test with 53 models
I'm going to test this on my kids.
sampton··on Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
I only flip on FSD when on the highway. It has come a long way but still too many problems on local roads.
sampton··on Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags
To be fair no one has solved ai assistant at consumer level yet.
sampton··on Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail
Sad that international community doesn't do more to intervene in US. Seriously, please help.
sampton··on Tesla ending Models S and X production
I can't remember when was the last S/X refresh. It's nuts they just let it go stale and shut the factory down.
sampton··on Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza
Apple really needs to decouple swift debug and profiling tools from Xcode. I've been using vscode for swift work but hate having to switch back to Xcode for the tools.
sampton··on Reverse engineering Lyft Bikes for fun (and profit?)
You never know with corporations. Consequences range from "federal pound-in-the-ass prison" or "here is $500".
sampton··on Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation
Every time Dario opens his mouth it's something weird.
sampton··on Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name
Startrek chest pin.
sampton··on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
Apple AI team launched Apple Intelligence before it was fully baked. That's a no-no by Apple standards.
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