Don't folks brag about UNIX philosophy all the time around here?
Here is a good scenario for some pipelining with Make, awk, sed, perl and co."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"noalloc: Tooling and libraries to enforce zero heap allocations in Golang"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/theconsensuslabs/noalloc"}},"_tags":["comment","author_pjmlp","story_50278645"],"author":"pjmlp","comment_text":"Basically you can run the Go compiler with the escape analysis output flags, and have a script process its output, breaking the build if there are too many of them, or whatever condition you feel like.
Don't folks brag about UNIX philosophy all the time around here?
Here is a good scenario for some pipelining with Make, awk, sed, perl and co.","created_at":"2026-10-30T10:25:21Z","created_at_i":1793355921,"objectID":"50301998","parent_id":50295852,"story_id":50278645,"story_title":"noalloc: Tooling and libraries to enforce zero heap allocations in Golang","story_url":"https://github.com/theconsensuslabs/noalloc","updated_at":"2026-10-30T10:30:18Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"albert_e"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"I never bought a flagship phone until very recently but I did switch (budget) phones and still remember the excitement of trying brand new phones with very different physical and software features. I also remember recent (Android, in my case) phone upgrades feeling meh after setting up new phone."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I Returned My iPhone Duo"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://codakuma.com/i-returned-my-duo/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_albert_e","story_50301373"],"author":"albert_e","comment_text":"I never bought a flagship phone until very recently but I did switch (budget) phones and still remember the excitement of trying brand new phones with very different physical and software features. I also remember recent (Android, in my case) phone upgrades feeling meh after setting up new phone.","created_at":"2026-10-30T09:37:52Z","created_at_i":1793353072,"objectID":"50301613","parent_id":50301559,"story_id":50301373,"story_title":"I Returned My iPhone Duo","story_url":"https://codakuma.com/i-returned-my-duo/","updated_at":"2026-10-30T09:43:17Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"tomhow"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"I don't find any instances of dang (or me) referring to \u201cfrivolous flagging\u201d. That's certainly not a term or concept we think about.
Flags are disabled after a user exhibits a continuing pattern of flagging items for reasons other than guidelines breaches; most commonly for political reasons. That's not \u201cfrivolous\u201d, but it is most certainly a mis-use of the flag feature.
There are cases where an exception to the \u201cIf you flag, please don't also comment that you did\u201d rule is warranted, but it needs to carry the substance and energy of an earnest, helpful contribution to the discussion. The comment I replied to seemed much more snarky than earnest.
I think it's a fairly solid rule of thumb that almost any comment made earnestly will be okay here."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Palantir shareholders want to know when they'll get their money back"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.ft.com/content/fbca8eb0-76ef-4e0e-bcc9-c45c8f7d1311"}},"_tags":["comment","author_tomhow","story_50292912"],"author":"tomhow","comment_text":"I don't find any instances of dang (or me) referring to \u201cfrivolous flagging\u201d. That's certainly not a term or concept we think about.
Flags are disabled after a user exhibits a continuing pattern of flagging items for reasons other than guidelines breaches; most commonly for political reasons. That's not \u201cfrivolous\u201d, but it is most certainly a mis-use of the flag feature.
There are cases where an exception to the \u201cIf you flag, please don't also comment that you did\u201d rule is warranted, but it needs to carry the substance and energy of an earnest, helpful contribution to the discussion. The comment I replied to seemed much more snarky than earnest.
I think it's a fairly solid rule of thumb that almost any comment made earnestly will be okay here.","created_at":"2026-10-30T07:13:23Z","created_at_i":1793344403,"objectID":"50300707","parent_id":50293936,"story_id":50292912,"story_title":"Palantir shareholders want to know when they'll get their money back","story_url":"https://www.ft.com/content/fbca8eb0-76ef-4e0e-bcc9-c45c8f7d1311","updated_at":"2026-10-30T08:44:32Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ashdksnndck"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"If I have a really straightforward question and I want a fast answer I\u2019ll sometimes Google search for the AI overview. But it\u2019s so unreliable. I use opus 5.5 for any question that Google could plausibly screw up. This is a huge product failure on Google\u2019s part, IMO. I\u2019m a $20/paid user for both Gemini and Claude. It\u2019s nuts that with Google\u2019s massive head-start in AI (and apparently they still are capable of making a frontier model), they somehow deliver such a crappy version of AI by default in their flagship product. Google is probably in some part responsible for the public\u2019s distaste for AI."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet\u2019s revenue"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.kadoa.com/companies/insights/google-search-below-half"}},"_tags":["comment","author_ashdksnndck","story_50291945"],"author":"ashdksnndck","comment_text":"If I have a really straightforward question and I want a fast answer I\u2019ll sometimes Google search for the AI overview. But it\u2019s so unreliable. I use opus 5.5 for any question that Google could plausibly screw up. This is a huge product failure on Google\u2019s part, IMO. I\u2019m a $20/paid user for both Gemini and Claude. It\u2019s nuts that with Google\u2019s massive head-start in AI (and apparently they still are capable of making a frontier model), they somehow deliver such a crappy version of AI by default in their flagship product. Google is probably in some part responsible for the public\u2019s distaste for AI.","created_at":"2026-10-30T06:30:05Z","created_at_i":1793341805,"objectID":"50300487","parent_id":50293713,"story_id":50291945,"story_title":"Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet\u2019s revenue","story_url":"https://www.kadoa.com/companies/insights/google-search-below-half","updated_at":"2026-10-30T06:44:47Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"kilroy123"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"I mean, it was the flagship starship of the fleet. So yeah, it better be staffed with competent people like that."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Patrick Stewart has died"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_kilroy123","story_50294702"],"author":"kilroy123","children":[50299626],"comment_text":"I mean, it was the flagship starship of the fleet. So yeah, it better be staffed with competent people like that.","created_at":"2026-10-30T00:28:52Z","created_at_i":1793320132,"objectID":"50298301","parent_id":50296627,"story_id":50294702,"story_title":"Patrick Stewart has died","story_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html","updated_at":"2026-10-30T06:08:46Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Rochus"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"> Olimex esp32-p4-pc, the flagship product: new, powerful
That's a very cool board, but pretty tricky. Great idea to run an old Mac OS on it. I try on and off to port the Oberon System 3 to this board since I received it in February. The display already works pretty good, but still a lot of road blocks."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://projects.freehackers.org/sylphide-os/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Rochus","story_50295868"],"author":"Rochus","children":[50298124,50300970],"comment_text":"> Olimex esp32-p4-pc, the flagship product: new, powerful
That's a very cool board, but pretty tricky. Great idea to run an old Mac OS on it. I try on and off to port the Oberon System 3 to this board since I received it in February. The display already works pretty good, but still a lot of road blocks.","created_at":"2026-10-30T00:05:25Z","created_at_i":1793318725,"objectID":"50298045","parent_id":50295868,"story_id":50295868,"story_title":"Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers","story_url":"https://projects.freehackers.org/sylphide-os/","updated_at":"2026-10-30T09:16:16Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"outworlder"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"> The benevolent dictator always makes the right decisions. He's surrounded by his loyal band of perfect lieutenants, who apparently have zero desire to advance, and have no flaws at all. Any and all of them are willing to sacrifice themselves for the others. None do anything bad (unless it's a plot device with an explanation that absolves them).
That is an oversimplification and simply not true at face value.
'The original Star Trek', even less so! Very morally questionable at times. In TNG, you are watching the flagship of Starfleet, it's the most coveted starship. The crew are the best they have to offer. It's obvious that they would be the most professional. Even then, they make mistakes, often serious. Sacrificing themselves - if needed - is part of their job too.
Riker does spend a long time on the Enterprise, even after being offered command a few times. He does eventually move on.
Maybe they are a little too perfect, but I'd argue that's for the best. The moments where there's friction within the crew are much more memorable because of it.
Thats in contrast with some newer Trek which have more conflicts than Stargate Universe characters and would be considered way too unprofessional even if they were Lower Decks characters."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Patrick Stewart has died"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_outworlder","story_50294702"],"author":"outworlder","children":[50299095],"comment_text":"> The benevolent dictator always makes the right decisions. He's surrounded by his loyal band of perfect lieutenants, who apparently have zero desire to advance, and have no flaws at all. Any and all of them are willing to sacrifice themselves for the others. None do anything bad (unless it's a plot device with an explanation that absolves them).
That is an oversimplification and simply not true at face value.
'The original Star Trek', even less so! Very morally questionable at times. In TNG, you are watching the flagship of Starfleet, it's the most coveted starship. The crew are the best they have to offer. It's obvious that they would be the most professional. Even then, they make mistakes, often serious. Sacrificing themselves - if needed - is part of their job too.
Riker does spend a long time on the Enterprise, even after being offered command a few times. He does eventually move on.
Maybe they are a little too perfect, but I'd argue that's for the best. The moments where there's friction within the crew are much more memorable because of it.
Thats in contrast with some newer Trek which have more conflicts than Stargate Universe characters and would be considered way too unprofessional even if they were Lower Decks characters.","created_at":"2026-10-29T23:55:48Z","created_at_i":1793318148,"objectID":"50297952","parent_id":50295327,"story_id":50294702,"story_title":"Patrick Stewart has died","story_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html","updated_at":"2026-10-30T07:44:47Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"simoncion"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"> Prefix withdrawal doesn't work reliably on Android.
Works fine on the Android hardware I have. Are you attempting to retire prefixes that have an infinite lifetime? That doesn't work, and I don't think it's supposed to work.
> Neither does this solution allow for load balancing...
As I said
Or are you talking about load balancing, which is its own thing? Either way, this situation is inherently *not* boring, so the way you solve it is going to be quite a bit more complex -regardless of IP protocol version- than the very boring single-upstream situation.\nOkay, so why are you complaining about your printer being broken by GUAs that you're not permitting it to have? ;)
> IPv6 is nothing like IPv4 operationally.
For anyone who's not an IP stack developer, network hardware developer, or Enterprise sysadmin it absolutely is. And other than the fact that every endpoint is able to get a global address in v6, the sysadmin-visible differences between v4 and v6 are minor. RAs instead of... well, nothing, and DHCP for both.
> Whoops. The printing is now broken somehow. Why?
Exactly.
Why isn't your DHCPv6 server putting either both the GUA and ULA, or -better- only the ULA addresses in your LAN's DNS server? This Just Works\u2122 on dnsmasq, which is one of the most widely-deployed DNS+DHCP servers on SoHo gear. [0] dnsmasq's default TTL for hosts added to the DHCP lease file appears to be 0, so -worst case- your sleepy computer tries to continue its conversation with the printer a couple of times, does ND and discovers that the IP it was using is gone, then looks up the hostname again and gets the new address of the printer. I think the trendy term for this back in the 2000s was "self-healing".
If you're going to retort "But we don't use dnsmasq in the companies I'm sometimes talking about!"... well, if you can't figure out how to not register upstream-controlled GUA addresses for your LAN hosts in your DNS, then do what dnsmasq does and serve them up with a TTL of 0.
[0] To head off the "Android doesn't really do DHCPv6" retort: Even though Android refuses to use anything other than DHCPv6-PD for managed address assignment, -AFAIK- Android still sends DHCPv6 ADDR_REG_INFORM messages for addresses it autogenerates on networks with either the "OtherConfig" or "Managed" flags set. I haven't bothered to set up my Linux systems to do this, but I'd be surprised if Windows and Darwin systems didn't do this."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"If IPv4 were land"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land"}},"_tags":["comment","author_simoncion","story_50287775"],"author":"simoncion","children":[50297453],"comment_text":"> Prefix withdrawal doesn't work reliably on Android.
Works fine on the Android hardware I have. Are you attempting to retire prefixes that have an infinite lifetime? That doesn't work, and I don't think it's supposed to work.
> Neither does this solution allow for load balancing...
As I said
Or are you talking about load balancing, which is its own thing? Either way, this situation is inherently *not* boring, so the way you solve it is going to be quite a bit more complex -regardless of IP protocol version- than the very boring single-upstream situation.\nOkay, so why are you complaining about your printer being broken by GUAs that you're not permitting it to have? ;)
> IPv6 is nothing like IPv4 operationally.
For anyone who's not an IP stack developer, network hardware developer, or Enterprise sysadmin it absolutely is. And other than the fact that every endpoint is able to get a global address in v6, the sysadmin-visible differences between v4 and v6 are minor. RAs instead of... well, nothing, and DHCP for both.
> Whoops. The printing is now broken somehow. Why?
Exactly.
Why isn't your DHCPv6 server putting either both the GUA and ULA, or -better- only the ULA addresses in your LAN's DNS server? This Just Works\u2122 on dnsmasq, which is one of the most widely-deployed DNS+DHCP servers on SoHo gear. [0] dnsmasq's default TTL for hosts added to the DHCP lease file appears to be 0, so -worst case- your sleepy computer tries to continue its conversation with the printer a couple of times, does ND and discovers that the IP it was using is gone, then looks up the hostname again and gets the new address of the printer. I think the trendy term for this back in the 2000s was "self-healing".
If you're going to retort "But we don't use dnsmasq in the companies I'm sometimes talking about!"... well, if you can't figure out how to not register upstream-controlled GUA addresses for your LAN hosts in your DNS, then do what dnsmasq does and serve them up with a TTL of 0.
[0] To head off the "Android doesn't really do DHCPv6" retort: Even though Android refuses to use anything other than DHCPv6-PD for managed address assignment, -AFAIK- Android still sends DHCPv6 ADDR_REG_INFORM messages for addresses it autogenerates on networks with either the "OtherConfig" or "Managed" flags set. I haven't bothered to set up my Linux systems to do this, but I'd be surprised if Windows and Darwin systems didn't do this.","created_at":"2026-10-29T22:27:05Z","created_at_i":1793312825,"objectID":"50297093","parent_id":50296481,"story_id":50287775,"story_title":"If IPv4 were land","story_url":"https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land","updated_at":"2026-10-29T23:40:00Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Retro_Dev"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"Nanbeige4.3-33B \u2013 Flagship teacher LLM"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://huggingface.co/Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B"}},"_tags":["story","author_Retro_Dev","story_50296877"],"author":"Retro_Dev","created_at":"2026-10-29T22:08:38Z","created_at_i":1793311718,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"50296877","points":4,"story_id":50296877,"title":"Nanbeige4.3-33B \u2013 Flagship teacher LLM","updated_at":"2026-10-30T03:15:30Z","url":"https://huggingface.co/Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"vinyl7"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"https://www.wired.com/story/polymarket-flagship-platform-hack-traders-lose-money/"}},"_tags":["story","author_vinyl7","story_50296328"],"author":"vinyl7","children":[50296447,50299266,50297638],"created_at":"2026-10-29T21:28:43Z","created_at_i":1793309323,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"50296328","points":25,"story_id":50296328,"title":"Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts","updated_at":"2026-10-30T10:54:47Z","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/polymarket-flagship-platform-hack-traders-lose-money/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"contingencies"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"As a retired cycle tourist myself who hosted a few world-spanning cyclists and a friend of a well known late Italian Vespa globetrotter, I would say: this is actually the critical audience (often subconsciously) personally justifying why their own life is so boring: "my way is the right way: everyone else is irresponsible". Deep down they feel threatened by the notion that their life may be boring BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN DAMN CHOICES. News at 9.
But yeah, they are all half-mad or worse (read: "interesting people"); military service isn't going to have zero impact either, people deal with it different ways.
I find it telling he doesn't have flags on his kit."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/world/europe/karl-bushby-walking-globe-uk.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_contingencies","story_50293023"],"author":"contingencies","children":[50296228],"comment_text":"As a retired cycle tourist myself who hosted a few world-spanning cyclists and a friend of a well known late Italian Vespa globetrotter, I would say: this is actually the critical audience (often subconsciously) personally justifying why their own life is so boring: "my way is the right way: everyone else is irresponsible". Deep down they feel threatened by the notion that their life may be boring BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN DAMN CHOICES. News at 9.
But yeah, they are all half-mad or worse (read: "interesting people"); military service isn't going to have zero impact either, people deal with it different ways.
I find it telling he doesn't have flags on his kit.","created_at":"2026-10-29T21:01:31Z","created_at_i":1793307691,"objectID":"50295896","parent_id":50294951,"story_id":50293023,"story_title":"After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home","story_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/world/europe/karl-bushby-walking-globe-uk.html","updated_at":"2026-10-30T04:34:16Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"bigyabai"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"Robotics has it's own supply chain issues. Apple's forced divestment away from China creates a supply gap that will be difficult or impossible to bridge with US suppliers. It could easily develop into another "Tesla vs. BYD" situation that depends on federal protectionism to work (and outright fails as a business outside of the US). When you look at it from that perspective, home robotics is just another Vision Pro product on the roadmap. It will have hardware limits, the price tag will be astronomically unaffordable, and competing systems will probably undercut Apple in seriously threatening ways. By the time that Apple can iterate robotics into something that customers want, the market will have festered into something beyond their control.
At risk of sounding like a glazer, Nvidia has a super clean path to home robotics no matter who wins the consumer segment. They have experience selling their hardware to system integrators like Nintendo and Tesla, and have shipped low-power GPGPU platforms on an SOC since the mid-2010s. The value add of CUDA is enormous, versus the struggle Apple will have bringing developers into the CoreML ecosystem. Nvidia has the momentum with Tegra and Jetson, the hardware and software lead will take years to catch up with.
I guess in a fair essay, this is the point where I should commend Apple for their output. They make the fastest AArch64 CPUs on the market, have an excellent "ecosystem" sell to the billions of iPhone owners in the world, and can ship any service from advertisement to F1 and sports streaming. Individually these are very impressive accomplishments that Tim Cook deserves commendation for. Taken as a whole, I don't see any coherent strategy that ties it all together. The "iPhone ecosystem" concept can't save expensive masterpiece products like the Vision Pro, even if it's a great headset. Users despise Apple's advertisement and service upsells, and single-core CPU performance isn't constraining home robotics. All of Apple's strongest tactics are pretty benign in the light of who they'll have to oppose.
This was a good discussion, and it's fun to game-theory future products with other people. Admittedly, asking Apple to compete with Nvidia's tech stack is like asking the coughing baby to defuse a hydrogen bomb. I recognize that the full scope of my demands for competition are unrealistic, but I think there's some meat on the bone that Apple is leaving for no good reason. The Mac Pro is one of those lowest-hanging fruit that didn't have to die, or at the very least could have been redesigned to champion the advantages of Apple Silicon. The Mac Studio is not a very confident future-facing product, and I feel a bit of worry for Apple's future designs seeing it as their flagship Mac. Apple has all the resources to push out the compute frontier for consumers and datacenters alike - here's hoping they join the fray, for all of our sakes."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/proled-xdr-display/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_bigyabai","story_50276940"],"author":"bigyabai","comment_text":"Robotics has it's own supply chain issues. Apple's forced divestment away from China creates a supply gap that will be difficult or impossible to bridge with US suppliers. It could easily develop into another "Tesla vs. BYD" situation that depends on federal protectionism to work (and outright fails as a business outside of the US). When you look at it from that perspective, home robotics is just another Vision Pro product on the roadmap. It will have hardware limits, the price tag will be astronomically unaffordable, and competing systems will probably undercut Apple in seriously threatening ways. By the time that Apple can iterate robotics into something that customers want, the market will have festered into something beyond their control.
At risk of sounding like a glazer, Nvidia has a super clean path to home robotics no matter who wins the consumer segment. They have experience selling their hardware to system integrators like Nintendo and Tesla, and have shipped low-power GPGPU platforms on an SOC since the mid-2010s. The value add of CUDA is enormous, versus the struggle Apple will have bringing developers into the CoreML ecosystem. Nvidia has the momentum with Tegra and Jetson, the hardware and software lead will take years to catch up with.
I guess in a fair essay, this is the point where I should commend Apple for their output. They make the fastest AArch64 CPUs on the market, have an excellent "ecosystem" sell to the billions of iPhone owners in the world, and can ship any service from advertisement to F1 and sports streaming. Individually these are very impressive accomplishments that Tim Cook deserves commendation for. Taken as a whole, I don't see any coherent strategy that ties it all together. The "iPhone ecosystem" concept can't save expensive masterpiece products like the Vision Pro, even if it's a great headset. Users despise Apple's advertisement and service upsells, and single-core CPU performance isn't constraining home robotics. All of Apple's strongest tactics are pretty benign in the light of who they'll have to oppose.
This was a good discussion, and it's fun to game-theory future products with other people. Admittedly, asking Apple to compete with Nvidia's tech stack is like asking the coughing baby to defuse a hydrogen bomb. I recognize that the full scope of my demands for competition are unrealistic, but I think there's some meat on the bone that Apple is leaving for no good reason. The Mac Pro is one of those lowest-hanging fruit that didn't have to die, or at the very least could have been redesigned to champion the advantages of Apple Silicon. The Mac Studio is not a very confident future-facing product, and I feel a bit of worry for Apple's future designs seeing it as their flagship Mac. Apple has all the resources to push out the compute frontier for consumers and datacenters alike - here's hoping they join the fray, for all of our sakes.","created_at":"2026-10-29T20:06:42Z","created_at_i":1793304402,"objectID":"50295033","parent_id":50284751,"story_id":50276940,"story_title":"MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch","story_url":"https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/proled-xdr-display/","updated_at":"2026-10-30T04:24:45Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"toomuchtodo"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"I have some feedback and a question on this. dang has previously said that frivilous flagging will result in a user's flags being ignored. I agree one should not comment "I flagged" as this carries no information, but if they shouldn't say "I flagged because X," how will it be determined whether the flag is in good faith?
(feel free to detach subthread as not relevant to thread topic at hand)"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Palantir shareholders want to know when they'll get their money back"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.ft.com/content/fbca8eb0-76ef-4e0e-bcc9-c45c8f7d1311"}},"_tags":["comment","author_toomuchtodo","story_50292912"],"author":"toomuchtodo","children":[50300707],"comment_text":"I have some feedback and a question on this. dang has previously said that frivilous flagging will result in a user's flags being ignored. I agree one should not comment "I flagged" as this carries no information, but if they shouldn't say "I flagged because X," how will it be determined whether the flag is in good faith?
(feel free to detach subthread as not relevant to thread topic at hand)","created_at":"2026-10-29T18:43:46Z","created_at_i":1793299426,"objectID":"50293936","parent_id":50293894,"story_id":50292912,"story_title":"Palantir shareholders want to know when they'll get their money back","story_url":"https://www.ft.com/content/fbca8eb0-76ef-4e0e-bcc9-c45c8f7d1311","updated_at":"2026-10-30T07:14:02Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ericmay"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"We tariffed them (Europe will too) because China subsidizes them and is building excess industrial capacity to run our companies out of business where we have higher wages and such. China also artificially keeps its currency low to boost exports toward the same goals.
It's more important that we protect domestic industry and good union jobs than it is for us to import EVs at lower prices.
Here's a great article I shared elsewhere: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/china-cars-domestic-sale-...
"The number of Chinese EV brands selling at least one product rose to a record 143 at the end of 2025, according to a tally by management consultant AlixPartners.\u201d \n "Now, in a country with a shrinking population, reliable big-city mass transit and a growing robotaxi industry, sales of passenger cars to regular Chinese families are unlikely to ever again record a sustained surge, analysts said. But cities and their private-sector partners are reluctant to admit that their lofty ambitions won\u2019t be fulfilled, which would result in factory closures and lost jobs.\u201d \n\n "In recent months, Germany\u2019s once-towering trade surplus with China in automotive products has turned into a deficit. Germany\u2014the country widely credited with inventing the automobile\u2014is embracing Chinese brands, while German automakers are struggling in China.\u201d \n\n "In the U.K., BYD is selling its flagship Seal hybrid sedan for the equivalent of around $44,000, more than $10,000 less than a similarly equipped Volkswagen Passat. These vehicles are sold at Chinese price points we cannot match with European cost structures,\u201d said Volkswagen Chief Executive Oliver Blume in an August memo to staff."\n\n "About the only major market where Chinese automakers aren\u2019t causing upheaval is the U.S., where tariffs and restrictions on Chinese vehicle technology have all but locked out the country\u2019s automakers. General Motors and Ford are among the few automakers still pumping out relatively healthy profits.\u201dIt's more important that we protect domestic industry and good union jobs than it is for us to import EVs at lower prices.
Here's a great article I shared elsewhere: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/china-cars-domestic-sale-...
"The number of Chinese EV brands selling at least one product rose to a record 143 at the end of 2025, according to a tally by management consultant AlixPartners.\u201d \n "Now, in a country with a shrinking population, reliable big-city mass transit and a growing robotaxi industry, sales of passenger cars to regular Chinese families are unlikely to ever again record a sustained surge, analysts said. But cities and their private-sector partners are reluctant to admit that their lofty ambitions won\u2019t be fulfilled, which would result in factory closures and lost jobs.\u201d \n\n "In recent months, Germany\u2019s once-towering trade surplus with China in automotive products has turned into a deficit. Germany\u2014the country widely credited with inventing the automobile\u2014is embracing Chinese brands, while German automakers are struggling in China.\u201d \n\n "In the U.K., BYD is selling its flagship Seal hybrid sedan for the equivalent of around $44,000, more than $10,000 less than a similarly equipped Volkswagen Passat. These vehicles are sold at Chinese price points we cannot match with European cost structures,\u201d said Volkswagen Chief Executive Oliver Blume in an August memo to staff."\n\n "About the only major market where Chinese automakers aren\u2019t causing upheaval is the U.S., where tariffs and restrictions on Chinese vehicle technology have all but locked out the country\u2019s automakers. General Motors and Ford are among the few automakers still pumping out relatively healthy profits.\u201dBut yes, agreed, on the second point, it could also be that. Either way it is interesting how HN willingly or at least without pushback is party to all this."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/google-ai-gets-cagey-when-asked-who-won-the-2020-elections/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_jacquesm","story_50280178"],"author":"jacquesm","comment_text":"The number of Googlers on HN is in the hundreds if not thousands. It takes about 15 flags for an article with 150 upvotes to be dropped from the homepage.
But yes, agreed, on the second point, it could also be that. Either way it is interesting how HN willingly or at least without pushback is party to all this.","created_at":"2026-10-29T14:41:16Z","created_at_i":1793284876,"objectID":"50289881","parent_id":50287596,"story_id":50280178,"story_title":"Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections","story_url":"https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/google-ai-gets-cagey-when-asked-who-won-the-2020-elections/","updated_at":"2026-10-29T19:12:15Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"gnabgib"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"Even Nature is doing clickbait headlines? Maybe the byline is better? Anyway, the flags:
> for any given journal in a single year: a doubling of publication output; having more than 70% of published articles originating from a single country; and having at least 15% of articles flagged by the Problematic Paper Screener, a free online tool."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"These three red flags could unmask dodgy journals"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03325-3"}},"_tags":["comment","author_gnabgib","story_50289096"],"author":"gnabgib","comment_text":"Even Nature is doing clickbait headlines? Maybe the byline is better? Anyway, the flags:
> for any given journal in a single year: a doubling of publication output; having more than 70% of published articles originating from a single country; and having at least 15% of articles flagged by the Problematic Paper Screener, a free online tool.","created_at":"2026-10-29T13:56:26Z","created_at_i":1793282186,"objectID":"50289136","parent_id":50289096,"story_id":50289096,"story_title":"These three red flags could unmask dodgy journals","story_url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03325-3","updated_at":"2026-10-29T21:01:31Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"bookofjoe"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"These three red flags could unmask dodgy journals"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03325-3"}},"_tags":["story","author_bookofjoe","story_50289096"],"author":"bookofjoe","children":[50289136,50289101],"created_at":"2026-10-29T13:54:01Z","created_at_i":1793282041,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"50289096","points":2,"story_id":50289096,"title":"These three red flags could unmask dodgy journals","updated_at":"2026-10-29T21:01:31Z","url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03325-3"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"parsimo2010"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"Just so everyone is aware of the "coincidences" that happen with this index:
- Two days ago AA announced their v5 Index which added a few new benchmarks and tweaked a few things.
- Today the newest model announced from a big lab tops the charts.
I'm not saying that AA is definitely taking money from the big labs and changing the benchmark to make the labs' new models look better, but it kind of looks that way. This pattern of behavior has happened before, where the index gets tweaked right around when a new model comes out, and the new model is on top. AA does not, AFAIK, provide a way to see how the new models would have scored under the older index versions. You could probably calculate it yourself, but I'm not going to do that much legwork just for an HN comment.
It's interesting because they publish the index methodology, so you can't really accuse them of not being transparent, but I don't really believe that the choices to update the index were completely independent of the model they happened to be evaluating at the time.
Related: The DXOMark camera scoring method also had similar behavior, where they would release new testing methodology right before flagship smartphones were released. Again, they are technically being transparent about the process, but it kind of smells like the "independent" testers may not be as independent as the average user would hope."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-carbon-new-number-1"}},"_tags":["comment","author_parsimo2010","story_50288019"],"author":"parsimo2010","children":[50289438,50289124,50289133,50289024,50290733,50289480],"comment_text":"Just so everyone is aware of the "coincidences" that happen with this index:
- Two days ago AA announced their v5 Index which added a few new benchmarks and tweaked a few things.
- Today the newest model announced from a big lab tops the charts.
I'm not saying that AA is definitely taking money from the big labs and changing the benchmark to make the labs' new models look better, but it kind of looks that way. This pattern of behavior has happened before, where the index gets tweaked right around when a new model comes out, and the new model is on top. AA does not, AFAIK, provide a way to see how the new models would have scored under the older index versions. You could probably calculate it yourself, but I'm not going to do that much legwork just for an HN comment.
It's interesting because they publish the index methodology, so you can't really accuse them of not being transparent, but I don't really believe that the choices to update the index were completely independent of the model they happened to be evaluating at the time.
Related: The DXOMark camera scoring method also had similar behavior, where they would release new testing methodology right before flagship smartphones were released. Again, they are technically being transparent about the process, but it kind of smells like the "independent" testers may not be as independent as the average user would hope.","created_at":"2026-10-29T13:45:30Z","created_at_i":1793281530,"objectID":"50288958","parent_id":50288019,"story_id":50288019,"story_title":"Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5","story_url":"https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-carbon-new-number-1","updated_at":"2026-10-30T10:32:48Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"red-iron-pine"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"i am old enough to remember the atari games and their crap. i played the "legendary" E.T. game on atari and could never figure it out.
there has always been a lot of shit, but most of it was at the margins, and you could easily find the real flagship games.
now the slop is never ending and competes on the front page against real titles"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/27761/valve-responds-to-developers-fearing-ai-slop-and-clones"}},"_tags":["comment","author_red-iron-pine","story_50273192"],"author":"red-iron-pine","comment_text":"i am old enough to remember the atari games and their crap. i played the "legendary" E.T. game on atari and could never figure it out.
there has always been a lot of shit, but most of it was at the margins, and you could easily find the real flagship games.
now the slop is never ending and competes on the front page against real titles","created_at":"2026-10-29T13:43:47Z","created_at_i":1793281427,"objectID":"50288922","parent_id":50275107,"story_id":50273192,"story_title":"Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones","story_url":"https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/27761/valve-responds-to-developers-fearing-ai-slop-and-clones","updated_at":"2026-10-29T13:46:03Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ccasper82"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["flagos"],"value":"It has a very basic security audit built in, hoping to expand it at some point. If you look at the docs it explains it more about what its actually doing but here's a shortlist:
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