Or: they use it as their personal bookmarking tool

There's at least 10 other accounts who do the same

Why did you lie?

I posted 3-4 things in the last 2 hours, not 50. That's probably why I haven't been flagged.

If you believe me, I do it by hand, and I do it for things that I genuinely believe can be interesting for the HN community.

And yes, a secondary benefit of my submissions is that they also act as a sort of bookmark, because obviously when I submit something that I deem interesting, it's also good to be able to easily retrieve it later.

I stand corrected. You posted only 6 submissions in the last 24 hours. Not my place to judge you. (I used the Hack for HN app on iOS which, incorrectly, showed 50 hits). I apologize.

Thanks a lot for this. I really appreciate you correcting your previous statement.

And, please, if you find what I do annoying (posting submissions frequently), let me know here, or email me (it's in my profile) and I will be happy to hear your arguments.

The last thing I want to do is harass people online.

I care about HN and dislike bots and automated posting taking away real human interaction. You're not a bot - which I had already noted from your profile - and I have no problem with people posting frequently; and even if I did, that would be as valuable as any random person's opinion. So please don't let my error keep you from being you.

Some accounts have a clearly more privileged status here and are allowed to upload content without limits - especially from big outlets.

Still why does a comment noticing that get flagged?

I cannot imagine it’s Dang doing that, he consistently comes across as much too reasonably for that.

Does that mean flagging is automated when criticizing ‘big outlets’ spamming HN?!? (The spamming account comes across as a person from their bio)

And now this honest question is getting down-voted!! What’s going on?

"I go to the dentist every year" implies that you have a usual dentist or some sort of stable routine or plan vs "I go on a trip every year" which implies the journey is yet to be selected/defined from a multitude of options.

So I feel the rule isn't always taken literally, but the vs a is selected based on whether something is up for consideration/substitution rather than something that's well defined and specified.

Good "taste" and knowing what you want (and don't want), seem to once again be the trick to success with LLMs.

Many US/UK/overseas folks won't really understand Singapore's roads because they are such a foreign system. "Traffic" doesn't exist in the western sense of the word there. So because of size, traffic, and all-in vehicle costs, rideshare apps will always be cheaper than owning a car in Singapore.

OTOH, SG's public transport is world class, but could be much better if they gave buses more priority over cars. The door to door experience of buses is already fantastic: they are cheap, accessible (no long walks to platform like the MRT), timely, and well connected. However they are crowded (need more buses) and bus lanes aren't a thing over there.

It's a weird place where they do an amazing job at urban planning but still give as much space to roads as to housing because their richest and most powerful also tend to enjoy driving.

And then there's the culture. Drivers are way too entitled in Singapore. Many have no interest in giving way to pedestrians, and simply aren't interested in "sharing" the road. I'm keen to see less drivers there. It will improve things greatly.

You would think this is a great opportunity for Apple to fill a gap in the market (and dogfood their solution too). Guess not...

Only if the marketplace makes sense. They can't just roll their own CAD system to use internally - mostly because it's a huge space and it requires working with external stakeholders/vendors

I think the only thing that would make some sense would be for them to buy a big player and then tell them to make a Mac port or migrate to Mac only.

That’s what happened with Logic Pro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Pro#Logic) and (sort-of) Final Cut Pro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Cut_Pro#Creation)

I suspect they’d need a portfolio of applications in the CAD space to make that work, though.

Shapr is probably a decent candidate for this, though maybe in a few years. It feels like they are the Pixelmator to Autodesk's Photoshop (Fusion). Though I don't like that I have to "Contact Sales" to be able to save my models on-prem, give me a goddamn break.

This is the typical thinking of the toolmaker. It is not useful in markets. Apple is not in the business of engineering software, their in the business of consumer hardware.

Even more so, having retired themselves from server and workstation market.

Are there more powerful workstations than a maxed out Mac Studio?

First of all, not all workstations are alike.

A maxed out Mac Studio does very little for audio processing, and the custom audio cards that get used in the field.

Second to do the same as many users do with graphics cards configurations, one gets into gimmicks like external eGPU adaptors.

Third, Metal has not much adoption among visualisation software.

Finally, a Mac Studio can only be maxed out once during its lifetime.

Granted, I feel this is true re my non-Mac computers. You think you can max it out at first, but then there's new interfaces, RAM standards, etc

This is apologia. There is a mile between being stuck with 16GB of ram vs on DDR5 or even DDR5. The analogy is absurd.

I'm just saying...between my sandy bridge to the current box, when I looked either having to search for older components vs. just building something new, it was always just easier to build something new. Of course this was when prices were "normal" vs. today....

You seem to forget the "you can't at all" part with new Apple hardware. Of course, everything has a limit on upgrades, but not being able to upgrade your RAM or at very least SSD is insane that we put up with. This is pure anti-consumer cartel outcome.

Product design also becomes more important. You can build a new UX every day but your userbase can only handle a new UX or two every year, so creating and validating good ideas and strategies becomes more valuable.

According to doomers, the userbase will be AI too.

I recently had to use the browser and was shocked to find there was no option for Gallery View. You were just stuck with one square in the middle that would bounce between different faces. I feel like they have the worst web experience out of all the meeting apps.

I remember in the 2000s, Dattebayo fansubs had a custom 404 page (for anyone trying to download an episode before they published it I guess), that would do similar. Endless popups, a really bad full volume audio loop, and every other trick to make it impossible to close the page. Was quite the jumpscare.

The problem is that lots of people don't want a CMS, they want a platform for development / e-commerce / bookings / whatever. Enforcing vanilla WordPress would push people towards other platforms. Now that could be a good thing, but I doubt WordPress are going to start killing their own marketshare with usage restrictions like that...

Tangential, but the Claude-isms make it a less rewarding read

It is getting quite nauseating to see Claude's fingerprints all over the page and at this point I just expect the slop to continue.

But the payoff here is that you get a sneak peak into PG19

It's off-putting to me too. I wonder if the AI enthusiasts that stopped manually writing also find it off-putting

No you see when I generate a blog post it’s not slop. You see I reviewed the output and declared everything is fine. So it’s not slop.

It’s only when you generate a blog post that I get the ick from slop.

Because I clearly put effort into my blog post and you did not.

When models start to effectively employ sarcasm were screwed

Are there any services I can send an article to that can tell me how much of it was AI-written? I feel like we need some kind of benchmark for articles to measure their "real value."