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New ask Hacker News story: Newer macOS runs slower on Intel (undeniably) – on purpose or "accident"?

Newer macOS runs slower on Intel (undeniably) – on purpose or "accident"? 5 by srevenant | 6 comments on Hacker News. FIRST: if you feel the urge to say "get a PC" or "try linux" please don't. This is about apple/mac/macos hardware. suggestions to linux or other things isn't helpful. I have a macbook pro, 32G ram, lightning fast nvme drive. There is NO REASON to upgrade the hardware. I've followed the upgrade path to their latest (Tahoe) and they announced this is the last. But it has become UNBEARABLY slow and painful for some operations. Most notably screen sharing drives it into the ground. I've tried all sorts of things from os settings to whatever--short of redoing the heat paste on the CPU itself. I even installed Fedora on a generation before mine without the security chip (the first gen touch bar). Fedora was /lightning/ fast. (I even re-installed fresh from Tahoe, no difference). It is undeniable: Apple has made the newer MacOS ...

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Claude is completely unusable for biology

Tell HN: Claude is completely unusable for biology 4 by Protostome | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've found that doing basic biology research with Claude has become extremely difficult. I'm not talking about anything remotely related to developing a bioweapon, just straightforward immunology questions that almost always end up being flagged. I completely understand the need for guardrails, but in practice they can significantly reduce the tool's usefulness for legitimate scientific research. It sometimes feels like the model is better suited for "vibe coding" than for serving as a serious research assistant. What's more funny is that you can use claude code together with molecular design models like RFdiffusion and Alphafold to develop a real bioweapon, but since this is in the realm of software, the prompts do not get flagged at all. Those models can even run on consumer GPUs so the limit of access is almost not there. Has anyone else had a similar experien...

New ask Hacker News story: What I have done with Claude Code in the last 60 days being a non tech person

What I have done with Claude Code in the last 60 days being a non tech person 3 by sahiltll | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am a non tech person. Currently working as Product Marketing in a Series B startup. I am a Non Tech person. What I have built:- - Custom wordpress theme live on - https://thelatexlab.com, page speed score is 95+. - Project Tracking micro SaaS using Next.js, Supabase, Vercel, Posthog, Google Auth - used by 45 Users - - Made Two more custom wordpress theme for other businessess. - Made $4K in last 2 months. I am just mind blown if a non tech person like me can do this much then what's the ceiling for people who are Technical. And what it will be in next 1-2 years. Excited and scared both.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What does your local LLM setup looks like?

Ask HN: What does your local LLM setup looks like? 2 by the-mitr | 0 comments on Hacker News. What models and hardware you are using? For what purpose? What were the challenges? Any tricks that helped you in doing this? This might help new users like me setup theirs.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Year of Linux Desktop is fun with LLMs

Ask HN: Year of Linux Desktop is fun with LLMs 2 by mirekrusin | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm wondering if others are also having recently blast using Linux desktop thanks to Claude/Codex/Grok CLIs? As 20y daily Mac user, occasionally using Linux as desktop, my personal daily OS now gravitated towards Linux desktop in recent months quite a lot. I attribute it purely to LLM CLIs. Even my old 2012 Intel iMac 27" on Linux became really good and pleasant machine to use. After dusting it off and setting it up I don't want to give it away anymore. Solutions to quirks/customizations seem to be few prompts away and it's actually fun to do as well. Things like brightness on Apple Studio/iMac not working are not only solved in few minutes but solved really well (native OSD indistinguishable from system volume, perfect latency, mapped to gamma 2.2 perceptual curve etc), Magic Keyboard/macOS key bindings muscle memory which normally was painful is solved in few minutes, Steam...

New ask Hacker News story: Is there a name for the type of comments agents add where they leak the prompt?

Is there a name for the type of comments agents add where they leak the prompt? 4 by xdennis | 1 comments on Hacker News. This is a stupid example to illustrate what I mean. Say you have this code: def create_background(width: int, height: int) -> Image: ... You tell the agent to use default values for create_background, the same as in create_screen. It changes the code to: # Now create_background params have default values, the same as create_screen in screen.py def create_background(width: int = DEFAULT_WIDTH, height: int = DEFAULT_HEIGHT) -> Image: ... The unnecessary comment is a staple of vibed code, but the tone also annoys me because it leaves behind the prompt. It words comments based on what it was asked to do, not in a timeless manner. I keep telling people in code reviews to remove unnecessary comments, and I feel I lack the vocabulary to express why this is bad.