Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | asimovDev's commentslogin

You should probably say that you are the founder or maybe add that in your profile description so that other people realize you are not just a passionate employee ;) Congratulations to you and everyone at Verda.

Could you elaborate on your last point about AWS? I am interested in what you mean exactly since a lot of companies in Finland fall under that sub 10M umbrella and use AWS / Azure extensively


I sometimes take the slower and older commuter train back home from the office during "green months" as I call them (May to September) to enjoy the scenery and the ambient clickclacks of the train wheels.

We've been using M2 Pro machines at our workplace and they still are fast, quiet and have long battery life even at ~85 percent of battery life. It would feel wrong to upgrade from these. 10 years ago it would've been a no brainer to upgrade a 2 year old MacBook in a professional setting but nowadays I feel like I could go 5+ years on a single Apple Silicon macbook with how light our workloads seem to be for these chips

can run multiple subagents of Qwen 27B though, right? Unless I am fundamentally misunderstanding how VRAM constraints work

You might be. Running another agent doesn't load a set of new weights. It creates a new KV cache for the agent and adds the prompts to the queue. Its just another inference turn.

thanks, I naively assumed when, for example, Claude Code starts subagents it loads a new instance with empty context

I imagine those devices are same as Superboxes that were plaguing the USA recently

Could be; I just notice that literally everyone has them and calls them 'our free tv' etc; it seems also to have some pirated netflix and other streamer stuff as when I recommend something, they usually have it there.


It's insane to me that the fastest Mac chip is almost a fifth faster than the fastest Intel chip for a fraction of the power budget.

The moment AAA gaming becomes possible on macOS, the floodgates open and windows is dead

Not going to happen, Linux already won, doesn’t look like it but you’ll see.

Linux is actually exciting contrary to Apple as a company, their hardware, their prices and macOS in general.

And I’m saying this as a Windows user too, I will NEVER buy a Mac but I’ve used Linux on and off for 30+ years.

For the past 5-10 years Linux has been the only excitement I’ve had personally.


Why will you never buy a Mac even if they are making the best hardware available? Money or ideology?

I think it's neither, it all comes down to peace of mind and that's the true future of technology.

In the past it was more of a race of companies trying to get "there" first, not anymore, we live in an interesting age where people feel constantly controlled and everyone is exhausted about tech in general.

Linux gives you that middle finger peace of mind like saying "I will never be controlled anymore and ever again" ..funny there is a big Warez article on the HN homepage at the same time of this discussion, that's exactly what it feels like to finally come out on the other side legally.

People took decades to finally being liberated from Windows and Microsoft and many like me will never be controlled that way again and while I respect Apple more than Microsoft for a lot of things in the end it's just another corporation that wants to greedily take your life energy and precious time and enslave you again.

They are creating the best hardware at the worst possible time, but it's good for competition so it's all good.


I'll gladly sell my soul first thing every morning in exchange for a laptop that lasts longer than two hours on battery, wifi/audio/webcam work after waking from sleep, and not needing to learn a complexity fractal of CLI commands to do basic things.

They are called Chromebooks. It can sometimes be difficult for some people to find that toggle switch that enables Debian, but I can assure you, no arcane CLI commands are involved.

EDIT: Any Chromebook using a Panther Lake chip, or an upcoming Googlebook ARM, can get you there.


Lock-in: ownership over user choice and data

Personally it's the software which doesn't make me buy one. The hardware really is one of the best you can buy but using the software makes me lose my hair.

Money AND ideology - I've never owned any apple product, and never will

Since it doesn't run the software I need, why would I buy it? Unthinking fanboi-ism or simple stupidity?

Linux sits at <3% users or so.

Not even Microsoft believes that. Where could you possibly find a misrepresentation like that?

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

~10% is a good guess. AI tools run much better on Ubuntu/Fedora out of the box, and that is not exactly a secret either.


> Where could you possibly find a misrepresentation like that?

On the stats website you linked at any time in the last 20 years with the exception of the two most recent months. To be explicit all of the data points are closer to 3% than 10% except July and August 2026.

I don’t think it’s that surprising that the GP has a misrepresentation of Linux desktop deployments given that the uptick is recent.


AI tools are the killer app driving Desktop Linux. Is anyone else still confused about this? It's been a few minutes since 2023.

This doesn’t address or even acknowledge a single thing I said.


Linux has been at 100% for years, don't get confused about mouse and keyboard.

Wonder what will be first, the year of Linux desktop or the year of Apple AAA gaming ;P

Been hearing both for the same time.


Apple needs better GPUs for "AAA gaming on macOS". My M2 Max is pretty awful at games that run fine on a desktop GPU. An M(whatever) Ultra to play games seems like a debatable value proposition.

AAA games already exist on Mac, and actually quite a few of them.

And Windows is not remotely dead yet. Gamers are not selling their PCs and getting Macs.


Eh, they always get ~5 year old stuff like Control and Cyberpunk

Not even support for the latest Diablo or Overwatch and absolutely no GTA 6 for example


That's not what the original comment was asking about. Don't complain about my corrections.

If someone wants to add qualifiers, they should do that and make it clear.


Woah the A19 Pro is 5th, that’s bonkers! It’s used in an iPhone and its power consumption is lower than chips intended for desktops.

A20 Pro would have been number 1 if it was included in that chart.

Oh, I haven't considered the possibility of indexing things like Instagram or Discord with this. I am now much more interested than before

Remembering my teachers 20 years ago talking about staying in school grading until 8-9 PM, I wonder if these things are a symptom instead of a disease

Qwen-3.8 for me automatically set copyright footer on a website to 2025 and thought Astro 5.x is the latest version which first came out in December 2024

Anyone have experience with embedded Swift or know any interesting embedded projects running on Swift?

One fun example is this Playdate game: https://news.play.date/news/four-corners-swift/

Here's a more comprehensive list of different platform examples: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-embedded-examples


> Here's a more comprehensive list of different platform examples: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-embedded-examples

(About?) the same list in a nicely formatted way: https://www.swift.org/get-started/embedded/


Thanks!

Interesting tidbit about not having the Foundation library. Every Swift project I worked on had to import that, so I imagine it's annoying to lose that


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: