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LeafItAlone commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
mg · 4 days ago
The people at Google seem to think much more like me than the people at Apple.

There are 3 primary decisions Google made that click with me, while Apple's choices are a mystery to me:

1: When I put a Pixel on a table, it sits there stable. Because the backside is symmetrical. When I put an iPhone on a table, it wobbles.

2: When I sort my photos on a Pixel, I sort them in folders. The "camera" folder is where the unsorted photos are. When I sit in a bus or in a cafe, I go through it and sort the new photos into folders. This seems impossible on iPhones. Everything stays in the main folder forever. You can add photos to albums, but that does not remove them from the main folder. So there is no way to know which photos I have already sorted.

3: On Android I can use Chrome. Which means web apps can use the File System Access API. This makes web apps first class productivity applications I can use to work on my local files. Impossible on iPhones.

I'm sure people who prefer iPhones have their own set of "this clicks with me on iPhones and puzzles me on Pixels" aspects?

Is this a "left brain vs right brain" type of thing? Do most HNers prefer Androids?

LeafItAlone · 4 days ago
I use an iPhone.

1. I’m always going to have a case on my phone, so I don’t care about the camera bump.

2. You’re correct here. I mostly don’t care, but I want to have different hidden folders, which iOS doesn’t natively have. Otherwise I don’t care much.

3. Safari’s locked-down-ness is precisely why I use it.

But TBH, at this point, there’s minimal differences between iOS and Android.

LeafItAlone commented on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations   anthropic.com/research/en... · Posted by u/virgildotcodes
greenavocado · 9 days ago
Can't wait for more less-moderated open weight Chinese frontier models to liberate us from this garbage.

Anthropic should just enable an toddler mode by default that adults can opt out of to appease the moralizers.

LeafItAlone · 9 days ago
> Can't wait for more less-moderated open weight Chinese frontier models to liberate us from this garbage.

Never would I have thought this sentence would be uttered. A Chinese product that is chosen to be less censored?

LeafItAlone commented on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations   anthropic.com/research/en... · Posted by u/virgildotcodes
viccis · 9 days ago
>This feature was developed primarily as part of our exploratory work on potential AI welfare ... We remain highly uncertain about the potential moral status of Claude and other LLMs ... low-cost interventions to mitigate risks to model welfare, in case such welfare is possible ... pattern of apparent distress

Well looks like AI psychosis has spread to the people making it too.

And as someone else in here has pointed out, even if someone is simple minded or mentally unwell enough to think that current LLMs are conscious, this is basically just giving them the equivalent of a suicide pill.

LeafItAlone · 9 days ago
> even if someone is simple minded or mentally unwell enough to think that current LLMs are conscious

If you don’t think that this describes at least half of the non-tech-industry population, you need to talk to more people. Even amongst the technically minded, you can find people that basically think this.

LeafItAlone commented on Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police   nytimes.com/live/2025/08/... · Posted by u/Tadpole9181
michtzik · 11 days ago
I did some minimal searching for Seattle and explosions in 2020 and I found plenty of sources reporting on different supposed explosions, at different times and places (within Seattle). Seems perfectly plausible to me.

https://mynorthwest.com/local/peaceful-protests-planned-in-s...

https://projects.seattletimes.com/2020/local/protest-timelin...

https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2020/09/24/police-arrest-13-d...https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2020/07/26/officer-injuries-p...

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/07/28/44178586/so-what...

LeafItAlone · 9 days ago
None of those sources detail anything that I would describe as “two large bombs”. And I can’t find a 72 hour power outage in Seattle in 2020.

Can you help me out?

mrangle also later said [0] they live “in a major city between Boston and DC”. So they aren’t describing Seattle. (Or actually any city in the US based on what they have shared so far)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888781

LeafItAlone commented on Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police   nytimes.com/live/2025/08/... · Posted by u/Tadpole9181
mrangle · 11 days ago
I'm observing how this is breaking down into questioning where I live (in another post), or whether what I say happened actually happened.

Should I not believe that people's post's here defending cities are from legitimate experience (at least as stated, in their bubbles)?

What happened to the "believe" people ethic?

I don't live in Oakland. What do you want me to read carefully, super-sleuth? To what purpose? In spite of your masterful rhetorical question, you're wrong about the event in question and location.

Consider that a lot of the country was terrorized in a manner that you and much of the nation is blind to. These are people who will be forming opinions and voting for a long time to come.

Given that the Press's obvious mandate was to whitewash the violence so that it continued.

You can't be good with nine months of nationwide riots and then ever think that you understand the impact or can get a handle on everything that occurred via zero-start google searches.

LeafItAlone · 9 days ago
Those other commenters are talking about named cities which the rest of us are able to verify what they say based on simple internet searches.

You are describing an unnamed war-torn hellscape that matches no city in America. It’s like something out of a fictional writing class.

Which of those two types of comments are something you would believe?

>Consider that a lot of the country was terrorized in a manner that you and much of the nation is blind to. These are people who will be forming opinions and voting for a long time to come.

We are _trying_ to consider them. But we are unable to make the leap from reality to the fantasy world you’ve been describing, so it’s really hard.

>Given that the Press's obvious mandate was to whitewash the violence so that it continued.

I guess it is a pretty good thing we live in a modern world with an internet that lets anybody that wants to share actual evidence. Unfortunately it also allows people to post they made up accounts they use in a conservative fireside story telling event, but those are identifiable by including outlandish details that would be easily verifiable, but also refusing to provide evidence, like names of cities.

LeafItAlone commented on Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police   nytimes.com/live/2025/08/... · Posted by u/Tadpole9181
mrangle · 12 days ago
>There is no undermining, as everyone living in the cities realizes.

I remember that "Defund the Police" is the general mantra of one side of the isle.

You aren't paying attention. I stated that I was born and raised in a (major) city, and I still live in an area that many on HN and virtually all bourgeoise urban-bubble people would not live.

And so who are you trying to gaslight, exactly?

I don't assert that Seattle is perfect, but Seattle is a cakewalk. One of the nicest and per-capita wealthiest cities in the country. But with a sizeable population of bored grown toddlers. A subgroup of whom are professional terrorists, while living in a priveleged city on the World scale. Spare me your faux "urbanite on a walk" homily.

The nine months of rioting in 2020 were nine months of partisan terrorism purposefully leading exactly up to an election. Funny that, in the context of those so concerned with democracy.

We were terrorized, absolutely. It caused me to think twice about voting at all, out of fear. During one weekend in which police were hamstrung by the mayor in favor of rioters, we had two large bombs go off in my neighborhood. While the power happened to be off for 72 hours. Have you ever felt the deep vibration from a close domestic terrorist bomb in the dark? Twice? How about during election season?

Would you like to go into my personal experiences with urban crime? How many gun barrels have you stared down? How many times have you been punched in public by a stranger, while just standing there? How many times did that lead to a full blown street fight, out of self-defense? How many times have you been robbed on the sidewalk? How many friends of yours have been targeted and murdered on the sidewalk? How about while in grade school? Yes, I'm Caucasian. I'm overeducated, including graduating on a full-ride from a school that existed a long time before the United States did. That makes no difference.

You deserve a string of derogatory names, but decorum prevents.

LeafItAlone · 12 days ago
>The nine months of rioting in 2020 were nine months of partisan terrorism purposefully leading exactly up to an election. Funny that, in the context of those so concerned with democracy. >We were terrorized, absolutely. It caused me to think twice about voting at all, out of fear. During one weekend in which police were hamstrung by the mayor in favor of rioters, we had two large bombs go off in my neighborhood. While the power happened to be off for 72 hours. Have you ever felt the deep vibration from a close domestic terrorist bomb in the dark? Twice? How about during election season?

The only city in the USA that fits that seems to be Oakland.

And this seems to be the incident: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_boogaloo_murders

Would you like to read that carefully?

LeafItAlone commented on Cursor CLI   cursor.com/cli... · Posted by u/gonzalovargas
gpeal · 16 days ago
We (Codex) shipped a pretty large CLI update today and have many more improvements coming. Give it a try if you haven't.

https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1953559797883891735 (0.19 now)

LeafItAlone · 16 days ago
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll check it out!

I don’t visit Twitter links. Why not a link to the GitHub changelog?

Also, as an aside since you are on the team - the organization verification is frustrating in that the docs indicate:

>You must not have recently verified another organization, as each ID can only verify one organization every 90 days.

I champion OpenAI at my work, so naturally I’d be the one to verify there. But I apparently can’t, because I verify for my personal-led org. That gets in the way of me proselytizing gpt-5 based coding tools (such as, possibly, Codex CLI).

LeafItAlone commented on GPT-5 leaked system prompt?   gist.github.com/maoxiaoke... · Posted by u/maoxiaoke
snickerbockers · 16 days ago
>Do not reproduce song lyrics or any other copyrighted material, even if asked.

That's interesting that song lyrics are the only thing expressly prohibited, especially since the way it's worded prohibits song lyrics even if they aren't copyrighted. Obviously RIAA's lawyers are still out there terrorizing the world, but more importantly why are song lyrics the only thing unconditionally prohibited? Could it be that they know telling GPT to not violate copyright laws doesn't work? Otherwise there's no reason to ban song lyrics regardless of their copyright status. Doesn't this imply tacit approval of violating copyrights on anything else?

LeafItAlone · 16 days ago
It’s also weird because all it took to bypass was this was enabling Web Search and it reproduced them in full. Maybe they see that as putting the blame on the sources they cite?
LeafItAlone commented on Cursor CLI   cursor.com/cli... · Posted by u/gonzalovargas
mrcwinn · 16 days ago
I went from years of vscode to "Cursor is the future" to never using Cursor at all. Claude Code, even with new limits, is just too good. If I were to switch to gpt-5, why wouldn't I just use Codex? I'm struggling to understand the value of what they're presenting.
LeafItAlone · 16 days ago
I find the Codex CLI to be the worst of the CLI tools I’ve used (including, but not limited to, Claude Code, Gemini, Aider). There’s something about it that makes it clunky. Haven’t tried Cursor CLI yet though.
LeafItAlone commented on Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG   leonardo.chiariglione.org... · Posted by u/eggspurt
scotty79 · 17 days ago
I think if IP rights holders were mandated to pay property tax it would make the system much healthier.
LeafItAlone · 17 days ago
Wouldn’t that only help the “big guys” who can afford to pay the tax?

u/LeafItAlone

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