Why Retina Isn’t Enough (2012) by Tomte

Apple’s new MacBook Pro follows the fine tradition of the iPhone 4 and third-gen iPad in that it has a super high-resolution Retina display: a 2880 x 1800 panel with an amazing 220 pixels packed in per inch. It’s an incredible display. In fact, it’s such an incredible display that it actually has about one

ByHackTechMay 18, 20250Comments

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Path Isn’t Real on Linux by max__dev

On a fresh installation of Debian 12 (bookworm), executing echo $PATH shows the following output: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin /usr/bin contains /usr/bin/cat, and /usr/bin is in PATH, so just typing cat will run /usr/bin/cat. But what exactly is doing this lookup? By running strace cat, you can see the Linux system calls that are used: c execve (

ByHackTechApril 29, 20250Comments

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Regex Isn’t Hard (2023) by asicsp

Tue July 11, 2023 Regex gets a bad reputation for being very complex. That’s fair, but I also think that if you focus on a certain core subset of regex, it’s not that hard. Most of the complexity comes from various “shortcuts” that are hard to remember. If you ignore those, the language itself is

ByHackTechApril 21, 20250Comments

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AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say by nsoonhui

Agents using debugging tools drastically outperformed those that didn’t, but their success rate still wasn’t high enough. Credit: Microsoft Research This approach is much more successful than relying on the models as they’re usually used, but when your best case is a 48.4 percent success rate, you’re not ready for primetime. The limitations are likely

ByHackTechApril 18, 20250Comments

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Founder isn’t a designer, but he built a $150k MRR design service anyway by freedomMonkey

Companies Wizard Venture, Magier Founder Maximilian Fleitmann Revenue $150K a month Maximilian Fleitmann is a serial entrepreneur building his holdco, Wizard Ventures . He grew the biggest business in his portfolio — a subscription design service called Magier — to $150k MRR, and he isn’t even a designer. Here’s Max on how he did it. 👇

ByHackTechMarch 17, 20250Comments

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AI isn’t destroying jobs. You posting specialized knowledge is by winternett

I was on TikTok the other day just browsing, and a pop-up came up on my screen, encouraging me to make a new template for them with the possibility of profiting form making it attached. This piqued my usual skepticism of social media work schemes, as I have spent many years creating and uploading to

ByHackTechNovember 10, 20230Comments

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Ask HN: Why isn’t there a database of ontologies? by kakadu

A bank statement, a sales order an invoice and numerous other entities can be pretty much distilled into some sort of ontology.I have bumped into some attempts but they seem pretty much abandoned.Why hasn't something like this come to fruition?

ByHackTechOctober 26, 20230Comments

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The Saudi-PGA Golf Deal Isn’t Going to Happen by GoRudy

Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. If you’re already signed up, great! If you’d like to sign up and receive issues over email, you can do so here.Today I’m writing about the merger deal between the PGA and LIV Golf, which is almost certainly illegal. Don’t be fooled by the

ByHackTechJune 8, 20230Comments

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Apple isn’t labeling its AI products ‘AI.’ Here’s why that’s important by robg

And Apple did use the underlying technology as it announced improved autocorrect on the iPhone, adaptive audio for AirPods, and a new journaling app. The new headset also will use the tech to create digital avatars after scanning users’ faces.But Apple, as it often does, went its own way and never mentioned the phrases “artificial

ByHackTechJune 7, 20230Comments

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AI Isn’t Going to Reinvent the Alphabet Anytime Soon by Hoasi

Looking at typography developed by artificial intelligence is like looking at lettering submerged in deep water, warped and fuzzy. It looks like a copy of a copy of a copy. The words are recognizable, barely, but the original form has been lost. AI typography is, charitably, bad.A recent example of this phenomenon is Word-As-Image for Semantic

ByHackTechApril 29, 20230Comments

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