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Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
1•lysace•53s ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
1•Malfunction92•3m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
1•carnevalem•3m ago•0 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•5m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•6m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

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3•0xmattf•7m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

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1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

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2•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•8m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

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Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

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Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

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2•zdw•17m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
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BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
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Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
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Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

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OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

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Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

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1•thelok•20m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•20m ago•0 comments

VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video]

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Show HN: COGext – A minimalist, open-source system monitor for Chrome (<550KB)

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FOSDEM 26 – My Hallway Track Takeaways

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Show HN: Env-shelf – Open-source desktop app to manage .env files

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Show HN: Almostnode – Run Node.js, Next.js, and Express in the Browser

https://almostnode.dev/
1•PetrBrzyBrzek•27m ago•0 comments

Dell support (and hardware) is so bad, I almost sued them

https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-02-07-dell-support-lawsuit
1•radeeyate•28m ago•0 comments

Project Pterodactyl: Incremental Architecture

https://www.jonmsterling.com/01K7/
1•matt_d•28m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Why would Apple cannibalize its macOS/Mac ecosystem?

2•gazarullz•8mo ago
The improvements bought to the iPad OS announced during the WWDC bring the iPad OS even closer to the Mac OS capabilities set. As a long time Mac OS user I have a hard time why shouldn’t I switch to an iPad with my next device upgrade instead of a Mac. Not sure what Apple is aiming for here given that an iPad is definitely. cheaper than a Mac (eg. an 18GB air).

Any ideas on why would the push the tablets to provide similar capabilities as the macbooks?

Comments

metaltyphoon•8mo ago
iPadOS still a single user OS as of today. I honestly think the moment it can run apps it the same unrestricted manner macOS can then the battery life would take a huge hit.
solardev•8mo ago
It's not like the MacBooks have poor battery life? I'd be perfectly happy with an iPad that could run my IDE and execute code, even if it meant a few hours less battery.
metaltyphoon•8mo ago
You are right, however when traveling carrying a MacBook vs an iPad does make a difference, even when it’s MacBook Air.
solardev•8mo ago
Yeah, that's fine, I'd be happy to live with a lighter, smaller iPad that can run regular macOS apps (or at least iPadOS ports of them).
PaulHoule•8mo ago
Microsoft was more progressive on this in the Windows 8 era but its customers didn't care. Back then I was going to Hackathons with a $30 Fire tablet and a $5 plastic clip and a $15 mouse and $20 keyboard, I'd remote desktop into a server so in terms of power I had a three-axle dump truck and they had Honda Civics but in terms of looks my tablet was the Civic and Macbooks and gaming laptops looked like the dump truck.

I think the main impact of the "two-in-one" was that the stewardesses on planes had to change their announcements to clarify if you had to stow your Surface tablet on landing. I couldn't get why everybody thought that they had to get a $250 case and keyboard combo for their tablet instead of just using Bluetooth which would let you choose many different keyboards and mice at different price points.

I got sick and tired of "silly boomer, don't you know a phone and a computer are totally different things" because video game emulation proved long ago that Turing complete is Turing complete.