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  1. Tell HN: Gemini CLI and codex are broken

    Pro paying subscriber and both tools completely fail to auth/run a query. No way to contact support with both.

    2 points 0
  2. Tell HN: iPhones screen time widget is broken

    Screen time widget on Home Screen will show incorrect screen time activity for the day.

    2 points 0
  3. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless

    Hop on an international flight, remember you had set automatic downloads for your favorite podcast show. Open the app to find the latest (or even last few) episodes are not downloaded. Why is it so hard to auto download…

    4 points 4
  4. Tell HN: Netflix app on iPad Pro has broken audio-video sync

    The Netflix app on my iPad Pro has major audio-video sync issues — sound is clearly out of sync with the picture. Pretty unbelievable that in 2025, there’s still no way to reach Netflix Support for help when their app…

    2 points 1
  5. Ask HN: Why do readmes still use $ in copy-pasteable commands?

    I often encounter this in docs/readmes `$ ls -lt` often renders with a copy button that you can easily click and when you paste it in terminal it shows up as `$ ls -lt` with an unnecessary $ causing an error $ command…

    3 points 3
  6. Ask HN: I want to use two phones with one SIM

    I understand the limitations of how SIM cards work. However i was wondering if there was a workaround for this. I would really like to daily an iPhone and an android phone. Ideal to carry one or another device when I…

    9 points 8
  7. Tell HN: iOS 18 heic pictures are difficult to convert

    How hard should it be to convert an heic picture to jpeg? There's no out of box solution in Ubuntu 24 LTS, the libheif library for 24 LTS and older Ubuntu versions fails to convert heic pictures.…

    3 points 2
  8. Ask HN: Bluetooth Connectivity – A Step Back?

    Why do new Bluetooth devices 5.0 LE? have poor connectivity? Purchased Bose QC 2 earbuds recently. Within few tries they failed to synchronize with each other and then failed to sync with 15 Pro Max. They were already…

    1 points 3
  9. Tell HN: Apple services appear to be down

    Despite the status on this page stating everything is working https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

    6 points 4
  10. Putin has ‘lost the energy war’, top trader claims (ft.com)
    2 points 1
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  12. Ask HN: How do you manage personal data backups e.g. photos and videos
    2 points 2
  13. Ask HN: Why WiFi switching is so hard for iPhone?

    I have a main router and since my back patio and garage don't get the WiFi coverage, I have installed a range extender. Whenever I visit the garage my iPhone 12 Pro Max doesn't seem to switch to the range extender, I…

    12 points 17
  14. Error 1006 – The owner of this website has banned your IP address

    I dont get it. I visited this site sometime back since it had an interesting article on webscrapping. Now I try to go back to it, I get this cloudfare error stating that my (home) IP has been banned. I did NOT perform…

    12 points 7
  15. Why META's career page is broken?

    Probably a rant, but I expect way more from a company which makes it a business to know so much about everyone. Why does their Career page not work at all? Every single job role, I have to literally fill up my entire…

    2 points 3
  16. Ask HN: Why is LinkedIn so broken?

    I wrote a little script in python which uses selenium to unfollow everyone on LinkedIn. After a certain amount of unfollows, LinkedIn stopped showing me the people that I follow. The total number of people that I follow…

    6 points 11
  17. Ask HN: What if Open Source community builds voting machines/system?

    What would it take to build a voting machine/system that is truly open source and can be deployed on large scale with security as primary focus?

    2 points 1
  18. Ask HN: Would you trust an algorithm to make travel reservations for you?
    1 points 4
  19. Clickbaiting at it's best or perhaps worst (news.google.com)
    1 points 1
  20. H1B/start up visa restrictions announced (geekwire.com)
    2 points 1
  21. Michigan House bill would add a mark on immigrants driver's licenses (freep.com)
    4 points 1
  22. ICE uses Facebook data to find and track immigrants (theintercept.com)
    114 points 16
  23. Under pressure, Trump team backs off proposal to cull foreign tech workforce (amp.mcclatchydc.com)
    2 points 0
  24. How do you argue with anti vaxxers?

    Any literature/paper books that will help open someone's eyes?

    15 points 45
  25. Why Peter Thiel Is Wrong about Donald Trump (cnbc.com)
    3 points 0