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Looks a lot like Swift! Awesome!

There are literally 1000s of these types of apps. Why is this on the Front Page?

1000s?

I'd love to know a few more local LLM apps that are available on Android and iOS and Mac/PC under the same branding that I can point my non-technical friends to as a ChatGPT alternative that works offline (but still has sync across the devices).

Could you recommend a few?


StumbleUpon?


Personally my favorite spiritual successor to stumbleupon has been cloudhiker.net. I found kagis to be too personal blog focused for my tastes. I love that kagi is doing so much of this out in the open though.

There are a surprising amount out there: https://blog.woblick.dev/en/2025/best-stumbleupon-alternativ...


Hi, creator of Cloudhiker here. Thanks for mentioning my site! Let me know if you have any questions, issues or ideas.


There are still a lot of alternatives:

http://cloudhiker.net

https://www.offscopes.com

Newsletter version if you prefer: https://randomdailyurls.com


I miss StumbleUpon so much!


First thing I thought... honestly we should bring it back anyway


Can anyone get LinkedIn>English working? Nothing I've found and pasted in has seemed to work... just spits back out the original


Maybe that's the same problem as translating CEO memos to English. A large body of text, with no content, or at least very little.

So far I've been hesitant to put memos from our CEO into an LLM for a summary, I fear that it will just spit out "Nothing to concern yourself with" every time.


For those unaware, Claude Code comes with a built in /insights command...


insights is straight ego fluffing - it just tells you how brilliant you are and the only actionable insights are the ones hardcoded into the skill that appear for everyone. things like be very specific with the success criteria ahead of time (more than any human could ever possibly be), tell the llm exactly what steps to follow to the letter (instead of doing those steps yourself), use more skills (here's an example you can copy paste that has 2 lines and just tells it to be careful), and a couple of actually neat ideas (like having it use playwright to test changes visually after a UI change)


It gave you a couple neat ideas and you're complaining.


Some people just can't take a compliment, especially if it's generated. (I'm one of them.) Still, /insight did give useful help, but I wasn't able to target it to specific repo/sessions.


Isn't it using the sessions in the cwd where you're running it?


Ohh this is exciting, I kinda overlooked it. I assume there are still a lot of differences, especially for accross teams. But I immediately ran it, when I saw your comment. Actually still running.


true, the best comes out of it when one uses claude code and codex as a tag team


Favourite books of the year:

"When the Moon Hits Your Eye" - John Scalzi

"Making History" - K.J. Parker

"Let Dogs be Dogs" - Monks of New Skete

"The First Gentleman" - Bill Clinton (it's actually fun!)

"The Thinking Machine" - Stephen Witt


I thought Volvo was publicly traded. Had to look it up.

Volvo Group - sells trucks - publicly traded - Swedish

Volvo Cars - sells cars - not publicly traded - 100% owned by Geely (Chinese)

Volvo Cars ≠ Volvo Group


Volvo Cars is still publicly traded. Ticker symbol is VOLCAR B on the Swedish NASDAQ: https://au.finance.yahoo.com/quote/VOLCAR-B.ST/

Geely owns around 79% of the shares, with the rest split up between pension funds and private equity.


My flow (with legacy software) is: manual strip > LLM > manual clean up > repeat


If your iOS project has more than 700 files... you might be doing it wrong?


In your mind is 700 files a lot or a little? It feels very small to me, and Xcode really ought to be able to handle that tiny scale on modern machines with ease.

I struggle to imagine a team of more than 10 people writing an iOS app with less than 700 files.


Bear in mind 600 of those files are icon and screenshot variants for various screen dpis and spec ratios..


Translation files, themes, drawables .etc...the list is endless. Even a simple app will easily have a thousand files.


Instagram.app likely has 30,000 files for iOS. And it produces 10-figures of revenue. So how is that wrong?



In fairness, as a mere generator of eyeball time that gets mis-sold* to advertisers, I'd say the FB user experience is very much "doing something wrong".

* dick pills and boob surgery, also government announcements for a country I don't live in, also offers to help renounce a citizenship I never had in the first place


I mean.. say its an enterprise mobile app. Maybe there are 2 shells, each shell has 5 tabs. Each tab might have 5 screens on it.. that's 50 files already just for the screens. Each screen might have various UI components or steppers, etc.

Most noobs, such as those who think 700 files is too many because they've only worked on apps they never published, might just cram everything into that one file.

However, there would be various files for components, functions, etc. Code that's single responsibility and easy to test might mean there are lots of files. There might be upload queues, offline functionality, custom code to go beyond what the ios/android SDKs offer, and so on. DTOs, DAOs, etc. various services..

You probably (won't) get the gist but yeah.


and a thousand lines of code? oh my? whatever shall we do?


So 120B was Horizon Alpha and 20B was Horizon Beta?


Unfortunately not, this model is noticeably worse. I imagine horizon is either gpt 5 nano/mini.


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