[HN Gopher] Lil Finder Guy
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Lil Finder Guy
Author : frizlab
Score : 40 points
Date : 2026-03-08 20:43 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| krackers wrote:
| >I do not think this is the last we've seen of Lil Finder Guy...
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| https://www.macrumors.com/guide/siri-chatbot/
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| > Apple is planning to make visual design changes. It's not quite
| clear what that will entail, but for the upcoming table-top robot
| that's in the works, Apple has tested an animated version of Siri
| that looks similar to the Mac's Finder logo.
| neom wrote:
| I learned about apples tiktok via this post and I must confess as
| an old person, in terms of brands reaching young people, I find
| the content pretty cool (usually I either don't understand it or
| think it's lame): https://www.tiktok.com/@apple
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I think what makes them work (for me too!) is that they're not
| simply _random for the sake of being random_. They 're a
| oddball but there's clearly a shared theme/style and they're
| well-executed.
|
| I'm not sure I'm interested in anything they're selling, but
| after what felt like 15 years of "young California hipster", I
| think this style catches my attention at least somewhat.
| behnamoh wrote:
| Honestly, who cares about anything AI-related that Apple does?
| Their head of MLX team just quit after months of threatening to
| leave due to MLX not being Apple's priority. Their Siri is a joke
| even Samsung Bixby works better than that. They switch between AI
| providers (OpenAI - Google) like you can "just change the LLM
| bro", and their M-series hardware is held back by lack of quality
| software and compute despite people literally begging them to
| improve it.
|
| I was looking forward to upgrade my M1 Pro to M5 Max (128GB)
| until Awni (MLX head) quit. The new team isn't that responsive on
| X, and bugs keep getting piled up like they don't care if MLX is
| actually used in practice. After 3 years they still don't have a
| decent MLX server. Wanna try Qwen3.5? You can't use mlx_server
| because Qwen is a VLM. For that you must use MLX-VLM but that is
| not official and has tons of bugs. Apple refuses to open-source
| ANE source code _even to their own MLX team_.
| borski wrote:
| > They switch between AI providers (OpenAI - Google) like you
| can "just change the LLM bro"
|
| You can. They're not the same, but you can absolutely "just
| switch the LLM, bro," and most consumers would never notice a
| difference.
|
| As for the rest: this is about the future, not the present. All
| of your comments about the present are thus not particularly
| relevant, imho.
| behnamoh wrote:
| > You can. They're not the same, but you can absolutely "just
| switch the LLM, bro," and most consumers would never notice a
| difference.
|
| Tell me you've never built a serious LLM app without telling
| me...
|
| Each LLM has its own quirks; you can't just switch the
| models.
|
| > As for the rest: this is about the future, not the present.
| All of your comments about the present are thus not
| particularly relevant, imho.
|
| Wrong. In AI world, you either move fast or let rivals win.
| This stuff is not about the future; the best time for Apple
| to position itself as a great AI hardware producer was last
| year.
| borski wrote:
| I have built plenty. Some of them even make me money.
|
| I never said LLMs didn't have their own quirks. You can
| mitigate for those quirks.
|
| You can just switch the models.
|
| It's just not as simple as a one-line change. But that
| isn't what we were talking about.
| GaryBluto wrote:
| It's saddening to me how the all the Mac OS X icons have slowly
| lost their definition and uniqueness over the years - this twee
| figurine is just the cherry on the excrement sundae. It doesn't
| even have the smile crossing both sides.
| latexr wrote:
| > It doesn't even have the smile crossing both sides.
|
| It's giving me Phantom of the Opera vibes.
|
| https://i.imgur.com/pcSbBZc.jpeg
| MBCook wrote:
| Give the response this has had in the Mac community I really hope
| they're smart enough to release a little playset.
|
| It would be great merch. I know that's not really an Apple thing
| but make an exception.
|
| Tim Cook loves grubbing money.
| hrdwdmrbl wrote:
| Clicked the link hoping for something that might improve
| Spotlight :/
| paradox460 wrote:
| Mr.Macintosh?
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