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David Pogue
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David Pogue writes Pogue's Posts, a personal blog at pogueman.substack.com about hardware, ai and culture. Since 2026, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Tests of the New AI Siri”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Tech, design, and humor from former NY Times columnist David Pogue. Free. Click to read Pogue's Posts, by David Pogue, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Tests of the New AI Siri5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-09-17
- Steve Jobs, Closed Macs, and Me: A Guest Post (Del Yocum)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-01
- Alexa+ Is a Buggy Embarrassment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-05
What Hacker News says?
You might want to update your information a bit. https://pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tests-of-the-new-ai-siri
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on “Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac”Submitted Tests of the New AI Siri as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI'll say they definitely need to let people disable/offload the model, but if you haven't tried the new Siri, it's been great. Obviously it's not a state of the art LLM, but it's good enough, and the fact that it can search and take actions on your local data makes it incredibly useful. I definitely use it more on my iPhone where it's slower to get things done the traditional way, but I use it all the time now. "Wha…
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on “macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage”Submitted Steve Jobs, Closed Macs, and Me: A Guest Post (Del Yocum) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFYI, Siri was effectively "fixed" as of OS 27. This is why Apple is finally able to launch their Siri-centric home products tomorrow. https://pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tests-of-the-new-ai-siri
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on “Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries”Submitted Steve Jobs, Closed Macs, and Me: A Guest Post as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> it's relatively useless (even with Siri stuff they added in macOS 27) Would Antfly do better with the tasks listed at https://pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tests-of-the-new-ai-siri ?
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on “A search-and-inference database from scratch in pure Zig”Submitted Tesla's Self-Driving Has Gotten Amazing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tests of the New AI Siri as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alexa+ Is a Buggy Embarrassment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alexa+ Is a Buggy Embarrassment as a story · 1 points
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