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Re:Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difft...
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @11:57PM (#50333302)
> can diff 99.95% of code changes
I’m not sure if I’m understanding this correctly : so for the remaining 0.05% of code changes, this tool would just… miss it? That seems horrible for a diff tool :O
Re:The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:47AM (#50287511)
or a cube of 20x20x20 containers, seems small enough. (funny how we interpret numbers and sizes
Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:44AM (#50130211)
> Deepseek... My next subscription will probably be Z.ai
Wait wut? You do realize that they are two different companies, right?
Re:Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @11:52AM (#50089634)
Nothing new here. VM + WebRTC + warm pool to absorb boot time
Re:Show HN: How Random Are You?
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:28PM (#50081631)
You should prove that digits of pi are randomly distributed :)
Re:An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @09:19AM (#49944020)
> Kagi can still benefit from this, though, by serving as the default search engine in exchange for funding the development
This is not gonna work because Kagi is not free to use
https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/
They explicitly said no MCP and no fullscreen TUI, which makes it minimal and attracts many people.
Re:OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in ...
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:05PM (#49678867)
Right but I think it’s due to the shortage of chips (and data centers), instead of shortage of money
Re:Fuck it, make it anyway
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:32AM (#49672162)
There are two types of coding in my life: work and hobby.
Before ~3 years ago, they are more or less similar to me: it's mostly pure creation and sparks joy and makes me fulfilled. I love working and it pays well, and my hobby improves my work skill. It's like living in the dream.
Now? I can "make it anyway" like the author suggested indeed, but only for my hobby. I don't think I can keep coding the old way during work without getting myself fired.
I guess there's no much to complain. Lots of people work only for a living. It's a rare privilege to love one's work. I should be grateful that I can choose to keep my hobby.
Re:Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anth...
on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @10:32PM (#48485579)
I would assume that it’s like the Chrome browser does not allow you downloading Firefox using it, surely that would be illegal, wouldn’t it?
Re:Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anth...
on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:26PM (#48484724)
I’m a noob about laws but isn’t this abusing its dominant market position and violates some antitrust law?
Re:macOS Container Machines
on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @09:13PM (#48469983)
OrbStack works really well for me. I wonder how it’s compared to this performance wise
Re:SoulsOnly.tff – A font for humans not AI and keyboard firmware to t...
on Monday June 08, 2026 @11:55AM (#48447006)
Reminds me of an anti-crawl mechanism I encountered some time ago in a financial data provider's website: for all numbers in the table, a special font is used where 0~9 are randomly rendered as different chars (e.g. '0' is rendered as 5, '1' is rendered as 8, etc.). The backend server returns the "encoded" chars, and is then correctly "decoded" by the font. The font changes after each reload. So humans always see the correct numbers, but when some crawler uses the HTML source, the numbers are incorrect.
Re:Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?
on Monday June 08, 2026 @10:48AM (#48446140)
> Prioritise running as many type-checkers as possible on your test suite. Run at least one on your source code.
There are two types of tests: those that test against the public API, and those that test internal codes with various mocks and fakes. I think the vast majority of unit tests is the latter one, in which case the suggestion does not really make sense.
Re:When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QU...
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @10:17PM (#48117057)
The more precise title should be: How we copied code from Linux kernel without fully understand it and missed its follow-up fixes, now it bites us
Re:"Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"
on Sunday March 08, 2026 @01:01AM (#47294926)
Reminds me of Cython vs CPython
Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo
on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:10AM (#47257819)
Yeah that’s totally reasonable. I’m just curious about how do they make a thicker and heavier laptop with less capabilities… do they intentionally make the case thicker or something?
Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo
on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @10:41AM (#47249124)
I completely understand that as a cheap one, it has to be worse than macbook air in some aspect to make the product line work. However I'm genuinely curious why it's thicker and no lighter than the Macbook Air, while at the same time has shorter battery life, less ports, no keyboard light, and a smaller chip? Do they put dead weight inside it or something?
Re:Israel launches strike against Iran, declares state of emergency ac...
on Saturday February 28, 2026 @08:58PM (#47202803)
Same. And I don’t understand why you are being down ranked. The HN guideline specifically stated that political news are not welcome, yet, this is the post with most comments in the front page. I didn’t come to HN for this
Re:Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts
on Saturday February 28, 2026 @08:49PM (#47202759)
Apple is and always has been a hardware company. I would like to use the Linux ecosystem, however there’s simply no laptop other than Mac that is light and powerful and runs 15 hours in battery.
Re:New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes
on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @08:35PM (#47160676)
It may be related to the fact that some non-native English speakers (including myself) would sometimes use AI based tools to revise or translate their writings before posting online
Re:macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)
on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:05AM (#47102012)
Although macOS do provide many little known useful tools (besides this, there’s also dtrace, pf, etc), I still run a Linux VM in my MacBook for daily work. Thing is, the effort I spend on learning these tools is almost wasteful unless I’m doing iOS or macOS development. Skills about Linux tools however, is something people considered valuable because of its wider application. I think apple is missing opportunities by not doing more about macOS Server platform.
Re:MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands ever...
on Thursday February 19, 2026 @10:29PM (#47083308)
I would always refer to Hanlon's razor on things like this: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I'm not trying to finding excuses for them, just saying that most likely there's no deep conspiracy theory involving government level surveillance here, they are just stupid. On average, Chinese software engineers are less educated and have no sense about privacy or how to implement privacy related features properly.
Re:DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @11:09PM (#47069814)
Given the name of DNS-01, you would think it would be called DNS-02...
Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pres...
on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:59PM (#46955592)
If human is at, say, 80%, it’s still a win to use AI agents to replace human workers, right? Similar to how we agree to use self driving cars as long as it has less incidents rate, instead of absolute safety
Re:Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut from All Patreon Creators in iOS App
on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:45AM (#46808355)
> Apple could take just 7% cut and still make 20% profits.
We can say this to any company, "$X could reduce price by $Y and still make $Z profits", but it doesn't really make any sense. Making profits is what makes a company a company instead of a non-profit organization.
Re:Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elit...
on Monday January 26, 2026 @08:39AM (#46765490)
Fun fact - back in 2009, iPhone 3GS sold in China does not have WiFi feature. If that's possible, I can totally see a new iPhone model with restricted satellite feature selling in Iran and China.
Re:Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elit...
on Monday January 26, 2026 @08:33AM (#46765422)
I guess by "Everybody I know who grew up in China" you mean those elites who speaks English and have already bypassed restrictions to talk to you online or travels to other countries. There's some selection bias here.