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Re:The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:45PM (#50283523)
I have the XREAL One Pro. It is polarized which makes it always dimmer, especially indoors, and they sort of PWM from the polarized state to a 99% black out with a button interface. When it's really bright outside and you have the display on, you can see barely where your next step is and not much else.

Their AURAs are probably the same in this specific capability, it looks like the same thing I have in my hands, apart from the extra cameras and a different set of buttons.

The projection lenses look the same too, which means there's no periphery at all. That makes the sort of "screens hovering around you" in the advertising not all that representative of the experience. You see what's in front of you and might barely contain the one screen that you're looking at.

Re:Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners on Monday October 05, 2026 @10:44AM (#49965557)
UCEPROTECT is why I stopped self hosting my own email :(
Re:Why AI Sucks at Front End on Monday April 13, 2026 @10:50AM (#47752851)
"Pixel perfect" is about attention to detail and consistency. Margins, padding, or the combination of these inside other containers will stick out when they're not consistent.

Here's an example that I personally encountered: what if you have a <h1>Text</h1> and it has a certain left margin. Then another heading except it has a nested button component (which internally comes with some padding). Then the "Text" in both aren't aligned from section to section and it is jarring.

Soon gone are the days of incremental builds. The water cooling enthusiasts will like it.
Re:Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB? on Sunday March 01, 2026 @03:45PM (#47210487)
This was a fun little share. Thanks for writing it up!
Re:Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:20AM (#45588687)
Absolute adoration for how this was published, broken down, and discussed. It really improves my trust in the workers team at Cloudflare.
I've heard its a mixture because they can't source enough in-house compute
Re:Grok is now the most popular model on OpenRouter on Monday September 29, 2025 @10:58AM (#45414651)
Now that Cursor has moved towards a credits system, grok code fast is making the plan last while still being reasonable in inference time. GPT 5 and GPT 5 Codex actually moves my "amount remaining" bar in realtime while being incredibly slow.
That wasn’t what I expected! It got me laughing though. Hopefully they do better so news and TV doesn’t trigger them too like Alexa at the beginning.
Now how about Meta and their questionable means of acquiring tons of content?
Re:Grok Code Fast 1 on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:41AM (#45064774)
My experience with 'sonic' during the stealth phase had it do stuff plenty fast, but the quality was slightly off target for some things. It did create tests and then iterate on those tests. The tests it wrote don't actually verify intended behavior. It only verified that mocks were called with the intended inputs while missing the larger picture of how it is used.
Re:Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models on Monday August 25, 2025 @06:53PM (#45020133)
Agreed. This is too meta-aligned to not end up in some legal spat later on when money goes through it.
Re:Bash Strict Mode on Monday August 25, 2025 @12:11AM (#45010122)
If you ever try something like this with another bash-hackery tool like NVM, you will have a very bad time.
This article comes across as generated.
Re:Anubis Works on Saturday April 12, 2025 @10:16PM (#43669504)
That's what route-specific Anubis is for.
Re:ArkType: Ergonomic TS validator 100x faster than Zod on Saturday April 12, 2025 @03:10PM (#43667120)
I'd be very interested in how to replicate parsing like this. Slow typescript inference has stalled my own exploration into things like this.
Re:Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders on Thursday April 03, 2025 @10:50PM (#43577847)
I can't wait for the day when attr has this implemented. It would eliminate the need for so many inline styles
Re:Playwright Tools for MCP on Thursday March 27, 2025 @01:19AM (#43490582)
Interestingly it transforms the page into markdown for navigation.
Re:“Vibe Coding” vs. Reality on Sunday March 23, 2025 @11:09AM (#43453437)
I love this. Vape coding should catch on.
Re:Mark Carney Is Canada's Next Prime Minister on Sunday March 09, 2025 @10:50PM (#43316528)
What did they talk about that gave you this certainty?
There was a day when Excel was used as a password manager. It might have been password protected. It might not have.
Re:Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org on Saturday October 12, 2024 @04:08PM (#41822081)
It is as if Wordpress [1] is asserting that the original author is a danger to public safety. Their terms read: ...

To that end, we reserve the following rights: ... to make changes to a plugin, without developer consent, in the interest of public safety.

[1]: https://x.com/WordPress/status/1845179613783142426

Re:The Vala Language on Saturday August 17, 2024 @05:36PM (#41278183)
Vala was super neat as it came out of the ElementaryOS line of work. Their holistic focus towards usability and approachability of a Linux distro was inspiring enough that I even supported them with my meager student developer income. Since then, I've moved to Mac and haven't dabbled much in desktop Linux machines. As it grew older and some things got broken up (like serenity and ladybird), the novelty-energy wore off and I looked away for years.

As a language, I hoped Vala would pave the way for a beautiful high performance application tool. Instead, we got Electron.

Re:The Invisible Screen – An E-Paper Smart Display on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @04:43PM (#38776398)
It might take a few years to refine the manufacturing process in other factories under different management. There is certainly a lot of knowledge and equipment to replicate.
Re:A new, modern, and secure print experience from Windows on Saturday December 16, 2023 @11:37PM (#38670353)
CUPS subsystem for Windows™
Re:VMware is now part of Broadcom on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @09:23PM (#38388430)
I am also concerned about this. VMWare have been great stewards of the Spring framework / boot libraries.

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