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Re:OccupySaaS on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:20AM (#50335850)
Is there such a thing as an AI craze?
Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:46AM (#50300887)
The model does not seem to be good enough to be used here: https://chat.mistral.ai/work Why should I trust if Mistral does not trust their own model?
Does your static site really need JS at all?
Re:Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997 on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:02AM (#50241032)
The scrollbars are not authentic.
Hearthstone: It's nice for passing the time while taking a shit.
Re:My server is a phone now on Sunday August 09, 2026 @03:24AM (#49229201)
I wouldn't view swapping Hetzner for Cloudflare as a gain in freedom.
Re:TFTP Honey Pot Results on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:57PM (#48899466)
Re:Excessive nil pointer checks in Go on Sunday June 21, 2026 @06:08AM (#48617399)
The problem the author overlooks is that `RateLimiter` is public, meaning no one is forced to call the constructor.
Re:Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi on Friday June 19, 2026 @08:59AM (#48598060)
I don't understand why anyone would bother doing something like Stow. I keep my home directory directly in a Git repository that ignores all files by default, and for systems with specific configurations, I simply create a branch.
Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe on Monday June 15, 2026 @03:15AM (#48537682)
If nobody is able to implement the standard it is probably not amazing.
Don't know, but I have uninstalled it a few minutes ago.
Re:Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad on Monday May 04, 2026 @04:22AM (#48006034)
Outch! Security is security. Obscurity is obscurity. Piety is piety. All three have nothing in common.
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @03:33AM (#47945208)
Is there anything less important than the origin URL of a Git repository?
The ability to nest proxy servers using TLS would be sufficient for me.
Re:AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton on Friday February 20, 2026 @05:27AM (#47086136)
AI is like sugar. It tastes delicious, but in high doses it causes diabetes.
Re:Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @04:16AM (#46972711)
They should have called it Emacs. Then everybody would have known.
Re:Ask HN: Do you still physical calculators? on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:04AM (#46871840)
No. Droid48 has replaced it.
Re:Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes on Friday January 09, 2026 @08:12AM (#46553467)
Did something similar some time ago: https://gitlab.com/ceving/mdexec
Re:What Happened to WebAssembly on Friday January 09, 2026 @05:44AM (#46552380)
Wasm has a fundamental problem: int64 is an insufficient data type for real use cases. If you want to create some kind of plugin system based on Wasm, you need to exchange structured data. But most languages disagree about the memory layout. Dynamic languages do tagging, compiled languages do not. And the UTF issue shows that even with strings, there's still no real agreement.

Furthermore, there are now competing interest groups within the Wasm camp. Wasm originally launched as a web standard: an extension of the JavaScript environment. However, some now want to use Wasm as the basis for replacing containers: an extension of a POSIX environment.

Re:What Happened to WebAssembly on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:32AM (#46551375)
The data exchange between host and guest is still unspecified. You can not access host objects from Wasm. Most do just string serialization, which is not fast. Or they write libraries for some particular languages, which damages the universal idea of Wasm. And WASI seems to be quite controversial: https://www.assemblyscript.org/standards-objections.html
Re:Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig – 5x faster than MuPDF on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @07:28AM (#46443559)
The spacing issue isn't working quite right yet.

    zpdf extract texbook.pdf | grep -m1 Stanford
    DONALD E. KNUTHStanford UniversityIllustrations by
Re:Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language on Monday December 01, 2025 @10:25AM (#46108531)
Click-bait title for pay-wall spam?
Re:DIY NAS: 2026 Edition on Thursday November 27, 2025 @10:17AM (#46069996)
Can you give a reference for ECC? I can not find anything about ECC support on the Odroid site.
And now "absolute rot and chaos" is in "~/.config". What is the difference?
Re:Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification on Thursday November 20, 2025 @10:41AM (#45993787)
I think the XDG spec is pretty petty. What difference does it make that the files are in ~/.config/mozilla instead of ~/.mozilla? And calling it a bug is presumptuous.
Re:FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT on Monday November 17, 2025 @07:49AM (#45953123)
I had to upvote right after this sentence: "I wanted to be able to play the EGA version of Monkey Island 1 on it"
Re:Why I'm Learning Sumerian on Friday November 14, 2025 @08:40AM (#45926599)
How does "impresses no one" and writing a blog article fits together?
Re:Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue on Thursday November 13, 2025 @11:57AM (#45917240)
This was my first dark mode: https://www.dosforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=12253 Been there, done that. A black background is generally more tiring for the eyes. A black background means less light. Less light means the eye's aperture has to open wider. A wider aperture means less depth of field. Less depth of field means the eye has to work harder to focus. There are reasons for using a black background on a mobile phone, as it can save energy. But for any device that has a power adapter, a black background is simply self-flagellation.

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