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Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:00AM (#49991542)
That's good to hear. Let's hope there's hardware adoption on the camera end soon. As an image lib maintainer the codec wars were driving me nuts.
Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:43AM (#49991379)
Is this the same patent/license nightmare as JPEG2000 ?
Re:Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:28PM (#49687752)
Same with Meta. The latter knowingly makes a substantial revenue from those ads. Unless a government steps it to make advertising platforms liable, there will be zero incentive for change
Re:GNU Radio in the Browser on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:36AM (#49639816)
They put radio on the Internet... ¡Tres Comas!
Re:Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? on Friday August 14, 2026 @07:23PM (#49305809)
Maybe we need more benchmarks that involve human collaboration instead of solo task solving.

Since they have become so capable the new bottleneck is what they can't know. The stuff that's inside people's brains who work in real companies with products and processes absent from any training set.

Re:Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @09:07AM (#49257692)
Q: aren't models trained to message templates using JSON for tool calls. Would a model inherently struggle with a different format?

Q: is there a measurable difference compared to harnesses with tool search?

What a wonderful skill. I hate the long and verbose do strings or docs LLMs spit out. This will make a great addition to my docu agent.

And I agree, maybe I should use this for my emails too

100%, it's not like adults are immune to misinformation, social media addiction or scams. Those platforms should be safe for all people regardless of their age, nationality, sexual orientation, gender or religion.
Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? on Saturday July 25, 2026 @04:42AM (#49045739)
That's a valid point. Maybe better to have no ads at all.
Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? on Saturday July 25, 2026 @04:41AM (#49045735)
That's a valid point. Maybe better to have no ads at all
Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? on Friday July 24, 2026 @06:56PM (#49042618)
Oh it's just saving me money during checkout
Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? on Friday July 24, 2026 @06:05PM (#49042185)
We could just start making it illegal to advertise to children. Without age verification, it's just a burden of proof with the advertiser that their ad isn't targeting children and a ban on age specific target groups for ad platforms.
Re:Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh on Saturday July 11, 2026 @04:10PM (#48875402)
Hm... But why not use Python
Given that you reuse Postgres' tests and LLM have been clearly trained on Postgres' three decades of contributions, this may constitute a license violation. Unless you include the original license of course. From a human level I also understand how you ended up with a less permissive license.
Re:Organic Maps on Monday July 06, 2026 @02:08AM (#48801179)
Yes, you can toggle a setting to use the network colors. I use it mostly for hiking. The UI is a learning curve, 100%, I am curious to check another tool
Re:Organic Maps on Sunday July 05, 2026 @11:46AM (#48795154)
How is it different from OSMAnd?
Is that going into effect globally? It's hard to believe this will sit well with Japanese customers where second hand gaming markets are, dare I say it, culturally relevant.
GOTCHA would have been a funny name too ;)
Re:Djevops: Self-Host Django Easily on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:34AM (#48627412)
Did something similar a while back hosting all my pet projects on a PS5: https://the-box.sh (signature edition)
Re:Lobsters Bug Allows Unauthorized Email Access on Saturday June 20, 2026 @01:43PM (#48611236)
It's so out there, I can't tell if its the greatest or worst humor ever.
Re:Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics on Friday June 19, 2026 @04:59PM (#48603177)
All I really want to know is if we're getting Mecha suites now to fight Godzilla ;)
Sadly this isn't limited to Australia. RCS the SMS successor does not consider free peering. I believe security is used as an excuse to create a closed ecosystem that surfaces new businesses and therefore innovation.

For a community of builders, like this, any barrier to entry will be problem, however we'll intend.

Re: on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:16AM (#48538144)
Today, few realize that Instagram was originally a Django app. But is Django still relevant today? For the task, is it still the best framework?
"Caddy compatible" minus everything that matters, like ACME and plugins. And NGINX still steals the show. Not everything needs to be rewritten.
Re:Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:50AM (#48502928)
If it sounds illegal, it usually is. Tricking people into buying things usually doesn't hold up in court. However, few cases ever make it there and that's what companies like these successfully gamble on.
Re:Senior Engineer Interview Proxies on Thursday June 11, 2026 @02:44PM (#48494700)
Yes, apparently those are a thing now…
Re:Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:34AM (#48489487)
Browsers on consoles and resellable game media... Those were the days ...

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