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Its slop, though.
Re:Show HN: Every Credit Card on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:31PM (#49803920)
Was it supposed to be scrollable? Because it doesn't scroll.

Also missing a slop warning.

Re:Don't use musl if you care about performance on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:55PM (#49481342)
Most of musl's performance issues come from their allocator. Using it with a third party high performance allocator allows you to benefit from static linking with very little performance loss.
Coding is not programming.

Typing code is indeed not the hard part, programming is.

This is closer to an open Sketchup than a Blender. I think they fill different niches.
Re:What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000 on Thursday June 18, 2026 @01:53PM (#48588967)
You could've changed the setting that puts the button back on the lower left corner and saved your relative the trouble.

The new default is truly terrible, though, and this was the first setting I had to change when I was forced to use a windows laptop by the company I work in.

Re:What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000 on Thursday June 18, 2026 @01:22PM (#48588590)
Wouldn't hurt if interactive elements didn't require me to zoom in order to interact with them on mobile.
Re:Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:54AM (#48178430)
Wtf did I just read?

The fact you started the text with is true: there aren't vibecoded complex apps, because vibecoding doesn't work.

The rest of the text is an incoherent rambling that looks like two people arguing and doesn't make any sense.

You should probably stop using gen AI and seek therapy.

Re:Native all the way, until you need text on Sunday May 17, 2026 @08:48AM (#48168457)
The purpose of not wasting memory is so we have free memory to use productively.

What's the point of having 64-128GB of RAM if we're using apps that eat 10GB to do the same things we were doing 20 years ago using a few MB?

Believing something to be real that isn't is basically what psychosis means.
Re:They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @07:49AM (#48106913)
A very good alternative to this vibecoded slop.
Re:They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @07:44AM (#48106878)
It's slop though, which is even worse than the ads.
Re:Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @11:06AM (#48023546)
The fact someone who works on Bun is willing to create and even push a branch generated by a stochastic parrot is very telling of the direction the project is going.

Doesn't matter if it's "experimental", it's a dumb experiment that shouldn't exist.

Re:GitHub Is Down on Monday May 04, 2026 @12:23PM (#48010798)
> or can't be used (private projects)

As if they cared about that

Re:It's OK to compare floating-points for equality on Saturday April 18, 2026 @09:53AM (#47815944)
The problem with floating point comparison is not that it's nondeterministic, it's that what should be the same number may have different representations, often with different rounding behavior as well, so depending on the exact operations you use to arrive at it, it may not compare as equal, hence the need for the epsilon trick.

If all you're comparing is the result from the same operations, you _may_ be fine using equality, but you should really know that you're never getting a number from an uncontrolled source.

Re:Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:47AM (#47362360)
> If you have a system, go is not the right language for it.

FTFY

Re:LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:59AM (#47277646)
They turned proprietary. That's why libresprite exists.
Re:LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:06AM (#47273971)
Didn't know about Pixelorama, looks interesting.

Libresprite (since aseprite went evil) has been the only editor I can use for over a decade, glad there are others now.

Re:LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor on Friday March 06, 2026 @06:59AM (#47273908)
Curious on what languages have a hard time saying Libre.

Every latin-derived language (which are most of the western languages) can pronounce it naturally, and even English speakers can approximate it well enough to be understood (even though they're incapable of pronouncing the non-retroflex `r`).

Re:Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:13AM (#47135207)
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Re:Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance on Friday February 20, 2026 @06:30AM (#47086667)
You can use lit-html to get declarative reactivity, but then it's just basically react again.
Re:200 MB RAM FreeBSD Desktop on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @05:57AM (#46703830)
It's nazi shit
Re:200 MB RAM FreeBSD Desktop on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @05:54AM (#46703799)
Running apps is what RAM should be used for, not wasted on the base system.
Re:I Got Scammed on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:20AM (#46599587)
This is just slop.
Re:You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser on Friday December 19, 2025 @06:47PM (#46332315)
It was already brought down by Rockstar as well.

This isn't just reverse engineering, it's a decompiled source from the original binary.

The US is a terrible example for anything, anyway.

I was talking about the civilized world.

Re:You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser on Friday December 19, 2025 @05:51PM (#46331896)
Would that be Urban Chaos?
Airbnb, Uber and Amazon were already making everything worse. We're past the "bleak threshold" for over 10 years now.

Airbnb is inflating the real-estate bubble everywhere. Apartment building now are mass produced, tiny, and expensive, targeting investors who are only interested in Airbnb.

Uber/ifood and other transport/delivery apps are just working around labor laws, undoing centuries of progress towards worker rights and approaching slavery-like situations.

Amazon is just another monopoly, not sure why you put it beside the others, but it's one of the companies lobbying to make the world a worse place.

Then came crypto"currency", which started the "age of anything goes", where tons of money are thrown in the trashbin for the next speculative pseudo-tech bubble.

AI is just the bubble that came after crypto, little practical utility with lots of hype from billionaires who threw money at it.

After it bursts, there'll probably be another.

Re:Ladybird Browser July Update on Saturday August 02, 2025 @03:30PM (#44770616)
Yes, that was the joke.
Re:Ladybird Browser July Update on Saturday August 02, 2025 @08:50AM (#44767193)
I'm pretty good at C++.

By using a very simple technique, I've managed to write 0 bugs in it in the past 15 years.

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