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Re:Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains on Sunday October 18, 2026 @02:23PM (#50143848)
If you still did business with them after this, it's your own fault and you deserve everything they're doing to you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812

(Before reacting to the headline, please read at least some of the discussion.)

Re:JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:30AM (#50129080)
That's actually the default behavior for libjxl cli: encoding and then decoding jpeg via jxl produces a file bit identical to the original jpeg file.

Try it: run cjxl › djxl and hash the output against the original.

Slab serif is optional.
It has very poor character coverage, especially compared to Iosevka whose author speaks Mandarin as his main language (IIRC), and put a lot of effort into supporting as many languages as possible.
If running systemd, wrap that crap into a cgroup and force kill the whole process tree on exit. I've been doing it for years with badly behaving applications. On phone, from memory, may not be exactly what is needed:

  systemd-run --user --pty --wait --collect -p TimeoutStopSec=5s -- "$@"
Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Saturday October 10, 2026 @01:07PM (#50034891)
Thank you for trying to do something to prevent it, many people wouldn't bother.
Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:25AM (#50002415)
This doesn't really solve the problem, but the good news is jxl has excellent generation loss in lossy mode compared to other formats, if you recompress it with high quality, it keeps original quality pretty well.

Unlike older formats:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qc2DvJpXh-A

Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:00AM (#49993009)
Depends on who you listen to, or what you test it on. It goes either way, and avif is typically significantly better at small files sizes where loading speed (or saving data) is the priority.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:01AM (#49918209)
I don't get it. This technology has almost reached the point where they don't need you anymore, and you're joyful about it for some reason?
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:03AM (#49844839)
You think 2-8% is a problem? There's a large world outside the US. "Hundreds of dollars" per month is most of my salary, I can afford that only by going hungry half the time.

Probably going to if I want to keep my job, since I'll be making about the same amount of money moving boxes or cleaning toilets, only in much less comfortable conditions.

Re:Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:14AM (#49816545)
On Windows you do. If you have to suffer it for some reason.
One time? lscpu on my system lists two dozen CPU vulnerabilities known to the kernel. I stopped tracking them a long time ago when it felt like every week brought another information leak or bypass.
Re:How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @01:49AM (#49812131)
Oh come on, stop felling sorry for yourself. I'm from one of those countries compared to which even Eastern Europe you offload hardware to is a paradise.

None of what you're describing is available here at all. I sometimes see Europeans willing to ship here (already very few) offer heavily used and scratched ThinkPads and Dells for money they weren't worth when they were new. Add at least $80 on top for shipping, and no warranty, you get what you get.

On the local market, you will find those Core 2 Duo with precisely the attitude you're describing, but at 2-4 times the cost.

So I buy everything new, which is expensive with our salaries, but we have no choice. At least new hardware is available now thanks to selling over the internet and improved logistics.

10 years ago you could only buy what was offered by local shops, which was always at least two generations behind, and at least twice as expensive as it was in the EU (forget the US).

For example, if things continued like this to this day, I'd estimate the newest CPU you could buy right now would be something like Ryzen 3600, at twice the cost it was in your country when it just came out. If we're lucky, maybe 7600 would already appear at a similar overprice.

I'm sure many parts of the planet are even in a worse position than we are.

Re:Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip on Sunday September 20, 2026 @08:23AM (#49775139)
This sounds like FUD, do you have any references? Genuinely asking. I follow LWN reporting religiously, which in turn follows Fedora development (and associated drama) closely, and haven't seen anything said in this direction. Just had a quick look on LWN and Fedora development resources, and nothing came up.
Re:Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip on Sunday September 20, 2026 @08:17AM (#49775074)
Other things: since no companies sponsoring its development had any interest in raid 5/6, which is mostly a home enthusiast thing.

Western Digital picked up this work last year and is slowly getting through the new design without the write hole, I think we'll see working raid 5/6 in the next year or two.

Re:Xiami Mimo 2.6 Live Training Dashboard on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:33AM (#49740534)
What was meant is probably opencode. It's free there, along with several other models. You have to use their harness to access it. It's alright.

https://opencode.ai/docs/zen/#pricing

Re:Performance Improvements in .NET 11 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:00AM (#49737330)
I've been using .NET almost exclusively on Linux since it was called .NET Core 2.0, and development platforms other than Windows do feel like second class citizens. Any time you venture into anything remotely advanced, the tooling is usually Windows only.

"Everything" expects you to use MSSQL, even if today there's ok official support for PostgreSQL and SQLite. Most "thought leaders" of various sorts are on Windows and expect you to use it. This pervades throughout the ecosystem.

Can't see this ever changing as it's not in MS' interest to turn other operating systems into good .NET development platforms.

Re:Transitions.dev: UI transitions for AI agents on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:47PM (#49700963)
Probably this enabled by some accessibility setting or power save mode.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...

Re:The case against JPEG XL on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:22AM (#49694546)
Depends on your location. While I have a decent internet connection at home, the mobile one is trash. Good for IM and not much else.

Most of the people I know only have the mobile connection, pay a lot for the privilege, and while speeds are generally good (LTE and up), the monthly cap for almost all of them is 10-20 GB.

Re:Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:25PM (#49686314)
On Android, Vivaldi supports dark more out of the box. It's actually just a toggle for the dark mode present on any chromium-based browser, and you can enable it globally in any of them in chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark

Dark Reader, often recommended, is very slow, especially on old hardware. This built-in mode is much more efficient and works well on vast majority of pages.

Re:A Note from LWN on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:46AM (#49536154)
I know the editors visit these discussions: please, next time use a more descriptive title! I nearly had a fit when I saw that, really thought LWN is going down like it almost did 20 years ago.

Happy to pay the new price, even though I can only afford the cheapest tier.

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