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Is there a way to add devices to HomeKit with a MacBook without an IPhone?
Re:4-10x faster in-process pub/sub for Go on Monday June 30, 2025 @07:09AM (#44421815)
Really cool site. One small issue that I found is that you cannot change the keyboard layout. Not sure if it should somehow automatically pick it up through some browser feature. But it would be nice to change it manually :)
Re:Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265 encode on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @05:25AM (#38707134)
What about systems where there is now hardware support for AV1? How would Vulkan implement that?

Also, maybe someone knows more about this, but I thought that most software like Firefox, MPV and VLC are using dav1d for AV1 decoding as it seems to be the most performant AV1 decoder (in Software) out there at the moment.

Re:Ask HN: Have you made IRL friends from HN usage? on Monday November 27, 2023 @11:46AM (#38434559)
No, not yet. But I think that few users are from Europe, so it's not that easy to find people.
Then why do I only get the 5-second-long skeleton UI on Firefox?

I use both Firefox and Chrome with uBlock. But I only get the slow loading UI on Firefox. If I change the User Agent in Firefox to Chrome, then it loads as fast as in Chrome.

This is deliberately set in place to be slow on Firefox.