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Ask HN: Matter: Doesn't Matter?

Posted by macro-b on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:56AM
from the ask-hn dept.

In this world of agents that will have access and control your home devices does the Matter standard continue to play an important role? What if any device can simply document its APIs and agents will take care of the rest? Actually, Matter is the place where manufacturers commit to the smallest set of features to simply obtain their badge for marketing reasons. APIs that don’t follow Matter...

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Re:Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kickin... on Sunday May 17, 2026 @02:23PM (#48171688)
At my previous big tech employer we used to have a mercurial layer on top of our legacy version control system. I loved it, much simpler and more clear than the typical workflows I have to deal with in git. I get it that with git you have more power, but do really most teams need that?
Re:Scale Ruins Everything on Monday October 14, 2024 @05:18PM (#41842139)
It’s more about regulations rather than development. It’s forbidden here, so taxi drivers can still make a good living rather than subsidizing a billion dollar company
Re:Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = an Hybrid of Word and Excel on Friday October 11, 2024 @01:20AM (#41806419)
At the moment it runs without an internet connection after you download it the first time
Re:Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = an Hybrid of Word and Excel on Thursday October 10, 2024 @09:28AM (#41798583)
That seems quite doable but it would require a backend to store the OAuth
Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a GDPR compliant static website? on Saturday April 08, 2023 @02:18PM (#35496082)
That is my plan, but hosting on something that’s subject to US regulations seems like a problem and limits options quite a bit.

Ask HN: Best way to host a GDPR compliant static website?

Posted by macro-b on Saturday April 08, 2023 @12:49PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am trying to build a website and I would like to avoid bugging users with cookie banners and consent forms. I was interested in Cloudflare’s offering because they provide analytics without using cookies, but being that Cloudflare Pages and Analytics redirect traffic outside the EU and are subject to US regulations seems like not an option if I do not want to ask user consent. Any suggestions...

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Re:React Native On-Device Machine Learning with Google ML Kit on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @07:53AM (#31247188)
One extra buzzword and they would have done bingo!
Re:Google Nest Renew on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:36AM (#28773671)
If anyone is interested in working on this topic there is an opening in the team

https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/107740695336231622-s...

Re:Ergodicity, What's It Mean on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:01AM (#26687253)
A dynamic system is a system whose evolution doesn’t simply depend on its input at time t, but also to its internal state. In this case the wealth at time t does not simply depend on the outcome of the coin toss, you also need to know the value of the wealth before the coin toss.
Re:Photon – a live demo of a natural language interface to databases on Thursday August 27, 2020 @01:36AM (#24290457)
“Select all elements from catalog” did not work...
Re:MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @07:02PM (#24288294)
I tried English and Italian and I was a bit surprised... my son’s name which is Leo and valid in both languages wasn’t there... while there were at least dozens of names so archaic most people would never hear them in reality! Not sure where you got your sources