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Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:58AM (#50151899)
Matrix federated chat - who needs gatekeepers.
Re:How Fast is Python 3.15? on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:02PM (#49985988)
Golang it is then! I'm really enjoying the fast compile time compared to C++...
My guess is if you are in China they can MITM you with their own root certs.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:36PM (#48896856)
I tried it on Firefox, but see it failed because it doesn't have WebGPU (on linux). Same thing on Chromium actually:

main.js:145 Myth browser startup failed Error: WebGPU adapter was not available. at Module.initialize (foster-webgpu.js:400:9) at async main.js:61:3 (anonymous) @ main.js:145 main.js:146 Error: WebGPU adapter was not available. at Module.initialize (foster-webgpu.js:400:9) at async main.js:61:3

Just a choice of polluting the ground or the air.
Re:Almost Always Unsigned on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:16PM (#48838659)
Thanks for the excerpts! I was trying to understand the reasoning, which seem to just be in the 2nd excerpt:

- The rules of signed/unsigned are complicated and there is too much auto-conversion - does that mean languages that make this more explicit means this is fine? It just seems ideal to have stronger typing. - It is mentioned that you can initialized an unsigned int to "-2" - but that presumably could also be fixed in the language.

I'm trying to separate out which is "don't do this in C/C++" and which is "don't do this in any language".

But where do you get the checksum from? I realize in some cases you are downloading from a mirror (thus as long as you trust the source of the checksum, that is quite useful) - but if it is from the same host - then you are just comparing against the same webserver.
Totally agree with one shotting GUI tools. I especially have liked it to create a single-file web app, and then open it with Chromium locally (no web server needed).

In my case, it built a tool for splitting sounds and a tool for defining hitboxes for a game. Tools made exactly for more workflow. Wild times.

Re:Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise on Monday May 11, 2026 @09:32PM (#48103113)
To clarify, when does this run? Like you download malware A, run malware A and this function definition changes sudo for it, or sudo for other cases?
Re:France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging on Sunday May 10, 2026 @09:33AM (#48083850)
Yeah, makes sense.

I wonder if for closed-source apps if governments can not just force the key collection the same way they would force decryption with centralized keys.

Re:France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging on Saturday May 09, 2026 @09:59PM (#48080272)
I still don't understand the note that the companies can't decrypt the messages with e2e encryption. Isn't it as simple as a software update that says:

"If user = foo, then send the on device keys elsewhere"?

Or if those keys are part of a TPM, then a software update that just asks it to send in the decrypted messages?

Can judges not order this now, but can order decryption if the keys are stored centrally?

The debugging improvements have been huge for me too. I was debugging some financial software, and while it took a few shots, just with access to my code and not to the database that showed the issue, it found a fairly complex problem.
It may not be the biggest bottleneck, but if you can have a similar amount of time, but reduce the number of engineers by 30%, that's a huge win.

And having less people involved means there is much less communication and alignment.

Not to say it's a panacea.

Re:Safari 26.4 Supports WebTransport on Monday May 04, 2026 @11:29PM (#48017752)
The recent is very recent, so not much uptake yet (https://caniuse.com/webtransport) - but hopefully can be used without fallback to WebSockets in a couple years.
Re:ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @11:21PM (#47943832)
And that's why you gotta just use one domain. Or mix ads and important content on one domain.
Re:Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024) on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @05:59PM (#47941426)
Agreed. Upgrading just one piece, and ensuring every committed write survives is critical in most commercial applications.
How does this work to discover things on the LAN from a browser?
Re:Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained on Monday April 27, 2026 @08:52PM (#47929200)
The favourite model I've seen is the main branch is free, licensed MIT or whatever, but if you want release artifacts that are tested - then you pay for it. You can always compile your own.
Re:Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024) on Sunday April 26, 2026 @02:19PM (#47912534)
But if you want some redundancy, k8s let's you just say run 4 of this, 6 of this on these 3 machines. At least I find it quite straight forward.

The database is more complex since there is storage affinity (I use cockroachDB with local persistent volumes for it) - but stateful is always complicated.

Re:You don't want long-lived keys on Saturday April 25, 2026 @02:02AM (#47899076)
I find it interesting how this all comes down to what do you trust. Like.. why not <1 minute keys? Or 1-request?
Re:My audio interface has SSH enabled by default on Friday April 24, 2026 @10:42PM (#47898148)
So both mics will pick up both people (at least somewhat, in the same room) - but because there is no, I assume 20-100ms latency going through the system, to discord, and back - it avoids a slight difference in timing of the two mics picking up the same sound slightly differently. Is that right?

Very cool!

Re:Spanner Omni, a downloadable version of Google Spanner on Friday April 24, 2026 @06:54PM (#47896802)
I have not seen anything about pricing (when running on your hardware). Anyone else found anything?
Re:Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees on Friday April 24, 2026 @12:20PM (#47892287)
Positive EV for the employees vs. another company that pay less and has less lay-offs (assuming random)? I guess it depends on how much less pay the other company is...
Re:Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @03:05PM (#47679893)
It seems like having a feedback loop to the DDOS protector could help a lot - i.e. saying how busy you are.

At some level, it's like they become your edge router.

100% to libraries having permissions. If I'm using some code to say compute a hash of a byte array, it should not have access to say the filesystem nor network.
I'm supportive of going further - like restricting what a library is able to do. e.g. if you are using some library to compute a hash, it should not make network calls. Without sub-processes, it would require OS support.
Re:War Prediction Markets Are a National-Security Threat on Saturday March 07, 2026 @04:39PM (#47291720)
Yes, but they are saying that if you allow economic hedging, you are also allowing gambling - just a bit more indirectly.
I've never attempted to use IoT devices for development, but my recommendation is to make the copy quickly explain what problem you are solving. E.g. "Stop spending months building infrastructure to manage your IoT device systems, instead integrate in days"

Perhaps with a concrete example with and without your product.

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