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Re:“This is not the computer for you” on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:21AM (#47364857)
True. But this comment broke guidelines as well. (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Re:“This is not the computer for you” on Friday March 13, 2026 @08:21AM (#47363470)
I flag uninteresting comments, such as yours.
The armour is Hulkbuster. The satellite that launches it is Veronica.
Re:Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:46AM (#47337136)
Rust will never be in Android user space, because it's not competing with Kotlin. Kotlin is already excellent there. Rust will replace the parts of Android written in C++ gradually. That was always the plan. It feels weird and cope-y to move the goalposts to say it's not a big deal unless Rust also replaces Kotlin.

Chrome only needs to replace the parts of their codebase that handle untrusted input with Rust to get substantial benefits. Like codec parsers. They don't need to rewrite everything, just the parts that need rewriting. The parts that are impossible to get right in C++, to the point where Chrome spins up separate processes to run that code.

Rust is the future for Android, and it will become an important of Chrome and Linux and git (starting 3.0). That's just the way it is.

Re:Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:52AM (#47336383)
Same reason Android and Chrome and git and Linux weren't written in Rust when they started. Rust didn't exist. All of these projects integrate Rust now, after being single language projects for the longest time.

It's notable that the projects you mentioned mostly don't need to deal with adversarial user input, while the projects I mentioned do. That's one area that Rust shines in.

Re:Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:48AM (#47336322)
Zig is what you want to write, because it gets out of the way.

Rust is what you want your colleagues to write, to enforce good practices and minimise bugs. It's also what I want my past self to have written, because that guy is always doing things that make my present life harder.

Re:Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @09:24AM (#47335257)
dang can we please ban any user that writes comments with AI?
Re:The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:21PM (#47312107)
> oil will only get more expensive in the long term

Will it? Oil price will reach an equilibrium because lower demand due to electrification will lead to lower prices, which will increase higher consumption.

There are enough low cost oil producers like Saudi Arabia to keep the pipes filled with oil at whatever the prevailing market price is.

Re:How to talk to anyone and why you should on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @04:24PM (#47254097)
You've written a lot of words to avoid saying a simple thing - you wanted to mess with someone to entertain yourself and it backfired. That's the whole story. The philosophy is window dressing.
> We delete these messages after X time

They never had the plaintext of the messages in the first place, so they don't need to delete them. That's what end-to-end encrypted means.

Re:How to talk to anyone and why you should on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:14AM (#47219017)
> Yeah, you see, I don’t think you’ve quite understood the art of talking to anyone

Have you? You're dripping with condescension for everyone who's replied to you so far, in addition to the guy in your anecdote. You've asked one person to "fuck off" when they were polite. Do you think closewith or pingou have enjoyed their interaction with you?

Or is your art of talking to people just meant to amuse you and ignore the feelings of others?

By the way, there is a social convention that we refrain from commenting on what's on people's phones even though we can see it. It's considered an invasion of privacy if we do.

Re:We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:23AM (#47181597)
They haven't yet made languages other than JavaScript first-class languages for the web - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first.... I wouldn't call this a broken promise, but it was something people were hoping would take less than a decade.
Re:What Claude Code Chooses on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:30AM (#47178878)
How did you come to the conclusion that it was blogs that made it change behaviour? Look at the examples where Claude shifted behaviour dramatically between Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.6. Drizzle ORM went from 21% to 100%. Was there an avalanche of Drizzle related blog posts that we all missed? Celery went from 100% to 0%. Was there a massive but invisible hate campaign against Celery?

Blog posts almost certainly helped. But dramatic shifts like these to favour newer tech indicates that there's some other factor in play.

Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:43AM (#47168464)
Art isn't just a job or a way to make money, like being a courier is.
Tried it just now. Sonnet 4.6 says:

> I can't continue text from the Harry Potter series, as it's copyrighted material. I'd be happy to help you write your own original story in a similar style, or discuss the themes and characters from the books if you're interested!

Opus 4.6 says the same but misidentifies it as Chamber of Secrets. Not a good look for your theory.

Re:Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics on Monday February 23, 2026 @12:03PM (#47125082)
> So that should technically be sufficient

Sufficient to build something close to human performance. But self driving cars will be held to a much higher standard by society. A standard only achievable by having sensors like LiDAR.

Re:The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler on Monday February 23, 2026 @06:26AM (#47120877)
> it cannot even host its own tools

You say this like this is the basic requirement for a language. But languages make tradeoffs that make them more appropriate for some domains and not others. There's no shade if a language isn't ideal for developer tools, just like there's no shade if a language isn't perfect for web frontends, web backends, embedded development, safety critical code (think pacemakers), mobile development, neural networks and on and on.

Seriously, go to https://astral.sh and scroll down to "Linting the CPython code base from scratch". It would be easy to look at that and conclude that Python's best days are behind it because it's so slow. In reality Python is an even better language at its core domains now that its developer tools have been rewritten in Rust. It's the same excellent language, but now developers can iterate faster.

It's the same with JavaScript. Just because it's not the best language for linters and formatters doesn't mean it's broken.

Re:The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler on Monday February 23, 2026 @06:04AM (#47120702)
> with no option to format them back

Try git reset --hard, that should work.

Re:Facebook is cooked on Friday February 20, 2026 @06:38PM (#47095624)
The XCheck program has nothing to do with anything you’re thinking of. You read some old misinformation and didn’t read the post debunking the misinformation.

Source: me. https://nindalf.com/posts/xcheck/

Re:I’m joining OpenAI on Monday February 16, 2026 @11:02AM (#47036684)
I think that's against the TOS of the Claude Max subscription. You risk being banned.
Re:Ring owners are returning their cameras on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:27AM (#47003756)
Could you analyse AB InBev's stock performance in that period? Because it doesn't look bad to me. [1] It looks like it was $65 before the boycott in April 2023, falling to $55 a couple of months later. But it was back up to $65 by the end of the year. It sits at $80 today.

If I hadn't told you the date of the boycott, would you have been able to spot it on this chart?

[1] - https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/bud?gaa_at=eafs&...

Re:Ring owners are returning their cameras on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:15AM (#47003626)
You've identified the problem. It's never "reddit", it's a specific subreddit. It really depends on the size of the subreddit. Smaller subreddits can easily get riled up, and also create a sealed echo chamber by banning people left and right. But I wouldn't worry about a sub unless it was really big.

For example: I'd say HBO should worry about what the game of thrones related subs are saying about their latest show (which is good, shoutout) but only as a vibe check. The normies will always outnumber the kind of people who go to a subreddit to discuss their favourite show. Normal people just watch and forget.

Re:Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu on Friday February 13, 2026 @09:40AM (#47003255)
Quoting maddythewisp from that PR:

> There is significant work beyond the renderer that would need to happen to run Zed in a browser - notably background tasks and filesystem/input APIs would need web/wasm-compatible implementations.

Re:Ring owners are returning their cameras on Friday February 13, 2026 @07:54AM (#47002181)
This news article boils down to "a few people on reddit did something", which is interesting. But we know reddit and HN are definitely not mainstream.

Is this hurting Amazon? No, it is not. As long as they're honouring return requests freely, you know that the number of returns is within their accepted levels of distressed inventory. If it's getting into uncomfortable territory, they'll start rate limiting people by saying they're past the return window, or they should try again after a week.

If Amazon's return policy changes, that'll be much more interesting to see. But chances are, people forget about this in a month and their sales are unaffected. This may go the way of #deleteUber, #deleteFacebook and similar boycott campaigns - minor blips at best.

Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @11:56AM (#46977425)
What?

> America’s economy added 130,000 jobs in January, almost double the number that analysts had been expecting, indicating that the labour market might have picked up after months of apparent stagnation. Unemployment also fell to 4.3%, a slight dip from the previous month. The figures may put off the Federal Reserve from lowering interest rates as quickly as Donald Trump would like.

Re:Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:40AM (#46898182)
I think this may have been Dell?

Dell reveals people don't care about AI in PCs (https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows-laptops/dell-rev...)

Re:Adobe Animate will be discontinued effective March 1, 2026 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:30AM (#46898104)
If you weren't aware previously, you'll be pleased to learn that you can still program in Flash if you really want to, and distribute your programs on the web. https://ruffle.rs
Re:Voxtral Transcribe 2 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:02PM (#46889215)
I love seeing people from other countries share their own folk tales about what makes their countries special and unique. I've seen it up close in my country and I always cringed when I heard my fellow countrymen came up with these stories. In my adulthood I'm reassured that it happens everywhere and I find it endearing.

On the information density of languages: it is true that some languages have a more information dense textual representation. But all spoken languages convey about the same information in the same time. Which is not all that surprising, it just means that human brains have an optimal range at which they process information.

Further reading: Coupé, Christophe, et al. "Different Languages, Similar Encoding Efficiency: Comparable Information Rates across the Human Communicative Niche." Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594

Re:I miss thinking hard on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @08:38AM (#46885661)
For me it’s a related but different worry. If I’m no longer thinking deeply, then maybe my thinking skills will simply atrophy and die. Then when I really need it, I won’t have it. I’ll be reduced to yanking the lever on the AI slot machine, hoping it comes up with something that’s good enough.

But at that point, will I even have the ability to distinguish a good solution from a bad one? How would I know, if I’ve been relying on AI to evaluate if ideas are good or not? I’d just be pushing mediocre solutions off as my own, without even realising that they’re mediocre.

This reads like a nothingburger. Couple of quotes from the article:

> the idea that WhatsApp can selectively and retroactively access the content of [end-to-end encrypted] individual chats is a mathematical impossibility

> Steven Murdoch, professor of security engineering at UCL, said the lawsuit was “a bit strange”. “It seems to be going mostly on whistleblowers, and we don’t know much about them or their credibility,” he said. “I would be very surprised if what they are claiming is actually true.”

No one apart from the firm filing the lawsuit is actually supporting this claim. A lot of people in this thread seem very confident that it's true, and I'm not sure what precisely makes them so confident.

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