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Didn't know that external apps can interact with Youtube in a tab in Safari.

Looks nice, I sing so badly that I never dare to try if not alone. Maybe this app will help me to improve just little that I can sing along happy birthday quietrly in a corner without anyone turning heads.

Re:OpenCode 2.0 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:15AM (#50101168)
Judging by comments opencode seems popular. Why is it not in the top ranking coding agents on openrouter? HN's darling Pi is there, along with few others which I never heard about, but not opencode.
Aren't heads of state civilians too?
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:10AM (#50016613)
Is Lean so bullet-proof that it never has soundness problems? Something LLM can exploit deep down without anyone noticing.
Re:Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust) on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:13PM (#49767744)
Do I understand correctly, that they spent memory storing largish N hash values per server, so that request hash determines which server to send request to using closest higher value of all server hashes?

That in effect boils down to consistently selecting server S with probability P, where P is function of weight and total number of servers?

Surely there must be better way to select server with a given probability without storing a massive lookup table of hashes? Randevouz hashing of some sorts

Re:Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:43AM (#49655745)
Do I understand correctly that in your harness models don't call tools and pass output of one to another via context, but instead code whole pipeline as small on-demand tools and see only final output?
Re:Some more thoughts on random_page_cost on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:47AM (#49605941)
> a sequential scan may push ~100GB of other data from memory (shared buffers or page cache).

Small note, if I remember correctly PostgreSQL allocates small buffer within shared_buffers for bulk reads. It is so that single sequential scan won't flush all of shared buffers content.

Similar mechanism exists for a pagecache implementation on Linux. It is divided into generations based on access patterns.

Is Huel ultra processed food too? They promote themselves as healthy meals and I am long time subscriber. I keep telling myself that even if it is not like cooking from raw ingredients, it is still far from a greasy junk food at kebab shops and McDonalds.
Re:Go 1.27 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:24AM (#49372303)
> The reason traffic lights are colored is because they are showing distinct states of the same thing and the color is the means of differentiating

I wonder if traffic lights were invented today, would it be just one light changing colour?

Sounds like a caveman skill.
Thanks, bookmarked nono to have a look later.
Who is doing it as first class feature with at least adequate UX?

I have skimmed alternatives offered in comments to this post (vibepod-cli, code-on-incus, opencode-docker, sandboxy, smolvm, amazing-sandbox) and none of them seem to do credentials injection at the proxy level.

Most interesting part to me is credentials injection at the sandbox boundary level: https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/security/credentials
Re:Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @06:50AM (#49180991)
same as Cisco
Re:Should you wash your solar panels? on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:39PM (#49073045)
I'd expect solicitors to find liabilities like that. How did it end?
Re:Git rebase -I is not that scary on Monday July 27, 2026 @07:23AM (#49067955)
Prior to `jj` my happiest git discovery was https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo to replace submodules.
Re:Git rebase -I is not that scary on Sunday July 26, 2026 @04:32AM (#49055960)
You might find `jj` to help you there: all changesets have stable identifier and their content can be updated at any moment in-place.

TLDR; `jj edit <what_to_edit>; $EDITOR` will update a commit in the middle of the branch

X3D cache doesn't take die space in traditional sense: it is a separate silicon packaged by stacking.
Re:HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router on Monday July 20, 2026 @12:23PM (#48981012)
Any recommendations for hardware?
Re:We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:14AM (#48718257)
Nice writeup, but I don't understand how `curl` didn't trigger bug for them (or any other hyper HTTP server out there), given the explanation in the article.

`curl --http1.1` sends `Connection: Close` so sender (hyper) must attempt to shutdown connection after sending whole body. Surely any network is slower than memory copy into socket kernel buffers, so it must reliably trigger condition "buffer flush can't be done in one go" and thus trigger early TCP shutdown.

Re:1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller on Monday June 29, 2026 @04:40AM (#48716486)
Can it run Prince of Persia?
How big and important third-party vendor must be for Raymond Chen to dissect its coredumps?
Is there an explanation rooted in physics why derivative of kinetic energy equals momentum?
Doesn't Germany have Controled Foreign Company rules?
Re:Don't trust large context windows on Sunday June 14, 2026 @03:40AM (#48525056)
Is it adhoc or you use more structured approaches like openspec? I also tend to work on a plan first, but it stays as in-session todo, which is hard to reference later.
Re:The state of building user interfaces in Rust on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:34AM (#48516671)
Did immediate mode guis solve (in)accessibility problem they used to be really bad at?
Re:Making Graphics Like it's 1993 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:08PM (#48465053)
What does he mean by inconsistent pixel scale when he talks against increasing sprite resolution?
Re:Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot on Thursday June 04, 2026 @12:29PM (#48400972)
Which knot do you use?
Re:AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @10:04AM (#48384281)
> even the people making these tools don’t really know where it’s going to land

exactly my point to compare it with pre-iPhone mobile market: wide (and growing fast!) adoption, clear potential (WAP websites, J2ME games), many players in the game, some real market fit discovered already (Blackberry), influx of capitial and tinkerers alike, but still a lot of unknowns where it will ultimately land.

Even if no single improvement was revolutionary (even first iPhone was just a fancy phone without App Store), overall mobile made billion dollar industries possible, for better or worse, and changed the way we live. Counts as industrial revolution, comparable to the Internet itself in my eyes.

Re:AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @08:00AM (#48382854)
Do you agree that economic and behaviour shift will be comparable to mobile and we are at the times of Nokia 3310. Does it count as industrial revolution?

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