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could be intentional, even
Re:F45 (Fedora 45) Final Is No-Go on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:11PM (#50238270)
Fedora is my daily. I love that I can trust updates when they come out. I see this as good news
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Saturday October 24, 2026 @11:21PM (#50227967)
Disagree. Most websites I need to have reader mode on to read, but not this one.
Re:Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:45PM (#50227434)
Is Gitlab Open Source or one of those weird "code available" projects? Can we make a PR?
Re:Show HN: Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:47PM (#50211870)
Yes thanks for the correction, I meant fastboot
This seems reductionist with false equivalence. Wouldn't making a brain a "deterministic CPU" negate all the benefits of using organic tissue?
Re:Show HN: Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:38PM (#50199344)
Bold of you to assume we'll still be using Office and Adobe in a few years. What happens when all the MIT solutions here are just a MCP?
Re:Show HN: Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:14PM (#50197403)
I'm doing the same thing with my Oneplus 6T, I have Claude piloting my phone over adb booting new candidate kernels and checking the results

What a time to be alive!

Re:OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:24PM (#50189483)
I've heard this described as having a "real" or "fake" corporate job on social media.

If you have a Thinkpad, you have a real job. And if you have a MacBook, you have a fake job.

Same here. Firefox, USA.
Re:Codex is EATING my Mac's disk space on Sunday October 18, 2026 @05:38AM (#50139480)
Agreed. I thought I was being smug by telling my agents to use btrfs for specific workloads. Sure, it took me longer to run out of space, but I of course ended up running out of space
Re:Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:32PM (#50134860)
My B port is going well. C was a mistake. /s
Re:Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:31PM (#50134850)
What is the need for this?
Re:Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:29PM (#50134828)
Why does he need to write code to be "competent." He's a structural and architectural genius.

Projects like the Linux kernel do not pop up out of thin air. They need a leader.

Re:Porsche Mission S on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:55PM (#50134494)
Yea, and it feels like it's from the 2010s. What's wrong with saying that?
Re:Porsche Mission S on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:35AM (#50115753)
Wow, you're not kidding. This really feels like a hobby site from the early 2010s
I don't have to babysit my dishwasher to make sure it washes my dishes.

What is your point?

Then why is it marketed like one? And why can I use it like a tool?

I do have to send input to the thing to get a response, no?

To be honest, their insistence to port this to Rust is likely the culprit of the performance issues.

Let's say there was a 1:1 decomp instead, bit-by-bit exact. This is doable today - what then?

Have you not seen WordCraft[0] or EffectCraft[1]?

Sure they didn't build it from scratch but what I'm saying is that there's no moats anymore. If you build something, they will tear it down to its composite pieces and assimilate it.

[0] https://getartcraft.com/apps/wordcraft

[1] https://getartcraft.com/apps/effectcraft

I don't see the Cloudflare stuff as groundbreaking, let alone people building companies around it. "Workers" are the wrong primitive, IMO. What if my code isn't in Javascript? They sandboxed the wrong part of the machine.

I have a version of "Cloudflare OS" running in production, using Temporal as the orchestration and MicroVMs for the sandboxing.

Sorry, I get your point but personally I don't get the hype around them.

How is it decentralized?
I hate to say it but this is cope. I believed this in the past but it's over.

AI models can dismantle billion dollar industries. They can reverse engineer Adobe and Microsoft products that once were their moats and titans of their industry.

Why do you think they'd need to lie?

Cloudflare is where you lost me. I don't know anyone actually using them other than for their proxy, DNS servers, or DDOS protection.
Yet AI companies distilling copyrighted books and repositories is somehow okay?

And let's say there's a future where an AI model could zero-shot the game itself. What then?

Re:A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:42AM (#49966344)
Ah I got whooshed, I interpreted text rendering literally. As in shaping, kerning, and aliasing haha
Re:A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:12PM (#49960294)
What's wrong with it? Sure it's way more higher quality but the layout seems... fine?
Woof. Wonder if the creator knows that
Re:macOS 27 is so buggy on Thursday October 01, 2026 @07:46PM (#49928314)
Did you mention this as some sort of gotcha? This article is over 12 years old.

Chrome has gone through almost two rewrites of their core rendering stack since then. It's impressive work.

Although this itself is outdated, I remember enjoying "Life of a Pixel"[0] back when it came out.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-J-tbAlFic

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