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DashAnimalon Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

According to a Feb press release, they're fabbed by TSMC:

> For FUJITSU-MONAKA, the 2nm semiconductors will tape out next year. Due to this, Rapidus would be unable to meet the deadline, so TSMC is handling the manufacturing.

Source: https://global.fujitsu/en-global/pr/news/2026/02/12-01?utm_s...

According to Rapidus webpage, they are explicitly starting mass production of their 2nm in 2027.

Source: https://www.rapidus.inc/en/iim/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

DashAnimalon Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)

That Apple lawsuit is against OpenAi, just for clarity

DashAnimalon Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

https://abc.xyz/investor/board-and-governance/google-code-of...

"And remember... don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!"

Sorry this is one of those things that bugs me - but "don't be evil" was never removed from their code of conduct. It's placement was moved though from the start to the end, and you could argue whether it's less important because of that if you want.. but it is still there.

DashAnimalon Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

I always hate the James Damore discussion because it's like the least interesting part. You have a company dealing with internal political mayhem trying to find the least disruptive, not only internally but now externally because this shit has leaked. It's a workplace, and youre trying to keep people effective and working. And some googlers got too comfortable with what they were sharing on a work machine, not just to their coworkers, but tens of thousands of employees.

The support of war efforts is clearly a change in moral compass that is much more fascinating though.

DashAnimalon Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

This isn't happening on Google Maps though is it? We're just talking about Apple Maps here.

DashAnimalon Android Developer Verification

I don't necessarily like the idea of a company wiping their hands clean and saying "well - not our problem!" either though.

Companies shouldn't wait to solve issues like this - they should be proactively helping their most vulnerable users. That is the "do no evil" motto.

I don't know enough to say whether this method is the right approach however.

DashAnimalon Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

I think it's more about how using "most" as a measurement, no matter who the audience is that you pool from, is not a good way of producing a valuable list. In the end, having someone learned and well read produce a hand-written list with deeper cuts brings more value.

DashAnimalon Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles

He is definitely "online". I saw him tweet about Hasan's dog which - you have to know about streaming political figures and the latest happenings at least a little bit. Maybe not addicted but he knows what is up and still has the views he has.

DashAnimalon The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]

Well if you're using the standard library then you're not really paying attention to allocations and deallocations for one. For instance, the use of std::string. So I guess I'm wondering if you work in an industry that avoids std?

DashAnimalon The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]

What industry do you work in? Modern RAII practices are pretty prevalent

DashAnimalon John Carmack on mutable variables

Tbh I think it's ok - as much as I also want to avoid Twitter I do encourage original sourcing, especially since these nitter services can also have downtime fairly often. As long as someone jumps in and shares a link

DashAnimalon John Carmack on mutable variables

https://nitter.net/id_aa_carmack/status/1983593511703474196

DashAnimalon Stealing from Google

This seems problematic to me. Beyond just caching issues, did you ever get permission from users to store their personal data? They gave google permission, but not you.

DashAnimalon Rustroid, a Rust IDE for Android

Yes! Recently came across a profilic Neovim plugin developer who used their phone for development:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1hay1z3/develo...

Meanwhile, i struggle to be efficient on my 13 inch screen

DashAnimalon The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers

Yes. I'm not for calling out individual people, those who probably had hope and some may be young and didn't have the warning flags going off. I can only imagine they're disappointed and had no malice.

But people who have some level of fame who put their name behind it, and who had some influence in inspiring others down this wrong path most definitely need to address it. If you truly believe the intelligence of tech people over others in every field which led you down this path, follow the proper postmortem process.

DashAnimalon Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

It is absolutely not all major employers. I'm on a visa and have worked for two major tech companies in the US over the last 10 years. I have never been a contractor. I've also compared salaries and know I am doing comparable or better. The majority of my team have always been naturalized citizens.

DashAnimalon Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

Per the proclamation:

"the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000 — subject to the exceptions set forth in subsection (c) of this section. This restriction shall expire, absent extension, 12 months after the effective date of this proclamation, which shall be 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on September 21, 2025."

So it applies to all H1Bs. Subsection c is limited (but will be interesting to see how it plays out) so I don't bother sharing.

Actual proclamation here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest...

DashAnimalon Luau – Fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

Arseny Kapoulkine is an amazing engineer. Highly recommend following his blog or social media. Other than working on luau and the rendering engine at Roblox, he's also responsible for meshoptimizer which if you're in graphics you've most definitely heard of, and volk, which now comes packaged with the Vulkan SDK.

DashAnimalon A new experimental Google app for Windows

Ok gave this a try. Actually pretty handy. I wish I didn't clean up my Windows PC so I could compare indexing of files, but it did a good job of finding most things but the things I searched for Windows was able to find too. But its nice to have an easy shortcut to Google search and also having Google Lens on my PC to translate text, ask questions about a screenshot etc. I love this feature on my android.

The UI is a little annoying at times. Some apps receive the alt+space key so it doesn't always behave like you expect.

Checking Task Manager it used about 43MB of memory whether running as a background process or in the foreground, showing search results.

DashAnimalon US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]

No more dangerous than somebody photoshopping when we saw the rise of figma, ubering when Lyft just posted a great quarter with stock buybacks, or skyping when, well, the product doesn't exist anymore.

DashAnimalon Carbon is not a programming language (sort of)

As someone who uses C++ daily, very excited for Carbon. I really align with the goals they have set. Its a shame communities like r/cpp block any discussion of successor languages but I hope once this language starts gaining more momentum and nearing release, it will begin to market itself and get more attention.

DashAnimalon Apple Invites

Why not Partiful? It's already widely adopted, has all the features you need, isn't owned by a big tech company, doesn't require an account, and is multiplatform.

Signed, an Android user

DashAnimalon Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things

One of the greatest books I've ever read. It is long and took me a couple of months to absorb this one, but in return the amount of detail is staggering and it never ever felt like it got boring or tedious or overstayed it's welcome.

DashAnimalon Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication (2021)

What I loved about Fuchsia was its IPC interface, using FIDL which is like a more optimized version of protobufs.

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/get-started/learn/fidl/fidl

DashAnimalon Learning not to trust the All-In podcast

The part i find most fascinating is that when JCal does push back, the YouTube comments are so disproportionately telling him his opinion is wrong (in a venomous way), he is ruining the podcast, Sacks is running circles around him, etc.

DashAnimalon Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds

I would be very very surprised if this were just limited to cats and dogs. If you've ever seen previously factory-farmed pigs, cows, and sheep there is just so much joy and care in them. Our relationship with animals needs to be heavily reevaluated.

DashAnimalon Couch surfing predator: how a group of drugged and assaulted women fought back

I know someone who had what can only be described as a nightmare scenario from using couchsurfing. I don't know many of the details, and not something I want to pry into, but she was essentially kidnapped, trapped in a house, and had her passport stolen by the host in a foreign country where she didn't speak the language and on her first trip overseas. This was also before smart phones were just commonplace such that everyone had one.

DashAnimalon A lost X-Files song

That was a really enjoyable thread, and what a great resolution. Not really my type of music but I'll ha e to give the song a listen in a couple of days when it becomes available.

DashAnimalon C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)

When comparing a signed and unsigned integer, the signed integer is promoted to unsigned integer.

So if you have a = -1, b = 1000 and compare the two, a > b is actually true.

DashAnimalon Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard

It did raise concerns and it was reviewed by multiple bodies around the world, with many concessions made. Do you believe every single review body got it wrong on the facts?