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Inviz··on Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
have you seen the code of next.js? its completely impenetrable, and the packages have legacy versions of the same files coexisting, it's like huge hairball
Inviz··on Should CSS be constraints?
If I am to provide a summary of why layout shouldnt be linear constraints, is that it can't faithfully represent content overflowing onto multiple lines. I.e. it's inherently one dimensional. I.e. you can't really have a layout that adaprts to the screen size without creating a lot of separate breakpoints. This is a big limitation, that for example flexbox doesnt have. When I left Grid i immediately went and reproduced a lot of stuff we've been doing in (new then) flexbox layout engine, and i was like: Oh my god, this is so much more powerful.
Inviz··on Should CSS be constraints?
Hello Jon! This is Yarik. Cool to see you doing all this machine learning work these days.
Inviz··on Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
Is there a consensus about "Dont do it" negative prompts vs "Do it this way" positive prompts? So it's negative when there's a hard line, and positive when it's being nudged towards something?
Inviz··on The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
Well, OT has its CAP-like theorem, which says that you can make some sacrifices to get some qualities. Excluding time component from the OT and removing the "first edit wins" rules, allows for very flexible OTs with deterministic tie breakers (i.e. when two people are writing a word in one place, sort words alphanumerically to brea the tie). But in order for this to work for P2P environments, the list of actions can't be collapsed/optimized until all parties rebased their changes against all other parties. In centralized systems, peers can throw away the log of ops that happened before the server's last acknowledged state
Inviz··on The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
is there a modern operational transformation implementation that would work in P2P environment? i've had my own, but it had some convergence issues in complex fuzzied scenarios, couldnt fix before my enthusiasm ran out. I still feel like OT is more elegant and easier to integrate than CRDT. But i'm not finding good lightweight implementations.
Inviz··on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
In these 15 years, HN was a website that shaped me and my worldview. It's a social circle that inspires me and broadens my perspective.
Inviz··on Waiting for SQL:202y: Group by All
What's wrong with GROUP BY 1,2,3?
Inviz··on JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in
Please consider it a feature request
Inviz··on JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in
I want to ditch stream-json so hard (needs polyfills in browser, cumbersome to use), but I need only one feature: invoke callback by path (e.g. `user.posts` need to invoke for each post in array) only for complete objects. Is this something that json river can support?
Inviz··on Sampling and structured outputs in LLMs
yes but you can put it on nested objects. Each type: object can have its own propertyOrdering, so you control whole tree
Inviz··on John Jumper: AI is revolutionizing scientific discovery [video]
I have a mildly psychotic friend who think that he uncovered the secrets to everything with AI. Quantum theory and Jungian archetypes, together with 4 dimensions - great mix
Inviz··on Sampling and structured outputs in LLMs
nested field have their own propertyOrdering
Inviz··on Sampling and structured outputs in LLMs
gemini api has propertyOrdering field for that
Inviz··on The attr() function in CSS now supports types
hmm... where to start?

  - Variables cascade and cause restyle of whole sub-tree.
  - Attributes often are already on the html element, e.g. title, aria, data attributes, so dont need inline styles
  - Not mixing data with presentation
Just to name a few
Inviz··on The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
I wish this had youtube video mixing support. This is something i cant find in other software.
Inviz··on Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second
I contacted their sales team before, cerebras started at $1500 a month at that time, and the limits were soooooo small. Did it get better?

Edit: Looks like it did. They both introduced pay as you go, and have prepaid limits too at $1500. I wonder if they have any limitations on parallel execution for pay as you go...

Inviz··on Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance
Cursor lifted "Start a new chat" limitation on gemini and i'm actually now enjoying keeping longer sessions within one window, becuase it's still very reasonable at recall, but doesnt need to restate everything each time
Inviz··on A job queue in two lines of JavaScript
I wonder if people who are claiming its not the case ever tried to use promises in hardcore ways like this, chaining 10s of thousands of calls. You often hit some bullshit, i.e. Promise.race is a big cause of issues.

Even if you are doing `then().then()`, something _else_ in the code base could retain the promise somehow and then your whole chain isn't GCable!

For example https://github.com/rxaviers/async-pool library that implements concurrency for async iterators (and uses promise.race) subtly creates GC pressure which you dont see until you make a whole lot of calls and suddenly its slow

Inviz··on A job queue in two lines of JavaScript
yeah but it creates closure as well, which typically references some objects that isn't easy to GC. So if you have long-living promise with some data captured in closure, it will not be cleared. So doing then().then().then() may not release objects referenced in callbacks that resolved time ago.
Inviz··on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly
Couldnt make it to show suggestions in vscode/cursor. I would like to use the tool, but i'd expect it to work consistently across all widgets in the system (i.e. like superwhisper). Is there a technical limitation here or my misconfiguration of things?
Inviz··on A job queue in two lines of JavaScript
Chaining promises like this is not a good idea for high throughput cases (creates gc pressure), but perfectly valid for regular cases.
Inviz··on The Two Towers MUD
Is there some youtube channel covering some interesting stories from MUDs? From dev, player POV and everything in between. Craving for some emergent storytelling of MUDs to listen to while falling asleep
Inviz··on Self-Adapting Language Models
Evolving prompts seems to fit the "modify without changing" bill, does it?
Inviz··on Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
I think the fact that it supports colored glass, and it has 2 variants, and it promotes dimming layer - says that current implementation is probably not the end of the story
Inviz··on Builder.ai did not "fake AI with 700 engineers"
One good thing that came out of that disjointedness is temporal.io, which is an ultimate microservice gluecode tool
Inviz··on A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
We'll soon migrate to AI web, and it is us who will be the aliens. There perhaps facts dont carry as much value.
Inviz··on Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)
Cat is out of the bag. nobody wants their CSS without flexbox anymore. It has to include that.
Inviz··on Migrating to Postgres
WHERE CONDITION AND 1=1 results in scanning whole table? I dont think so...
Inviz··on Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
What do we do about Lightroom? Capture one? How about sharing galleries?
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