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Nekorosu

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Nekorosu··on When did Google get so weird?
I've been a Kagi user for two years, and I've also onboarded my 70-year-old mother. She's happy to have a web search that works and an excellent translation service, which, by the way, uses AI where and how it actually makes sense.
Nekorosu··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
Down in Sweden
Nekorosu··on Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic
How does it help build idiomatic cross-platform apps? A cross-platform app can't really be idiomatic by definition, since different platforms have different idioms, both in terms of APIs and UI. If the project somehow solves this, I'd expect that to be explained. I couldn't find such an explanation on the website.
Nekorosu··on How to Exist
Doing nothing? You’ll still have to breathe. ;)
Nekorosu··on Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)
No worries. This one is based on so many untested assumptions that you can easily ignore it.
Nekorosu··on Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents
Obsidian exists. It is more feature rich and mature.
Nekorosu··on Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)
Calling this a scientific theory seems premature. It is mostly a speculative model built on untested assumptions about cognition, with no empirical validation of its central claims.
Nekorosu··on Why care about programming languages
The original quote is from Andrej Karpathy as far as I remember. I do like a lot of his ideas but try to take them with a pinch of salt as he clearly has a technocratic bias regarding LLMs/AI.
Nekorosu··on Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac
I really don't like the marketing texts. "Why we’re open source when nobody else is." I'm using oMLX which is open source and seems to be doing everything Nativ offers. I'd rather see the comparison with existing "non-existing" open source competitors.
Nekorosu··on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)
I have both books. Scheme for sure! Env setup can be a bit of an issue but it is doable. Regarding it, I remember having some weird issues with MIT Scheme on a modern computer, but Racket/DrRacket works well.
Nekorosu··on ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
How about no? I'd rather use something open source and local. We have enough of 3rd party controlled AI tools.
Nekorosu··on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
It is still possible to actually buy PC games, not rent them.
Nekorosu··on Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art
Were you offered to rewrite the "AI-generated text" with AI to make it look more human?
Nekorosu··on Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
I was scammed on Fiverr myself, so I may be biased, but this feels consistent with the platform incentives I saw firsthand. The dispute process did not seem designed to deal well with coordinated abuse, and weak controls around sensitive files would point to the same broader issue: user safety and data handling do not appear to be high priorities.
Nekorosu··on Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
Is your argument "it's bad everywhere, so it's ok"? As a software developer I do understand how enterprises operate, as a customer and a user I'd put Apple under higher scrutiny and would expect better.
Nekorosu··on Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)
Is it for citizens or billionaire citizens?
Nekorosu··on macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses
Design is much more than that.

Also, it’s almost as if you can’t imagine that other users might have needs and preferences different from yours.

Nekorosu··on Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
My first language is Russian. I’m not young, so I remember a bit of the Soviet era and many of the paper books I read as a child. I perceive lozh and vranyo as nearly synonymous, depending on the context. The only difference I notice is that vranyo can occur without ill intent, while lozh is told deliberately to deceive.

I found the source of this new alternative interpretation https://theconversation.com/ukraine-war-vranyo-russian-for-w...

I call it BS.

Nekorosu··on Building a new Flash
That's absurd.
Nekorosu··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
I won't trust a word coming from Sam Altman's mouth until I see official signed documents (which I won't).
Nekorosu··on Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
Interesting. Swedish BankID, that I'd guess serves the same purpose, works just fine on GrapheneOS, as well as nation wide payment system Swish.
Nekorosu··on Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy
How did you manage to turn "increase their lowest price to appear on Amazon" into "incentivise sellers to have their lowest prices on Amazon"?
Nekorosu··on LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
There is a great research paper on the topic https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10792139/#:~:text=T...
Nekorosu··on Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
I clicked the link but missed the show. I'd like to revisit the project when there is something to look at and listen to.
Nekorosu··on Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release
There is no limit to the ignorance of stock-market investors.
Nekorosu··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
Regarding high-quality commercial Linux software: SideFX Houdini offers a relatively affordable Indie license and is fantastic for most kinds of 3D work, compositing, and post-processing tasks. It’s also fully procedural and scriptable, which really makes my brain buzz.
Nekorosu··on Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie
Who are you talking to? If this is meant for Gore Verbinski, he won’t read it, and even if he did, he wouldn’t understand it.

The requirement to recompile the engine makes this feature non existent for a film crew.

Nekorosu··on Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
Enshittification of Apple continues. I was quite dedicated to Apple for years but I'm glad I just bought Google Pixel (degoogled with GrapheneOS).
Nekorosu··on How to Build Reactive Declarative UI in Vanilla JavaScript
I don’t think the article does justice to the declarative programming approach. The title feels more like clickbait for programmers.
Nekorosu··on How to Build Reactive Declarative UI in Vanilla JavaScript
Can someone shed some light on what is declarative in this example? I’m a bit puzzled.
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