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RetpolineDrama

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RetpolineDrama··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Yep. Flutter has been dead-end for a while. RN won't last through 2027.
RetpolineDrama··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Introducing SwiftUI2: Every UI is a simple prompt, and all the underlying code is generated.
RetpolineDrama··on LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
>All smart TVs should be disconnected from the internet.

Not good enough. The device has sufficient storage for YEARS of conversation data.

You connect it once to update the firmware and boom everything is backfilled. Your neighbor sets up an open SSID? It all gets out.

RetpolineDrama··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
>The way I review it is to let it finish a PR sized slice and then I review the whole diff in a separate terminal as if it’s a PR from someone else.

Insanely inefficient. It's 10x more productive to watch the thinking traces and edits in real time and steer the model appropriately.

If your workflow is typical no wonder my team members who use claude code are so much less productive.

RetpolineDrama··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
The true-local AI chip, codename "buddy", will be the M8
RetpolineDrama··on Felony Bench
>how is Grok not at the top of the list for deepfaking millions?

How is this the top comment? I can go on just about any provider and make realistic "deep fakes" of anyone.

Generating images isn't a crime?

RetpolineDrama··on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
I had this and it turned out to be my unifi firewall block triggering a false-positive in the browser.
RetpolineDrama··on Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability
>The vast majority of CVEs are not exploitable

Perhaps in isolation. The issue is when you can chain exploits to bypass multiple layers.

RetpolineDrama··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
>which are the biggest contributor to the glints we can see in the night sky.

>They're such an enormous part of the problem

What an incredible life of privilege you must live to perceive a few glints in the sky as a huge problem.

RetpolineDrama··on Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)
Lobby wait time is rather extreme, and false-starts are really tough (40m to get full team -> get it balanced -> launch game -> someone disconnects on start, or went AFK because of the long wait time -> re re re re in chat -> launch new lobby -> only 60% rejoin -> match is now unbalanced -> wait 20m -> some god among men with 2500k ELO joins -> match is un-balancable
RetpolineDrama··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
>Rust is perfect for writing all of code using LLM. It's strict type system makes is less likely to make very dumb mistakes that other languages might allow.

100%. I've been telling everyone who will listen this for 2 years. LLMs are infinitely more productive with swift code like

let engineCycleCount: Int = 5

vs

let eC = 5

They still make mistakes, but forcing _explicit_ typing in a strongly typed language makes them make far fewer mistakes + the compiler is catching >90% of what you try to catch with a billion rspecs in trash languages like ruby.

RetpolineDrama··on All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
>but living in an environment with background radiation levels 50x higher than on Earth

We can park a big honkin magnet at the mars-sun lagrange point and cut that down massively.

RetpolineDrama··on Claude Opus 4.7
Came here to post this. 4.7 is absolutely useless for binary/firmware analysis on our own freakin products.

Anthropic needs to get their ish together I've got real work to do.

RetpolineDrama··on Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering
>I worked on the Xcode team for years

Why did you guys remove the ability to detach the console and move it to another window?

RetpolineDrama··on The political effects of X's feed algorithm
>How is it illegal? It is their platform to do what they want with it.

It was illegal for the officials who did it, not for Meta/Google to follow their orders. That part was merely unethical.

RetpolineDrama··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
>The law was written specifically to allow blocking imports from a country.

The precise wording is regulate. The idea that "regulate" means you can turn it on or off with no in-between is beyond parody. Absurd. Hilarious. Farcical.

That said the headline is misleading and should be renamed, nothing is changing from this ruling.

RetpolineDrama··on The political effects of X's feed algorithm
Or from the other perspective: Meta and Google have had their finger on the scale for more than a decade (along with old twitter).

In twitters case, you had regime officials directing censorship illegally through open emails and meetings.

It's no surprise that the needle moves right when you dial back the suppression of free expression even a little bit (X still censors plenty)

RetpolineDrama··on There is an AI code review bubble
>The SOTA isn't capable of using a code diff as a jumping off point.

The low quality of HN comments has been blowing my mind.

I have quite literally been doing what you describe every working day for the last 6+ months.

RetpolineDrama··on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
>the slippery slope fallacy

I see the slippery slope fallacy-fallacy more than the base fallacy.

RetpolineDrama··on There is no memory safety without thread safety
Swift 6 is only painful if you wrote a ton of terrible Swift 5, and even then Swift 5 has had modes where you could gracefully adopt the Swift 6 safety mechanisms for a long time (years?)

~130k LoC Swift app was converted from 5 -> 6 for us in about 3 days.

RetpolineDrama··on UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US
We need to apply sanctions, and end all intelligence sharing with the UK until they stop this nonsense.
RetpolineDrama··on Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling
HN hasn't been a good place for technical discussion in at least 5-6 years, maybe longer.

X is much better for this kind of stuff these days (just follow the right people and stick to the following tab)

RetpolineDrama··on War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America
Not in most of the US, but the ones in Alaska can mummify a water buffalo in under 5 minutes.

Running joke is that the mosquito is "Alaska's state bird"

RetpolineDrama··on Retreating Glaciers Expose 1,500 Miles of Coastline
Only 1500 miles? Obviously they didn't measure it precisely.
RetpolineDrama··on Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
Nothing MB has is anywhere close to FXD 13.2.x

So if the SAE standards don't reflect that, they are poor standards

RetpolineDrama··on Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
Today I saw a diesel truck roll coal on anti-tesla protestors.

We've gone full circle.

RetpolineDrama··on MacBook Air M4
>I'm not sure why you want 4k resolution with a 14 inch screen

You do realize we had 1440p phones in 2015-2016 right?

HiDPI is not new, and it's clarity amazing. Stop buying huge low res screens for ripoff prices in 2025

RetpolineDrama··on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
I pulled a fresh 20A (120V) circuit just for my 5090 build.
RetpolineDrama··on Boom Supersonic to break sound barrier during historic test flight today
Are you lost? Do you know where you are?
RetpolineDrama··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
It's a gross miscarriage of justice.

The gov should have to prove you committed a crime before that information is admissible at sentencing.

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