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bergheimon Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B

Them putting services in EU (even as subsidiaries) is just a marketing strategy where they are straight up lying to customers so they can get more money.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

bergheimon Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

I hate $THING Firefox does, and I'll complain about it, and I will use $CHROMIUM browser and not complain about that for some reason!

bergheimon If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

That has been there since at least KDE 3 and I do agree, I remember learning about that feature. 400 years ago and still chefs kiss.

bergheimon Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

Wow, imagine that they would say that, so strange, the ones without a skin in the game except for yay open source models!

The world would be better off without these three companies, how about that.

bergheimon Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

what I don't understand is, given the anthropic narrative, why on earth rewrite bun to rust, and not claude code to rust? why use typescript at all when the whole point is that languages don't matter anymore? I suppose it is solely because it would be a bad look on them to rewrite claude itself - it means they failed - but rewriting bun is a much better narrative - claude is fine! it's just his runtime we need fixing. and here is that token heavy story!

so weird people are not commenting on this.

it's like.. I dunno, rewrite linux in rust, because bun uses glibc, this will somehow make it better, so claude code somehow can run better?

hell, start with UEFI.

bergheimon Grok 4.5

love that you somehow think that the other contenders are so much more trustworthy (and you have the top comment so others do as well) that you have to comment on it.

bergheimon Claude Fable 5

I know he is an AI influencer that promotes his blog any chance he gets.

I agree as well that he writes many interesting things.

bergheimon Claude Fable 5

Anyone care about these pelicans that always come up anymore?

Clearly at this point they are part of the training data.

They even all look sort of ish the same. Daytime, colors,...

bergheimon Stop Advertising in Your Commits

Same with eggdrop.

Speaking of; why the names?

bergheimon My I3-Emacs Integration

after 30 years you say this? this cannot be serious.

bergheimon The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

Correct, that was my point

bergheimon The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

> That’s not a software guy who happened to raise some money. That’s someone whose stated specialty is the PE integration and exit process.

Holy smokes has that's not just -> THAT IS become one of my trigger words.

bergheimon I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe

Second paragraph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

bergheimon Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

Not sure if ghostty is the best example https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-memory-leak-fix

bergheimon Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

Curious how this thread would have been if Firefox did that.

bergheimon Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

Why do we need that?

Art should demand more of the creator than the person experiencing it.

The alternative is 9 billion who cares slop things.

bergheimon Claude Opus 4.7

Curious why you think that? Stuff like

> Yes, there is a relative scale level...

> Yes, having the smartest model will...

> yes Chinese AI companies have ...

yes yes yes, I didn't say anything, why write in a way that insinuates that I was thinking that?

I mean it doesn't come off as AI slop, so that's yay in 2026. But why do you think it is so good?

bergheimon France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

This comment was wildly invalid even years ago.

See proton, heroic launcher, etc, etc.

Cyberpunks own benchmarking suite runs 30% faster (for whatever reason; my wintendo install is stock and nothing but nvidia drivers) on the ntfs windows partition on Arch.

bergheimon Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

Oh the billion bollar vc backed pre ipo companys story was this? Omg and they somehow are not delivering up to your standards? Damn they better get their act together lest people like you will whine on twitter about them losing their way

bergheimon Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms

What is so fucked up about this is that THEIR WHOLE RAISON D'ÊTRE is knowing more about you than you do.

You think they need this to know your age? Your gender? Your home, your birthplace, your political stance?

bergheimon Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls

Everybody says this. It's so weird.

How on earth will epic win without exclusives? It's like launching some Facebook competitor "but you get two profile pictures". Noone would switch.

All these geeks singing steam and lamenting competition. Competition bad for me mkay, steam good.

/me shakes head

bergheimon Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)

If you use an extension like vimium, you get this by using the standard [[ and ]] vim motions for this.

Also, using the keyboard for navigation, while it sounds like a chore, is really quite excellent, and I prefer it to the mouse, as crazy as that might sound.

bergheimon Astral to Join OpenAI

Given their statements, influencers and indeed their raison d'être I don't understand why this and bun was acquired? Why did they not just Ralph loop it? Claude is famously not made by humans anymore.

One prompt and call it a weekend. Surely they have the compute.

Oooooh, right.

Same reason we don't have windows 41 either.

bergheimon Java 26 is here

Right because golang is like 2 years old and new o.O

bergheimon Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language

Look at the post history https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=hristian

and it's an old account (2014!). why do people do this? it's like griefers in games.

bergheimon Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP

I hear you and I agree. I don't know. Gated communities?

bergheimon The 49MB web page

What on earth do you have to rely on alphabet, an ad company, to read rss for? there are many other options, that are not made by an ad company.

Google Reader was never the answer. It's such a shame that people even here don't realize that relying on Google for that had interests at odds - and you weren't part of the equation at all.

Well, except for your data. You didn't give them enough data. So they shut down shop. Gmail though, ammirite? :D

Yeah I wonder why gmail was not one of the shut down products /s

bergheimon Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)

For now you are. All these things fall with time, of course. You will stop caring once you start feeling safe, we all do.

Also. AAarrgh, my new thing to be annoyed at is AI drivel written slop.

"No browser automation framework, no separate browser instance, no re-login."

Oh really, nice. No separate computer either? No separate power station, no house, no star wars? No something else we didn't ask for? Just one a toggle and you go? Whoaaaaaa.

Edit: lol even the skill itself is vibe coded:

Lightweight Chrome DevTools Protocol CLI. Connects directly via WebSocket — no Puppeteer, works with 100+ tabs, instant connection.

I feel like there's nothing fucking left on the internet anymore that is not some mean of whatever the LLM is trained to talk like now.

bergheimon Two Years of Emacs Solo

Great stuff. Funny how that whole Ai thing is Ai generated:

No gptel, no ellama, just url-retrieve and some JSON parsing.

The no x no y just z is the new em dashes. And that will probably be true for about a week.