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hbbio··on Gemini 4 Argon
Yep! In our tests, we found Zig to be a pretty good fit to translate C++ codebases.

And static analysis + agents are good enough at keeping the memory management in check. Compared to Rust, there's no magic so it's easy for devs and agents to reason about.

If you're curious: https://github.com/okcontract/oksolc

hbbio··on AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons
There are both good and aspects of the AI "revolution". Yes, it's easier than ever to create free software.

But wrote just yesterday on a related impact of AI agents on open source repos: https://medium.com/@hbbio/when-software-becomes-cheap-trust-...

hbbio··on I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times
Zig 0.17 should solve this with incremental compilation. What you said will stay but should only apply for the first compilation.
hbbio··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
Just in case the model has ADHD too, I am using a minified version of it:

https://gist.github.com/hbbio/2faf096cbb77e197233ab9a2958beb...

hbbio··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Yes, and they specifically mention "Up to 10.7x faster LLM prompt processing in LM Studio" which is probably using the neural accelerator for prefill.
hbbio··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
You can't imagine how much your example calls home!

https://github.com/hbbio/rc

In my opinion, library authors should really minimize the amount of dependencies they have. Back to TypeScript, we are also the authors of https://github.com/okcontract/cells and we made a point of almost not having dependencies or even devDependencies.

hbbio··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
Rust suffers from the same faults as the JS ecosystem. Any significant crate imports hundreds if not thousands of dependencies. The probability that one of the authors gets targeted by AI-assisted attacks is just too high.

Also most of these dependencies provide a breadth of features that the end package does probably not need.

hbbio··on Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
> They'll sell far fewer Pixels because of these overall changes.

Was considering a Pixel 11 Pro, just cancelled it. Will wait for the Moto release. Thanks for your work!

hbbio··on Pixel Watch 5
This. I don't see the point of using a Pixel Watch or an Apple Watch or any watch that has 1 or 2 days of battery max.

My 3 year old Garmin has 2+ weeks battery life and is tracking activity, ox (ok, it's not medical grade), sleep, etc.

Also it does _not_ have a mic (something we're going to pay extra in a few years the way things go) and is not connected to anything wirelessly. No need for another device to set it up and you decide when you get data out using USB.

hbbio··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
Another beauty of free software is they took the project from gitea and gogs before that.
hbbio··on GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
Yes, a single GB300 workstation also does it, probably even more than 120tok/s.

Official price 85k...

hbbio··on Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)
Reminds of Chris Lemons, who survived for 30+ minutes without oxygen at the bottom of the North Sea. Cold water (and experience, like staying calm) probably played a large part. He went back to diving a few weeks after!

They made a movie about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Breath_(2019_film)

hbbio··on Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
Interesting setup, thx for sharing.

How many tokens/sec do you get with 27b? Are you using MTP?

hbbio··on The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
Acquired by a patent monetization business...
hbbio··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
OnlyOffice is better than LibreOffice for people who want a more direct alternative to Microsoft Office

https://www.onlyoffice.com/

(it's AGPL... there is an ongoing dispute with a fork now)

hbbio··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
I also misread the updated title.

"Frontier models break the open CTF format" is good

"Frontier AI..." means wtf is Frontier AI.

Because of course it exists (just googled it): https://frontierai.company/

hbbio··on Zig → Rust porting guide
Given they have "unlimited" AI usage, do we expect the port to be complete tomorrow?
hbbio··on The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models
"This approach presents a significant opportunity for optimization and strategic realignment to better meet our core objectives."
hbbio··on MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
The elephant in the room is something else.

iPhones need desktop mode. Your apps, your data. USB-C screen + Bluetooth keyboard/mouse. Running like iPadOS or even macOS.

hbbio··on Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding
Congrats on shipping!

Been also building this slowly, mostly assisting my kids.

What they built is Apple-only, since it's a native iOS/macOS app in Swift. It's been a very interesting experience for me, as even capable frontier LLMs still can't write Apple SwiftUI/AppKit properly. They constantly get the bridges wrong, and any feature prompt puts your previous architectural efforts at risk :)

hbbio··on Claude Opus 4.7
Unless they're measuring capex
hbbio··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
> I would ping him over the Signal app

Signal, the free encryption app used by journalists

hbbio··on Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
In the most possible Apple fashion, I am waiting for MacOS 27 or 28 to have this builtin.
hbbio··on Delve removed from Y Combinator
This other profile is still up:

https://www.forbes.com/profile/delve/

30U30 never ceases to amaze.

hbbio··on Siclair Microvision (1977)
SINCLAIR!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Sinclair

hbbio··on VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
Don't get me started on the Psion 5mx...

Still have it, last time I checked it worked well.

hbbio··on Migrating to the EU
Still not accepting Codeberg moral stance.

Yes, gitea (and originally gogs) are released under permissive licenses, so it's legally allowed to fork them.

But forking complete working projects with years of work, rebranding with a "good guys" attitude, and progressively erasing the name/history (mentioning a gitea fork has moved down the faq now) is not fair.

Edit: even worse, the word "fork" is not in the FAQ. It is "Comparison with Gitea" now (fork is mentioned on that page).

hbbio··on OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
Imagine this applied to coding.

- Do you want to add that _cool_ feature users will love?

- Yes

...

Yes

You may end up with a software art piece.

hbbio··on The MacBook Neo
I wouldn't say it hasn't improved. Security has improved considerably, and it's one of the main reasons to use a Mac.

However, there's too many bundled apps. Just wrote about this last week: https://medium.com/@hbbio/let-me-uninstall-spotlight-1fe64a3...

hbbio··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
Been playing with agent strategies, vibe coding this: https://github.com/hbbio/rc that uses helix by default

Using it already (the granular branch) but it's far from stabilized...

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