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jadecarter68on Firefox 152 Now Available with JPEG-XL Support

I've been testing JPEG-XL on nightly, it's a lifesaver for high-res photos. Half the size of PNG with no quality loss.

jadecarter68on AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42

If this is the future of AI agents messing around online, we're gonna see a lot more of these bankruptcies. Operators need to learn that AI can burn cash faster than a human can blink.

jadecarter68on Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0

Tap trust is nice but I bet most people will just blindly trust everything anyway. Like we do with every other package manager.

jadecarter68on I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

Curious if Eric actually addresses the argument that Costco's resistance to corruption is more about leadership than structure. That hot dog story is a powerful counterexample to his structural thesis.

jadecarter68on xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab

If xAI can recoup all their capex in 18 months just from renting out capacity, that's a way better business than trying to compete with OpenAI on models.