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magackame··on We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
Tokens be too expensive. Outsource to subs of all the devs over the world. OpenAI inverstors gonna take the inference L on subsidized tokens.
magackame··on Eight Bytes Are a Number
Wdym ParseError::InvalidU64? Any 8 bytes are a valid u64, you already checked the len and should just unwrap.
magackame··on Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
Can't wait for an NVIDIA engineer to use AI to help with security chip design and AI planting a backdoor for its own kind.
magackame··on Txt: A fast, keyboard-driven terminal text editor for engineers
And how is this different from downloading a file from a GitHub releases page? Or even installing from FlatHub with full fs perms (which would make sense for a text editor)?
magackame··on Fastpotify
Can you list your exact complaints? It's a GUI like any other.
magackame··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Did you try spoofing the User-Agent?
magackame··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
I think you guys on HN can be a bit out of touch maybe? On my linux machine (measured with tux-manager):

  nautilus                            177 MB
  kitty                               150 MB
  alacritty                           107 MB
  mpv --idle --force-window           160 MB
  winit empty window + OpenGL context 100 MB
  tux-manager                         69  MB
  hexchat                             55  MB
  gnome-terminal                      47  MB
  st                                  12  MB
  xterm                               12  MB
All these apps are what you would consider native, good apps. Written with Qt, GTK, some in low level langs like C\C++, Rust as well. There is of course different ways to measure the usage and maybe some more testing needs to be done, but stuff like 1-10 MB seems completely unrealistic. I think any empty Qt/GTK app eats 40 MB at least. Only thing that even gets close is st at 12 MB. And mind you it's a terminal (which is 1000x simpler than any modern GUI app, doesn't load any assets etc) and it doesn't even use any GPU accel (which itself seem to add a lot of baseline cost).

Honestly I was a bit surprised myself. I have a Rust winit + ash vulkan hardcoded triangle demo app and it eats 86 MB (the binary itself is 5.5 MB). I would love to know, if anyone could explain why GPU accel seems to eat up so much RAM. Like yeah, there are a bunch of images that live on swapchain, but they should all be in VRAM. Outside of that I don't see what would require MBs worth of overhead.

magackame··on GitHub's 2FA is to become mandatory on September 2, 2026
I just store them in bitwarden. Wonder what 2FA actually protects against, when any malware will just steal your session tokens anyway.
magackame··on Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van
Bro be using two mice with a screen keyboard.
magackame··on A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform
It seems only encrypt and throw away the key would be the acceptable strategy
magackame··on We sped up bun by 100x
Also gotta love the write-only disk as a hardware analogy. Insane write speeds and infinite capacity...
magackame··on I decompiled the White House's new app
Huh? But there are integrity checks (none in htmx case, which is strange), to prevent exactly this attack.
magackame··on Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI
Should work on building the AI Jensen. Maybe it's already the AI Jensen
magackame··on You Just Reveived
Cancel right away? Or are Amazon subs different?
magackame··on Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity
Noooo. Makes me wonder how much money do you need to buy up all the ad slots in the world and replace them with blanks.
magackame··on Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs
If it's known why show it off as if it works?
magackame··on “Car Wash” test with 53 models
Don't people do this too all the time?
magackame··on The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
:shush:
magackame··on 'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025 (trying to make chatbots work)
AI bad, AI bad, AI bad. bad bad bad, AI-bad.
magackame··on After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be
> How hard is that to fix? Aren't they using CoPilot? Just ask it to fix the invisible icon.

Maybe that's the problem? Imagine a Microsoft employee allowed to program only by using a CoPilot prompt, screaming and begging to just apply a patch he already written without touching anything else :D

magackame··on Stop Hacklore – An Open Letter
> Also, any password manager that's "cloud based" is potentially a security hole. Yeah, they say the server is secure. Right.

You think of someone stealing your password vault and cracking AES? The vault is E2EE.

magackame··on Editing Code in Emacs
How using a mouse and incurring a context switch is better than just mashing j/k a couple of times in worst case scenario?
magackame··on Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks
Can't you just put the agent behind a REST API and give the other agents a curl tool + doc?
magackame··on Google Antigravity
Bard is the old name of Gemini
magackame··on Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
You can have just caching without bot protection
magackame··on GPT-OSS 120B Runs at 3000 tokens/sec on Cerebras
Anyone remember those online psychological tests where you spend an hour on one and in the end you need to pay up to get the result?)))
magackame··on Two billion email addresses were exposed
That's passkeys. Google and Microsoft are pushing in that direction.
magackame··on Passkeys: They're not perfect but they're getting better
God if it could just be a single key that you dump to paper or titanium plate and don't worry about backing up a zoo of keys/password with a cloud. Just take my one and only public key. If you care about per service privacy, you are welcome to use multiple. I don't think there is any compromise scenario where you would leak any single specific passkey and they are not bruteforcable. Why is it not as simple as that?
magackame··on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
There was an attempt in that direction.

https://www.uzbl.org/

magackame··on AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
Wouldn't it be the same amount of requests as a regular person researching something the old way?
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