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manbash··on Gemini 4 Argon
If it's "rust still can't beat... performance-wise", then yeah I guess.

But there are other criteria. The move to rust might've also resolved numerous potential memory-safety bugs in the decoder.

manbash··on One Month Without AI
I noticed lately that recent LLMs write very short sentences, sprinkling so many periods over one paragraph. I'm pretty sure that this is some new regression that we're having with new models.

Have you noticed it, too?

manbash··on Making Tailscale Faster
> Separately, we shortened packet queues—the lines packets wait in between stages of the pipeline. The queues are there to absorb bursts of traffic. Testing showed that most of that depth went unused, while shorter queues meant less waiting time and less memory overhead.

"lines"? "depth"? I feel like there is some context missing here. What are these terms they refer to?

manbash··on Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware
Indeed this is an odd disclosure and I am not familiar with past posts by them.

Moreover, no CVE is associated with this claimed vulnerability. It's not even stated which Android version or automotive head-unit variant version is affected.

manbash··on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
With Firefox, yes. I wouldn't fully trust other browsers to care about my privacy.
manbash··on pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries
> December's headline feature was teaching the planner to push a whole correlated EXISTS subquery down as a single LEFT SEMI JOIN instead of a nested loop with one ClickHouse round trip per outer row. This moved the needle from 3 of 22 TPC-H queries all the way to 12.

LLMs sure love throwing in archaic expressions such as "move the needle". The abrupt contrast in jargons is so unpleasant and keeps throwing me off right in the middle of reading.

manbash··on We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled
> Instead of one row per item with a quantity column, we use one row per sellable unit. An item with 10 units has 10 rows.

> But one row per unit for all inventory would break down at scale—an item with 50,000 units across 10 locations would mean 500,000 rows, and the reserve query would slow as it scans through them. Instead, we maintain a bounded pool of available rows, capped at 1,000 per item/location combination. Reservations consume rows from this pool; a replenishment process refills it from the inventory ledger.

Shouldn't I feel uncomfortable with such approach? It seems to create a backoff (pool) for lowering the chance of having a synchronization issue.

manbash··on Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops
Very nice. Can you elaborate why you chose mTLS authentication vs. SSH as a mean to deploy the policies.

Regarding the docs, the diagrams should really be replaced with something more familiar and readable such as Mermaid (currently it looks like a mixture of ad-hoc ASCII charts).

manbash··on Anime User Interfaces
...but do watch Golden Boy when given the opportunity!
manbash··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
Interesting, but IMHO the title of this post misses the point of the linked page.
manbash··on Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2
> We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange.
manbash··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
I don't have the app and I use reddit (although not often) via my mobile browser (firefox) and it never forced me to download the app, as far as I recall.
manbash··on 5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920
I am curious which of these places still exist today, as some menus depict the building. It would've be nice to have additional historical information.
manbash··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
It's so humbling to realize that the human mind hasn't changed a lot. Only our environment.
manbash··on Claude Tag
They're pretty much going the Google (how Google was until recently), trying to fan out to every market share.

I expect many of those to be shut down sooner than later, if learning anything from Google.

manbash··on How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
If you're referring to the Nozomi, wasn't it always excluded from the JR Pass?
manbash··on Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM
A lot of computer parts can be sold at a high profit nowadays.
manbash··on Flipper One – we need your help
We're living in the ai;dr era :)
manbash··on Learn Harness Engineering
The content is clearly AI-generated, which is really ironic.
manbash··on Googlebook
Apple's best move was to steer away from AI lockdowns and focus on what consumers really need.

Coupling these with Gemini is so detached, especially when everyone screams Local LLM.

manbash··on Can you stop beans from making you gassy?
I tend to find it in the spirit of "hacking".
manbash··on Clanker
That's amusing, although expected that some would misuse the terms, considering so many are now engaging in conversations about AI.
manbash··on We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090
> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

These are the rules.

manbash··on Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
I always appreciated how you can simply attach to the enlightenment process at any point, and also upon a crash.

The documentation is there: https://www.enlightenment.org/contrib/enlightenment-debug

manbash··on Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager
If you're shopping for a file manager, I'd recommend "yazi", which was a new, yet practical experience for me.
manbash··on WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution
Happy to see it resolved and I hope the other developers are able to have the same experience.

By the way, was it only for the Windows application, or was wireguard-go was also affected?

manbash··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
This will likely not see the light of day. It's the usual PR that gathers many "partnerships".

Expect to see lots of these in the upcoming months as the big companies scramble to keep from losing money.

manbash··on Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
Keyboard & mouse user here. To lessen the pain, I moved to gyro-based gaming. I think 8bitdo has those. I specifically use the Switch joycons. I recommend you just get yourself a good BT dongle.
manbash··on VR Is Not Dead
As someone who has both interest in VR and racing sims (and other sims), and tried VR and loved it, I am genuinely NOT INTERESTED in owning a headset for the obvious health reasons that come with using one.

There is no way this ever can be close to safe for your health than, say, not using it.

manbash··on CSS is DOOMed
CSS is awesome?

No

Yes

> [Paladin] Attack!

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