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metahost··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
Apple sells ads too; increasingly across its surfaces.
metahost··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
So about the same “intelligence” as Muse Spark 1.1 but 2x faster and about 2x as expensive.
metahost··on GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Here goes my Copilot Pro subscription then, reluctantly heading over to Codex CLI since the CC base plan is downright unusable.
metahost··on Show HN: Bangs – DuckDuckGo-style search shortcuts for Safari
stored in local storage atm, works with both the address bar and blank search page!
metahost··on Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN
I see -- thanks!
metahost··on Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN
Do you happen to have any additional block lists populated apart from the default ones by uBO? -- I also have the same setup but it works for me.
metahost··on Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN
Thanks, appreciate the kind words! :)
metahost··on Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN
Yikes, that sucks -- Vercel's free tier seems to have struggled. :/
metahost··on Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN
Yikes, that's weird -- can't reproduce but I will keep an eye out for it!
metahost··on Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN
Yikes, that's weird -- can't reproduce but I will keep an eye out for it!
metahost··on The E-Ink Badge
they launched a new wireless one sometime last week named the Badger 2040 W.
metahost··on How to store your app's entire state in the url
There is a max length to URLs after which it is all wild west based on the browser implementation.

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/417184

metahost··on India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android
From anecdata it seems that GPay is ubiquitous. The distribution may vary wildly regionally though.
metahost··on India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android
Those are insignificant in comparison to Google Pay (or Tez as it used to be called).
metahost··on The FBHHRBNRSSSHK-Algorithm for Multiplication is still not the end
Ah gotcha, thanks!
metahost··on The FBHHRBNRSSSHK-Algorithm for Multiplication is still not the end
Aside: what's on with the name of the algorithm? -- does it stand for something?
metahost··on Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/papers-please/id935216956
metahost··on M2 MacBook Air
2x thunderbolt, 1x magsafe and 1x headphone jack for the m2 air
metahost··on Ask HN: Is GitHub Down?
Experiencing degraded service from Singapore too.
metahost··on My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
100% this. After spending the entire day in front of screens going out for a workout run is such a refresher.

However, to each their own.

metahost··on Installing Every Arch Package
The screenshots are not mirrored. :(
metahost··on Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
Here you go: https://archive.fo/NEg6u
metahost··on Show HN: Use Apple's Metal API for Compute in C++
Hi folks,

I created a small code example based heavily off of Apple's Swift/Objective-C tutorial to use the Metal API for compute in a C++ project using the metal-cpp library. I also wrote an accompanying blog post to describe the steps involved.

Hope it is of use to you!

metahost··on WIP: Hacking the Nokia Fastmile (T-Mobile's 5G Gateway)
No, I am not.
metahost··on Show HN: I made an app that tracks your devices' batteries from your Mac
Ah thanks for the clarification, kudos on the launch! :)
metahost··on Show HN: I made an app that tracks your devices' batteries from your Mac
Isn’t this the default behaviour on clicking the Bluetooth icon when a device is connected to a Mac?

I am on macOS Monterey (12.0.1) and this is what I see: https://imgur.com/a/SAKj3Cs

metahost··on Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score
This is the comparison to a mid 2015 15" MacBook Pro for anyone who is curios: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10513492?baseli...

Summary: single core performance gain is 2x whereas multi-core performance gain is 4x.

metahost··on Deploy a website on imgur.com
TIL GitHub READMEs support video playbacks now.
metahost··on Bare metal Apple M1 Debian at 4K 60
Not just that but also the fact that the person is so young and so talented! It is amazing and humbling.
metahost··on An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
Neural networks are generally assumed to be non-invertible functions. That said, something like an auto-encoder can learn to decode the encoded data back to its original form, with loss.
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