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I usually try to keep an open mind but wow this is so bad. I was a loyal Firefox user but between the memory and perf issues and now this, I've now switched to Helium. I miss the "Multi-Account Containers" but that's about it.

They just had to look at Arc for what people want out of the future of browser design and instead they committed this own goal.

For the record I did not mean to say that about your work, nice job.

It is impressive, but all the hype and fake demos are selling it as a model that is as smart as frontier reasoning LLMs in the decisions it makes yet much cheaper and much faster, which is not true.

which ones do you recommend instead?

Reminds me of textmode demos https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=24206

It is not without its fair share of faults, but I stay on Firefox because of multi account containers

I like the end result of OpenTelemetry tracing when using Axiom and the like, but the SDKs have been a nightmare. Too much emphasis on automatic instrumentation, Java-isms, everything is stateful and abstracted away.

It can do distributed tracing of otherwise traditional long running microservices, but breaks down when your functions are distributed like in durable execution engines, Cloudflare Workflows, “functions” that span hours/days/weeks and steps that retry many times.

I had to reverse engineer how SDKs work and how tracing UIs display data so I could make simpler functions that fit wider variety of runtimes and more freely parent spans, start spans and end them from different function instances.

I think most of the API and terminology complexity is self inflicted. Would love to see a rebooted developer experience that is less Kubernates-brained.

Would your app run equally well with sqlite?

how is enabling ever bigger and more expensive to produce forms of entertainment making modern society better? remove all that and we won't lose anything. we'll always find a way to entertain ourselves. likely, with more culturally beneficial and social forms of entertainment.

If you find this interesting, also check out their UI library called Bonsai that built on top of Incremental: https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai/

Libraries like React are pretty efficient with skipping work by using Virtual Dom, but constructing this vdom still takes time. Bonsai makes the vdom incremental and it is pretty fun to work with.

I built a desktop UI library with it by targeting (now unmaintained) Revery. It is using a much older version of Bonsai however: https://github.com/ozanvos/bonsai_revery

Smart people have been falling into this trap as long as LLMs have hit production. Supposedly early internal versions of GPT-4 had "sparks of AGI" but the public version was "dumbed down for safety"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c

In my experience restricting programs that can be expressed is a good thing, even more so with agentic engineering. The more guardrails there are, strong typing/TDD/computer use/..., the solution space shrinks and chance of a robust solution increases. Sure maybe this burns more tokens going in circles but it feels less like a slot machine more like a robot searching for a solution for a well-defined problem.

Devs have very strong opinions about dynamically typed programming languages. But reasons such as "exploratory programming", "expressiveness", "taste" that makes them feel good to program in for humans does not matter for agents. Agents don't care that the language "limits them" and prevents them from expressing the code in a succint way because it would not type check.

Surprised to see Clojure/ClojureScript come up on socials more often all of a sudden. I used it professionally for a few years around ~2012 and like many others moved off JVM and moved into typed [functional] languages.

Is the sudden buzz due to agentic coding? Does it rip through code faster with no type checking and fewer invalid syntax errors and reserved keywords to deal with? are we in for a sexp resurgence?

Ah I just switched to using https://github.com/uxjulia/crossink-reader

Not sure what KOReader is but the fonts included in this one and the overall reading experience is solid.

This is the official announcement: https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-mode...

It is not the researchers' fault that some slop got posted here instead.

It is common amongst French, Dutch etc speakers where saying "it said x" sounds unnatural.

This announcement mentions Node.js a couple of times. Does it also support Bun as a package manager and a runtime?

> Cost remains an ever present challenge. Cursor’s larger rivals are willing to subsidize aggressively. According to a person familiar with the company’s internal analysis, Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today, that subsidization appears to be even more aggressive, with that $200 plan able to consume about $5,000 in compute, according to a different person who has seen analyses on the company’s compute spend patterns.

This is the relevant quote from the original article.

There are fast fashion attempts at this like adding elastic material to every fabric so they can get away with having fewer sizes and cuts thus less unsold inventory and availability issues. But everything has a tradeoff. In this case the elastic material degrades MUCH faster than cotton so you have to throw away your jeans quite a bit earlier compared to a quality 100% cotton denim which can last you a decade. This is very unfortunate as most of the fabric in that piece of clothing is perfectly fine and this is pure waste.

This is some next level nitpicking. It's like criticizing XCode or Idea config of someone, instead of their product (or more popularly whether their website hijacks the back button). But at least in this case the dev config is checked in and reproducible.

Ok so it is not going closed source, they are just going to extend it as they need to drive Zed features. Totally understandable for an in-house UI framework, this is why you’d build one yourself anyway. I can imagine maintaining backwards compatibility, doing releases, writing documentation and growing a community around it is a considerable distraction from their product work.

For years I thought I had a faulty touchscreen and started relying on dictation more and more. Seeing this video saved me from going insane. They must have crunched the numbers and decided that these choices benefit more people than not. BUT HOW!

> We ignore for these purposes Zed's GPUI which the Zed team has transparently, and understandably abandoned as an open source endeavour

Do you have a source for this?

I understand your perspective. However, those trades, and most work in general, differ from art. Art is vital to our society, yet the current reward system optimizes for the worst art and the worst people.

We need more art that pushes boundaries and remains controversial. Instead, we favor the type of artist who attracts the most attention through their personality, whether because of their looks or a manufactured edgy image, while producing mundane, lowest-common-denominator work. We must support contemporary artists who move us forward rather than remaining stuck in popularity contests or constant nostalgia.

Under the current system, it is almost inevitable that influencers use their status to promote gambling ads and NFTs, ruining the lives of their fans. We need to break this cycle of rewarding increasingly poor behavior while making it harder for independent artists to earn a living.

When I tried it last year, their edge compute infra was just not there yet. It could not do any meaningful server-side rendering because of code size, compute and JS standard constraints.

Has this situation changed?

I have a confession to make.

I hope ChatGPT starts writing only short sentences.

Punchy one-liners.

One thought per line.

So marketers finally realize this does not work.

And stop sending me junk emails written like this.

Listen to the sound of HN hawks erupting with joy when they realize they can blame JS, React, RSC, Rust, Cloudflare, and the cloud all for one outage.

I knew plenty of office workers managing just fine using OpenOffice 10-15 years ago.

Today people are much more reliant on real-time collaboration, polished cloud and mobile experiences. Fractionalized open source software has a harder time competing with this than file based boxed software workflows of the past.

Reminds me of the headline I saw a long time ago: “50 years later, inventor of the pixel says he’s sorry that he made it square.”