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saturn_vkon Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

A chip manufacturer proposes to sell more chips? Who would've guessed

saturn_vkon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

It's sad that most world leaders do nothing to combat such genocide. There are so few sanctions against the state, or specific people, of Israel. Foreign forums are very much still open for business to them.

saturn_vkon Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking

> mumbling drunk

Or a very small child with an enormous amount of knowledge

saturn_vkon Did Meta's Big Settlement Actually Help It?

Heroin sucks, but if you child is addicted to the needle, take the needle away.

saturn_vkon The turbulent AI era is here

This is a fundamentally wrong approach.

Let AI replace jobs. Start taxing companies that use AI proportionally to their usage, and then distribute the proceedings to the people.

saturn_vkon Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

Go has an official package search at https://pkg.go.dev/

There’s no poking, unless you are into that sort of thing

saturn_vkon Generic Methods in Go 1.27

Absolutely. If you’ve never used Java or Go

saturn_vkon Generic Methods in Go 1.27

vtables still need types, and a generic method that is not yet instantiated will not have them

saturn_vkon Generic Methods in Go 1.27

That’s composition, and it’s not really the same as inheritance

saturn_vkon Generic Methods in Go 1.27

I’ve written generic code once or twice per year. Usage through libraries is higher, though it’s not very visible.

saturn_vkon Go 1.27

Some people do like it though

saturn_vkon Go 1.27

That's been a major success

saturn_vkon How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy

So, like https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/marker/index.html?

saturn_vkon Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types

Violently?

saturn_vkon Systemd Linger

Which part? Just saying systemd is like saying a distribution is too complex

saturn_vkon No Stack Overflow, No Autocomplete: What Coding Felt Like in the 80s

man studio and the like were really helpful trying to figure out what something did in a piece of code

saturn_vkon Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services

IIRC, go cannot run arbitrary code at build time, so that should not make it vulnerable

saturn_vkon Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services

The package might not ever be executed on the user's machine. Depending on your setup, it might only be ran on a server, where the data that can be exfiltrated is completely different.

saturn_vkon Parallel agents in Zed

Is there an example of this?

saturn_vkon I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

Are you claiming that this does not show the speed difference between socket vs in process communication?

saturn_vkon Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications

Great. I must be living on the moon then. I guess gnome work great there since it manages this part

saturn_vkon A million ways to die from a data race in Go

On the other hand, it should be very obvious for anyone that has experience with concurrency, that changing a field on an object like the author showed can never be safe in a concurrency setting. In any language.

saturn_vkon Gnome is better macOS than macOS

> completely unusable

You forgot „for me“

saturn_vkon GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code

Why does the display server have to restore window positions?

saturn_vkon GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code

Do you have a source for that statistic?

saturn_vkon Orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA's next Mars mission

It might be better budget wise, especially in volatile times

saturn_vkon Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End"

There are dozens of you. Dozens!

saturn_vkon Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End"