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szmarczak··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
What are you running, Android 9.0?
szmarczak··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
Have you verified what caused the crash via logcat? Firefox has never crashed in my case, not even once (but I'm not running a low ram device).
szmarczak··on Stop Using JWTs
No need to stop. The XSS argument also applies when using cookies.

JWTs are just tokens like session data but in JSON format. What format you choose to go with doesn't matter.

You can keep storing JWTs in local storage and still be secure. Discord removes it on page load and restores it when the tab is closed.

Also if your website is susceptible to XSS, skill issue, exactly like in the case of SQL injections. That wouldn't have happened had people used the right tools and not played with fire.

szmarczak··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
You obviously don't know how Android works. When an app hasn't been open for a while and it has no background tasks, it gets put to sleep. Waking it up takes a second.

You can delay that by selecting the app in the settings and choosing its Battery setting to Unrestricted, however, despite its name, it will still get suspended

The checks are poorly coded. Even on Unrestricted, if you play music from a web player, the browser will get suspended after the song ends but before a new one starts playing because there's a point where it awaits data on the foreground task, Android sees it has no background tasks and suspends it.

szmarczak··on Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight
No worries. These days people downvote for any reason so I'm getting used to it.
szmarczak··on Iroh 1.0
You don't need tailscale accounts to access tsnet (via funnel).
szmarczak··on Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight
Wow. Calling out blatant lies and got downvoted four times with no comment behind that. Peak HN experience.

Also that comment got indexed by Google already.

szmarczak··on Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight
You're lying.
szmarczak··on Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight
Simply move the training datasets and recreate it in the EU.

However, I think the US would treat this as treason (like they wouldn't want nuclear scientist to work for other nations).

szmarczak··on Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
I just ran this 25 times and every time I got 25. Ran this via ollama.
szmarczak··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
I got banned from yt-dlp for stating that Deno is vibe coded and that AIs are responsible for 54% commits since Feb 01. Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241873

> Someone was writing all that trash by hand.

And reading code written by AI isn't the same as reading code written by a real expert person.

There still exists the difference of quality of the written code and people who use AIs are lazy enough to accept code with vulnerabilities - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45034496

szmarczak··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
> One shotting slop is very different from iterating back and forth with an AI.

Bun is also iterating back and forth with AI. The rewrite only got popular because of bigger scope. The bigger the scope is, the more bugs there are.

> getting node compatibility tests passing

So does Bun.

> which is something an LLM is very good at.

Doesn't matter. The code those LLMs operate on is simple enough that any middle software engineer can do.

szmarczak··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
Since when small vibe coded slop became the norm? Because there exists bigger vibe coded slop, it's no justification to have a smaller vibe coded slop.
szmarczak··on Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
> The prospects of making a living in the midlist are unbelievably bad, and getting worse.

Sure, but it's not an excuse for making the world a shittier place by publishing more AI content. It's very known that AIs have agreement bias and mostly agree with you.

44% of new music uploaded to Deezer is AI generated.

Source: https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/04/ai-generated-tracks-repr...

Also she said 4 years ago that "literature is not for idiots". I don't think calling people names is a good way of promoting your content. And now she's complaining that the amount of people reading her works is declining?

Furthermore, she accused academic teachers of narrow thinking (apparently calling people 'idiots' wasn't enough). Honestly, Andrzej Dragan works [1] are arguably more important, but who am I to judge?

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeqEKD_20RZoMRPCZ39ZPd8oP...

Maybe she instead of glazing herself should get a reality check.

Also see this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196708

szmarczak··on Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
That's not religion. Let me reiterate:

> She uses the AI for a job that should be hers, not the AI's.

Also what would she otherwise buy the AI for? Cooking recipes? I'm on the free plan and hardly hit any limits.

She didn't ask it "what profession could person X be in an Y novel". She asked it to develop (rozwinąć) a story.

It's not that hard to understand that developing a story is actually her job.

Small details (profession, name, colours) are ok (my opinion). Developing parts of the story is not.

You may wonder where the line is - many reputable Polish writers are in consensus - no AI.

AI should have no place in creative works.

You are free to think otherwise. However I don't think those writers are wrong, especially if they're talking on a subject that is their profession, I'm no writer.

szmarczak··on Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
> The fact is she didn't actually use AI

She actually did. See my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210766

She also said:

> jak fantastycznie powiększa on horyzonty i pogłębia myślenie kreatywne

> how incredibly it widens horizons and deepens creative thinking

AI doesn't have the ability to improve one's creative thinking. In order to improve, you have to practice - there's nothing more to it and it applies to all professions.

Also, I wonder how did she come to the conclusion that it does so.

She uses the AI for a job that should be hers, not the AI's.

Furthermore, she publicly stated she bought the highest plan without specifying the model.

> None have managed to at the level we are talking about.

You seem to be implying somebody accused her of relying purely on AI, which no one actually did.

Many good Polish writers (as stated in the Lubimy Czytać article) said that for them it's unimaginable to use AI for writing, in any form.

szmarczak··on Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
How is paraphrasing AI text different from paraphrasing AI images? It's still paraphrasing (with different mediums).
szmarczak··on Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
> Being the first to do something is always impressive.

The companies are making the AI creative (whatever the definition), not her. Don't give her credit for something she had no impact on.

She's using AI for world building and working on top of it. Ask a few people whose job is world building (e.g. games) and no one will tell you that using AI is to be proud of.

szmarczak··on Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
> If you can prompt your way to a nobel-class novel, that is almost even mors impressive

I wouldn't call outsourcing your creativity "impressive".

szmarczak··on Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
> It's clickbait. She gave an interview where she said she used AI to help get her brain going, and the headline made it sound like she had AI write the book.

It's not clickbait.

> Często wprost rzucam maszynie pomysł do analizy z prośbą: kochana, jak mogłybyśmy to pięknie rozwinąć?

> I often directly throw an idea at it for an analysis asking: darling, how could we expand this beautifully?

Source: https://lubimyczytac.pl/aktualnosci/23065/olga-tokarczuk-o-a...

It's exactly like using AI for song creation where you direct it where it's going. It's no different than asking AI to generate an image and you redrawing it so it doesn't have AI traces.

szmarczak··on Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
If she doesn't, why did she use it?
szmarczak··on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
a) there's an infinite amount of things that can't be proven/disproven and this includes all sorts of human imagination. We should focus on things that we can actually prove or disprove. The source of a god is human imagination, so you can't even prove that any god exists because you just don't know what it is (iow what exactly you're trying to prove).

b) This being a fundamental question proves scientific curiosity. We wouldn't have achieved current technology if not for scientific curiosity.

szmarczak··on How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?
No, it's the browsers. Check how much memory they commit and how much is actually resident. Firefox often commits 2x more memory than it is actually using.
szmarczak··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
Wait till you hear about https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478
szmarczak··on How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?
Apple? Sure. What about other developers? Firefox, Chrome already use gigabytes of RAM.
szmarczak··on Bun v1.3.14 might be the last version in Zig
Zig not having destructors was a mistake.
szmarczak··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
> Kowalska works at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, which is developing the first artificial intelligence factory in Poland and integrating it with a quantum computer, one of 10 on the continent financed by a European Union program.

I don't think quantum computing currently is able to help in the AI industry, I don't think this is having any impact.

WIG20 is essentially 5 banks, 3 energy providers, clothing, small shops + Allegro + CD Projekt Red. I don't think any of this has major world impact.

szmarczak··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
I wouldn't argue that it doesn't give any benefits. However, it's not worth the current cost unless you already own RTX PRO 6000 to run any reasonable LLM. I'm using Claude Free and I'm happy with what I get, especially for the cost of $0.

I'm eagerly waiting for the prices to come down so I can upgrade my PC to AM5 and run Gemma 4.

szmarczak··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
So much for their commitment to quality: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-com...
szmarczak··on GCC 16 has been released
No because the object does not exist after std::launder. It only exists after std::start_lifetime_as. The bytes being there says nothing about the object, per the C++ standard.
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