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utf_8x··on Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
Maybe that wouldn't be the worst thing. Maybe chrome capturing the majority of the iOS market would finally be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back and pushes regulators towards forcing Google to sell Chrome.
utf_8x··on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly
Holy crap, a local-only app with one-time purchase *and* a free demo? You don't see that very often these days
utf_8x··on Can your terminal do emojis? How big?
Oh god, please don't give them ideas
utf_8x··on Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes
Any particular reason why this runs outside the cluster?
utf_8x··on Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs
On my M2 Air:

508ms with caching, 1090ms with `--no-cache`

But as others already mentioned, optimizing this seems to be pretty high priority...

utf_8x··on Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools (2024)
And the sky is blue
utf_8x··on Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 has 96GB of VRAM and 600W of power
While there are definitely physical limits, the core limitation here is greed. They would sell less cards. Same reason why their consumer cards are limited to ridiculously low amounts of VRAM (16GB on an RTX5080, only 8 on the RTX4060, etc) so if you want to do any serious AI you have to buy their overpriced enterprise cards.
utf_8x··on There's little proof flossing protects your teeth or gums (2016)
Bit off-topic but interestingly the title of the article is "There's little proof flossing protects your teeth or gums" but when you, for example, send the link to somebody over (insert your favorite instant messenger with link previews), the title in the preview changes to a much more clickbait-y "Is flossing a waste of time?"
utf_8x··on Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights
You don't need FAA approval if you cancel the FAA...
utf_8x··on What happens to SaaS in a world with computer-using agents?
So is "AI Agents" something the community has settled on or is this a Google-ism? I remember people arguing about this some time ago with no definitive answer.
utf_8x··on Show HN: Polaris, a self-hosted music streaming server in Rust
Slightly off-topic I suppose but is there any open-source music server that supports streaming to AirPlay devices? The only truly functional solution I've seen so far is Roon which is $15 per month or $830 one-off purchase, both of which are out of my budget.
utf_8x··on Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot
Despite not being mentioned directly, the car is almost certainly manual so in case something like that happens, you can just shift to neutral (or even just press the clutch)
utf_8x··on A web app to read Latin texts with inline translations
TIL the sentence structure of Latin is wild
utf_8x··on FerretDB: Use PostgreSQL with MongoDB Drivers
Personally, not many, my main gripe is the whole SSPL rugpull making it effectively not truly open-source anymore...
utf_8x··on FerretDB: Use PostgreSQL with MongoDB Drivers
I'm in no way affiliated with this project, I just think it's neat... Seems like a good alternative for projects that are built on MongoDB but don't like what the company behind it is doing these days...
utf_8x··on Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE
I never got the appeal of having the AI directly in your editor, I've tried Copilot and whatever JetBrains are calling their assistant and I found it mostly just got in the way. So for me it's no AI in editor and ChatGPT in a browser for when I do need some help.
utf_8x··on Show HN: Routing24 – Free route optimization in the browser
This is awesome! Any plans to open-source it? I would love to get involved.
utf_8x··on New Mac Mini with M4
Yes and no, depends on what you play.

I've been semi-lightweight gaming on my M1 MacBook Pro with some level of success...

Games that are optimised to run on Apple Silicon natively mostly run great (No Man's Sky easily pushes 120FPS at "almost-maxed-out" settings at native resolution and looks amazing on the built-in display).

Games running in rosetta also work well. The performance hit of Rosetta is only a couple percent.

Less demanding games such as Minecraft, Factorio, various MMOs, etc. will all run very well.

For Windows-only games, Parallels works shockingly well. I can run Skyrim with 3rd party shaders at 60 FPS without any issues in Parallels.

There is no 1st party support for SteamVR. You can supposedly get it working with some older Vive models. I couldn't get my Quest 2 working, even in Parallels. Some games with aggressive (rootkit) Anti-Cheats will probably also not work.

utf_8x··on New Mac Mini with M4
My M1 MacBook Pro (the first one in the new chassis) can easily drive my 250 Ohm DT 990 Pro to uncomfortable loudness so it should indeed be fine for 99% of headphones. I've been told it also drives 600 Ohm headphones just fine.
utf_8x··on Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus
Not to be confused with Oodle[1]

[1] https://www.radgametools.com/oodle.htm

utf_8x··on NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025
> In 2021 Russian state-owned news service TASS published accusations from an anonymous source

Ah yes, because TASS has a very long track record of being a reliable and objective source

utf_8x··on A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4
Disables Swap and Zram, gets OOM killed, surprised pikachu face

Joking aside, is there an actual legitimate reason to do this on a workstation? I understand why you would want to disable swap on something like a kubernetes cluster node but in my head, heaving at-least zram enabled is a good thing on a workstation so you *don't* get OOM killed... I call on thee, Linux wizards of HN, to help me understand the reasoning behind this.

utf_8x··on Jqjq: Jq Implementation of Jq
Every day we stray further from God.

jk, this is amazing

utf_8x··on Ask HN: What took you from being a good programmer to a great one?
Absolutely this, ditching MonoGame for my videogame pet project and instead building my own (micro-)engine from scratch taught me so much.
utf_8x··on Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch
It's most likely around 30% which seems to be the norm for stores like this
utf_8x··on Bevy XPBD: A physics engine for the Bevy game engine
`TypeError - Cannot convert argument to a ByteString because the character at index 14 has a value of 283 which is greater than 255.`

That's the second Netlify app I've seen crashing like this after being linked from HN this week... Strangely enough, archive.is was able to scrape the site just fine without an error[0]

[0] https://archive.is/557mo

utf_8x··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
I've been working on a videogame project for the better part of a year now (a construction and management sim inspired by Factorio, Stardew Valley and similar games, combining concepts and mechanics from all of them), writing my own engine on top of SDL2.

It's not the most original idea and I doubt it will ever actually see the light of day but the main point of this project was to get into C++ (coming from Java) and I think it served its purpose very well.

In reality it didn't cost me anything but I technically "wasted" many thousands of dollars of my time on it...

utf_8x··on Ask HN: What is your preferred/most commonly used stack and why?
Architecture - microservices mostly connected through GraphQL and gRPC (certificate based auth is the shit)

Languages - Java for backend, pure JS for frontend

Frameworks - Spring Boot on backend, pure React on frontend (I like to keep it simple)

Infrastructure - Mostly k8s (with helm to make life easier), Nix for more complex stuff

Databases - Postgres, Mongo, Redis, Elastic... Really depends on use-case...

utf_8x··on Thieves Stole $40M of Copper by Spray-Painting Rocks in Turkey
Ea-nasir back at it again
utf_8x··on No YAML
Yeah, YAML is pretty bad but...

Is there really a better alternative? JSON is a horrible format for configuration, KDL is a cute idea in theory but in practice it makes me want to gouge my own eyes out, CUE is... weird, XML and INI should've been dead for years and TOML is just INI on meth...

At least JSON and YAML are somewhat interoperable (JSON is valid YAML* and converting YAML to JSON is trivial) and have native support in most modern languages...

* with some caveats

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