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wild_pointer··on Saving another 100TB of RAM
Nah, AI code is black or white, and whether the code is good depends on your religion.
wild_pointer··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Same here, not using firefox because of worse compatibility (maybe not their fault, many devs only test in chrome) and weaker security (maybe not their fault, they don't have as much money). I appreciate the people who do and help diversify the ecosystem though.
wild_pointer··on Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online
Legend
wild_pointer··on AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?
Betteridge's law strikes again
wild_pointer··on Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML
Honestly more than I thought
wild_pointer··on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
+1, works well enough
wild_pointer··on RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
If it's an actual bug, I hope the Linux devs will. It impacted a human, and it's a bug regardless of human or non-human touch. Of course, looking at a bug is a matter of priority, always has been.
wild_pointer··on RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
That I agree with (not instead, in addition)
wild_pointer··on RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
PoC||GTFO, if it reproduces, it's valuable
wild_pointer··on RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
wow, everything is broken lol
wild_pointer··on Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]
> That’s subjective obviously. Some folks swear by type systems like Rust’s to catch as many issues as possible. That’s just not how I roll.

Yeah, I like it. I also like not caring about dangling pointers, UAF, and other things, not even because of security. These are just bugs that are not fun to debug.

But I get the appeal of the freedom of C++. Especially if you deal with FFI and low level stuff, Rust either forces you to write safe wrappers (good investment long-term, but not fun to do), or just use lots of unsafe, in which case there's no benefit.

This, and there's also cargo which is convenient.

> When I write new code in Fil-C, I just lean into the GC all the way, which makes programming in C and C++ so much nicer.

Then it's no longer C/C++. More like C++/CLI maybe. And it probably gets tricky with FFI. Anyway, keep it up on making the world a safer place :)

wild_pointer··on Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]
Let's not shy away then. What details do you disagree on?

P.S. Also fan of your work. Competition is always good.

wild_pointer··on Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter
Trust
wild_pointer··on Ante: A new way to blend borrow checking and reference counting
That's what I thought too when I first saw it. But then I actually took a moment to read it and eventually changed my mind.
wild_pointer··on There Is Life Before Main in Rust
I thought it was about prehistoric Rust before the main branch was created :)
wild_pointer··on Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)
There should be 2 options for speed, regular and sped up. Then there should be a key to speed the game up. When I was a kid, it was the space key for GBA. You could have the normal game and skip the boring parts fast.
wild_pointer··on Coreutils for Windows
It's a GNU Coreutils command.

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dir-...

wild_pointer··on Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
Not that spammers couldn't do without this feature, but advertising it as a service is kinda weird.
wild_pointer··on GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
pseudoanonymous, meaning not anonymous? lol
wild_pointer··on Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++
What about cmkr?

https://cmkr.build/

wild_pointer··on PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
Looking at the title, I was confused why a recommendation of some random PC gamer is interesting. Capitalization is important.
wild_pointer··on Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI
Hilarious, some of them are easy with the keyboard
wild_pointer··on XML Is a Cheap DSL
It's not so cheap, in terms of maintenance and mental load
wild_pointer··on Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly
* The tool is truly amazing. Both for simple usage, and the advanced queries that it accepts. Very powerful, like a command line tool.

* As another comment says, v1.5 alpha has many advantages. Despite the alpha label, I find it to be very stable.

* Several software integrations exist: https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6326, I mostly like being able to see folder sizes instantly in explorer. I used xplorer2 in the past, which has a plugin, but I went back to native explorer, which has a Windhawk mod, feels like what Microsoft should have done: https://windhawk.net/mods/explorer-details-better-file-sizes

wild_pointer··on A simulation where life unfolds in real time
Hey, I remember this Black Mirror episode!
wild_pointer··on Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
Listen team lead and the whole team, make this button red.
wild_pointer··on Vietnam bans unskippable ads
ubiquitous? "Vienam" (with quotes) shows this page as the first result.
wild_pointer··on Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop
OK.
wild_pointer··on Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal
I wonder how much of it is due to the model being familiar with the game or parts of it, be it due to training of the game itself, or reading/watching walkthroughs online.
wild_pointer··on Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop
9/10 for originality. 2/10 for usefulness.

Not bashing, that's how good ideas are found. But not this time IMO :)

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