ch_sm

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The Metaverse Fever-Dream

5 pointsby ch_smletzten Monat0 comments

AI is a technology not a product

daringfireball.net

480 pointsby ch_smvor 2 Monaten209 comments

Show HN: Access OPFS from multiple tabs using a fake Shared Worker

2 pointsby ch_smvor 2 Monaten1 comments

Republicans haul Netflix before Congress for being ‚woke'

13 pointsby ch_smvor 5 Monaten5 comments

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vorgesterndiscuss

the point the article makes is good (albeit not new). the style sounds very LLM to me.

vor 11 Tagendiscuss

>The way royalties get assigned is based on a percentage of your listening versus your monthly payment. For example, spend an entire month listening to Taylor Swift’s new album, she gets the entire royalty share. But if you listen to the album 100 times but then listen to lofi beats 900 times, Taylor only gets 10%.

Not sure about Tidal, but that’s not how it works on Spotify. Instead, artists get paid per stream — about 0.003$. Anything from you the pool of your monthly payment allocated for royalties that you did not use gets distributed proportionally between the artists with the most streams. So say:

- I pay 10$ a month - 5$ of that is reserved for royalties - I listen to 330 songs a month (~ 1$) - 4$ remain in the pot and are paid to the most popular artists

letzten Monatdiscuss

So to summarise: diversity, forced on the UK by some weird world order, is the reason for Britain’s economic decline. World-class analysis. Got it. Thanks.

letzten Monatdiscuss

I don’t know. Em-dashes are normal punctuation. The prose on the site doesn‘t strike me as particularly AI-y, but of course I might be wrong. Generally speaking, if the person wants to not use AI and tell people that, thats fine by me too.

letzten Monatdiscuss

It was a good ad. But also, Mac OS X at the time was so vastly and obviously ahead of Windows, it was a very natural choice if your circumstances allowed it (IMHO etc). It really really didn‘t break Microsoft. They were, and are still, more than fine.

letzten Monatdiscuss

can‘t speak to compatibility with this new model, but oMLX supports MTP drafters very well.

letzten Monatdiscuss

The article is quite superficial. Yes, too coarse means weak or sour, and too fine means heavy and bitter - most espresso lovers know this. Where are the x-rays, CTs and details?

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

> You cannot just switch an entire country's energy source on a finger snap

no one is suggesting that

> nor do we have a viable alternative for making nitrogen based fertilizer

nor is anyone suggesting that

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

https://archive.is/We6GM

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Isn‘t Iran a good counter-example? Heavily sanctioned, huge uprisings.

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

gemma4 has a specific problem with toolcalls that affects most runtimes. fixes for ollama and vllm are being worked on right now

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Hi all!

I wanted to share a library I wrote that I think is needed to make OPFS actually useful.

For context, OPFS is the Origin Private File System, giving your app a orgin-scoped high performance file system, ideal for stuff like sqlite or data intensive local-first apps.

However, if you have multiple windows or tabs, using the same FileHandle will break your app, since there can only be one FileHandle per file.

This library attempts to fix this by doing some MessagePort acrobatics between tabs, and keeps only one worker alive managing access to the file system.

It’s informed by this discussion on wa-sqlite: https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite/discussions/81

Hope somebody will find this useful!

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

hey! Great job on this, dashersw. I‘ve believed for a while now that the compile time dependency analyzer approach is the only good way for frameworks like this. Really neat choices on the API surface as well – so simple! Launching with a headless UI lib is smart. will try both in a side project soon! thanks and cheers!

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

> Safari is still working on pulling theirs back up.

not sure about this take, given that chrome‘s rendering engine was famously based on Safari‘s - WebKit - before they forked it (Blink). V8 was indeed faster than Safari‘s JS engine at the time. However, today, Safari is objectively faster in both rendering (WK) and JS performance (JSCore).

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

I see your point, but that is definitely not the only cause of American economic dominance. The U.S. has been the largest economy by GDP since ca 1900 – i.e. before the wars.

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Really? I always thought it was London in 1801. Do you have a link to the data?

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

> Huh? Every EV uses recuperative braking, how is this special to Tesla?

It‘s not. But there are some newer EVs (e.g. Mercedes and VW) that track brake usage and will periodically switch to using the disk brakes when there‘s danger of corrosion.

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

  Location: Austria
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  Technologies: TypeScript, React and similar, Docker & friends, Postgres & MySQL, Integration- and End-to-End-testing, Node.js, Linux, Golang, Figma,
  Résumé/CV: arni.at/cv.pdf
  Email: arnold <dot> graf [at] gmail (dot) com

Hi! I’m a Senior Software Engineer and project manager with over 16 years experience in the industry. Full Stack, with a strong focus on the front end side of things.

I’ve co-founded and led a music and messaging focused start up as the CTO for 5 years — from the first MVP until it got acquired in 2019.

I’m very much a product builder with a keen eye for detail and UX, a strong sense of responsibility and ownership. As a team leader I consider myself empathetic and pragmatic.

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

just as a little side note: while it really isn‘t regarded as a typical mac game nowadays, Halo was originally planned as a Mac-exclusive, before Microsoft bought Bungie. If memory servese me right, Jobs even presented it as an exclusive at some MacWorld or Expo.

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

their site says it’s 90% efficient [0], which is impressive, but I agree, still sub-optimal for large scale installations.

The other thing is that it needs to be perfectly aligned. If you can’t be bothered to plug in a cable, can you be bothered to align your SUV in your garage perfectly with a charge pad?

[0] https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2025/products/porsche-wirele...