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bla3
·il y a 26 jours·discuss
> I built one, by porting Boehm’s engine. > It’s 2026, so I didn’t hand-write the port. I directed Opus 4.8 to translate the source line by line into Swift

I wish I could filter out stuff like this. Cool work by Hans Boehm, but what's the value add in this blog post.
bla3
·il y a 28 jours·discuss
This is the mindset that gives you Java-Style GUIs.
bla3
·le mois dernier·discuss
I don't think they trust Gemini as they run that on-device or on-site, on Apple's own servers.

See also https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
bla3
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
I love the recently added "In Response to Hacker News" section.
bla3
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
> "can't make 9 babies in a month"

It's "9 women can't make a baby in one month".
bla3
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I like to think everyone came to the conclusion that it would strengthen the piece if most comments on it appear to miss the point and are slightly robotic.
bla3
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/how-to-downgrade-fro... describes how to downgrade.
bla3
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Since then, Swift also grew excellent C++ interop, something Rust doesn't have at all.
bla3
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
It's a shame that JpegXL doesn't have a freely available spec.
bla3
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
If they use Rust for new code and C++ changes are all in old code, this could be explained just by older code being more risky to change.
bla3
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
There was a ton of backlash when Glass launched. Search for "glassholes" to find articles on that topic from back then.
bla3
·il y a 11 mois·discuss
Why do Hunyuan, OpenAI 4o and Gwen get a pass for the octopus test? They don't cover "each tentacle", just some. And midjourney covers 9 of 8 arms with sock puppets.
bla3
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
There is a native API too, not just JS. You can link it into your game like any other library.
bla3
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
YouTube has been facing some form of creator backlash for years now.
bla3
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
If there's ever a project as large as Chrome written in a non-C++ language, I guarantee you it will have these bugs as well -- due to use of `unsafe`, or bugs in the compiler, or what have you.