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26 дней назадdiscuss

> 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.

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28 дней назадdiscuss

This is the mindset that gives you Java-Style GUIs.

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в прошлом месяцеdiscuss

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/

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2 месяца назадdiscuss

I love the recently added "In Response to Hacker News" section.

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3 месяца назадdiscuss

> "can't make 9 babies in a month"

It's "9 women can't make a baby in one month".

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4 месяца назадdiscuss

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.

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4 месяца назадdiscuss

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/how-to-downgrade-fro... describes how to downgrade.

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5 месяцев назадdiscuss

Since then, Swift also grew excellent C++ interop, something Rust doesn't have at all.

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6 месяцев назадdiscuss

It's a shame that JpegXL doesn't have a freely available spec.

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8 месяцев назадdiscuss

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.

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9 месяцев назадdiscuss

There was a ton of backlash when Glass launched. Search for "glassholes" to find articles on that topic from back then.

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11 месяцев назадdiscuss

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.

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2 года назадdiscuss

There is a native API too, not just JS. You can link it into your game like any other library.

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7 лет назадdiscuss

YouTube has been facing some form of creator backlash for years now.

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7 лет назадdiscuss

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.