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Kamshak··on Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
Great for charts, illustrations etc, can do much more with SVG than pretty pictures. Good spatial understanding in an SVG can be really nice for model to have
Kamshak··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
They also have a wireguard VPN service called 1.1.1.1 (with WARP). My understanding is you basically VPN into a cloudflare datacenter so you don't have issues with cloudflare IPs being blocked
Kamshak··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
I'm in Spain as well and it sucks a lot. What I do now is I go thorough Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 VPN (set up on my router). Fixes the issue and there is practically no latency or bandwidth impact.
Kamshak··on Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec
Good question, they also list the same customers (create.xyz, continue.dev)
Kamshak··on Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec
It's more expensive than Gemini flash which can actually write pretty decent code (not just apply a diff). Fast AI edit application is definitely great but that's pretty expensive

Morph v3 fast: Input: $1.20 / M tokens, Output $2.70 / M tokens

Gemini 2.5 Flash: $0.30 / M tokens, Output $2.50 / M tokens

(Source: OpenRouter)

Kamshak··on Vibe coding for teams, thoughts to date
In 2-3 years once this begins to matter for a new project you can probably just put the codebase into context and the "make it DRY" prompt will work. Already works with 2-3 files.
Kamshak··on Significant performance improvements with Edge 134
Any perf improvement is great but the way they promote it seems a bit much?

1.7% faster navigation times 2% faster startup times 5% to 7% improvement in web page responsiveness

I'd say in practice a 2% faster startup time is probably barely noticeable?

Kamshak··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
If you have a job offer for 50k and a university degree you can get an EU "blue card". Went through the process and it's pretty easy, I don't think this visa is a big issue for tech workers
Kamshak··on The Great Chatbot Debate
There is also unintentional randomness due to the parallelism in inference (e.g. parallel matmuls added together on the GPU). Since it's multiplying floats every operation has rounding drift that accumulates differently depending on the order of operations. So even at temperature 0 you're not getting deterministic outputs
Kamshak··on I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously
Firebase has an auth API that is free built in, it's weird that they didn't just use it. Idk if whoever built this would have built a more secure solution with a server layer or just have a public mongo instance instead
Kamshak··on New LoRa RF distance record
no jokes allowed on HN, sorry
Kamshak··on Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers
I've done a few impulse purchases from FB / Instagram ads (a razor, two ebooks, signed up to a subscription service). I'm very happy with these purchases.

Are you saying advertising on FB/IG doesn't work in general?

Kamshak··on Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation
I was thinking the same but then browsers have caches and most of the CDNs (e.g. jsdeliver) set max-age to a year and immutable so you're only tracked once
Kamshak··on Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update
For those only reading comments, the author plans to hire a developer to address touchpad issues. You can help:

- Take the Linux Touchpad Experience Poll: https://www.gitclear.com/polls/linux_touchpad_experience

- Become a sponsor on GitHub: https://github.com/gitclear/libinput (GitHub matches every donation up to $5k, so your $5 can become $10)

- Get paid $50/hr to work on libinput: http://archive.is/FGHTT (link to archive of the original article ty danso)

Kamshak··on Wgpu-rs on the web
Even though I agree with the benefits of having control over updates seeing how popular SaaS has become I find it quite likely this will happen to (many kinds of) Apps as well.
Kamshak··on New MacBook Air
Assuming PHP you just described "a text editor and remote servers"
Kamshak··on A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments
There are for sure a few concepts you need to learn with k8s, however I wonder if it would be much shorter if you did a guide like this for manually done / bash script powered / ansible deployments
Kamshak··on I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport – It Wasn't Easy
And have not been used in the US for 6 years

(from the wikipedia article linked above)

> In the United States, the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 required that all full-body scanners operated in airports by the Transportation Security Administration use "Automated Target Recognition" software, which replaces the picture of a nude body with the cartoon-like representation.[3] As a result of this law, all backscatter X-ray machines formerly in use by the Transportation Security Administration were removed from airports by May 2013, since the agency said the vendor (Rapiscan) did not meet their contractual deadline to implement the software.[4]

Kamshak··on AMP for email is bad
> AMP does not actually make loading any faster

Every AMP link i click on google loads crazy fast. I don't know why the implementation details or google's incentivizing it would make this not count for some reason.

I don't like what amp is doing to the web either but the user experience is really good, pages do load much quicker than your average page and I find myself preferring them a lot over the uncertainty and frustration when you click other links on a bad connection

Kamshak··on Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
Same here, expected to see an open source search. Maybe you can find a better tagline :)
Kamshak··on Russ Cox’s response to “Go Is Not a Community Driven Project”
Angular for example. They even hire non Google contributors to work more closely with them and have contributors programs to include the community
Kamshak··on Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode
I think they say this specifically, grey is better to distinguish shadows but if you want to conserve energy you can go with true black.

> UIs that require efficient battery usage can use true black. In these cases, some devices (such as wearables with OLED screens) can turn off any pixels that display black to conserve battery power.

Kamshak··on Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode
What do you mean by discouragement against emulating shadows? As I read it the shadows stay the same as on the light theme. Are you referring to what they call "glows"?

> In a dark theme, components retain the same default elevation levels and shadows as components in lighter themes

It looks pretty good in the examples they give IMO. Considering that the default makes such heavy use of elevation it makes sense to keep that concept in the UI.

> Default themes use shadows to express elevation, while a dark theme also expresses elevation by adjusting the surface

Kamshak··on Docli – A declarative language for command-line interfaces in Go
Try oclif https://github.com/oclif/oclif
Kamshak··on Gmail confidential mode
This isn't for your personal E-Mail, it's for professional E-Mail via GSuite
Kamshak··on Show HN: Learn React fundamentals
I recommend you try using HMR mode, a medium sized project takes about 5 seconds to build. The stuff then updates without even needing to refresh the page, you can even store state and scroll position in between the module swapping. It really changes the way I develop a lot.
Kamshak··on Netflix to Raise Price from $11 to $13 a Month
Probably outside of the US where entrée means starter instead of main course
Kamshak··on Show HN: CSS Scan – Instantly check or copy computed CSS from any element
It has improved quite a lot, it's a joy to code in in the newest versions. You do need to invest a bit of time to learn it but it's well worth it
Kamshak··on Losing 100 pounds in 276 days
Excel
Kamshak··on How ARKit 2 works, and why Apple is so focused on AR
My brother got lenses in Hsi occulus and watches TV inside the virtual theatre a lot. It was also really sharp and nice for me. Wouldn't use it to fully replace my screen but it's really not that bad
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