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KolmogorovComp··on Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser
because open-source is mostly not a multiplicator anymore. The bottleneck in most cases is maintainer's review time, not contributions.
KolmogorovComp··on A Modern Web App in C
Are you comparing their one-person project to nginx? Linux is written in C and out-of-bounds bugs are still found.
KolmogorovComp··on Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser
This is one of the first actually enjoyable vibe-coded game I've seen so far, because it is not so buggy and for once performance is acceptable on Safari.
KolmogorovComp··on A Modern Web App in C
Sadly it doesn’t look like the server is source-avalaible, so we could count the number of security issues included. There is a reason why C is not used for web servers today.
KolmogorovComp··on An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki
Great in-depth article, as always from `animationobsessive`.

> he got into alt comics in the orbit of Métal Hurlant, a foreign magazine

This is just a strange phrasing, why not just say it was French? Especially considering the next sentence being

> Meanwhile, an American comic from (...)

Seems to be a case of American-centered view "me vs the rest of the world". Or if it is depicted from Miyazaki point of view, it should be clarified.

KolmogorovComp··on QGIS: No A contributions permitted
I agree with fellow commenter, now with LLM the forks will NOT been distinguished as much by their technical differences/features as their trustworthiness (which is already the case today, but tomorrow will be skewed even more). Massively increasing inertia and favouring initial/well-known work/founder/team.
KolmogorovComp··on QGIS bans AI assisted contributions
I'm purely focusing on the effectiveness of the measure keeping the open-source ecosystem alive, not discussing much about fairness.

The current contributors are already massively skewed towards people with more ressources and time and 75% of the world, so I do not expect a sharp decrease in contributions.

KolmogorovComp··on QGIS: No AI contributions permitted
Expanding on that, the issue is aggravating the maintainers bottleneck, because how do you find new maintainers if you do not accept outside contributions?

Another option would be to make a contributor pay for the review of its PR, even a small fee, to deter AI-slop, at least for new contributors. It could/would exclude students or people with the lowest wage though, but I'm optimistic even a 1$ bill or less would be enough.

KolmogorovComp··on QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions
I think this is the end of open-contributions, the maintainers already having too much on their plate.

Plus it is becoming exceedingly rare of finding a contributor that save time, as in can do better than the maintainer itself using LLM and reviewing it itself.

KolmogorovComp··on AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic
I can only recommend Strougastky brothers books’, I enjoyed ‘Hard to Be a God’ and wish to read more from them.

That is why I find the prospect of spoiling the plot without warning to be bad taste and didn’t finish the article.

KolmogorovComp··on Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust
how's bootstrapping rust story nowadays?
KolmogorovComp··on Gitframes
The readme is too busy, but the video showcase is impressive [0].

I agree the framing is too arrogant though, about replacing blender etc, except if it's delegating the computing to those, because it is very complicated.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6IQNrhJJek

KolmogorovComp··on Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
This news is typically interesting only because of who made it, not what, so I'm surprised to see pop it up here.

It's only of interest in baseball-invested USians, for the rest of us, no intellectual curiosity.

KolmogorovComp··on AI Makes Me Sad
> It sounds like people around me are throwing themselves at the machine, volunteering to make themselves obsolete

As a programmer, I cannot let myself be sad for that. Because making other people jobs’ obsolete has been our bread and butter since the beginning of the field.

As a human being, I cannot watch myself in the mirror loathing about the consequences of stuff I have happily inflicted to so many others, without feeling cynical and egoistic.

I don’t know the answer regarding what to do, besides investing and hoping for policies that would make people standard of living mostly independent from their job *if* we all become redundant.

KolmogorovComp··on Pi 1.0
For me terminal use is a must because I want my harness to run in VMs, headless server etc.
KolmogorovComp··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
yes, will you also be providing the caching server? Because that's the main blocker I think, nobody has the resources to cache them.
KolmogorovComp··on Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0
Does it mean that when switching trop sha1 to sha256 you need to forcepush and rewrite all history? Wouldn’t that be a massive source of potential vulnerabilities?
KolmogorovComp··on Show HN: I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app
this is unbearably slow and unusable on Safari.
KolmogorovComp··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
Is there any software that can take raw footage from 360deg cameras that are now sprolling, identify businesses without websites, opening hours etc, and pre-fill them? With the user only having to validate.

A foot-carried google street car if you want.

KolmogorovComp··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
Thanks, I feel the article should have said that
KolmogorovComp··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
> Do NOT use search results for social media profiles

This seems a bit outdated as many restaurants/shops now consider they FB/insta page as their "official" website (or rather lack of).

KolmogorovComp··on Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
I wonder if instead of an alternative frontend, coordinated scrappers was investigated as the solution, the benefit being partial access still available when the defense step up.
KolmogorovComp··on Site Is Closed on Sundays
Why does a kid in primary school need a phone in the first place?
KolmogorovComp··on GPT-6 Astra
GPT-7 Zeneca
KolmogorovComp··on Audacity 4.0
Looks like most of the timeline editing feature could be successfully ported to Kdenlive (FOSS for video-editing)
KolmogorovComp··on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
> Minimax H3 locally on my 12Gb 4070RTX

Minimax H3 is about 240Gb alone, how do you do? How much quantised is it, and how good are the results?

KolmogorovComp··on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency
Will this be cheaper than DS4flash ?
KolmogorovComp··on How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
> As such, I just pay with credit and have never understood this argument.

Because the merchant pass the higher processing cost to all customers.

KolmogorovComp··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
Just also make compagnies liable about any unpatched security issues for hardware newer than X years.
KolmogorovComp··on AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
It used to be the same with assembly. Programmers complained the one generated by compilers was not pretty, but now in 99.999% of the cases, it does not matter because nobody look at it.
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