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aghuang··on Memory Management, Explained Simply (Part 3)
Nice video and explanations. Recommend!
aghuang··on Herdr has released native app
> Getting locked into a product that is pressured to achieve VC returns and thus becomes enshittified. There is no moat here and it's painfully obvious that open source will win in this category in the long term.

Herdr is...open source? and is also compatible with the free software principles. So where is the "lock in"?

You have not answered how will Herdr (and others) fund themselves to maintain the project without some form of sustainable funding without VC funding?

Not that I support VC funding per se, but without meaningful donations to support the maintainers, this is usually what they end up doing.

aghuang··on Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard
Very cool, would really like one
aghuang··on Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices
I found the website to be quite nauseating to look at, so I decided to use the GitHub link instead.

But it's quite impressive that it works on QEMU, POCO X5 Pro 5G and some Xiaomi devices too.

Website is here: https://hackios-web.vercel.app/en

Source Code: https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel

aghuang··on WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
Was thinking the same thing. I just run my usual terminal and get to work.
aghuang··on EA is shutting down BioWare
Always played BioWare's games including Mass Effect.

Such as shame.

aghuang··on EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
This probably has an unimaginable blast radius of existing software out there.
aghuang··on Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
Enterprise ready. Coming soon in Q4.
aghuang··on Context Language Models
Looks great!
aghuang··on I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records
What was the process in this?
aghuang··on Meta VR Glasses
agreed. would be nice to see the size of the meta glasses and the reviews first before considering to purchase.
aghuang··on Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps
Was looking for something like this. Thanks for the recommendation!
aghuang··on US military reveals it has weapons in space
Situations like this just get unfortunately more worse as time goes on. Just more escalation which is not good.
aghuang··on The Downside of Robot Solutionism
Not everything should use robots. Why?
aghuang··on The "omarchy" stuff is getting weird and weirder
What does this have to do with omarchy?
aghuang··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
Agents are getting better at copying humans.
aghuang··on Codeveloper of Ethernet Predecessor Dies at 91
RIP.
aghuang··on The next SolarWinds will be an AI security vendor
100% agree with this, won't take long to as we just saw with the huggingface hack.
aghuang··on Optimizing SQLite for Servers (2024)
Not sure if this is a good idea.
aghuang··on Simple Is Not Small
Simple never means it is easy and it is always the biggest misconception in software.
aghuang··on If a startup worth your career
I see, will check as well.
aghuang··on A Figma clone built by GPT-6 Astra
More info from the author in this tweet: https://x.com/wieslawsoltes/status/2096360873270837346

The output is quite astonishing and makes me wonder if Figma and pure software companies could be in trouble with GPT-6 Astra vibecoding full working clones of products in minutes.

aghuang··on Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
It depends on what parts of statistics is being taught and the application of each of the leanings and how it relates to the real world.

More generally, I would buy a statistics if it is linked to today's interesting technological breakthroughs and also if it comes as a distilled version for beginners.

aghuang··on Thank you for being part of the GitHub Classroom journey
Is there a reason why GitHub classroom is going?
aghuang··on RSA-260
The context is that a factorization was found for RSA-260 on September 3rd.

"RSA-260 has 260 decimal digits (862 bits) and was factored by Eric Lu on September 3, 2026"

The original post can be found here: https://x.com/penlume/status/2095372672356212876

aghuang··on Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal
Thought this would happen and would work out. Must have been a disagreement on more than just the price.

Only Stripe knows.

aghuang··on Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in 'Transformers,' Dies at 85
Neither did I, RIP.
aghuang··on The Feeling of Power (Asimov, 1958)
Would like to know the thoughts of others around this book who are looking at this in 2026 vs 2009.
aghuang··on Git at any scale
Interesting, wonder how Cursor will scale with Git with this approach.
aghuang··on What's in a PowerPoint File?
> A PowerPoint file is a ZIP package containing XML files and binary assets.

> It stores all the properties you set in a PowerPoint presentation, and tries to organize them into separate files to avoid repetition and make things easier to locate.

Very informative read overall.

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