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alberth··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
It’ll probably be 2 iPhone Airs attached with a hinge, no?
alberth··on Zed: Delta
Related HN post.

Last week, 300+ comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187256

alberth··on Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
That's actually SQLite revenue model.

https://sqlite.org/prosupport.html

alberth··on License plate reader searches should require a warrant
By that logic, should private citizens need a background check to buy a computer, since a computer could be programmed to run cyber attacks?
alberth··on Mojo 1.0
So is the language itself proprietary licensed, with standard library Apache 2?

Am I understanding the current state of things correct?

alberth··on What's the best programming language for coding agents?
I’m surprised the original source wasn’t linked to this blog.

https://dashbit.co/blog/why-elixir-best-language-for-ai

https://autocodebench.github.io/

alberth··on The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
Agreed, with NixOs - not only can you declare which packages to include, you can declare how those packages are setup.

Like setting up nginx as a package with SSL support for example.com domain, PHP working with nginx via PHP-FPM, etc.

StageX I don’t believe can do that. I believe it can only confirm that the nginx package hasn’t been tampered with.

alberth··on The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
Just to confirm my understanding, is the following corrects?

  NixOS: “Given this configuration, build me the same system again.”

  StageX: “Prove that every binary in this system came from the source code I think it did.”
Because aren’t these two very different things.
alberth··on The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
Isn’t this an apples/oranges comparison.

Nix/NixOS is fundamentally about a declarative system configuration.

And as far as I understand, StageX doesn’t have that.

alberth··on The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
Can someone explain the ramifications of this to those of us not informed.

I’m in the process of about to deploy Nixos to server workloads, but am now hesitant because I don’t understand these ramifications.

alberth··on Apple is getting this wrong
Why does the iMessage screenshot look “off”.

Something about the line-height, fonts used, etc don’t look like a real iMessage chat.

Am I alone on this?

alberth··on The myth of Snow Leopard
> As I age I realize you need to entice the user with more value and service

When companies use to charge for OS … and the releases were staggered by 3-4 years, I would have agreed.

But when OS upgrades are free, and happen yearly - there’s a different user expectation.

alberth··on Should you wash your solar panels?
OT: a friend of mine recently bought a house. They were surprised to learn at closing that the seller had financed their solar panels and that wasn’t apart of the home purchase.

So they had to negotiate who was going to pay off the solar panel, and this all had to be completed before home sale.

alberth··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
Original HN thread, 11-years ago (220 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8914956

alberth··on JetZero
Will this fit the dimensions of a typically airport gate and spacing?
alberth··on Everyone should know SIMD
That’s exactly what happened:

https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2079672171321081908#m

alberth··on Safari Technology Preview 248 Released
The team has been on a roll lately with massive fixes & improvements.

Like last months announcement of over 500 fixes.

https://webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-saf...

alberth··on Advertise in ChatGPT
What’s new here?

OpenAI launched ads nearly 6-months ago.

Here’s the HN thread with 330 comments from then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949401

alberth··on Codex Resets
Don’t think of this as super intelligence. Think of it as vendor lock-in.

We have a good compare, which is cloud in the early 2000s.

Everyone (at the time) thought cloud compute costs would go to zero.

What most corporations didn’t realize is how entrenched your workflows and processes get when you adopt cloud and you become heavily locked in that ecosystem.

That same ecosystem lock-in is what the frontier labs are hoping for with AI.

alberth··on Elixir-lang.org has a new design
Hi Jose

You’re an inspiration for many. Thank you.

I’m curious to know what your top 3 hopes for BEAM itself are for the coming years (in any area that you think would make it better).

alberth··on Elixir-lang.org has a new design
Elixir is great.

OT: I wish more funding & development effort went into BEAM itself on making it more performant.

Note: I’m not talking concurrency. I’m talking pure raw performance.

Seems like it’s been a one person show for over a decade on making it faster.

alberth··on VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool
Thanks for sharing.

How does your skills comparison to the offering from Capital One, as well,as what Visa published?

https://github.com/visa/visa-vulnerability-agentic-harness

alberth··on VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool
Since you seem informed, can you help me understand how these work.

Are they glorified markdown skill files, or something more?

alberth··on Ente – Opening Our Books
Buffer.com is famously open as well, if you like this kind of stuff.

Revenue: https://buffer.com/metrics

Expenses: https://buffer.com/transparent-pricing

Salaries of every employee (which seems like PII to me): https://buffer.com/salaries

And more: https://buffer.com/open

alberth··on OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members
Dumb question: is using the built in passkey support on my iPhone not considered “hardware-backed”, even though iPhone is using device biometrics?
alberth··on Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?
Even sillier than watching another human play soccer?

Like the World Cup.

alberth··on Show HN: Zen Mode – a global focus mode for macOS
Looks nice, congrats.

Ironically, my “Zen Mode” hack was just to use a smaller display … that way I only had room for 1-window open at a time.

alberth··on GPT-5.6
GPT-5.6 is the first model where I’ve actually frustrated to use it.

I’m explicitly telling it to do something extremely specific and it’s just not listening to me.

Eg, I gave it an image to update. The image is sized 400x200 pixels. It then generates a new image at 300x300. I explicitly state to be 400x200 in size and it won’t listen.

alberth··on Build your own vulnerability harness
Dumb question: Can someone help me understand whag it means to have a “harness” for agents (and why you need one)?

I’ve done some reading on the topic and am just not getting it.

alberth··on GPT-5.6
Maybe it’s a bug but on iOS individual paid Pro account - I can no longer see which model is being used nor select which model I want.
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