alberth

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alberthon Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph

Who is Amp’s competition?

Because if I understand them correctly, aren’t they a wrapper around all the major LLMs (focused specially on developer use cases?

alberthon Scala 3 slowed us down?

To be fair, it’s misleading to group Scala (or any JVM language), with other “high-level languages.”

The JVM is extremely mature and performant, and JVM-based languages often run 5x (or more) than non-JVM high-level languages like Python or Ruby.

alberthon Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

It’s interesting that the stock market has no reaction to this news, after hours.

As of writing this, Netflix is -0.6%

alberthon Django 6

One proxy might be to look at the upvote counts for each of their respective latest release HN posts.

Eg, this post has ~50 (though only posted an hour ago)

Rails 8 had ~550

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41766515

alberthon It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

Silly question: how are people negatively impacted by the trademark of "JavaScript"?

Because in practice, isn't this a bit like "Kleenex" - where everyone knows you mean "tissue" (EMCAScript).

alberthon Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025

Doesn't -O2 still exclude any CPU features from the past ~15 years (like AVX).

If you know the architecture and oldest CPU model, we're better served with added a bunch more flags, no?

I wish I could compile my server code to target CPU released on/after a particular date like:

  -O2 -cpu-newer-than=2019

alberthon Garry Tan claims Zoho will be out of business due to vibe coding

Technology alone rarely wins a market ... success usually comes from marketing, referrals, and network effects.

It’s the same reason why vibe coding a better version of Airbnb (even if it’s just a simple CRUD app) wouldn’t actually threaten Airbnb as a business. The product isn’t the moat; the ecosystem is.

alberthon Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025

After 25-years of software development, I still wonder whether I’m using the best possible compiler flags.

alberthon Advent of Sysadmin 2025

I’d be super interested to see solutions to each, just to learn from.

alberthon I mathematically proved the best "Guess Who?" strategy [video]

Is this accurate?

Doesn’t that strategy only work in games like Clue, where everyone is trying to uncover the same hidden character?

In Guess Who, you’re identifying your opponent’s character, not a shared one, so any misdirection only hurts you … because it doesn’t generate extra signal for your opponent, so there’s no strategic benefit to misleading them.

alberthon Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

Are you primary using electron-based apps, or true native macOS apps?

Maybe I’m lucky but I run macOS daily without any problems.

(Yes, there’s annoying fit/finish issues in the UI - but no issues with stability)

alberthon An Economy of AI Agents

Traditional workflow is largely predefined & rule-based.

There’s a level of autonomy by the AI agents (it determines on its own the next step), that is not predefined.

Agreed though that there’s lots of similarities.

alberthon McDonald's is losing its low-income customers

Actual title: ”Fast food is losing its low-income customers. Economists call it a symptom of the stark wealth divide”

alberthon Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

Ternus team didn’t create M-series.

Johny Srouji team did instead.

https://www.apple.com/leadership/johny-srouji/

https://www.apple.com/leadership/john-ternus/

alberthon Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components

How does their attempt to acquire ARM (and failed) impact this?

alberthon Zed is our office

I love Zed’s minimal design language ... clean, restrained colors, low visual noise.

The screenshot below surprised me:

https://zed.dev/img/post/zed-is-our-office/this-week.webp

All the colorful avatars and the busy side/top panels feel out of character with the usual Zed aesthetics.

alberthon Zed is our office

Can you share more on this.

While I do not work at Zed, I'm curious to hear more about this use case for my own company needs.

alberthon Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet

As an aside, I've been using TSA Touchless at select airports.

It's pretty slick.

No ID, nor Board Pass needed.

Just walk up to TSA, and only facial recognition is needed. It's extremely fast too.

https://www.tsa.gov/touchless-id

alberthon FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

Similar event happened 2-years ago, but with Microsoft

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39912916

alberthon Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel

> It is written in SPARK and Ada, and is comprised of 100% free software.

I thought SPARK was a paid (not free) license. Am I mistaken?

Very cool project btw.

alberthon Ruby already solved my problem

Not knowing python, I find the data classes example extremely readable. More so than Ruby example.

alberthon Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API

Any chance this is related to Agentic Commerce, and Amazon wanting to protect their moat?

alberthon Why we migrated from Python to Node.js

I often see people complain about how async is implemented in certain languages or frameworks - are there any examples where people actually like how async was designed or handled?

alberthon The Louvre's CCTV password was "Louvre"

CCTV have internet access?

Isn’t this suppose to be a “closed-circuit”.

alberthon State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions

mitchellh says no plan to support Sixel:

https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/1985432954089455856#m

alberthon Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports"

Source link indicating PEP 810 was accepted:

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-explicit-lazy-imports/1...

alberthon Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength

I wonder if it’s more intuitive that way.

Like what Apple does with stopwatch.