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Is this affecting only people using Cursor or all VS Code users? The article specifically mentions the Cursor marketplace. But the affected version is indeed missing on the official VS Code marketplace, was it compromised too?

Tried it removing the pixelated in the Dev tools. It looks like an old Win32 app running on 150% or 200% HiDPI scaled Windows with slightly blurry text. In any case much better than irregular pixelated scaling.

Inconsistent? I feel the opposite. Right now, every app seems to have its own UI design. Back then, most apps were native Win32: maybe ugly, maybe too serious, somewhat limiting, but mostly consistent. And relatively fast, despite running out of a spinning HDD and a single-core CPU.

It's because it's basically a fully emulated PC running Windows 95. It's not a recreation of Encarta for the web, which would me much nicer IMHO.

And PovRay, Super Pi and some other stuff...

Actually, I didn't know that one could ship a pre-booted OS inside the emulator.

Yes and no. It was pixelated, not irregular and ugly. Here is bad quality rescaling at work.

It's not a VM, as far as I understand. Possibly OTVDM.

That's quite blocking for a phone ;-) But this sounds so cool if it's going to work!

It's the Go version of it, I think.

Well, then not at all...

> WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted

Don't forget that metadata is not encrypted, so Meta know who you are writing to, who writes to you, who your contacts are, all the usage pattens of the app, and more metadata (not sure if it's still the case, but a few years ago WhatsApp even uploaded the battery state of your phone to Meta).

There's still a difference between a person deciding to share one or a bunch of messages they receive --usually I know the people I write to, so I know more or less what to expect-- and systematically uploading received message to some AI. Fine if they do it locally, not fine if the messages I write end up at Google, OpenAI or anybody else.

The article says that "even a 3.3GHz quad-core Xeon “isn’t quite enough to run Shadow Warrior at full 1600 by 1200”." But we are on DOS, so I guess three cores are just not doing anything there?

What about actual cameras? I still have to see one with a LiDAR.

Running apps that require a phone and are not available for Linux, without putting them on your actual smartphone (if any)

I thought that the dripping rainbow ones were enough. Maybe you have to ask for rainbow unicorns flying on the screen.

There's also much more recent research where you can actually track the position of people by the changes to the Wifi signal. Passive monitoring only, no device involved. See https://github.com/Saad-Imtiaz/WiFi-Sense for example (first thing I found by looking up now, never tried myself).

Isn't it rather detecting UWB or pings from NFB reader? But at least the latter should work also do detect Android phones (see also https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1jsr9jv/eavesdroppi...).

About L-Glucose: according to Wikipedia, "the authors state that it is not usable as a sweetener due to laxative effects."

Knowledge and intelligence are not the same, although there might be some link.

again today on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857442

> they also seem significantly smarter than older generations.

They seem or they are? In many places, statistically, they're actually NOT smarter. It's the other way around.

https://cepr.harvard.edu/news/2026/05/why-us-test-scores-are... https://time.com/article/2026/05/16/student-test-scores-read...

Some people believe that there's the CIA is behind Signal.

Sure (I already worked with lidars before they were in phones ;-)), I had just understood that the proposal was to just not sign the images coming from a flat surface like a screen, which of course can have unintended effects.

What if the camera doesn't give you an original but just a signed image?

And then? What if the flat surface is a wall showing cracks and it's the photo that should have been signed?

Maybe it should include depth info in the image instead.

I still think to Hayes AT commands almost every time I see an article about the AT protocol, thinking "who is still using analog phone modems"?

So nice to see such projects! Thank you for doing that.

> It's okay to consider the firmware part of the "bare metal", IMHO.

On a PC I would think so. Using UEFI is not much less bare metal as using BIOS calls, at least. OTOH on an embedded device it would already sound so much less bare metal... I find it's a tricky question.

Thanks, I didn't think about the possibility it might have been something else as Latin...

comment by him on a podcast [1]: "Started doing the 3-line comments just for visual appeal, became an iconic part of Laravel over time. And then I just kept rolling with it, and it became like a a [sic] Laravel meme of sorts."

[1] https://syntax.fm/show/824/taylor-otwell-s-opinions-on-php-r...