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conceptmeon WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine

Bake me a cake

responds with

> Error: Cannot initialize runtime because of requested maxStorageBuffersPerShaderStage exceeds limit. requested=10, limit=9.

conceptmeon The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services

Look at this Ikea sells handblown glass on industrial scale the tv program went on a research how it was done on such a scale.

https://youtu.be/w1AadRupGQ0?si=pzY0fS4nbh_JcUFi&t=82

conceptmeon Git rebase -i is not that scary

Annotated tags have their own commit I believe that is ehy you should use annotated tags for release tags.

conceptmeon Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab

18 month job hunt is pretty rough, I get that he really wanted this but for most people with "normal" lives outside work this would be a very risky move.

conceptmeon GTA 6 Developers Unionize

Roblox does not have a small userbase all kids are on it

conceptmeon Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

because privatisation

conceptmeon PHP's Oddities

Basically every other language has the same functionality (or better) as a hashmap.

conceptmeon Why TUIs are back

Why can't you use cli over ssh? I mean you could even do gui id you really wanted to.

conceptmeon Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

absolute banger :D

conceptmeon Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

you can just navigate to the full linux desktop on the steamdeck?

conceptmeon Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity

a UI library needs some demo

conceptmeon Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

Games

conceptmeon Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies

because there is no proper UI library that does cross platform as well as the web

conceptmeon SierraDB: A distributed event store built in Rust

Does it also have snapshot capabilities, as mostly over time it becomes very difficult to replay events due to the shear amount of them.

conceptmeon Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons

this app kinda fits with the asian parents meme

conceptmeon Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"

You could also bicycle to the stop? It's not really practicle to cover any rural location 1km apart with a bus stop.

conceptmeon Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

Linux?

conceptmeon The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust

The complexity with debugging and maintenance seem to be overlooked, if you have the option don't do this.

conceptmeon Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store

If it fits in memory why choose for cqrs with kafka in the first place?

conceptmeon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

Samsung and apple?

conceptmeon A love letter to the CSV format

The worst thing about CSV is Excel using localization to choose the delimiter: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/csv-f...

The second worst thing is that the escape character cannot be determined safely from the document itself.

conceptmeon When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)

A long time ago I started working at this company and I fat fingered 'rm -rf /' instead with a dot.

When realizing what I had done and it was taking too long I powered off the machine. When I told the sysops he looked horrified and asked me how far it got.

The fun thing was all websites and data where mounted from the server to each workstation to make it easy to update source code.

conceptmeon 22% Drop in Programming Jobs

and how many software engineers, in my eyes they are still the same thing :P but I am old.

conceptmeon Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?

added new terms of use which are very questionable: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b...

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/fi...

conceptmeon Warp terminal – no more login required

Can it split windows too and have some simple way to select the content?

conceptmeon Strandbeest

Before they used wooden tires

conceptmeon Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring

Other goals can be performance, testability

conceptmeon Llama-agents: an async-first framework for building production ready agents

It does not sound very specific "stuff" like the orchestration, any other queues needs to deal with assigning work?

conceptmeon How Netflix really uses Java

Is there any reason they don't adopt kotlin? It seems a lot simpeler with suspended functions and coroutines?Instead of RXJava.

conceptmeon In Europe, trains are full, and more are on the way

I think trains amd especially the rails mostly are funded through other ways (government/ taxes) something which americans are not too fond of.