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cornedoron Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust

You can get pretty far by using importmaps, you would not have treeshaking or a single bundled file, but it works pretty well. JSDoc can be used to add types to your project (that can be typechecked using typescript). I'm currently building a hobby project using preact, htm and jspm for packages. It's pretty nice to just start building without starting a build tool, having to wait for it to finish, make sure it's not crashed etc. But indeed, I won't use this for production.

The only thing I'm still missing is an offline JSPM/esm.sh.

cornedoron Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden

You should be able to buy one, and pick it up in Sweden.

https://www.eccnet.eu/consumer-rights/what-are-my-consumer-r...

cornedoron Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden

They were already available since they started selling to the first EU country. As an EU citizen, you have the right[1] to purchase a product from any EU country. Geo-blocking is often prohibited. They now only ship to those countries as well, so you don't have to pick it up from another EU country.

[1]: https://www.eccnet.eu/consumer-rights/what-are-my-consumer-r...

cornedoron Google is overhauling search results with AI overviews and Gemini organization

If you’re willing to pay, Kagi. They include AI features, but they are optional. I did no real research, but I barely get typical AI generated results when I search for something.

cornedoron Caniwebview.com – Like Caniuse but for Webviews

https://caniuse.com/

An overview of features that are supported in browsers

cornedoron Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices

Not exactly the same, but rt.com is banned in the EU. However, I don't know how effective it is, since I can still visit it.

cornedoron See a Fish? Ring the Bell

> But anyhow, this sort of project.. even if announced today

It has indeed been on and off since March 2021. This project could've been set up in no time, put a camera underwater, start the live stream, and set up the basic website. Building an AI will take way longer, with much more technical skills required, and much more money.

cornedoron Show HN: Detecting adblock, without JavaScript, by abusing HTTP 103 responses

Can this also be solved by completely blocking early hints?

cornedoron OpenAI GPT-4 vs. Groq Mistral-8x7B

According to Sam Altman in a podcast with Lex Fridman this week, there is no real indication that it will be dropped this year. They will release a new model, but it might not be GPT-5

cornedoron OpenAI GPT-4 vs. Groq Mistral-8x7B

Why tough? To me, it seems more prone to issues (hallucinations, prompt injections etc). It is also slower and more expensive at the same time. I also think it is harder to implement properly, and you need to add way more tests in order to be confident it works.

cornedoron Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law

Yes you can. See for example https://plausible.io/, which does analytics without using cookies, and without collecting any personal data.

cornedoron Vox: Alpha open-source browser engine in V

> Although regardless, I don't think it's an amazing comparison tool, being that most of the web uses JS.

Add to that that most features to render Hacker News correctly are not implemented.

cornedoron YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers

Invidious supports the DASH streams, so I guess those are disabled on that instance.

cornedoron uBlock Origin 1.53

> Google's Chrome browser now aggressively thwarts uBlock on YouTube.com.

If the browser just does block ad-blocking on YouTube. If I would be hosting a video platform, can I add my site to the list?

cornedoron USB-C cable with the bandwidth and USB type imprinted on the connector

This has been done for years on HDMI/Cat cables, but instead of on the connector on the cable itself. Why make the connector larger to print very little detail on it, if you have literally a whole meter to write complete sentences.

This is roughly the same solution, but in my opinion more poorly implemented. So please make more USB cables like HDMI or Cat cables, print all the relevant info on the cable.

cornedoron EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

> and not necessarily know where you drive and how often.

They do tough. They know where you refueled/charged your car, hotels you've booked. Not only that, but they also know if you donate money to your local mosque/synagogue, spend just a bit too much at a liquor store, etc.

cornedoron uBlock Origin 1.53

Isn't this just asking for an antitrust case? There is no way I implement this for my own site.

cornedoron Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS

This is not a good comparison. The Neu implementation lacks a lot of styling and features from the Tailwind CSS implementation. It's not responsive, missing styles for a bunch of components, using much simpler styles for other components.

cornedoron Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative

This is done using css columns. The slider controls the font sizes, and the column width is set to 30em, which increases when the font size increases.

cornedoron Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative

The comparison on the homepage is not even close to fair. They compare a React component from a headless UI library that has a lot of (accessibility) features and full TypeScript typing to a basic version without any typing.

> The amount of code required to build a basic listbox UI component

That is not what is being compared.

The speed graph shows the amount of HTML/CSS/JS on the project home page. Again not even close to a fair comparison, they have completely different content. I can create a sluggish library, with a homepage that is just a plain text link to a GitHub repo and that would rank way higher.

cornedoron New Map APIs from Google

I don't think mapping data from Google Maps is accurate enough to do this. Perhaps you're better off using a service that uses OSM data. But it depends on the region and use case.

cornedoron Nintendo is trying to patent some broad Tears of the Kingdom mechanics

> I'm sure I've seen this mechanic about twenty years ago somewhere.

I've indeed seen this multiple times for example in Skyrim [1] and in Minecraft (trough mods)

I think I've seen every concept listed in the article before. Let's hope they don't get much out of it.

1: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Arcane_Archer_Pack_Items#Lig...

cornedoron How I test site speed changes using Chrome's local overrides (2021)

Afaik not directly, but you can use for example Charles to intercept request and replace network requests.

https://www.charlesproxy.com/

cornedoron Norwegian shipping company bans electric cars on board classic ferry route

I guess this is related to: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-dead-cargo-ship-fir...

edit: The linked article is from February, the fire happened today.

cornedoron A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

Is this a geographically local thing? This happens very rarely to me, although I there are some (Google) sites I use regularly that do work worse on Firefox than Chrome.

cornedoron Reddit Strike Has Started

It was 662 for me too when I opened the site, i've been scrolling a bit trough the site and it is 668 already, and the site showed notifications for those extra reddits. They seem to be closing fast.

cornedoron The guide to software development with Guix

Although it is not the Guix, Nix supports:

    x86_64-linux
    aarch64-linux
    i686-linux
    x86_64-darwin
    aarch64-darwin

Perhaps some day this will also be possible for Guix, but I don't think it fits the ideology of Guix since MacOS isn't free (not as in beer).

cornedoron Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

In the "settings app" they show of a few features. For some reason they decided that one of those great features is a mallware scanner...

I don't think this site will be very convincing, there are a lot of glitchy animations and unresponsive areas that look as if they should be working.

cornedoron Align Your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

A lot of those examples have a Shutterstock watermark. I doubt that Shutterstock allows the use of unlicensed videos for this use case.

cornedoron We ran a phone check at a Y Combinator event in SF

It works with screen time. No setup required. It looked really nice, but if you want to add more than one app you have to get a (not that cheap) subscription.