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koakuma-chanon Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML

Using a URL shortener obviously. But you are right, if they only send plain text, they won't be able to include those 1x1 images at the bottom to track whether you have opened the email. Any sane email client blocks images by default, but whatever.

koakuma-chanon Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML

You can just send a link, and the user's client will probably highlight it even if it is plain text.

koakuma-chanon Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML

I wish people just sent plain text.

koakuma-chanon Missile defense is NP-complete

Does it being very high precision or whatever mean that it must cost $75M per unit? Is it made of gold?

koakuma-chanon Missile defense is NP-complete

From the article,

"Each GBI costs approximately $75 million, and as of 2024, 44 are deployed across Alaska and California [3]."

koakuma-chanon Missile defense is NP-complete

Why does a ground based interceptor cost $75M? High idiot index?

koakuma-chanon The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M

If your employer does direct deposit of USD into your USD bank account, you don't need stable coins. This is not the case for most people outside of the U.S.

koakuma-chanon The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M

I don't know what USR is, but I would prefer to be paid in USDT or USC if Wealthsimple supported it as deposit method. When I withdraw, I do Deel -> Wise -> Interac e-Transfer -> Bank -> Interac e-Transfer -> Wealthsimple. This is incredibly stupid and I am forced to buy Canadian dollars. For groceries or electronics, you can buy gift cards using crypto.

koakuma-chanon The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M

you can send them around easily without having to deal with bullshit payment systems

koakuma-chanon Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago

I also don't get it, why do certificates need to expire?

koakuma-chanon JavaScript Is Enough

No it's not. Stop upvoting AI slop.

koakuma-chanon We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster

npm i -D @typescript/native-preview

You can use it today.

koakuma-chanon Java is fast, code might not be

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/18192

I am talking about this bug. It looks like it is still unfixed, in the sense, there is a PR fixing it, but it wasn't merged. LOL.

Regardless of whether this specific bug would be caught by Rust compiler, Bun in general is notorious for crashing, just look at how many open issues there are, how many crashes.

Not saying that you cannot make a correct program in Zig, but I prefer having checks that Rust compiler does, to not having them.

koakuma-chanon Java is fast, code might not be

I would disagree that either "plain works" because to even package your app into a self-contained .jar, you need a plugin. I can't recall the specifics now, but years ago I spent many hours fighting both Maven and Gradle.

koakuma-chanon Java is fast, code might not be

I think that right now it is easier than ever to rewrite your app in Rust, due to LLMs. Unfortunately there are still people out there who dismiss this idea, and continue having their back-end written in much inferior languages, like JavaScript or Python. If your back-end is written in Java, you aren't even in the worst spot.

koakuma-chanon Java is fast, code might not be

Yes, there is a learning curve to Rust, but once you get proficient, it no longer bothers you. I think this is more good than bad, because, for example, look at Bun, it is written in Zig, it has so many bugs. They had a bug in their filesystem API that freezed your process, and it stayed unfixed for at least half a year after I filed it. Zig is a nice C replacement, but it doesn't have the same correctness guardrails as Rust.

koakuma-chanon Java is fast, code might not be

As much as I love Java, everybody should just be using Rust. That way you are actually in control, know what's going on, etc. Another reason specifically against Java is that the tooling, both Maven and Gradle, still stucks.

koakuma-chanon Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL

Cursor can't compete with Claude Code's subsidized pricing, so they are trying to gaslight people that their cheap model is good enough.

koakuma-chanon ArXiv declares independence from Cornell

it just hosts pdfs, no?

koakuma-chanon Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?

You're probably talking about cases when systems engineers develop apps. In my experience, when app developers develop apps, it's a mess.

koakuma-chanon Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?

What is "systems"? What do "systems engineer" people do?

koakuma-chanon Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

Interesting. I didn't know that what the default search engine is on iOS is part of "services."

koakuma-chanon Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

to be fair you shouldn't expect them to subsidize Anthropic models. what about limits for gemini?

koakuma-chanon Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

Services? I am not paying for any Apple services.

koakuma-chanon Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

Has Antigravity gotten any better?

koakuma-chanon Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework

https://github.com/jrswab/axe/blob/master/internal/refusal/r...

Lmao

koakuma-chanon Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript

I am saying that you shouldn't use day as a unit of time. You should use second, minute, hour, etc, because these have a constant duration. sleep(86400) should reliably make your thread sleep for at least 24 hours.

koakuma-chanon Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript

Why do you want something to happen everyday at 12 o'clock specifically? If this is truly what you want, sure.

koakuma-chanon Challenging the Single-Responsibility Principle

What the hell is a "microservice"?

koakuma-chanon Challenging the Single-Responsibility Principle

I actually lean towards copy and pasting the same code into many files just so that they are self-contained and have no dependencies.