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lastdong··on FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
This is really cool, educative and very well written.
lastdong··on Show HN: µJS, a 5KB alternative to Htmx and Turbo with zero dependencies
You should be able to push to history using history.pushState(…) after loading a new page. There are probably more details needed around popState to handle back and forward navigation. I’m sure Claude will be able to assist here, but maybe too much complexity when other similar libraries may also manage history state.
lastdong··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
14-billion parameter model with 4-bit quantization seems rather small
lastdong··on Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
This is mind-blowing, and it defies all security common sense. Changing global API keys permissions? Come on! We’re accustomed to seeing issues like this from Redmond but didn’t expect it from Google.
lastdong··on Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments
This seems like a great model to experiment fine tuning with original art, given it’s relatively small and with open license. Is that a fair assessment?

Thanks for the great write up and making it available to us all.

lastdong··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
Technically Kamala.

— As Vice President, Kamala Harris was a key proponent and promoter of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, which aims to boost U.S. semiconductor manufacturing.

lastdong··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
Google Anti-Gravity has this process built in. This is essentially a cycle a developer would follow: plan/analyse - document/discuss - break down tasks/implement. We’ve been using requirements and design documents as best practice since leaving our teenage bedroom lab for the professional world. I suppose this could be seen as our coding agents coming of age.
lastdong··on Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor
Well done, love the minimal UI. The menus are familiar in any case just tucked away for better drawing experience.
lastdong··on SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution
It’s working now, must have been something to do with ISP/Firewall/?. Thanks
lastdong··on SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution
Is this link really http? Safari on latest iOS refuses to open it.

(All modern browsers will do the same although on desktop you could bypass security restrictions.)

On the upside not being able to open the link led me to find out 86box emulator.

lastdong··on Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product
Congratulations on the successful launch and excellent write-up. Hardware is fun but also much more challenging.
lastdong··on Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
Google AI overview returned: “A ‘lone wolf’ is a wolf that has left its pack to find a new territory or mate, a natural dispersal behaviour crucial for genetic diversity.”

Interesting enough people do jump around to build their skills.

lastdong··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
“I get that it takes some tweaking (MacOS)” How times have changed, it used to be as intuitive as drinking water.
lastdong··on Robust Conditional 3D Shape Generation from Casual Captures
I think it does use depth data from parameters in docs: python infer_shape.py --input_pkl <sample.pkl> (possibly achievable using software like MapAnything). I believe CUDA only.
lastdong··on Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth
I was wondering if it was running locally… 90% stuck
lastdong··on How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI
$20 Google AI Pro and Google Antigravity IDE, which gives you access to Claude Code, is a pretty decent offering for agent coding. On top of that, NotebookLM and Google Labs has some fun tools to play with.
lastdong··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
Game over. I didn’t notice all the toxicity mentioned in the other comments, although I did stop using it around 2016 maybe. It had its days, it was fundamentally a verb at some point. Its name is part of web history, and there’s no denying that.
lastdong··on Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
Anyone tried to use these prompts with Gemini 3 Pro? it feels like Claude, Gemini and GPT latest offerings are on par (excluding costs) and as a developer if you know how to query/spec a coder llm you can move between them at ease.
lastdong··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas! HN Christmas theme is always great to see

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lastdong··on European Majority favours more social media regulation
From reading the page the study “examines public attitudes social media regulation and banning political advertising from social platforms.”

The question: To what extent, if at all, would you support or oppose banning political adverts from being shown on social media platforms?

They conclude with: Voters for far-right parties are frequently less likely to support banning of political advertising on social media … and less likely to think regulations are too lax … typically less likely to think social media regulations are too relaxed (with Italy being an exception).

lastdong··on [dead]
The comments section in that article is quite active.
lastdong··on Hacker News Dark Mode Extension
Thanks, works perfectly!
lastdong··on Hacker News Dark Mode Extension
Google returned this extension as top result when searching for HN dark mode. Apart from possible privacy concerns (the app does not collect data), it seems to work well (although sometimes noticing a white flash on iOS). What is anyone else using for enabling dark mode on HN?
lastdong··on TC39: Signals
Super interesting, a joint effort with creators from many known libraries.

Found this 2024 announcement post with some discussion already happening (classes vs functions): https://eisenbergeffect.medium.com/a-tc39-proposal-for-signa...

lastdong··on Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix
Thank you for mentioning Department Q and Mindhunter — these were amazing. Netflix has a lot of content some of it is actually really good.
lastdong··on Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)
“Hitting the hardware directly was against the rules. But by the time Sony saw the results they needed a Mario killer. It was too late for them to complain.”

Great read!

lastdong··on Blender Lab
Fixed it for me, much better than having the top navigation element unstyled as a list. In any case, the CSS is pretty much innocuous, feels almost like reader mode (which is my go to). Thanks!
lastdong··on Nisus Writer: Schrödinger's Word Processor
Great story! Here’s what I gathered: The founders are in their 80s and may be completely retired. It’s unclear what their perspective is on open source or whether they have considered selling the app to someone (if that someone even exists) who would ensure the same level of dedication that they provided. The code might be legacy, difficult to maintain without a significant rewrite, so the costs of updating the app could be prohibitively expensive.

Now I am curious about what language it is written in, as well as the architecture and other details.

lastdong··on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
I completely gave up on APP; previous generation had crackling issues that (eventually) led to a recall. I’ve settled on Sony, which offers great sound quality and effective noise cancellation.
lastdong··on The fix wasn't easy, or C precedence bites
I was thinking the same thing; also being more explicit would have prevented the bug described in the first place
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