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mfro··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
Are you sure you've ever gone above 60hz and 60fps? It is unequivocally agreed to look much better
mfro··on Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
Why waste time memorizing arcane flags when you can spend that time actually building things? Frankly I still check man pages for things like tar all the time and I’ve been using linux for over a decade. It becomes less of a fun learning activity and more of a chore when every tool has a hundred different invocations to memorize.
mfro··on Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI
Yes, this is a separate runtime. Docker handles containerization differently with more overhead. OCI is a 'standard' way of constructing container images and both are compatible with OCI.
mfro··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Interesting. From the hyundai manual, driver attention monitoring only uses front sensor with no face recognition in the vehicle as far as I can tell. Are you sure your cruise control issue isn’t because of hand sensors?

Also, I think the issue with it stopping the car sounds like ‘collision avoidance forward safety’ which can be disabled according to the manual. I haven’t had any issues so far though.

I also disable lane assist but largely just because I prefer to have full control. The highway driving assist is really neat though.

mfro··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
For those interested or forced to buy a new car — I recently picked up a brand new Hyundai and was impressed the new tech does not get in the way. ‘Driver attention warning’ does not have a face camera, it just uses the front sensor to confirm you’re not all over the place. It can also be disabled. Lane assist can be disabled with one button on the wheel. Almost all important controls are real (non capacitive) buttons. Warnings can be customized. Smart cruise control can be customized. As someone who really liked his 90s Toyota, I’m impressed.
mfro··on Resetting Xbox
This is something audiences are clearly desperate for today. I think it's obvious when looking at the huge success of Helldivers, Bodycam, Ready Or Not, Arc Raiders, (none of which are particularly innovative) players appreciate high quality, tactile and grounded world interaction.
mfro··on Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance
I've done some basic testing of the CoreAI framework (using Apple's official 'llm-runner' and officially supported .coreai converted models) and seen no noticable performance increase between standard MLX or GGUF with llama.cpp. I'd love to see some thorough benchmarks from someone though.
mfro··on Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
Truly despicable shit from these manufacturers. Don't buy smart TVs, or block their network access if you must.
mfro··on Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
The web browser is a compiled program. The problem is that it’s a huge program.
mfro··on Samurai City
Yes, if you enjoyed the show, I cannot recommend the book enough
mfro··on Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%
I had a lot of issues with stomach when taking creatine until I tried the micronised version. Bucked up makes a good product you can find at Walmart.
mfro··on Warm up your MacBook (2019)
It was a truly ridiculous idea to put an i9 in any laptop. That generation of i9 is difficult to cool even with liquid cooler systems in big ATX cases.
mfro··on GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
FWIW VScode can be used in a docker container or remote server from the local client. See devcontainers and VSCode over ssh.
mfro··on Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
Please let me know when finding a job in software engineering in 2026 is feasible for everyone with ‘computer skills’.
mfro··on Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site
Great heads up! I will work on self-hosting this month.
mfro··on Claude Platform on AWS
Builder credits apply to every AWS service I've tried.
mfro··on Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...
mfro··on Let's talk about LLMs
As much as that’s true it’s clear a huge amount of people have accepted the current state and are working around it, successfully(in terms of ticking an executive’s checkbox) in a lot of cases. And it’s worth considering we’re seeing strong strides outside of model quality in the tooling and integration
mfro··on Let's talk about LLMs
While I think the author is entirely right about 'natural language programming' in the current day, if LLMs (or some other AI architecture) continue to improve, it is easy to believe touching code could become unnecessary for even large projects. Consider that this is what software co. executives do all the time: outline a high level goal (software product) to their engineering director, who largely handles the details. We just don't yet know if LLMs will ever manage a level of intelligence and independence in open-ended tasks like this. And, to expand on that, I don't know that intelligence is necessarily the bottleneck for this goal. They can clearly tackle even large engineering tasks, but often complaints are that they miss on important architectural context or choose a suboptimal solution. Maybe with better training, context handling, documentation, these things will cease to be problems.
mfro··on Let's talk about LLMs
I think you're misunderstanding the paradigm shift completely -- AI does not just generate code N(x) more quickly. It thinks N(x) faster, it researches N(x) faster, it tests N(x) faster. There are hundreds of tasks that you'll find engineers are offloading to AI every day. The major hurdle right now is actually pivoting LLMs from just generating code: integrating those tasks into workflows. This is why tool-use and agentic workflows have taken engineering by storm.
mfro··on Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused
When someone says passwords are ‘stored’, the assumption will always be ‘stored on disk’. ‘stores in memory’ is not an accurate representation because memory is inherently volatile and they are loaded there temporarily. Plaintext on disk is egregious, plaintext in memory is considerably less so.
mfro··on Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused
To be fair, 'loads into memory' and 'stores' are not the same thing.
mfro··on Brave Origin
I have found literally 0 incentive to switch from firefox to anything else.
mfro··on Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh
I think they're going for more of a 'monkeys will eventually produce shakespeare' thing here. Which you can apply the same argument to - monkeys do not know english, don't know what they're typing, and theoretically english could devolve to a state where every sentence could be qualified as shakespeare, right? Your argument just seems unnecessarily pedantic.
mfro··on Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
Not sure why all the other commentors are failing to mention you can spend considerably less money on an apple silicon machine to run decent local models.

Fun fact: AWS offers apple silicon EC2 instances you can spin up to test.

mfro··on Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
yeah it seems like sonnet 4.6 burns thru tokens crazy fast. I did one prompt, sonnet misunderstood it as 'generate an image of this' and used all of my free tokens.
mfro··on Do you even need a database?
Neat, what happened to the original system? Last I checked multiplayer was working in DR2.
mfro··on Backpacks got worse on purpose
Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
mfro··on Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference
Strangely, it is super fast on my 16 Plus, but with longer messages it can slow down a LOT, and not because of thermal throttling. I wish I could see some diagnostic data.
mfro··on The best seat in town
You're reading way too far into it. Private spaces are simply easier targets.
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