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ospider··on What Meta got right with Muse
Yet, people are deleting Siri AI to save disk spaces.
ospider··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
I tried to build a lightweight browser for agents, like lightpanda/obscura/kindsurf. But I then found out it's a dead end for me and all the others.

The web spec is vast and endless, if you try to build something actually works for modern sites, it will be huge. If you want to keep it lightweight, it won't work for most sites.

Just use chrome-headless-shell or webkit. Don't reinvent the wheels.

ospider··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Their propaganda has become a footgun. Only the government buys it and limits their access, no target user convinced, what a ironic moment.
ospider··on Python JIT project was asked to pause development
This is really a sad moment, I hope the free-theading feature can be kept in the main line. For me, running my library in real threads has actuall revealed some hidden fatal bugs which are hard to reproduce with the GIL>

As for performance, Python 3.x was not even as fast as Python 2.x in the beginning, but with the correct mindset, it's eventually faster.

ospider··on If AI writes your code, why use Python?
Because I have to maintain it.
ospider··on Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
It's mostly only OpenAI, Claude and Gemini may have their unique advantages, but when speaking of models and new paradigm, only OpenAI can do it.
ospider··on Servo is now available on crates.io
> there are just too many features dependent on the full Chrome stack

Do you mind elaborating on what features are missing?

ospider··on How I block all 26M of your curl requests
It can be much more easier and realistic with https://github.com/lexiforest/curl-impersonate.
ospider··on Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings
Yes, indeed. I just tried search "Apple", and apple.com is not on the first page.
ospider··on Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive
Why do people keep building servers for such a silly protocol?
ospider··on Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
I think it will, it uses requests, and cloudflare blocks traffic from non-browser, e.g. python http clients. It would be better to use something like curl_cffi.
ospider··on Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
How about going backwards? Find the first hundred users or at least 10-ish people who actually has a pain point, and build the product for them.
ospider··on Show HN: I open-sourced my AI toy company that runs on ESP32 and OpenAI realtime
I doubt that. I have two kids, 4yo and 6yo. I told my kids that I can make their toys talk (using AI) a few months ago, and they have been constantly asking me when it will be ready.
ospider··on TikTok goes dark in the US
I agree that the US is going to the wrong direction. I was just saying that what China did is a bad example, not a justification for other governments.
ospider··on TikTok goes dark in the US
You are comparing oranges to apples here.

Basically, there are 2 legislation in the world, legistlation and the China legislation. In China, there are laws on the surface and there are rules underneath. For example, the government never admitted that the GFW exists, yet it keeps blocking more and more sites. The government never bans online forums, yet it never grants license to open a online bbs, since like ten years ago.

During some political sensitive times, the government would send secret requirement to local companies like ByteDance and Tencent on how to censor the social media. Back when I worked at ByteDance, when the 19th Communist Party congress was open, the auditors would be in a war room, just for making sure that no negative news or comments would be released. American companies also work with the government on censorship, more or less, but that's another story.

It's very common for Chinese people who have been fooled by the government to say that, these western companys left by themselves. But it's not the laws that on the surface drives them away, it's the rules underneath.

ospider··on Curl-Impersonate
Maintainer here. Curl drops NSS support since like a year ago, which is the SSL engine firefox uses. Without NSS, two special extensions can not be added. And that's why only webkit-based browsers are left.

You can find support for old firefox versions in the original repo.

ospider··on Curl-Impersonate
Hi, maintainer here, the whole project is a hack, actually :P

The original repo was already full of hacks, and on top of that, I added more hacks to keep up with the latest browsers. The main purpose of my fork is to serve as a foundation of the python binding, which I think is easier to use. So I haven't tried to make the whole process more streamlined as long as it works on the CI. You can use the prebuilt binaries on the release page, though. I guess I should find some time to clean up the whole thing.

ospider··on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023
The lifetime dictatorship like any other communist nations in the world.
ospider··on Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
I was looking for macOS M1 runner, which is not provided by GitHub. I'm willing to pay for that, but it seems that there are only Linux types now.
ospider··on Show HN: WarpBuild – x86-64 and arm GitHub Action runners for 30% faster builds
It seems half-baked to me. I logged in, and it says only org accounts are supported. I'm interesting because I can not use Win32 and mac M1 instance on github actions, but I failed to find any docs mentioning supported instance types.
ospider··on Show HN: Jeeves – A Pythonic Alternative to GNU Make
The problem of `just` is that it does not consider `mtime`, which makes it almost useless in my case. I do hate the quirky syntax of `make`, however, it does a great job of not repeating itself if files have not been changed.
ospider··on Tiny Language Models Come of Age
Assuming you don't take privacy into consideration, yes.
ospider··on Apple’s strict on App Store rules but gives WeChat a free pass (2020)
Actually, it's both. Back in 2022, you have to install either WeChat or Alipay to scan the government's health code literally everywhere.
ospider··on Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans
Tailscale lacks of very basic features. Can you believe that you can not upgrade your plan? That's the worst SaaS product I have ever used.
ospider··on Telegram Web Apps for Bots
Because it's a walled garden. Imagine a Facebook that is strictly real name only, without a web version, and consumes ~50GiB on device typically.
ospider··on Leaving China
Glimpse, that's all we can get for free. For the rest, we need to fight for it.
ospider··on Leaving China
VPN is needed since ~2019.
ospider··on Leaving China
Fun fact: you have to get an ISBN to release a game in China.
ospider··on Leaving China
You have no idea of how bad a Chinese lockdown can go. There are literraly two versions of lockdown in the world: the lockdown and the Chinese lockdown.
ospider··on Leaving China
Indeed. In China, we used to joke that Deng's opening policy has created the second republic, on the contrary to Mao's first republic. With Xi's coronation, the second republic has died.
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