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Pouya Kary — Kinda a researcher.

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pmkary··on Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices
Someone finally did this, wow! 2026 just keeps getting more crazy.
pmkary··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
Is there really anything but two Trump administrations go blame this on? In really curious.
pmkary··on Does Ruby on Rails still make sense?
Rails is slow, and it has little tooling. If it was me I would have used Go so that compiler would give the LLM some errors and narrow its error window, is way faster than Ruby and makes way more sense to have a way faster code than a slow one for the same price, everyone can read Go code and it is so narrow in the possible space of decisions that an LLM can never write usual spaghetti that it writes in other languages to save tokens... I think the problem is in looking at Rust as the alternative.
pmkary··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
That is just so stupid...
pmkary··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
Yeah, but their treatment was terrible.
pmkary··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
Yeah, but you don't have to be such horrible people about it. At least give the person a few days to move their stuff. And I wasn't checking it from Iran.
pmkary··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
I'm an Iranian---which is something you have no choice in, you just turn 4~5 and understand enough language that they tell you that you are an Iranian. And well out of believing namecheap is a good company (since I had my DNS there) I purchased my domain from them. Then one day these fuckers banned my domain, and my access to the dashboard without any warnings or headsup, didn't even allow me to move my domain to somewhere else, and those vultures from GoDaddy bought it in the auction and have put it for 3500€... Horrible people
pmkary··on Super Intelligence
Here we are: spending our time debating whether we arrived at idiocracy by chance or purpose...
pmkary··on Super Intelligence
A very high bar prediction of the future which sadly like all utopias could not be delivered.
pmkary··on Super Intelligence
_king with the invisible outfit..._
pmkary··on Super Intelligence
If I could nominate someone for the "well said" of the year.
pmkary··on Thunderbird for iOS
I don't get why Mozilla's designs are so ugly. It's 2026, everyone has beautiful designs and some browsers (Arc, Dia) are so gorgeous you don't want to work with anything else. And then this not-even-released mail app looks like old Bootstrap web apps. I used to love Mozilla for having some of the most beautiful designs. The era of Forefox OS and Firefox 4 with their beautiful beautiful designs and then they said no; threw out that beautiful dinosaur logo for whatever this ugly pointless one is and now look at their software. My eyes hurt for the amount of design problems in Firefox. Okay you made a bad one, at least start something new correctly.
pmkary··on Apple HomeView
I thought this would be their big announcement...
pmkary··on SpaceXSI: Unified plans across Grok, Cursor, and X Premium
At 200 you will get a faithful recreation of a SS outfit, tailored to you. This is all plus a signed copy of mein kampf, by none other than führer trump. (More donations buys you antichrist hunting with billionaires)
pmkary··on An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust
Wow. This is insane.
pmkary··on Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry
When you're small, you need the certificates and badges others give you to be seen and be validated. I really don't think anyone needs to become familiar with Apple or macOS and that any of these certificates now matter a tiny amount to a multi trillion dollar corporation.

Given the amount and volume of software that mac has, the fact that almost all new interesting stuff are released for mac first or even mac alone, I also don't think it needs to attach itself to bigger names for platforms.

I think the financial burden of Ubuntu Mobile, Unity 8, and Mir; and the immediate rise of docker and WSL made canonical fully shift to server, so much so that their website no longer is about a better os for people, but what can it do for your cloud. Other distros also followed its path and Linus became all in on servers and IoT. I see windows as the biggest pile of trash in the world. Infinitely inconsistent, buggy, patched worked, visionless and rotting. Honestly that is one piece of software that is worse that AI slop.

And so what is there for Apple to compete with honestly? Haiku? Solaris?

pmkary··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
You're reading it in an unintended way. What I meant was "I used all of the models multiple times on exact same prompt and somehow for me only deepseek works". I haven't had my hands on Astra or Opus 5.5, they perhaps will have good results, but the others I tried at least once a month and horrible results. So I'm stuck with DeepSeek and don't use the other things.
pmkary··on Deno Is Joining Cloudflare
What is it with everyone buying runtimes? — P.S. Deno always felt like it is going to be abandoned, you can't build your work on this much shaky ground...
pmkary··on I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
This is amazing!
pmkary··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Personally I have not used anything but 4.1 since it came out. I have a dataset that turns any model into pure hallucination machine, not only DeepSeek does not hallucinate, it builds new insights by combining its insights. It's not only cheap, its far better (at least for me)
pmkary··on Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
I both agree with you and still think my initial idea was correct, and it means that I have expressed it very badly. What I meant by higher order was all the little niceties Go has that becomes a nightmare in Rust, the memory management, simple language; I mean just think about working with strings in Go vs Rust. The amount of boiler plate stuff always gives me a headache in Rust. But you're right, the map to C and C++ and go is orders of magnitude less developed in that terms.
pmkary··on Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
This officially proves how great the Go code is! I mean: You have easiness and friendliness and high level language of Go for only 50%~70% slower performance. I always thought what happens if they port to Rust? Will it also become an order of magnitude faster? Turns out it really is not worth the cost. Go is perhaps just the best language.
pmkary··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
It's interesting how the bicycle is a fake example. You see Jony Ive level design, with a very complex 3d object seamlessly working, and then you see the basic HTML slop in other examples and you begin to wonder if that first one was fabeication.
pmkary··on Protect Your Friends and Loved Ones
This is a fantastic read that deserves to be in the front page, because this is something really important that is easily forgotten, so it was nice of the author to share, and I guess we have to share this too.
pmkary··on We ported the original Doom to SQL
This should be illegal :)))) Wow!
pmkary··on I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
You dear are the most positive person I have seen in quite some time. With Earth burning in the fire of neofeudalism and unbreathable due to the smell of enshitification of everything, with people who---as a result of shit like Instagram---can no longer hold their attention enough to watch a god damn film, let alone a book; it takes quite some effort to filter the "noise" and only see the good people of corporate planting flowers and rainbows in our world.
pmkary··on I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
I’m afraid this dear leader was the last soul on this green Earth to get the memo; by then, it had been translated into Latin, carved into a monument, and forgotten by two civilizations.
pmkary··on FTL: A new operating system for clouds
What a nice thing!
pmkary··on An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
If orion was open source and had a beautiful UI like Arc it could be the best browser for me. But it is not beautiful and I can't fix its bugs.
pmkary··on Sites in ChatGPT
Sadly while the example: https://below-the-surface-ocean.openai.chatgpt.site can be detected as SLOP on the first contact of photon with the retina, I honestly cannot detect https://frame-studio-motion.openai.chatgpt.site and it is giving me depression. The website is basic, but it doesn't feel slop. And I guess that is something.

I'm genuinely sad that what we learned with hard work and sweat, our craft, our identity, our soul; is now something you can buy. I've been in this profession for a long time and now I see people who have absolutely no fucking clue, but lots of money, and they buy all these agents and make things that work (way more broken, with absolutely shit quality), but they work and so they brag about their creations to me all day long, and man that makes me feel like a total loser.

I spent decades trying to master media theory, language design, computer graphics, compiler design, rewriting systems, mathematics, logic, build systems, graphs, data-flow systems, making GUI kits, layout systems, ... all to make a better system for thinking, and now the whole idea of thinking is outsourced (as altman says "sold as utility by the meter"). I need to become an addict or something and be wasted. This is not a life.

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