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The promise was that WPF would use hardware-accelerated libraries such as DirectWrite to put text on the screen even faster than GDI+ (using the CPU) could do. The reality turned o…

I first encountered this in Bjarne Stroustrup's 2000 book, _The C++ Programming Language_. As he notes in the introductory material: > In code examples, a proportional-width font i…

This feels like a dumb question, but why doesn't Cursor implement that tool? I built my own simple coding agent six months ago, and I implemented str_replace_based_edit_tool ( http…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968731 Why can I not authenticate into Google Antigravity? Google Antigravity is currently available for non-Workspace personal Google accoun…

Completely agree, and I've started writing more Roslyn analyzers to provide quick feedback to the LLM (assuming you're using it in something like VS Code that exposes the `problems…

Storing issues in a local SQLite database reminded me of Fossil SCM, which natively supports "tickets" as a source code artifact (and which uses a SQLite database under the hood): …

One interesting thing about this repo is that the "Contributors" view shows "Copilot" as the #6 contributor: https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/graphs/contribut... It look…

We self-host GitHub using GitHub Enterprise Server. It is a mature product that requires next-to-no maintenance and is remarkably stable. (We did have a period of downtime caused b…

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42317968

I couldn't add "Sydney", "Auckland", "Johannesburg", or "Buenos Aires". Is the entire Southern Hemisphere missing?

> [Dr. Jonathan] Anomaly is a well-known figure in a growing transatlantic movement that promotes development of genetic selection and enhancement tools. Nominative determinism is …

There's an ongoing issue with ranking in Google Search that's affecting a large number of search results. We've identified the root cause and this issue is unrelated to the ongoing…

Are you sure? The article says "cite this as Yan et al. (May 2024)" and published-time in the metadata is 2024-05-12. Weird: I just refreshed the page and it now redirects to a dif…

Previous discussion (from when it happened but before the victim company was named): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248649

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38865020