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There's a lot of sketchy things about telegram but I'm confused, what exactly in this article seems sketchy to you?

The fact of the matter is, the reason Bun chose to go with Zig in the first place was for clout and clout only. Bun is a textbook case of a wankfluencer operation: unnecessary rewr…

I stand with Andrew. As someone who's been following Sumner's work closely for years, Kelley's accusations are very much true even if unkind. While the results are useful and cool,…

Is this relevant for other databases? For postgres for example, which supports concurrent writers, wouldn't sequential keys lead to contention on the page at the frontier?

The only Bun shipped product I've used in anger is OpenCode and I regularly run into segfaults on it. I doubt this is the reason for migration but every time it happens, it reminds…

Do you mean allocate on every task?

Gmail has ads inline that are hard to distinguish from real emails. What kind of self-respecting person uses that when they have the technical knowhow to spend time on hackernews (…

Surprised to hear this since my understanding was that Session was run on a crypto coin based, user hosted onion routing servers. Do they mean the dev company behind Session is shu…

Are you willing to put monies on that?

How come you have an account from 2014 and this is the first time you're commenting?

what are you talking about? The sheer number of 10+ year old hn accounts tirading to defend, downplay and whitewash the actions of Israel in the comments in this exact thread is si…

Science journalism has a lot of issues but I think those problems are across journalism and not especially unique to science. Over referencing familiar narratives, click bait headl…

Community drama has always been the achilles heel of large, open-source projects which are volunteer driven. Focus on community is critical to delivering this, especially when your…

It's not just anyone, it's the folks at Igalia. I think people disregard Servo since it's no longer under Mozilla but Igalia aren't just random contributors picking up the slack, t…

Word of warning: was blasted with NSFW on the first page of that link.

Iiirc, Twitter uses some mongrel version of React Native on the web. That's why you get the 3 seconds long loading thingie whenever you open a new tab.

Google OAuth2 refresh tokens are definitely singe use.

Yes but can the market not be wrong? Wrong in the sense that, failing to meet our expectations as a useful engine of society? As I understood, what was meant with this this article…

Note that the website is scrolling very slow, sub1-fps on Firefox Android. I'm also unable to scroll the call-out about grok. Also, there's this strange large green button reading …

Every day I login into Hacker News. Every day, I see Mozilla FUD.

I'm curious, how capital intensive/wasteful were these aimless projects? Compared to their operating expenses? What better way could they have spent this money? (Development isn't …