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Why are there an endless flood of comments like this on HN and other social media insisting that because there’s such high demand, it’s IMPOSSIBLE that these tech companies are ove…

What about the current ecosystem is lacking that made you want to write a new one from scratch? (gpui, Dioxus, Slint)

I'll be honest given the article title I was hoping for a detailed rant on the complex installation process that most Windows apps hide, but this was also a nice read. And as a use…

Go ahead and go live next to one then and show us how it's nothing but propaganda. Quite convenient how the same people trying to run roughshod over the others to get these bubble …

It's political doublespeak. They want to have their cake and eat it too.

I don’t have some grand theory on SO’s downfall. All I will say is that sometimes us programmers try to optimize every single thing in life and that’s simply not how humans work. S…

Cyberpunk 2077 is such an accurate picture of the future. Megacorps will own and control everything, we will be lucky to get the leftover scraps.

Having Deja Vu reading this. Remember just recently when Spacetime DB fudged their benchmark numbers for their 2.0 release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7gJ_UxVnSk

Been using it for half a year now in prod to collect sensor data from IoT devices. My only complaints are: 1) Memory usage is a bit high. We went with the AWS instance they recomme…

It's a fun toy program but calling this a flight simulator is doing a disservice to the communities and efforts putting in an immense amount of work to make actual flight simulator…

In the time before LLMs, humans made satellites, Concorde, life-saving medical surgery, James-Webb Space Telescope, communication at the speed of light, the list goes on. What chan…

It's clear the OC was using hyperbole but we're honestly not too far off. Just a few examples: - Sam Altman & Worldcoin collecting everyone's eyeball scan - Discord attempting to r…

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Supposedly humans have become “100x”™ more productive with these AI tools, but nowhere to be seen are the benefits for the wielders of said tools. Is your salary 100x higher? Are y…

“Thing x happened in the past, therefore it will continue to happen in the future” is perhaps one of the most, if not the most pervasive human-created fallacies anywhere.

This was the exact same argument used to push new c++ features and look where the language is now.

The rust maintainers need to learn from the mistakes of the c++ design committee and understand that not adding a feature at all is in itself a desirable feature. For example, your…

Rooting for Ladybird https://ladybird.org/

> From what I understand these systems are legal because there is no expectation of privacy in public. This is a common line of phrasing parroted by Flock and their supporters to n…

And yet somehow the Zed team managed to do it with gpui and rust.

Why not Go? I don’t understand starting new backend projects in a JVM language when go exits and its both faster and simpler. People love to proclaim Java’s ability to handle “big …

Tailscale has made all of their client source code available for anyone to view so if you want to confirm that you’re not sending unencrypted data or keys through their servers you…

If Apple wanted to score easy points they would leave this be and add a widget/app icon animation api in the next major release of iOS. This would be way more useful than whatever …

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