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How does vala compare to other GUI focused languages?

Slight tangent: Hopefully, the next version of WebRTC standard removes the need for signaling servers and other server side infrastructure (ICE, STUN). I understand that ~35% of se…

What is the drawback of crowdstrike on a personal machine? What are the alternatives?

While the attack is technically feasible, complexity and sophistication do not lend this to wide deployment. Someone with a lot of time, money and drive (think heist movie, or spy …

Your IH interview [1] is one of my favorites! Highly recommend any bootstrapper to read it. Wishing you continued success! [1]: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/2fa6c5e1eb

Congrats - this is certainly a success, especially for monetizing in a heavily crowded space with many free alternatives available. Can you share a few pointers on competing in a c…

The definitive answer can be gleaned by setting the user agent to Chrome (or anything besides Firefox). Have you tried that?

That's great news! Thank you to the entire wasmer team for this awesome software.

Exciting news! Question to @syrusakbary - When is wasmer support in Windows likely to reach beta status? Would mingw-64 be a better Windows target than Win32, for porting unix-y wa…

Thank you for the clarification. Some questions related to V8 perf: 1. WASM JS/Host calls seem to have a higher cost on chrome than FF [1][2]. Is that in your optimization roadmap?…

The answer to the question the headline poses, inferring from people sampled in the article is: "They mostly end up in a English related academic position in school or college sett…

I might be wrong, but I believe the glass is the output of an AI program, trained by observing multiple manually corrected iterations of glass making, to arrange impurities while m…

The only reason to use an IPC or go through the kernel is to expose the fs to the rest of the OS. If an app doesn't intend to expose the fs, the entirety of the fs can exist within…

A userspace program can completely avoid kernel IPC if it has no intention to expose the fs to other processes. Client and server code can exist within same "app", without IPC, in …

libfs [1] is a userspace library offered by fuchsia abstracting the traditional vfs (virtual filesystem interface), allowing the fs to exist wholly in userspace, without a kernel c…

Fuchsia has an interesting take on filesystems [1]. One can write it completely in the user-space, avoiding expensive kernel user-space switching. Additional benefit of storage san…

Worth noting that JSC on iOS for use in app-backend/business-logic code runs in interpreted mode [1]. Are Android versions of RN apps faster because Android's native V8 allows JIT,…

It would be interesting for applicants to share their submissions, for the HN community's feedback, and vote. I've created a simple markdown version, for easy editing here: https:/…