Hacker News: TheCoreh

New comment by TheCoreh in "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac"

TheCoreh — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:17:51 +0000

A good chunk of this (20GB) is AI models, particularly Apple's local LLM (used to power parts of Siri and a couple other things)

It's not really "code" in the traditional sense

New comment by TheCoreh in "GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday"

TheCoreh — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:51:36 +0000

There are diminishing returns, especially for more mundane tasks. Fable is nice, and I bet Sol is also nice. But there really isn't much of a difference right now when using something beyond Opus or presumably Terra for most things. They're most useful when doing greenfield, highly complex/novel tasks. When Open Source catches up, it will be more widely adopted.

New comment by TheCoreh in "Vite+ Beta"

TheCoreh — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:18:10 +0000

Yeah, not only the name: they’re also going with various semiotic signs that are strongly associated with a subscription service, including their website design, choice of typography, and even the press release–style copy.

Looks like they have been acquired by Cloudflare, and pivoted to fully open source, but they haven’t really tweaked their messaging to make that fully land with unsuspecting visitors.

It’s kinda like the reverse situation of open source projects that switch to a source available license, but keep the aesthetics of an open source project. Kinda funny!

New comment by TheCoreh in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

TheCoreh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:26:11 +0000

This is malware. It's doing something the user doesn't acknowledge or want, that has potentially destructive/negative consequences. Expecting users to have read the website (when they can might have installed this via a package manager, for example) is not reasonable.

New comment by TheCoreh in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

TheCoreh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:18:46 +0000

> The GPL imposes conditions on your use of the code / program, as does the MIT License.

No, they impose restrictions on your redistribution of the program. (And derivative works)

Which is why it's always been silly to present something like the GPL as an EULA in installers, for example.

New comment by TheCoreh in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

TheCoreh — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:24:30 +0000

You can introduce a social/trust element to it, something like: Join our Discord, chat to us, come to our "office hours" video calls first, then you get to contribute.

Maybe also limit the size/scope of external contributions (only small bug fixes allowed for your first few PRs)

New comment by TheCoreh in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

TheCoreh — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:18:00 +0000

This is not a regular code review of new code. The original code still exists, and is sitting side by side, just in a different language.

You'd be just looking at both files, side by side, to make sure nothing was lost in translation or newly introduced.

New comment by TheCoreh in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

TheCoreh — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:46:12 +0000

A bit sad to see this. Of course they are free to do it the way they prefer, and there are successful projects like this (Notably SQLite) but there has to be a reasonable middle ground between "everyone can just flood us with 30,000-line 'Claude implement feature X make no mistakes' PRs" and "we're not open to outside contributions"

New comment by TheCoreh in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

TheCoreh — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:01:46 +0000

It's not impossible, or even that hard to review the entire rewritten codebase.

10 engineers each reviewing 5,000 LoC a day for 20 days can do it.

And that is being highly conservative with the estimate. A good chunk of the the code is probably highly trivial boilerplate one can easily skim over in minutes.

New comment by TheCoreh in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

TheCoreh — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:04:26 +0000

To get to the point where these artificial gates substantially matter for interop, you've already cleared 99% of the hurdles, and you can get away with just spoofing the User Agent string most of the time.

Widevine is legitimately a “gate”, but realistically it only stops 4K playback on Netflix, Disney and a few other streaming sites. And it's not super relevant considering that Zen has gathered 10M users without it.

New comment by TheCoreh in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

TheCoreh — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:38:43 +0000

I'm honestly surprised they weren't before

New comment by TheCoreh in "Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings"

TheCoreh — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:36:37 +0000

This seems like a very reasonable system to ensure e.g. you and your classmate/friends can still interact as you grow up and switch age brackets. I wonder how families etc deal with it though? Can you play with your younger sibling/cousin? Is there some sort of parental approval/override?

New comment by TheCoreh in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

TheCoreh — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:00:11 +0000

> We don’t have corporate funding

I thought you were owned by Mozilla? A corporation that has over half a billion dollars in yearly revenue? If they decided to allocate zero funding to you, wouldn't it be vastly more effective to start some sort of campaign/movement (either internal or external) to get that funding back, or to entirely fork and leave Mozilla to be your own independent project, than to ask for random donations?

New comment by TheCoreh in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

TheCoreh — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:33:00 +0000

Can a Roulette wheel set find vulnerabilities in software?

New comment by TheCoreh in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

TheCoreh — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:07:36 +0000

Yeah if I understand it correctly, this is more like 2160p@2x which is... unusual?

New comment by TheCoreh in "Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers"

TheCoreh — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:05:44 +0000

You don't need exclusive, 24h access, so people can pool, share or rent the hardware. Solar energy is also now cheap enough that it likely won't really be a problem.

New comment by TheCoreh in "Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers"

TheCoreh — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:18:31 +0000

Given how fast the Open Source models have been able to catch up their closed-source counterparts, I think at least on the model/software side this will be a non-issue. The hardware situation is a bit grimmer, especially with the recent RAM prices. Time will tell: if in 2–3 years time, we can get to a situation where a 512GB–1TB VRAM / unified memory + good fp8 rig is a few thousands and not tens of thousands of dollars, we'll probably be good.

New comment by TheCoreh in "My journey to the microwave alternate timeline"

TheCoreh — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:30:25 +0000

Many microwave models have this. It's either a dedicated button or holding a specific button down

New comment by TheCoreh in "You Are Here"

TheCoreh — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:00:51 +0000

> Or, at best, near-zero.

New comment by TheCoreh in "New YC homepage"

TheCoreh — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:21:50 +0000

Looks good.

A minor piece of feedback, though: might be just me, not sure if anyone else has this pavlovian conditioning, but seeing the black banner/bar on top with the YC logo/color below and HN background color immediately makes me think someone passed away.