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New comment by clumsysmurf in "Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?"

clumsysmurf — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:56:43 +0000

> the bluetooth libraries across different devices (particularly in Android land) has me concerned

At Google IO 2026 there little discussion of core improvements to Android as a platform. It was mostly AI related, nothing about Gabeldorsche etc, which I find more interesting.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam"

clumsysmurf — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:10:26 +0000

Another part of the problem is our lax regulatory "anything goes" environment which puts no guardrails on how AI can be used / abused. For example, eventually nearly everyone needs healthcare, and the idea you might be denied by AI or fighting AI to get a claim accepted is unpopular.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)"

clumsysmurf — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:31:39 +0000

Not much, it seems

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentime...

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

clumsysmurf — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:21:52 +0000

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to dylan.gr. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

New comment by clumsysmurf in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

clumsysmurf — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:29:59 +0000

It is a naive and suboptimal implementation, they even describe it in the link you posted

"We have now approached the problem again by refining our low-memory detection and tab selection algorithm and narrowing the action to the case where we are sure we’re providing a user benefit: if the browser is about to crash."

I would prefer FF to be more proactive in unloading tabs way before "its about to crash" to keep system level memory pressure lower. Firefox is the main memory hog on my M1 mac.

Chrome can do this, there is no reason we should be stuck with "manual tab unload" and "unload when the browser is about to crash".

I am using an extension, but that just reinforces the argument: they could be doing much more here.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

clumsysmurf — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:25:13 +0000

Indeed, I am using something similar "auto tab discard".

New comment by clumsysmurf in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

clumsysmurf — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:23:44 +0000

I disagree, there is low-hanging fruit Firefox is leaving on the table. The main thing that comes to mind is tab unloading. They don't unload tabs automatically like chrome can.

I was pleasantly surprised at the tab unloading settings under "memory saver" in ungoogled-chromium.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Software Internals Book Club"

clumsysmurf — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:48:39 +0000

"High Performance Browser Networking"

I wish there was an update to this book, reading it a while back I think it covered some proposed HTTP/2 features but definitely not HTTP/3.

Many of the issues discussed had to do with TCP itself.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"

clumsysmurf — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:23:23 +0000

Perhaps the reasons are not technical. Perhaps it has more to do with jurisdiction, not being physically dependent (or susceptible) to any physical state.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Just Fucking Use Go"

clumsysmurf — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:08:51 +0000

After a few years of Kotlin, I recently ran into what I consider to be some shortcomings here as well, with respect to returning errors. As we know, Kotlin does not have checked exceptions. Ok, but ...

The KEEP for Result goes into details, but basically there are a few ways of handling return values + errors:

1) throw exception if something goes wrong

2) return null if something goes wrong (stdlib XXXorNull)

3) Use Result in some cases, its error type is not paramerized and catches CancellationException

4) Use Arrow if Result doesn't meet your needs

5) Return Sealed Classes / Interfaces with all the possibilities.

Right now, I am going the Sealed Class interface route, but its such a verbose pain in the ass, so I only use it at certain levels of abstraction (like from a Repository, or library API, etc).

The code I needed to write was calling into okio, and it was not straightforward to figure out what kinds of exceptions would be thrown by the JVM layer underneath (docs just say IOException, but sublasses can be thrown).

Its sad to see they still haven't figured this out. Rich Errors was mentioned a year ago but its not even in preview yet. Its also not clear how it will work with Java interop.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Whole Nations"

clumsysmurf — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:30:29 +0000

Another data point

"New AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses"

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/kevin-o-learys-9-...

I wouldn't be surprised if they use this as an excuse to open up public lands for extraction.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Low-Dose Aspirin Usage for Primary Prevention Has Fallen by >50% Since 2018"

clumsysmurf — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:55:57 +0000

Its probably best to talk to your doctor about a CAC score. I don't know if its possible to tell stable vs unstable plaque yet, but a higher CAC score may benefit from aspirin.

U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers

clumsysmurf — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:27:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/banks-citizenship-data-collection-customer-accounts.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834025

Points: 116

# Comments: 179

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

clumsysmurf — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:00:23 +0000

And regarding (memory) performance, chromium has the "memory saver" settings for unloading tabs. I don't understand why mozilla thinks its acceptable to require users unload tabs manually. Who even does that?

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Texas A&M research links high-dose antioxidants to offspring birth defects"

clumsysmurf — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:40:17 +0000

The amount of NAC used in male mice was 400 mg/kg/day. The human equivalent dosage using FDA body surface area scaling method (for 60 kg adult) would be a total daily dose of ~1,946 mg.

Texas A&M research links high-dose antioxidants to offspring birth defects

clumsysmurf — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:40:17 +0000

Article URL: https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2026/02/02/more-isnt-always-better-texas-am-research-links-high-dose-antioxidants-to-offspring-birth-defects/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639993

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

The more evidence behind a therapy, the less the public trusts it

clumsysmurf — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:08:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/peptides-statins-research-trust-bpc-157/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626258

Points: 33

# Comments: 21

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

clumsysmurf — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:42:24 +0000

> now i have free credit monitoring

Might not even matter ...

"TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB."

https://www.propublica.org/article/credit-report-mistakes-cf...

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%"

clumsysmurf — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:58:35 +0000

Try oat groats, this will have the lowest GI. You can cook them like rice, even in a rice cooker, using the same technique ... for a firmer result use less water and cook for less time. You can start off with roughly 1:1 ratio of oat groats to water. I do .75 cups oat groats to 1.25 cups water.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal"

clumsysmurf — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:42:40 +0000

> PayPal’s stock has plummeted over the last year as it faces slowing growth and mounting competition in the digital-payments market.

What is the mounting competition? Does Paze factor into any of this?