Hacker News: cpeterso

New comment by cpeterso in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

cpeterso — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:41:48 +0000

Firefox Focus is called Klar (“clear” in German) in Germany because the Focus trademark is owned by a German news magazine.

New comment by cpeterso in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

cpeterso — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:51:58 +0000

Open your browser’s dev tools while loading a website and there’s usually a continuous stream of HTTP and JS errors and warnings. That websites actually work surprises me sometimes, but that’s the pragmatic beauty of the web.

New comment by cpeterso in "Mojo 1.0"

cpeterso — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:03:28 +0000

> LLVM is still involved, but they are using it differently than say, Rust or Zig.

Chris Lattner said in a Developer Voices podcast interview:

"Swift in a way was syntactic sugar for LLVM, at the very bottom of the stack it could talk directly to LLVM primitives. Mojo does basically that same trick, but it supercharges it by moving to this MLIR world."

New comment by cpeterso in "Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead"

cpeterso — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:49:01 +0000

I wish I could see Google Maps labels like this during a real flight!

Moving the Microsoft Edge extensions ecosystem forward with Manifest Version 3

cpeterso — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:31:48 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2026/08/07/moving-the-microsoft-edge-extensions-ecosystem-forward-with-manifest-version-3/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212917

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by cpeterso in "Zoom is now Chrome only"

cpeterso — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:29:10 +0000

Here is a Firefox bug report about the issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1944219. Mozilla has a User-Agent override intervention for Zoom on Android, but it's currently only in the Firefox Nightly builds.

New comment by cpeterso in "Zoom is now Chrome only"

cpeterso — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:29:04 +0000

New comment by cpeterso in "Zoom is now Chrome only"

cpeterso — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:45:17 +0000

Which Firefox version and OS version are using using? Android 10 or later?

Do you have any Firefox extensions installed?

If you test in Chrome, does the zoom.us/test page connect to a meeting in the browser or does it open the Zoom app?

New comment by cpeterso in "Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown"

cpeterso — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:54:21 +0000

Default cooldown for everyone is basically introducing a beta period for all packages.

New comment by cpeterso in "Almost Always Unsigned"

cpeterso — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:00:05 +0000

There was a golang proposal to change Go's default int type to arbitrary precision big int. It would avoid overflow bugs, but the proposal was closed (after eight years) due to concerns about compatibility reading serialized data and performance.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19623

Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites detect unwelcome visitors

cpeterso — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:30:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/22/cloudflare-teams-up-with-big-browsers-to-help-websites-tell-welcome-from-unwelcome-visitors/5259782

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666373

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

New comment by cpeterso in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

cpeterso — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:32:47 +0000

Why was SVN preferable over git for finished assets?

New comment by cpeterso in "Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?"

cpeterso — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:15:29 +0000

SPOILER:

> According to the new proof, that ceiling is roughly 14 riffle shuffles for a 52-card deck, if you cut your deck in a random place with each shuffle. Beyond that point, the cards will be fully mixed.

Great article and worth reading even though you now know the answer. :)

New comment by cpeterso in "Show HN: Script to bulk delete Claude chats from the web UI"

cpeterso — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:40:43 +0000

The Claude (and ChatGPT) web UI supports incognito/temporary chats that are discarded when you close the tab. Click the ghost or dotted speech bubble icon in the upper right corner of the page.

I use this as my default mode so I don't clutter my chat history with random, one-off questions I ask. Unfortunately, there is no way to change your mind and save a productive incognito chat after you've started chatting.

New comment by cpeterso in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

cpeterso — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:46:10 +0000

[delayed]

New comment by cpeterso in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

cpeterso — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:45:13 +0000

And Apple already has a $20B search partnership with Google they can build on.

New comment by cpeterso in "Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding"

cpeterso — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:20:08 +0000

It should be, unless there are new issues. This code change landed in Firefox 153 Nightly and 153 will become the next ESR version (July 21).

https://whattrainisitnow.com/release/?version=esr

New comment by cpeterso in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

cpeterso — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:03:55 +0000

more like the "Obama Awards Obama a Medal" meme:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/obama-awards-obama-a-medal

DeepMind CEO says those cutting jobs because of AI 'lack imagination'

cpeterso — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:21:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/nobel-prize-winner-demis-hassabis-says-ai-job-cuts-are-dumb-research-agrees/91348959

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364740

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by cpeterso in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

cpeterso — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:47:37 +0000

You can also include other md files like AGENTS.md in CLAUDE.md:

  @AGENTS.md