Hacker News: criticalfault

New comment by criticalfault in "Firefox confirms working on own adblocker [video]"

criticalfault — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:06:00 +0000

too little too late.

Andreas already said it in the latest video: ladybird has a basic and fast Implementation for content blocking in the pre-alpha version.

Mozilla just shows a disconnect from reality if they start working on it now, in 2026. But this is nothing new, they had a disconnect from their users for years... reflected in their market share.

New comment by criticalfault in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

criticalfault — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:23:45 +0000

not according. to my experience.

regulation questions. even the simple ones, AI gets all the time wrong. it wasn't Mythos, but other models like opus.

I can adjust the view on this topic if/when we get access to mythos.

New comment by criticalfault in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

criticalfault — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:24:52 +0000

or acpi.

New comment by criticalfault in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

criticalfault — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:23:45 +0000

it's an UEFI Problem

they seem to have dealt with this for the server hardware

New comment by criticalfault in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"

criticalfault — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:34:01 +0000

there is an explanation: Motorola is extremely bad at software.

opinion based on their support system, correspondence and android updates,

New comment by criticalfault in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

criticalfault — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:30:39 +0000

and is Qualcomm is sleeping on Linux?

New comment by criticalfault in "Dear Microsoft, enough is enough"

criticalfault — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:29:24 +0000

"In 2018, Google removed its original motto from the preface of its code of conduct but retained it in the last sentence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil

New comment by criticalfault in "Netflix spent over $135B on film, TV over last decade"

criticalfault — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:46:33 +0000

not 100% sure if theirs...

the tomorrow war marvels the punisher witcher

New comment by criticalfault in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

criticalfault — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:35:45 +0000

they made a deal with Motorola, from next year we should have an alternative.

in any case, google started to cause issues with pixel 10, so it's not as easy to port it

New comment by criticalfault in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

criticalfault — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:20:52 +0000

one person's villain is another person's hero.

I imagine if they would be named and shamed, they would get huge contracts in companies like oracle.

New comment by criticalfault in "Write some software, give it away for free"

criticalfault — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:49:05 +0000

wouldn't this apply everywhere?

let's say agriculture. if you make one tone of tomatoes, one family cannot consume this in a year without becoming red. so should farmers also give it for free?

what about artists? it's not that their work even has a utility function...

New comment by criticalfault in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

criticalfault — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:34:55 +0000

I wonder if this could also work for (e)uv

New comment by criticalfault in "Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)"

criticalfault — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:17:32 +0000

does ipv6 require Dual Stack Operation?

New comment by criticalfault in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

criticalfault — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:04:34 +0000

since you have a lot of experience, can I ask what do you think about this:

- skipping cmake completely? would this be feasible?

- integration of other languages in the project?

- how to handle qt?

New comment by criticalfault in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

criticalfault — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:48:49 +0000

I meant it's fine for others to want to move faster and hire more people (like Google). just replying to your sentence. it's fine for others to want things different...

About ladybird, I think it is quite a good benchmark:

- they have accomplished a task many thought impossible in the modern world

- they accomplished it while having a handful of people

- they had a fraction of resources compared to both google and Mozilla. only about a year ago they had few hundred of thousands as support money to get them started.

The engine may not be finished yet. may not be as performant as the other two. but they did a 3rd engine. and given 10% of the budget Mozilla has, they would progress much more. Ladybird Team has shown how everything about Mozilla is mismanaged and simply broken.

New comment by criticalfault in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

criticalfault — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:34:00 +0000

that's fine.

point is that Mozilla is wasting money and having 4000 people working on chrome may not be the correct benchmark.

New comment by criticalfault in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

criticalfault — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:19:01 +0000

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New comment by criticalfault in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

criticalfault — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:16:12 +0000

take the reference of ladybird.

in a couple of years they built the engine from scratch. it's going to soon enter Alpha. how many people from ladybird built that engine? about 10?

all while everyone has said that modern web makes this task impossible

New comment by criticalfault in "Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)"

criticalfault — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:58:22 +0000

we were also sad. still the browser I ever used.

but, maybe the company didn't adjust well? maybe it was a bad time to do this, but ladybird is not a big company and they seem to be progressing well.