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New comment by csmantle in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

csmantle — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:30:47 +0000

I failed to see why this would be something that "comes after Git" from a VCS perspective.

The line-based diff(1)/diff3(1)/patch(1) kit often works, and that mindset thrives and gets carried till today. Many toolkits and utilities have been designed to make it more ergonomic, and they are good. Jujutsu is an example. We also have different theories and implementations, some even more algebraically sound like Darcs and Pijul.

But GitHub the Platform is another story, given that they struggled to achieve 90% availability these days.

New comment by csmantle in "Isseven"

csmantle — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:41:43 +0000

This Is Seven as a Service.

Colleague.skill

csmantle — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:17:44 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/titanwings/colleague-skill/blob/main/README_EN.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573310

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Kbooboo: Find Linux kernel maintainer contacts from dmesg stack trace

csmantle — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:46:31 +0000

Article URL: https://git.infradead.org/~rw/kcontact/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475617

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2019)

csmantle — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:19:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441882

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Meet Kit, your companion for a new internet era

csmantle — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:15:17 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/meet-kit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421228

Points: 28

# Comments: 3

New comment by csmantle in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

csmantle — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:13:42 +0000

Another important aspect is that, without an external library like `wabt`, I can't just open Notepad, write some inline WASM/WAT in HTML and preview it in a browser, in the same way that HTML+CSS+JS works. Having to obtain a full working toolchain is not very friendly for quick prototyping and demonstrative needs.

New comment by csmantle in "PCB Tracer"

csmantle — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:18:56 +0000

If all the app need is to upload a photo of PCB, is more than sufficient. It's been baseline years ago.

For download, it can download from a blob URI. This is not an uncommon practice.

If (not verified since I'm using Firefox) it claims that "Gerber files are composed of many individual files so that those two don't suffice" and the app does involve Gerber processing, it could have been solved by introducing a zip library.

New comment by csmantle in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

csmantle — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:46:49 +0000

This reminded me of <https://xkcd.com/2893/>.

New comment by csmantle in "GitHub code view fails to load when content contains non-ASCII characters"

csmantle — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:30:54 +0000

Related threads:

* https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/188156 ("[2026-02-27] Incident Thread")

* https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/188151 ("Having trouble finding & showing repository's wiki page with non-ASCII page title")

* https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/188152 ("Broken UI and 404 to files and directories with non-ASCII names")

GitHub code view fails to load when content contains non-ASCII characters

csmantle — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:30:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/kv1lzpgzr9yp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176117

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by csmantle in "Undeleted XAA, making X up to >200x faster Accelerated Again"

csmantle — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:16:40 +0000

Undeleted XAA, making X up to >200x faster Accelerated Again

csmantle — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:16:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.patreon.com/posts/undeleted-xaa-x-151028801

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161776

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by csmantle in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

csmantle — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:54:08 +0000

This is just so hilarious. They'll eventually have to add "man man" to the list.

New comment by csmantle in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

csmantle — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:12:22 +0000

> I could recompile it but compiling firefox is a pain in the ...

Would second this. Mach uses Python, and the dependencies they use are a pain whenever no pre-built wheels are available. Especially so when you see that an "optional" Mach dependency for build system telemetry is what busting the configuration (not build) stage...

New comment by csmantle in "Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS"

csmantle — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:55:33 +0000

I think we can look forward to running this on more non-Chrome browsers once @function [0] gets wider support?

[0]: https://caniuse.com/wf-function

New comment by csmantle in "Font Rendering from First Principles"

csmantle — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:04:56 +0000

Header-only libs can help avoiding the troubles and complexity of linker setup. This might be even more important on Windows, which this lib "explicitly support".

Arch Linux Running Well on LoongArch

csmantle — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:40:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/arch-linux-loongarch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996884

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by csmantle in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

csmantle — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:15:47 +0000

Wow. LLMs can really imitate human sarcasm and personal attacking well, sometimes exceeding our own ability in doing so.

Of course, there must be some human to take responsibilities for their bots.

New comment by csmantle in "LLMs as the new high level language"

csmantle — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:06:06 +0000

If you are referring to timestamps, buildids, comptime environments, hardwired heuristics for optimization, or even bugs in compilers -- those are not the same kind of non-determinism as in LLMs. The former ones can be mitigated by long-standing practices of reproducible builds, while the latter is intrinsic to LLMs if they are meant to be more useful than a voice recorder.