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New comment by doodlesdev in "The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility"

doodlesdev — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:11:29 +0000

React is software development cancer and it just entered metastasis. It can't be cured anymore, it will spread throughut the entire stack and kill it from the inside. We already have it on the web, on mobile, on Windows 11 and, now, it's coming for the terminal emulator.

Choices

doodlesdev — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:16:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/12/choices/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587741

Points: 2

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New comment by doodlesdev in "Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P"

doodlesdev — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:24:16 +0000

Absolutely, but empirical evidence shows that IoT devices are far and large vulnerable way more often than other types of devices on most networks, because modern smartphones are pretty well secured and many users that are less tech-savvy are abandoning their bloatware-ridden Windows notebooks for Android-based or iOS-based tablets.

In my opinion, this shows a lack of accountability in the industry as a whole over security issues on devices. Ultimately, this won't change unless tight legislation is passed to punish or prevent insecure IoT devices (however you would like to measure that) or unless companies actually start to become accountable for releasing insecure software and hardware, losing out on future sales, which requires a cultural shift in how most people think about appliances and computing as a whole.

New comment by doodlesdev in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

doodlesdev — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:09:10 +0000

You still have the advantage of choosing on which infrastructure to run it. Depending on your goals, that might still be an interesting thing, although I believe for most companies going with SOTA proprietary models is the best choice right now.

New comment by doodlesdev in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

doodlesdev — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:59:45 +0000

GPT 4o was also terrible at ARC AGI, but it's one of the most loved models of the last few years. Honestly, I'm a huge fan of the ARC AGI series of benchmarks, but I don't believe it corresponds directly to the types of qualities that most people assess whenever using LLMs.

Private Processing for WhatsApp – Technical White Paper and Security Guide

doodlesdev — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 02:09:08 +0000

Article URL: https://ai.meta.com/static-resource/private-processing-technical-whitepaper

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020409

Points: 3

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New comment by doodlesdev in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

doodlesdev — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:47:53 +0000

   > I don't get why every language's community doesn't just do the same thing: roll an idiomatic UI lib on top of SDL.

   > I haven't worked on screen reader support, yet. Support for alternative text input is built into SDL. UI size scaling is a feature I plan on adding eventually.

Well, that's why :)

For most serious applications, accessibility isn't a second thought, it's a requirement and it's very hard to implement correctly.

New comment by doodlesdev in "AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release"

doodlesdev — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:22:02 +0000

Honestly, this is absurdly funny, but it makes me wonder whether we'll ever see Computer Science and Computer Engineering as seriously as other branches of STEM. I've been debating recently whether I should keep working in this field, after years of repeatedly seeing incompetence and complacency create disastrous effects in the real world.

Oftentimes, I wonder if the world wouldn't be a bit better without the last 10 or 15 years of computer technology.

New comment by doodlesdev in "SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned"

doodlesdev — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:08:16 +0000

How so? I tend to disagree with the general statement that this is common in the infosec world, but I'd like to understand better what you mean by that.

New comment by doodlesdev in "Prism"

doodlesdev — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:02:12 +0000

Honestly, hallucinated references should simply get the submitter banned from ever applying again. Anyone submitting papers or anything with hallucinated references shall be publicly shamed. The problem isn't only the LLMs hallucinating, it's lazy and immoral humans who don't bother to check the output either, wasting everyone's time and corroding public trust in science and research.

New comment by doodlesdev in "Prism"

doodlesdev — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:58:01 +0000

Which proves its own points! Absolutely genius! The cost asymmetry of producing and checking for garbage truly is becoming a problem in the recent years, with the advent of LLMs and generative AI in general.

New comment by doodlesdev in "It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed"

doodlesdev — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:33:28 +0000

   > Submitted those at like 10 or 11 pm and went to sleep.

That's a classic :)

Hopefully this hasn't caused any real harm. At least it sure did give me a good laugh when I first saw it.

New comment by doodlesdev in "Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users"

doodlesdev — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:10:21 +0000

They don't care. Azure has a revenue higher than GCP, losing only to AWS. It's Microsoft's new baby, and they love it, no matter what you want to run there. Also, they're still the 4th largest company by market cap.

Honestly, only us nerds in Hacker News care about this kind of stuff :) (and that's why I love it here).

edit: also, the article cites OpenAI did adopt Azure Cosmos DB for new stuff they want to shard. Still shows how far you can take PostgreSQL though.

New comment by doodlesdev in "Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite"

doodlesdev — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:52:24 +0000

SQLite is public-domain software and one of the best well-maintained pieces of software around today. You absolutely have to be very careful before saying things like these, as they bring lots of implications. I wouldn't call it offensive _per se_, but I'd say it's in bad faith at least. I'd just remove that if I were the devs, because everything else there makes me find the project at least interesting.

New comment by doodlesdev in "Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

doodlesdev — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:53:40 +0000

  > everything seems worse than eclipse

I would say the answer is that's not the general perception of the software. I'm personally migrating out of VSCode, because having to use the OpenVSX registry to have open-source builds makes me mad (I've since migrated to Zed for now, since I've never adapted well to neovim nor emacs).

In general, I believe most people see VSCode as "good enough". Maybe not the best text editor, but it's good enough at everything it does and extensible enough to the point that there's really no point to go for anything else unless you have a really good reason to.

   > Im guessing the answer is probably Java is why eclipse is out of favor.

My previous answer is thinking about editors in general. But in the case of Eclipse I'd say you're right LOL.

New comment by doodlesdev in "Skip is now free and open source"

doodlesdev — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:02:12 +0000

You said "fundamentally", not as a rule of thumb :)

New comment by doodlesdev in "Skip is now free and open source"

doodlesdev — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:45:01 +0000

Flutter doesn't use Skia anymore and you can absolutely bind to native libraries from Flutter with ease [0]. The current strategy (build hooks) is relatively new. You can also just write Kotlin or Swift for your application [1] using channel APIs. Finally, you can still have native pages in your app if needed for certain widgets [2] and still save time rewriting everything and all of your business logic for every single other page of the application that doesn't need those widgets. In fact, you can even mix native widgets and Flutter-rendered widgets in the same screen.

[0]: https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/bind-native-co...

[1]: https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/platform-chann...

[2]: https://docs.flutter.dev/add-to-app

New comment by doodlesdev in "Skip is now free and open source"

doodlesdev — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:27:34 +0000

   > This fundamentally does not work for anyone with more than 10M+ installs just like you can't write Mandarin and English in one script.

Provably false. My bank app (Nubank) is written in Flutter and it's one of the most used banks in Brazil (100mi+ clients who rely on the iPhone or Android app, since it's a digital bank with no web interface).

New comment by doodlesdev in "Light Mode InFFFFFFlation"

doodlesdev — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:20:50 +0000

Yes, that's what's being discussed here. I'm disagreeing with the people who are defending using pure white as a background in light mode.

Pure black is more understandable, because it helps with battery life on mobile and notebooks, although I believe it shouldn't be the default dark mode.

New comment by doodlesdev in "Light Mode InFFFFFFlation"

doodlesdev — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 01:09:40 +0000

   > I’ve never met a person saying they hate books and wish they were white on black.

That's because paper used to print books isn't always white. Most of the books I've read this year and last year had a somewhat yellow-ish tint to them (they were newly printed). I know I'm not the only person bothered by pure white paper in books.

I absolutely agree about setting brightness correctly, though. It's very usual for me to instantly reduce brightness whenever I have to use someone's computer. No idea how people use their screens so bright.