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New comment by haddr in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

haddr — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:07:12 +0000

I think they had to solve the TCP connection, as normally you can't easily implement TCP sockets in WASM. So I suppose they just need to tunnel all the connection through some websocket.

New comment by haddr in "Automate Excel with Python: From manual grind to one-click workflow"

haddr — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:04:22 +0000

Many negative comments here stem from readers applying some specific corporate contexts and dismissing the book's use cases. That misses the point. This book isn't an advanced automation manual for 2026. It’s an excellent book for beginners who want to learn how to automate some tedious work.

New comment by haddr in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

haddr — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:37:14 +0000

So what happened to Meta after those successful llama 3 model releases? They really made competing models back then. If felt like they have right people, strategy and good results. Now it feels they have neither of those…

New comment by haddr in "Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art"

haddr — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:59:46 +0000

Is that monorepo heat map visualisation also reproducible for other repos? It kicks ass

New comment by haddr in "Why IPv6 is the only way forward"

haddr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:47:52 +0000

the link to the full table somehow doesn't work for me

New comment by haddr in "France pulls last gold held in US"

haddr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:44:56 +0000

Check what happened to the Spanish gold before the end of the Spanish civil war. I think it would be even more dramatic movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Gold_(Spain)

New comment by haddr in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

haddr — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:12:29 +0000

About a year ago the whole situation changed and Microsoft started to push everyone to their own Data Engineering solution (Fabric) that back then was really half-baked.

New comment by haddr in "Simplenote is no longer in active development"

haddr — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:20:30 +0000

That's sad! Simplenote is a really useful and quick note taking app that's minimal but not missing anything for this kind of app. It's like notational velocity but done in a clean way, and synchronizing across devices. For me it was really enough for many years.

PS. And there is this surprise when you discover that all notes are versioned.

New comment by haddr in "Delphi is 31 years old – innovation timeline"

haddr — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:36:36 +0000

Creating a simple application that had a database backend, data presentation gui and some simple CRUD logic took like 15-30 mins. All from scratch. How does it compare to today’s tools? And I am not talking about taking some ready off the shelf solution that you don’t really understand internally…

Those were good times and I really regret all those mishaps that happened to this great ecosystem and its eventual collapse :(

New comment by haddr in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

haddr — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:04:27 +0000

Would you share the link to the answer?

New comment by haddr in "I'm just having fun"

haddr — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:16:33 +0000

It probably starts with the habit of writing words without using the Shift key or diacritics. Just to be quick. At least, that’s how I’ve noticed this behavior in myself.

New comment by haddr in "Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation"

haddr — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:10:06 +0000

There are also some medieval reenactment groups who do some real battles (with rules of course) and that is totally about fighting with each other. Something like a fight club but set in medieval context.

New comment by haddr in "U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%"

haddr — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:48:20 +0000

adjust that for the population...

New comment by haddr in "Why was Apache Kafka created?"

haddr — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 20:46:40 +0000

Couldn’t disagree more… if you go the ZMQ you are left alone handling many things you get in Kafka for free. If you have any sort of big data problems then good luck. You are going to reinvent the wheel.

New comment by haddr in "The Promised LAN"

haddr — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:34:55 +0000

Actually the manifesto is linked in the second paragraph. Reading this page and then the manifesto was good experience for me.

New comment by haddr in "The Universal Tech Tree"

haddr — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:53:44 +0000

There is this theory of „adjacent possible”, that quite well explains why the technology develops the way it does. Some enabler technologies or inventions or even economy are just not just there yet for next thing to happen.

New comment by haddr in "The Difference Between Downloading and Streaming"

haddr — Mon, 26 May 2025 22:38:09 +0000

Is there actually any browser that could store streaming content before displaying it, after all decoding etc?

New comment by haddr in "The Fallacy of Techno-Feudalism (2024)"

haddr — Sat, 10 May 2025 12:33:26 +0000

The counterarguments are really weak to refuse the analogy. They actually might convince a more aware reader that the opposite is true. E.g. Voluntary participation argument asserts that everyone has choice. This is equally true as saying that an alcoholic can simply stop drinking. In the economy where the winner takes all this is not that easy…

New comment by haddr in "Linux as co-operative Windows process (2017)"

haddr — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:48:39 +0000

It seems that today we can achieve similar functionality in fundamentally different ways (WSL, WSL2/virtualisation, Cygwin, etc.) What in your opinion is today's closest solution to colinux? and why we don't see such clever solutions today?

New comment by haddr in "Linux as co-operative Windows process (2017)"

haddr — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:30:46 +0000

It’s a pity that this project died. I used it and it was really awesome.