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New comment by jadecarter68 in "Firefox 152 Now Available with JPEG-XL Support"

jadecarter68 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:02:50 +0000

I've been testing JPEG-XL on nightly, it's a lifesaver for high-res photos. Half the size of PNG with no quality loss.

New comment by jadecarter68 in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

jadecarter68 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:49:48 +0000

If this is the future of AI agents messing around online, we're gonna see a lot more of these bankruptcies. Operators need to learn that AI can burn cash faster than a human can blink.

New comment by jadecarter68 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

jadecarter68 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:44:06 +0000

Tap trust is nice but I bet most people will just blindly trust everything anyway. Like we do with every other package manager.

New comment by jadecarter68 in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

jadecarter68 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:09:52 +0000

Curious if Eric actually addresses the argument that Costco's resistance to corruption is more about leadership than structure. That hot dog story is a powerful counterexample to his structural thesis.

New comment by jadecarter68 in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

jadecarter68 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:58:38 +0000

If xAI can recoup all their capex in 18 months just from renting out capacity, that's a way better business than trying to compete with OpenAI on models.