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Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman's iris-scanning Orb to verify users

mhoad — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:12:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025/reddit-considers-iris-scanning-orb-developed-by-a-sam-altman-startup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44903732

Points: 16

# Comments: 3

New Hegseth Leak Reveals Secret Plan for Years of Troops on U.S. Streets

mhoad — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:38:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-memo-from-pete-hegseths-brother-reveals-plot-to-ramp-up-military-use-in-the-us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44791071

Points: 22

# Comments: 4

New comment by mhoad in "Web components are okay"

mhoad — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:44:58 +0000

It’s also just not actually true though. It’s not considered good practice to bundle your web components when publishing to npm for this exact reason. That’s something that should happen inside the final app itself where the components get used so you only have one instance of Lit for example if you are using that.

New comment by mhoad in "Do not build your Gov.uk service as a single-page application"

mhoad — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:19:00 +0000

Lit is also totally web standards compliant to be fair.

New comment by mhoad in "REPL for Dart"

mhoad — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 05:58:29 +0000

It would be cool if you could apply even the most basic reading comprehension here where it says there was zero change in team size and stop spreading nonsense.

New comment by mhoad in "REPL for Dart"

mhoad — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 21:42:21 +0000

That’s not actually correct I don’t know where you got that from. This is from this year and was built on top of a wider rewrite of their JS interop using new language features to make it essentially a zero cost abstraction.

Dart has had browser support and DOM APIs before but never had the same APIs you have in the web platform before.

New comment by mhoad in "REPL for Dart"

mhoad — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 21:40:50 +0000

They dropped that “client side” framing a while back thankfully. It’s considered a general purpose language at this point.

New comment by mhoad in "v0: Generate UI with simple text prompts"

mhoad — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:37:49 +0000

This looks like nightmare fuel.

New comment by mhoad in "Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React"

mhoad — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:01:37 +0000

Lit.dev has been nothing but great for me. Strong recommendation.

New comment by mhoad in "Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React"

mhoad — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:01:01 +0000

I don’t know if you actually read the article or not but just to be clear that was not the argument that was made.

It’s not just “not new” it’s considered to be actively worse than all of its peers in terms of things like performance and complexity, it’s actively a very questionable choice in a greenfield project in 2023.

New comment by mhoad in "Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK"

mhoad — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:59:20 +0000

Flutter overtook RN a while back in terms of popularity in a few different metrics if I recall correctly. I forget the specifics but something from GitHub and StackOverflow I think.

Regardless of the specifics I don’t think the narrative is true, Flutter has had substantial continued growth for years now.

New comment by mhoad in "Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK"

mhoad — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:19:19 +0000

Just as an FYI your information is a bit out of date. They rewrote their entire graphics pipeline a while back to solve exactly this.

This is what it looks like now in terms of performance if you want a demo https://flutter.gskinner.com/wonderous/

New comment by mhoad in "Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK"

mhoad — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:16:13 +0000

I’m actively trying to move more and more of my stuff into Dart these days it’s actually an amazing language to work with.

New comment by mhoad in "Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK"

mhoad — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:13:03 +0000

While that really was a big issue, that hasn’t been true for a while now.

New comment by mhoad in "Astro: All-in-one web framework designed for speed"

mhoad — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:28:01 +0000

This is why you are comparing it against every other site in the same situation. At the end of the day based on the data it’s entirely fair to say Next is not a framework known for producing anything other than substantially below average outcomes when it comes to performance.

New comment by mhoad in "Astro: All-in-one web framework designed for speed"

mhoad — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 10:57:09 +0000

Strong disagree on this one. We are talking about the difference between theoretical performance (what you COULD do) vs performance in reality (this is a dataset that measures all the various nextjs websites across the web and then compares them along well established benchmarks against the rest of the internet across time).

One of those two things is infinitely more valuable than the other.

New comment by mhoad in "Astro: All-in-one web framework designed for speed"

mhoad — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 10:42:00 +0000

For all of its marketing hype, Next is actually kind of dogshit when it comes to performance especially compared to something like Astro

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2022/mobile-performance-of-n...

New comment by mhoad in "Hollywood’s Cold War Dissidents in Ireland"

mhoad — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 21:19:58 +0000

I’m begging you to please actually learn the real story so you don’t have to run around embarrassing yourself in the future.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

New comment by mhoad in "I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter"

mhoad — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 14:40:00 +0000

You made an argument saying that even Google won’t use it for cross platform.

I have some context as to why it’s both a wrong and misleading statement.

When it came to the biggest money maker of the entire business this is what they picked. When it came to a new greenfield project for an entire OS… this is what they picked for the UI.

The statements you made about “the lessons they learned” is just some stuff you made up and isn’t actually supported by facts.

New comment by mhoad in "I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter"

mhoad — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 14:19:55 +0000

It’s less dramatic in real life https://dart.dev/guides/json even more so in Dart 3 https://dart.dev/language/records