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New comment by sroussey in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

sroussey — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:17:50 +0000

Send everything to the iOS notification summary which you then don’t look at. Uber and others can send time sensitive notifications and those don’t go in the summary. It’s basically a junk notification folder.

Works well.

New comment by sroussey in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

sroussey — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:41:47 +0000

My setup always has an adversarial loop, when speccing, when planning, when building. It never finds everything though, even obvious things. So I have copilot check at the end and it finds things. But for whatever reason, maybe magic prompting, I don’t know, but I have a Claude routine that checks all commits of the last 24 hours and it has fresh PRs every morning. Legit ones too.

Npmjs.com has Cloudflare captcha on their suggestion API

sroussey — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:54:15 +0000

Yes, this means their search box is broken. If you see no suggestions when searching, you must click the button to load a new page with search results, which also has a captcha, but it is a html page so you can click it. After that, the suggestions api will stop returning html and start returning json for suggestions.

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New comment by sroussey in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

sroussey — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:09:39 +0000

There is another by Meta for react native. Forgot the name.

New comment by sroussey in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

sroussey — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:06:48 +0000

I don’t think changing from zig to rust suddenly means that don’t know what a certain file contains or how it works or how it relates to other files.

It’s all the same just different syntax. Which, by the way, is why it looks ugly to rust developers. The devs wanted the code to look familiar to them.

I do think they should have called this 2.0 though. Would not feel such a rush (1.3.14 has a few regressions, and no one really cares because there are lots of small rust fires now).

Overall, the bigger issue is that bun chases shiny objects. But never finishes. Just look at test stuff. Most of vistest, but not all. Most of jest, but not all. Most of pnpm, but not all. Now we have image stuff, so most of sharp, but not all. dev server? Most of vite, but you guessed it… not all. Long running process… mostly like node but with memory leaks (and a motivation for rust I’m sure).

When I saw them posting about the Image routines my heart sank. Another shiny object. Coincided with test bugs so I moved to vitest completely.

New comment by sroussey in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

sroussey — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:05:56 +0000

But not open up to competitors like Visa.

New comment by sroussey in "CODA: Rewriting Transformer Blocks as GEMM-Epilogue Programs"

sroussey — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:55:59 +0000

I imagine this is what’s already done for AI laying out hardware design.

New comment by sroussey in "AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center"

sroussey — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:24:40 +0000

It’s cheaper to use lots of water for cooling than to make a closed system where you have to cool it yourself. Easy solution is to only give them a small pipe for restrooms.

New comment by sroussey in "SpaceX S-1"

sroussey — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:02:07 +0000

Tesla loses out on that revenue since it was their chips to begin with, right?

New comment by sroussey in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

sroussey — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:52:25 +0000

My ebay account is partially suspended -- i can buy but i can not sell. Of course i asked why! But they refuse to tell me.

New comment by sroussey in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

sroussey — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:51:49 +0000

Or the account started doing something nefarious (assuming one of their customers as root cause, not railway itself) that started causing real problems and Google shut it down.

The problem with not having the data is that it’s easy to make assumptions.

New comment by sroussey in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

sroussey — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:31:03 +0000

The plus and max models have never been open as far as I know.

New comment by sroussey in "Google changes its search box"

sroussey — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:25:06 +0000

To change anything on the home page of google, amazon, etc, must be a hair-raising experience for the people making those changes.

New comment by sroussey in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

sroussey — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:37:41 +0000

Long term, it can be better to slowly refactor parts of your code base into the way the model expects it to be. Sometimes fighting the gradient of code’s uniqueness vs expectation is not worth it.

New comment by sroussey in "California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down"

sroussey — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:14:31 +0000

That’s not how things work as far par as participating on the back end of a specific project (which is contractual, not entity based). Thats a profit /loss sharing entity setup for legal accounting reasons (the entity files taxes). Generally not even required since the studio does this at their corp level. Even LLCs will pass these through. This would likely be do some partner/investor.

The contracts that celebrities get on adjusted gross (adjusted is doing 100x the work of the word gross in this context) have no specific entity revenue in mind. If costs show up later after some cash has been distributed, people absolutely freak out to give money back, so you need an arrangement that works such that that doesn’t happen.

Plenty of agents over the years sold celebrities the idea of gross on first dollar and couldn’t be bothered to read the proposed contract which led to many publicized lawsuits.

New comment by sroussey in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

sroussey — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:17 +0000

Can this be converted to onnx or otherwise be used in a browser?

New comment by sroussey in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

sroussey — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:53:25 +0000

> What is the business model of Wikipedia?

Donations. Have you donated lately?

Wikipedia is cheap compared to creating and training models.

I don’t think donations will suffice at all.

As an example, we had millions of web developers download and install Firebug before browsers shipped their own dev tools. Donations over the course of multiple years would have paid my salary for a month if I were not a volunteer.

But from the “it’s fine” point of view, models will be baked into your OS.

Then later models will be embedded into hardware. Likely only OS makers models.

New comment by sroussey in "I’ve banned query strings"

sroussey — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:54:16 +0000

Indeed I would expect pass through with no changes.

Though there are “smart” CDNs that will resize images etc. all beats are off for those.

New comment by sroussey in "I’ve banned query strings"

sroussey — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:59:36 +0000

It’s a string between ? and # isn’t well defined. Or it is and it says very little.

New comment by sroussey in "I’ve banned query strings"

sroussey — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:56:48 +0000

What’s do you mean by correctly?