Hacker News: tarcon

New comment by tarcon in "Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS"

tarcon — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:28:41 +0000

"The earlier implementation could not be driven to zero of them, because boxing was load-bearing in its emitter"

In the docs of the repo of their TS to C++ compiler. https://github.com/geastack/compiler

New comment by tarcon in "Qwen Image 2.1"

tarcon — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:04:50 +0000

I think there was a lot more brainpower invested in the media generation side of things. The noise-based diffusion technique is further developed. It had a discovery of applying a physics-based understanding of Brownian motion to guide it. Image generation has comparatively simple training process - this is an image with dog, and without dog (contrastive learning).

Might be worth to watch the diffusion based LLMs.

New comment by tarcon in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

tarcon — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:47:11 +0000

That's just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsharp_masking and has been around since decades.

New comment by tarcon in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

tarcon — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:08:54 +0000

After you clamped the stem, the preload job of the cap is done and it can be replaced.

New comment by tarcon in "You might want to build your WebApp in Canvas instead of HTML"

tarcon — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:33:56 +0000

Had to remember how ads looked like when Flash was popular. We had fullscreen ads that interacted with the content!

Interactive Flash Banner Ads Animation from the 2000s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Lu8BsjvK0

New comment by tarcon in ""Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023)"

tarcon — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:36:27 +0000

You mean people come to hate code reviews.

If you don't use those rules, you'll argue about something else in the code reviews. Likely something even more ambigous that wasn't explicitly written down for everyone as a baseline.

New comment by tarcon in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

tarcon — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:48:19 +0000

I am surprised by the rather bad output. It doesn't achieve qwen image 1 quality in composition or anatomical correctness. Tested on chat.qwen.ai

I am seeing third legs and glowing eyes. It's a Microsoft Lens level of quality and that one was pulled.

New comment by tarcon in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

tarcon — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:32:28 +0000

Contrary to that. The saying - Better to have a bad abstraction than none - was born from spaghetti code pain.

New comment by tarcon in "Deno Desktop"

tarcon — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:04:43 +0000

They really did their best comparing it with other tools here https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/comparison/

New comment by tarcon in "Apple Foundation Models"

tarcon — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:17:51 +0000

Apple has some clever mechanics to protect user data. I had to work with App tracking stuff lately and their approach to keeping user details private with anonymized cohorts (SKAN, Differential Privacy) before reporting tracking events to third party platforms was surprisingly well thought out. There is value in having them in your loop if you care about privacy.

New comment by tarcon in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

tarcon — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:37:01 +0000

Using makeup and decoration to escape facial recognition: https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/48030/1/anti-sur...

New comment by tarcon in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

tarcon — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:35:32 +0000

I guess you can still be first to Linkedin and get all of the fame.

New comment by tarcon in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

tarcon — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:36:36 +0000

Mechanical exoskeletons should amplify your strength, not atrophy it.

If the brain is like a muscle, it won't work.

New comment by tarcon in "All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)"

tarcon — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:06:47 +0000

Has anyone tried to breath space? :)

New comment by tarcon in "Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps"

tarcon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:46:43 +0000

Do we really have no way to build this in a single programming language and base database?

IndexDB, Postgres, Javascript, Typescript, Clojure. Not bad, but not much more attractive than the usual technology zoo any startup seems to end up with.

New comment by tarcon in ""Collaboration" Is Bullshit"

tarcon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:58:20 +0000

Collaboration has structure. The structure is the result of "the activity to create and maintain a shared understanding of a problem in order to solve it" - which is a definition of collaboration. I don't think collaboration requires a hierarchy more than it requires a tool for groupwork.

New comment by tarcon in "Apple: Enough Is Enough"

tarcon — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:20:06 +0000

They also support a large number of previous OS. If you hard reset your 2013 Mac, it'll download OSX Mountain Lion.

New comment by tarcon in "My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs"

tarcon — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:56:24 +0000

"Programmers are the ultimate detail managers. All the tiny little details that nobody else wants to deal with wind up in our laps." - Robert C. Martin

Let's see if AI makes PMs care for details.

New comment by tarcon in "Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use"

tarcon — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:32:50 +0000

How does it compare to https://github.com/penpot/penpot?

New comment by tarcon in "Prism"

tarcon — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:10:28 +0000

This is a actual prompt in the video: "What are the papers in the literature that are most relevant to this draft and that I should consider citing?"

They probably wanted: "... that I should read?" So that this is at least marketed to be more than a fake-paper generation tool.