Hacker News: thefilmore

New comment by thefilmore in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

thefilmore — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:41:32 +0000

This is the version used in macOS since 15.0.

The SLAX Scripting Language: An Alternate Syntax for XSLT

thefilmore — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:00:50 +0000

Article URL: http://juniper.github.io/libslax/slax-manual.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333823

Points: 43

# Comments: 12

New comment by thefilmore in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

thefilmore — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:49:17 +0000

400k lines of code per scc

New comment by thefilmore in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

thefilmore — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:05:19 +0000

https://x.com/tim_cook/status/2034979891926769864

New comment by thefilmore in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

thefilmore — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:40:51 +0000

Yup. This was so jarring to read. Shame.

Will Software Engineering Survive?

thefilmore — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:16:50 +0000

Article URL: https://akr.am/blog/posts/will-software-engineering-survive

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128147

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by thefilmore in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

thefilmore — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:54:45 +0000

It's true.

https://archive-is.tumblr.com/post/808911640210866176/people...

AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans

thefilmore — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:03:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/ai_code_bugs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049775

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by thefilmore in "I guess I kinda get why people hate AI"

thefilmore — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:55:17 +0000

> There's a mass psychosis happening

Any guesses on how long this lasts?

-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C

thefilmore — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:05:21 +0000

Article URL: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035088

Points: 108

# Comments: 122

New comment by thefilmore in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

thefilmore — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:31:09 +0000

My zsh config has three things:

    setopt PROMPT_SUBST ; PS1='[%n@%m %c$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")]\$ '
    bindkey "^R" history-incremental-search-backward
    autoload -Uz compinit && compinit

The first one is mentioned in `git-prompt.sh` that comes with git, which needs to be sourced as well.

New comment by thefilmore in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

thefilmore — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:02:22 +0000

Author here. Thanks for sharing this. It seems they released an updated version of this analysis last year [1]. It matches what I saw when analyzing the IPA. I tried to do a deeper analysis on the code itself using several tools, including Google's own bloaty [2] which was not very useful without symbols, classdumpios [3] which revealed something like 50k interfaces starting with "ComGoogle", and Ghidra [4], which I left running for a day to analyze the binary, but kept hanging and freezing so I gave up on it. Perhaps comparing the Android and iOS code could lead to something more fruitful.

[1] https://x.com/emergetools/status/1943060976464728250

[2] https://github.com/google/bloaty

[3] https://github.com/lechium/classdumpios

[4] https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?

thefilmore — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:46:13 +0000

Article URL: https://akr.am/blog/posts/why-is-the-gmail-app-700-mb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514692

Points: 436

# Comments: 393

How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet

thefilmore — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 06:36:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/809081/enshittification-cory-doctorow-platforms-ai-monopoly-big-tech-interview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788259

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

Defunct Keys and Odd Commands Still Bedevil Today's PC User (1999)

thefilmore — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:16:53 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/circuits/articles/12keys.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517125

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Gentoo on macOS

thefilmore — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:38:33 +0000

Article URL: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/Darwin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45512834

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

OpenWRT vs. RDK vs. PrplOS

thefilmore — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:51:41 +0000

Article URL: https://pyjamabrah.com/posts/battle-router-titans/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312191

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk

thefilmore — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 15:23:48 +0000

Article URL: https://akr.am/blog/posts/parsing-json-in-forty-lines-of-awk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405342

Points: 129

# Comments: 60

Apple Tends to Do Right by Apps It Acquires (2024)

thefilmore — Wed, 28 May 2025 15:00:21 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/apple_tends_to_do_right_by_apps_it_acquires

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44116731

Points: 2

# Comments: 6

Show HN: Search Google and Bing at the same time

thefilmore — Sat, 24 May 2025 14:52:38 +0000

I noticed the quality of Google search results was sometimes poorer than Bing's, so I created this page to search both and I've been using it as my default search engine for the past week. Note that you'll need to open Google result links in a new tab due to the cross-origin policy.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081517

Points: 2

# Comments: 0