Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502094

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I used FireFox for the same reasons, for years. Every time I started Chrome, it was a breath of fresh air. Everything was just slightly faster to react, to switch tabs, to scroll, to interact.

I kept reading posts about how the FireFox team was increasing performance, yet it never seemed to really impact it. Maybe because I often have several windows with a dozen tabs each (yes, one of those people.)

These days I have given up, and I haven't tried it for about two years now, maybe more. Is it any better? Does anyone know, for real, not a marketing blog post?

It still lives on the Dock, next to Safari and Chrome. I can't bear to remove the icon.

And Mozilla seems way off in the weeds with its product and corporate strategy. At this point, I'd pay for a non-Chromium, highly performant, privacy-first browser.

The same conclusion: v2 as baseline, v3 where possible.

I'm really surprised it's not standard in every toolchain to support arch levels like this today.

Some compilers like Clang allow multiple arch versions in one binary, runtime dispatched. I would love to implement this in our toolchain too.

[0] Please forgive the SEO-style title, it's, well, to get search engines to recognise what's in the article: https://blogs.remobjects.com/2026/01/26/fast-math-in-six-lan...

In my spare time I have been writing a library to render standard macOS controls with Liquid Glass.

It's shown me why they use it for the backgrounds: it's so heavily based on refraction (oddly, mostly on one axis, not sure if this is obvious visually!) that for something like a button, there's nothing to refract, therefore it looks very plain. You have to have a background for it to look good.[*] I can't help wondering at what happened internally: my personal pet theory, for which I have no evidence, is that someone missed Aqua, thought 'if we do it with shaders it will be new and shiny and we can release it', and that tech decision forced implementation aka glass backgrounds not foregrounds.

[*] My solution: add a background to buttons and other controls. I'm going for a look inspired by Lion. It doesn't have to be very prominent; it just has to be there for something to refract so your eyes see shape and recognise the glass.

We see so many examples of power hurting citizens in existing nations. The risk if the entire world had one political unity, of losing freedom, is extreme.

With multiple nations and blocs, at least some remain showing an example of what can exist in the others.

A while ago I did a bunch of work for our compiler[0], one post of which got a decent amount of HN attention[1]. Same answers: use v2 and v3.

Our posts focused on floating point, but this one does not: it focuses on bit-related instructions. So I see an (expected) clear consistency: regardless of the kind of instruction area, use something more modern than x64 v1. Nice to see. I still hope to find the time for a followup post on integer instructions at some point.

[0] https://blogs.remobjects.com/2026/01/26/fast-math-in-six-lan...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061062

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423173

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423114

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Good for you. I really mean that. I think people are winding you up in this thread, but keep your cool, and I admire publicly crediting and being proud of your wife. That’s a healthy relationship. Good for you.

Especially since if the earlier commits were so clearly AI authored yet without the Claude marker, surely you or anyone would be able to spot them. You could say, X commit does not have the Claude commit marker yet was AI written. But for all the speculation on this thread, I haven’t seen anyone actually doing that. What may be possible is that the rsync maintainers used AI to assist yet reviewed and edited themselves, as many devs do, and if so then the stats in this article are still notable: there are no poor quality outliers that can reliably be attributed to AI and if one specific release (3.4.0) was, the subsequent releases which presumably also had as much AI as this speculative hidden AI release only show improvement and thus act as a pro-AI argument.

The blog has many more datapoints than two. It compares many releases. You’re looking at 2-vs, not 2.

I looked at your paper[0] and was curious why it was named "drift" sort. Even searching for 'drift' didn't show me. I mainly ask because this is noted as a stable sort and the word 'drift' implies movement; I did not expect it, from the name, to be a stable sort.

I'd really like to see the Win2K-style docs on REST, for example.

Edit: it was right there, in bold, too. https://gist.github.com/theletterf/0b8ee1112fbd087f3141d0cad...

The issue for me is how buggy the modern features are. Continuity with the clipboard: sometimes I copy text on my phone, and it just never pastes on my Mac. Why? No idea. It's not even like text is a complex format. It just... never pastes.

Or this morning I spent ages trying to connect to my phone's personal hotspot. It was a foot away on the table. It kept saying it could not connect. Turn things off, turn them on again, turn off, on again... I eventually moved to where I have wifi. It's a nice day today and I wanted to be outside. Annoying.

And repeated grinding failures like this form a slow, slow, growth of real frustration and annoyance with Apple. I know I don't hold the same attitude to them these days that I used to, and I think it's the whole set of changes since they dropped Aqua. It's not a good OS any more.

And since clang/LLVM compile to it, gcc is as well.

VMs are truly everywhere.

Given how ms have been targets elsewhere, like font rendering, I am curious how much this increases the attack surface of the kernel.

The thread later mentions a second way to do it.

In this setup, how would cross-core communication work, including cross-thread? On DOS is there even the concept of threads, or would an app using this have to invent user-mode thread objects and scheduling?

You make me think I should reread, and I will start at the beginning here too.