alberth

The team has been on a roll lately with massive fixes & improvements.

Like last months announcement of over 500 fixes.

https://webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-saf...

What’s new here?

OpenAI launched ads nearly 6-months ago.

Here’s the HN thread with 330 comments from then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949401

Don’t think of this as super intelligence. Think of it as vendor lock-in.

We have a good compare, which is cloud in the early 2000s.

Everyone (at the time) thought cloud compute costs would go to zero.

What most corporations didn’t realize is how entrenched your workflows and processes get when you adopt cloud and you become heavily locked in that ecosystem.

That same ecosystem lock-in is what the frontier labs are hoping for with AI.

Hi Jose

You’re an inspiration for many. Thank you.

I’m curious to know what your top 3 hopes for BEAM itself are for the coming years (in any area that you think would make it better).

Elixir is great.

OT: I wish more funding & development effort went into BEAM itself on making it more performant.

Note: I’m not talking concurrency. I’m talking pure raw performance.

Seems like it’s been a one person show for over a decade on making it faster.

Thanks for sharing.

How does your skills comparison to the offering from Capital One, as well,as what Visa published?

https://github.com/visa/visa-vulnerability-agentic-harness

Since you seem informed, can you help me understand how these work.

Are they glorified markdown skill files, or something more?

Buffer.com is famously open as well, if you like this kind of stuff.

Revenue: https://buffer.com/metrics

Expenses: https://buffer.com/transparent-pricing

Salaries of every employee (which seems like PII to me): https://buffer.com/salaries

And more: https://buffer.com/open

Dumb question: is using the built in passkey support on my iPhone not considered “hardware-backed”, even though iPhone is using device biometrics?

Even sillier than watching another human play soccer?

Like the World Cup.

Looks nice, congrats.

Ironically, my “Zen Mode” hack was just to use a smaller display … that way I only had room for 1-window open at a time.

GPT-5.6 is the first model where I’ve actually frustrated to use it.

I’m explicitly telling it to do something extremely specific and it’s just not listening to me.

Eg, I gave it an image to update. The image is sized 400x200 pixels. It then generates a new image at 300x300. I explicitly state to be 400x200 in size and it won’t listen.

Dumb question: Can someone help me understand whag it means to have a “harness” for agents (and why you need one)?

I’ve done some reading on the topic and am just not getting it.

Maybe it’s a bug but on iOS individual paid Pro account - I can no longer see which model is being used nor select which model I want.

This is helpful but ...

What's the distinction between Work and Codex again? Sorry for asking - but they read the same to me.

It's just a focus on coding vs non-coding work?

Reminds me of web development in the 1990s.

I honestly miss those days of deployment simplicity.

Given that M6 will be on TSMC smaller 2nm node and the first smaller node size in 3-years, it seems like the oddest of all years for the high-end Macs to skip.

Title: "a typeface for developers"

and now we're happy to expand the typeface with a new family called MonoLisa Text. The reasoning was to cover other use cases beyond coding with this proportional font.

Dumb question, when should a developer not use a monospaced font? I.e. when should they use MonaLisa Text

I'm sure I'm missing the obvious, but it is purely for LLM output use cases as the website implies (in which case why isn't Claude approach of using a serif font a better strategy).

Please don't take my comments are negative. Just genuinely curious, which is why I'm asking.

Sorry to hear your story.

Since I’ve never work at FAANG, does Google have strict procedures (and approvals) before launching a product? And if so, did this go through that process?

While I know criticizing Meta is popular, I'm not sure I'd agree with above.

Social networks didn't really exist before The Facebook. Understanding the potential market that could be created and turning down a $1B acquisition from Yahoo 20-years ago, at the time, seemed insane.

Also making the shift to mobile, when people thought that would be the death of FB is a remarkable story.

Identifying to acquire WhatsApp & Instagram, both laughed at when bought for the acquisition price at that time, now massive businesses for Meta (and their market cap value).

Meta AI glasses are surprisingly popular and growing. And more...

Note: I have no affiliation with Meta (not now or in the past)

---

EDIT: Many people I see underestimate what it takes to build a business. It is the classic “I could have built that in a weekend” critique. Maybe, but the product is only like 10% of the problem. 90% of the work (and hard part) is execution.

Great video by Tom Scott on this subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c

While not used on the site, don’t forget the practice of having an invisible 1x1 pixel to create table borders.

For many Americans, Greenspan was the only Fed Chair known widely by name by the general public.

Yes. Checked out twice.

No hearing loss at all.

My hearing is actually better than age appropriate, so the doctors say I’ll just have to live with it because they can’t detect it.

Happened 4-years ago.

I still notice it every night at bed. Or anytime it’s quiet.

I try not to think about it, because I feel like it gets amplified when I do.

But it’s daily for the last 4-years :(

Hope you’re ok now. Please see someone if you’re not.

Tinnitus

I swear my tinnitus is a result of use of AirPods.

I never wore any type of earphones ever. Then started using AirPods for calls, during workouts or on a plane. A year later I developed tinnitus and the only thing that changed in my life was wearing AirPods.

I’m no doctor, and who knows what caused my tinnitus. But it’s irreversible. I constantly hear a humming ring now and it’s super distracting, especially trying to go to bed.

I’m no doctor. But heads up for those who haven’t used inner ear headphones.

Ancient Aliens conflates two very different ideas.

The show’s core argument is that ancient civilizations were more advanced than we give them credit for. That may be true, but “more advanced” does not mean they had superior technology or help from aliens. It can simply mean they had technical knowledge, methods, or craftsmanship that we have since lost or forgotten.

Elon Musk has made a similar point about the US space program. We landed on the moon more than 50 years ago, but in some ways we now have to relearn how to do it (because we forgot how). That does not mean we had better technology in the 1960s, and it certainly does not mean aliens were involved. It means knowledge, systems, expertise, and institutional capability can fade over time. And that doesn't mean aliens were involved (as the tvshow would make you believe).

It was clear, clean and understandable.

Buttons looked like buttons.

Windows (which have frames), looked like windows.

And there was no distracting design elements.

Hence why I said in my original post:

>Makes sense. The ECC in consumer line is what created an entire market for use in inexpensive web hosting. Then AMD created their EPYC variants, and it wasn’t clear what the difference was between the consumer & Epyc models. reply

What’s the different between these two:

Consumer:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/90...

EPYC variant:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/4005-...