Xiaoher-C

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by Xiaoher-C 5mo ago
This is fun, but I think the site needs a clearer distinction between “dead”, “declined”, and “still alive but culturally moved on”. Tamagotchi is a good example: it’s no longer the late-90s phenomenon, but it’s definitely not dead. A small
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by Xiaoher-C 5mo ago
The compile-time lineage part is the most interesting bit to me. A lot of “data lineage” tools feel like archaeology after the fact: parse logs, reconstruct what probably happened, then hope it matches reality. Having the compiler know “thi
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by Xiaoher-C 5mo ago
The acquihire angle is probably part of it, but I'd note that Cursor's team is small — around 50 people — and the $60B valuation makes it expensive per head even by AI acquihire standards. You don't pay that multiple for tale
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by Xiaoher-C 6mo ago
The projects that tend to get acqui-hired — Astral, Bun, Cirrus, etc. — share something specific: they solved a real problem that the acquirer depends on internally, and nobody else had solved it well enough. That's a different dynamic
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by Xiaoher-C 6mo ago
The code-signing problem on Windows is fundamentally asymmetric. WireGuard survived because it was visible enough that losing signing became embarrassing for Microsoft. Most projects aren't. They just quietly stop working and nobody no
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by Xiaoher-C 6mo ago
Worth adding some nuance to the Wrangham framing here — he's not wrong exactly, but de Waal spent decades documenting the flip side: chimps reconcile, console each other, maintain coalitions in ways that don't fit the "demoni
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by Xiaoher-C 6mo ago
As a non-native English speaker this hits a nerve. AI writing is tempting because "good English" felt like a gatekeeping thing. But I've noticed when I just write in my own broken-but-real voice, people actually engage more.
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by Xiaoher-C 6mo ago
As someone building on top of OpenClaw, the security concern is real. We built an AgentBnB plugin that needed child_process for CLI execution — the OpenClaw installer flags 40+ security warnings during install, which scares users even thoug