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   by est 8mo ago

   > Flickr deserves a lot of praise for a number of technical advances that I wish had seen wider adoption. Flickr + MechanicalTurk == ImageNet The priceless legacy of Web 2.0 golden age
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   by est 8mo ago

   > Electricity is magic. TCP is magic. Hmm, they aren't if you have a degree. > Browsers are hall-of-mirrors magic More like Chromium with billions LoC of C++ is magic. I think browser shouldn't be that complex.
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   by est 8mo ago

   I have to admit, those fancy concepts pay the bills.
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   by est 8mo ago

   It's just view, materialized view, udf, stored procedure in fancy corp speak.
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   by est 8mo ago

   > to have a separate method named accordingly, like ListAllObjects, without any filters For me it's like `filter1=*`
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   by est 8mo ago

   bitbucket was done for a while as well. Seems no one noticed.
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   by est 8mo ago

   > China is indeed getting dominant. They will get arrogant one day China was dominant. They got arrogant before 1840, then there's 100 years of humiliation.
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   by est 8mo ago

   > React was originally designed to be the "V in MVC" React was originally desingned to be php in the browser. php5 -> HHVM -> Hack -> XHP -> JSX
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   by est 8mo ago

   It's fun and all, is there a way to safely host .html but does not allow rendering it? CORS? sec-fetch-dest, sec-fetch-mode and sec-fetch-site ? If storage.googleapis.com weren't operated by Google, the domain would be blocked by
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    by est 8mo ago

    you mean grpc.reflection.v1alpha.ServerReflection? Close enough, sadly not generally enabled.
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    by est 8mo ago

    > The contract-first philosophy gRPC/protobuf is largely a Google cult. I've seen too projects with complex business logic simply give up and embed JSON strings inside pb. Like WTF...? Everything was good in the begining, as lo
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    by est 8mo ago

    interesting that Intel AX210 with 4x2 antenna on 6GHz allows Channel State Information (CSI) collection
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    by est 8mo ago

    > a mountain of legacy and they are fine. telnetd CVE-2026-24061. It's embarrassingly simple exploit but took years to be discovered. > When telnetd invokes /usr/bin/login, it passes the USER value directly. If an
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    by est 8mo ago

    I think they came up the the exact right answer like: > How do I add more features to get a promotion
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    by est 8mo ago

    HN once recommended a book https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691133911/ne...
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    by est 8mo ago

    It's more like telnetd died rather than telnet died. btw if you want a quick telnet client, and an old python happens to be installed, you can use `python -m telnetlib IP`
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    by est 8mo ago

    Data centers in space have one advantage: FBIs can't physically raid them.
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    by est 8mo ago

    I wrote a blog about this as well Hard Things in Computer Science, and AI Aren't Fixing Them https://blog.est.im/2026/stderr-04
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    by est 8mo ago

    I read on XHS that some Chinese carriers are known to selectively provide better LTE signal for one brand over another (IMS SIP REGISTER)
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    by est 9mo ago

    oh no, not this again. There's a joke I forgot its name, something goes like - high performance language but hard-coded - xml/yaml configs - dynamic configs and codegen - metaprogramming or DSL, or just lua or python - let's
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    by est 9mo ago

    I hope browsers could support mDNS or SSDP. We need an Intranet browser!
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    by est 9mo ago

    It's very fast, and the result aligning by keyword looks super cool.
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    by est 9mo ago

    > It's so annoying how so many languages lack a basic "ASCII lowercase" and "ASCII uppercase" function How about b''.lower() ?
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    by est 9mo ago

    I am curious, why not .lower().translate('_.', '--')
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    by est 9mo ago

    ... and support legacy win32 apps with.... wine ?
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    Hard Things in Computer Science, and AI Aren't Fixing Them(blog.est.im)

    2 points by est 9mo ago|0 comments
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    by est 9mo ago

    I think AI coding agents will quickly pick all the low hanging fruits and plateau. Everything can be vibed will be vibed until everyone hits a wall, where no docs to form corpus nor instructions for prompts exist. There are problems that ar
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    by est 9mo ago

    > Half of the websites Yes browsers should be used for browsing, those half websites can run on something else.
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    by est 9mo ago

    can you remove webrtc, localstorage, web workers, and customize fonts?
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    by est 9mo ago

    Have you considered parrallel processing? I always have 2-3 Cursor IDE open because I don't like wait either.