Readit News1vuio0pswjnm7 commented on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU blog.howardjohn.info/post... · Posted by u/ingve
Blog post only mentions CPU whilst comments responding to it change subject to RAM and storage
1vuio0pswjnm7 commented on GNU cross-tools: musl-cross 313.3M github.com/cross-tools/mu... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40282810
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echo url=https://musl.cc
echo header=Accept:
echo header=User-Agent:
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)|curl -K/dev/stdin1vuio0pswjnm7 commented on The AI vibe shift is upon us cnn.com/2025/08/22/busine... · Posted by u/lelele
> Some large companies’ pilots and younger startups are really excelling with generative AI,” … “It’s because they pick one pain point, execute well, and partner smartly with companies who use their tools,”
Everyone victory lapping this as a grand failure should pay attention to the above snippet.
Why would everyone do a victory lap if they are losing time and money
Software developers commenting on HN and elsewhere routinely focus on majorities, e.g., "80/20" memes, references to Zipf's Law, etc., and conclude without hesitation that if a small minority, say 5%, of software users do not follow a pattern that a large majority, say 95%, follow, the minority can be safely disregarded
Is it really suprising that people reading the MIT report might focus on the 95% instead of the 5%
IMO, the report is mostly about the 5% but as it happens people care about majorities like 95%
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1vuio0pswjnm7 commented on GNU cross-tools: musl-cross 313.3M github.com/cross-tools/mu... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
GCC toolchain glibc-linked binaries with musl libraries and headers, including musl dynamic loader
Out of the glibc tarpit
If Signal and WhatsApp allowed users to choose own software to encrypt data and submit encrypted blobs to the Signal and WhatsApp servers, to use those servers as temporary storage, and thus to enable users to use any protocol they choose, including own protocols, then those apps might be comparable to something like "CipherGist"
Instead those apps require that the Signal Messenger, LLC and Meta Platforms, Inc. companies do the encryption, according to their rules, following their protocols^1
The user cannot easily switch from one company to another, the Signal client cannot be used to send/receive messages via WhatsApp servers or vice versa, the protocols are proprietary. Approaches like "CipherGist" are more generic and work with any server that allows upload, temporary storage and download of data
If want to avoid any server storing blobs then can use the server only to provide port numbers for establishing peer-to-peer connections
1. Perhaps Signal and WhatsApp users send empty messages with encrypted blobs as attachments
In truth, the protocols used by the companies may not be 100% proprietary
But being commercial in nature the companies are secretive about how their servers operate
For example, its is easy to submit a blob to Github Gist servers, using any software the user chooses, including something as simple as a combination of small, open source UNIX utilities
This is not the case for Signal or WhatsApp servers