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M4v3R commented on Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence embedding-shapes.github.i... · Posted by u/embedding-shape

eloisius · 24 days ago

That doesn’t really address much of the criticism in this thread. No one is shocked that it’s not as good as production web browsers. It’s that it was billed as “from scratch” but upon deeper inspection it looks like it’s just gluing together Servo and some other dependencies, so it’s not really as impressive or interesting because the “agents” didn’t really create a browser engine.

M4v3R · 24 days ago

Upon deeper inspection? Someone checked the Cargo file and proclaimed it was just Servo and QuickJS glued together without actually bothering to look if these dependencies are even being used.

In reality while project does indeed have Servo in its dependencies it only uses it for HTML tokenization, CSS selector matching and some low level structures. Javascript parsing and execution, DOM implementation & Layout engine was written from scratch with only one exception - Flexbox and Grid layouts are implemented using Taffy - a Rust layout library.

So while “from scratch” is debatable it is still immensely impressive to be that AI was able to produce something that even just “kinda works” at this scale.

M4v3R commented on Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence embedding-shapes.github.i... · Posted by u/embedding-shape

pavlov · 25 days ago

The comment that points out that this week-long experiment produced nothing more than a non-functional wrapper for Servo (an existing Rust browser) should be at the top:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649046

M4v3R · 24 days ago

It’s not just a wrapper for Servo, the linked poster just checked the dependencies in the Cargo file and proclaimed that without checking anything further.

In reality this project does indeed implement a functioning custom JS Engine, Layout engine, painting etc. It does borrow the CSS selectors package from Servo but that’s about it.

M4v3R commented on Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem trigger.dev/blog/shai-hul... · Posted by u/nkko

classified · 2 months ago

And yet here we are…

Convenience trumps security every time. With people who allegedly know better.

M4v3R · 2 months ago

Well pnpm does it by default for quite some time. It’s annoying, yes, but I take a little annoyance if it means I’m more secure.

M4v3R commented on I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude j0nah.com/i-failed-to-rec... · Posted by u/thecr0w

alt227 · 2 months ago

Off topic, but you have used imgur as your image hosting site, which cannot be viewed in the UK. If you want all readers to be able to see and understand your points, please could you use a more universally reachable host?

M4v3R · 2 months ago

Please reach out to your nearest government official to tell them what do you think about the Imgur not working in your country.

M4v3R commented on Anthropic acquires Bun bun.com/blog/bun-joins-an... · Posted by u/ryanvogel

ngrilly · 2 months ago

Considering that 1) Bun is written in Zig, 2) Zig has a strict no-AI policy [1], and 3) Bun has joined Claude, it seems that Bun and Zig are increasingly culturally apart.

[1] https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/#strict-no-llm-no-ai-pol...

M4v3R · 2 months ago

Nothing I found says anything about Zig folks being inherently against AI. It just looks like they don’t want to deal with “AI Slop” in contributions to their project, which is very understandable.

M4v3R commented on Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model starflow-v.github.io... · Posted by u/vessenes

yegle · 2 months ago

Looking at text to video examples (https://starflow-v.github.io/#text-to-video) I'm not impressed. Those gave me the feeling of the early Will Smith noodles videos.

Did I miss anything?

M4v3R · 2 months ago

These are ~2 years behind state of the art from the looks of it. Still cool that they're releasing anything that's open for researchers to play with, but it's nothing groundbreaking.

M4v3R commented on SmartTube Compromised aftvnews.com/smarttubes-o... · Posted by u/akersten

dottjt · 2 months ago

I think it's more shocking to people how much YouTube Premium costs.

M4v3R · 2 months ago

Is $14 dollars for ad-free, unlimited access to literally billions of videos really a steep price? Personally if I were to get rid of all but one of my media subscriptions I would stick with this one, since it's got everything - entertainment, education, inspiration, you name it.

M4v3R commented on Nano Banana Pro blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

gloosx · 3 months ago

Generated images still contain JPEG artifacts all over them.

We are not doomed yet - can pretty much reliably spot RAW image vs AI-generated image by just zooming in

M4v3R · 3 months ago

It's only a matter of time this will be fixed, also there probably already are custom LoRAs that can remove jpeg artifacts. So it's not a matter of if, only when.

M4v3R commented on Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs checkout.com/blog/protect... · Posted by u/StrangeSound

throwaway2037 · 3 months ago

I love this part (no trolling from me):

    > We are sorry. We regret that this incident has caused worry for our partners and people. We have begun the process to identify and contact those impacted and are working closely with law enforcement and the relevant regulators. We are fully committed to maintaining your trust.

I know there will by a bunch of cynics who say that an LLM or a PR crisis team wrote this post... but if they did, hats off. It is powerful and moving. This guys really falls on his sword / takes it on the chin.

M4v3R · 3 months ago

Words are cheap, but "We are sorry." is a surprisingly rare thing for a company to say (they will usually sugarcoat it, shift blame, add qualifiers, use weasel words, etc.), so it's refreshing to hear that.