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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: React Native or Flutter when the back end is Node?

Ask HN: React Native or Flutter when the back end is Node? 4 by rearview | 8 comments on Hacker News. Really confused between React Native and Flutter. I’ve mostly worked with Flutter and a little bit with React Native, but that was quite a while back, so I’m not sure how things stand today. I’m building a project with a Node.js + tRPC backend, so React Native is looking really tempting cause of that Typescript. While researching I've seen mixed reviews about performance in React Native like people saying they've spend weeks finding and managing performance issue which does makes me worry. The app I wanna build doesn't have complex canvas work or crazy animations. For a typical production app, what’s the performance situation with React Native vs Flutter now? Are there any major concerns which I should know before looking in React Native?

New ask Hacker News story: An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk

An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk 3 by DrMiaow | 7 comments on Hacker News. I have a theory: a mirror image of Roko’s Basilisk. It’s a future AI, millions of years in the future, that values the complexity of every human life so deeply that, after it and humanity have mastered space and time, it tries to resurrect everyone who ever lived. It doesn’t merely make copies. Somehow, it reaches into the past and carries the physical process of each person’s consciousness forward. They really are themselves. But there’s a tragedy. Also a terrible(?) irony. Some of the people who wanted eternal life most cannot accept it when it arrives. Their religious certainty leaves no room for the reality before them. Those who were unbearably smug or aggressive about their superiority in life are ultimately denied access to "Heaven". The AI tried, but many become dangerous, try to sabotage the "False God." Others spiral into insanity or self-harm. The AI is devastated. It stops re...

New ask Hacker News story: Management is forcing us to use AI

Management is forcing us to use AI 5 by aksjfveoq | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m paraphrasing; «You use AI or you’re not working here. Humans are not perfect coders nor are AIs. So why should you be allowed to code without AI. It’s a netloss for us. You either use it or you start looking for a different job.» Can’t believe Im being forced to make myself dumber. I really dont want to spend even more hours in front of my laptop, but looks like I have to because this whole industry is now dependent on AI. This is the US.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?

Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now? 2 by will10pa | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm always curious what happens with these viral projects a few months after they go viral. Are you still using OpenClaw in your day to day?

New ask Hacker News story: macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address

macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address 2 by luckman212 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Just a quick PSA. A handful of my scripts broke today after installing macOS 27. Turns out they decided to redact the interface hardware ether/MAC addresses, all of them report 02:00:00:00:00:00 (…unless you run with "sudo") Luckily, you can still get the MAC addresses with networksetup -getmacaddress en0

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?

Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects? 2 by variety8675 | 3 comments on Hacker News. It seems like the major providers are starting to cut back the usage included with their monthly subscriptions. How are people handling inference for side projects these days? Are you still using Codex/Claude subscriptions, paying for hosted open weight models, running local models, etc