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Finding a Bug in Chromium

https://bou.ke/blog/chromium-bug/
54•bouk•4d ago

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rvz•8h ago
Great technical post, however:

> At Monumental we’ve building robots to automate construction, starting with masonry.

If you thought running to construction jobs was safe, well thanks to Monumental, it soon won't be.

The end goal is to achieve a 10% increase of global unemployment by the latest 2035 and 40% of employers anticipate reducing their workforce where AI can automate tasks by the 2030 deadline according to the WEF 2025 Future of Jobs report. [0]

Worse if earlier.

[0] https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-repo...

TheDong•5h ago
And according to OSHA, construction jobs account for more fatal injuries than any other job, so in a sense they're saving lives by reducing the number of dangerous jobs.

We've already managed to handle the desire to keep the sham of "jobs are a necessary part of life for everyone who isn't ultra-wealthy" going via Bullshit Jobs, we can keep inventing more Bullshit Jobs.

Heck, we probably both work Bullshit Jobs. Do we really need 20 different companies, all with thousands of employees, optimizing ad-impressions to make teenagers want to drink coke and buy nike shoes?

Do we really need 10 different "uber for pet-sitting your turtle" apps?

Each failed startup was, in reality, a large bag of bullshit jobs that transferred money from the VCs to bullshit-job workers, who's to say those people couldn't be ex construction workers?

Cthulhu_•5h ago
Given the author's name, he's Dutch which does use a lot of brick in their houses... for decoration, it's concrete blocks with prefab brick facades for at least two decades now, built by robots. See for example https://www.bouwtotaal.nl/2021/10/prefab-gevelelementen-voor...

The demand for housing and thus construction workers isn't going down any time soon; the Netherlands alone needs to build a million homes in the next decade and are running behind on that. Brick walls is just one task of many in a construction project, just like your JIRA or Github ticket is just one task of many in a software project.

bouk•4h ago
Prefab stone strips are used here and there but most brick facades are still built by hand on-site.

There's a huge shortage of workers, which is why we're working on this.

pjmlp•4h ago
Cooking and serving at tables also won't be an excape route, given that there are already kitchen and waitresses robots.

We are really going into a dystopian world, unless there is some event that disrupts the roadmap to drive everyone into unemployment, besides a few elite folks that get to profit from the robots.

The generations to come will have much more to worry about than climate, also note how all the ongoing wars, geopolitcs change back to cold war days, and AI race has made everyone forget about the planet.

Forcing us to use paper straws and wood cuttlery won't save us.

charcircuit•7h ago
My first guess would be that this early return is always happening after entering the bugged state. The one cleanup task could get stuck or not cleanup after itself properly.

    // Only one cleanup task is posted at a time.
    if (!HasDirtyJSFinalizationRegistries() || is_finalization_registry_cleanup_task_posted_) {
      return;
    }
https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:v8/...
bouk•4h ago
Ah this makes a lot of sense, perhaps the posted flag doesn't get reset e.g. if this branch gets followed: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:v8/...
donatj•4h ago
Hey! I too just filed my first Chromium bug[1]! They changed a behavior that broke opening new windows with tabs, and thus broke my advanced tab search extension Tabasco[2].

I was frankly impressed by the experience. They had me create a minimal extension illustrating the issue and were very quickly able automate a bisection that found its root, a security fix somewhat bluntly resolved. They've supposedly fixed the issue in an upcoming release I await with bated breath.

- [1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/405283740

- [2] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabasco-advanced-ta...

tester756•2h ago
>FinalizationRegistry

>Avoid where possible

>Correct use of FinalizationRegistry takes careful thought, and it's best avoided if possible. It's also important to avoid relying on any specific behaviors not guaranteed by the specification. When, how, and whether garbage collection occurs is down to the implementation of any given JavaScript engine. Any behavior you observe in one engine may be different in another engine, in another version of the same engine, or even in a slightly different situation with the same version of the same engine. Garbage collection is a hard problem that JavaScript engine implementers are constantly refining and improving their solutions to.

Kinda tricky API

Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-stowing-robots
48•Luc•1h ago•27 comments

How async/await works in Python

https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-12-how-asyncawait-works-in-python/
42•sebg•1h ago•2 comments

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego

https://avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/
347•nkko•7h ago•99 comments

Data manipulations alleged in study that paved way for Microsoft's quantum chip

https://www.science.org/content/article/data-manipulations-alleged-study-paved-way-microsoft-s-quantum-chip
18•EvgeniyZh•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor

https://www.hyvector.com
29•jansan•1h ago•8 comments

Implementing a Struct of Arrays

https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2025/05/02/soa/
16•mpweiher•1h ago•0 comments

Void: Open-source Cursor alternative

https://github.com/voideditor/void
794•sharjeelsayed•20h ago•312 comments

6502 Illegal Opcodes in the Siemens PC 100 Assembly Manual (1980)

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1798
45•matt_d•6h ago•25 comments

Zombieverter: Open source VCU for reusing salvage EV components

https://openinverter.org/wiki/ZombieVerter_VCU
34•trainsarebetter•3d ago•3 comments

Dead Reckoning

https://www.damninteresting.com/dead-reckoning/
99•repost_bot•8h ago•28 comments

Reservoir Sampling

https://samwho.dev/reservoir-sampling/
450•chrisdemarco•19h ago•82 comments

Starlink User Terminal Teardown

https://www.darknavy.org/blog/a_first_glimpse_of_the_starlink_user_ternimal/
200•walterbell•9h ago•64 comments

Malaya's Timeless Design

https://www.linyangchen.com/Philately
22•cenazoic•2d ago•1 comments

How "Night of the Living Dead" Accidentally Became Public Domain

https://screenrant.com/night-living-dead-movie-public-domain-copyright-accident/
25•edavis•2d ago•15 comments

Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

https://www.audiobookshelf.org/
109•fjk•10h ago•49 comments

WASM 2.0

https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-2/
109•lioeters•4h ago•44 comments

Usenix ATC Announcement

https://www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-atc-announcement
77•eatbitseveryday•9h ago•6 comments

Fui: C library for interacting with the framebuffer in a TTY context

https://github.com/martinfama/fui
135•Bhulapi•14h ago•47 comments

A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-max-plan
191•namukang•15h ago•185 comments

eBPF Mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6

https://blog.gripdev.xyz/2025/05/06/ebpf-mystery-when-is-ipv4-not-ipv4-when-its-ipv6/
72•tanelpoder•8h ago•20 comments

Full Control.xyz Freeform Gcode

https://fullcontrol.xyz/#/models
21•downboots•4d ago•1 comments

The Linux Kernel's PGP Web of Trust

https://blog.kleine-koenig.org/ukl/the-linux-kernels-pgp-web-of-trust.html
7•JNRowe•2h ago•0 comments

Robotics meets the culinary arts

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/robotics-meets-the-culinary-arts/
24•gnabgib•4d ago•4 comments

Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria

https://www.fusionenergybase.com/articles/continuing-progress-toward-fusion-energy-breakeven-and-gain-as-measured-against-the-lawson-criteria
213•sam•20h ago•104 comments

Apple is planning smart glasses with and without AR

https://www.theverge.com/news/663600/apple-smart-glasses-chips-ar-chip
7•matthewsinclair•46m ago•1 comments

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https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/5/6/when-abandoned-mines-collapse
201•impish9208•2d ago•63 comments

A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity25/sec25cycle1-prepub-595-linker.pdf
124•luu•9h ago•79 comments

Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

https://val.packett.cool/blog/podfox/
91•pierremenard•14h ago•15 comments

No! Repent! From! Harlan! (1998)

https://harlanellison.com/text/amaz_int.htm
14•Michelangelo11•3d ago•3 comments

From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html
1021•mattl•18h ago•260 comments