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Re:Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igalia on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:44AM (#50114524)
Well. Maybe they should just not have so many flags than?
Re:A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:13AM (#49341168)
They seem to squash PRs using the pr description as commit message. So this sounds like a good approach to me.
Re:Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres on Friday May 01, 2026 @01:52PM (#47977800)
Nice idea.
Just make sure you never let claude make do any calculation without using a programming language. It can be somewhat trusted to make less mistakes than a human when it comes to filling in the right numbers but it's still not great at math.
Unfortunately upstream never looks at any pull requests.
Also did create a cli. I had to fork the project and removed one unused import which allowed me to remove a lot of unused ml libraries: https://github.com/Mic92/puss-say
Re:WebMCP Proposal on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:04PM (#47038882)
So usually MCP tool calls a sequential and therefore waste a lot of tokens. There is some research from Antrophic (I think there was also some blog post from cloudflare) on how code sandboxes are actually a more efficient interface for llm agents because they are really good at writing code and combining multiple "calls" into one piece of code. Another data point is that code is more deterministic and reliable so you reduce the hallucination of llms.
Re:WebMCP Proposal on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:02PM (#47038851)
Do expose the accessibility tree of a website to llms? What do you do with websites that lack that? Some agents I saw use screenshots, but that seems also kind of wasteful. Something in-between would be interesting.
Re:Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:57AM (#46922399)
I am sure they measured the difference but i am wondering why reading screenshots + coordinates is more efficient than selecting aria labels? https://github.com/Mic92/mics-skills/blob/main/skills/browse.... the JavaScript snippets should at least more reusable if you want semi-automate websites with memory files
Re:Hello world does not compile on Saturday February 07, 2026 @02:30AM (#46922017)
Well this compiler was written to build Linux as a proof of concept. You don't need a libc for building the kernel. Was it claimed anywhere that it is a fully compliant C compiler?
Re:Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant on Sunday January 25, 2026 @10:55PM (#46761704)
I skipped over the first few ones and haven't seen critical ones. The hardcoded oauth client secrets is basically present in any open-source or commercial app that is distributed to end users. It doesn't break the security of end users. It mainly allows other apps to impersonate this app, i.e. present itself as clawdbot, which is a moot point given anyone can just change /inject code into it.
Is not steam exactly doing that and other vendors follow their footsteps?
Re:Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents on Sunday January 18, 2026 @10:00AM (#46668291)
I remember that a llm agents often store those in clear text files (I think claude-code beeing one of them). Many of the CLIs I use have a better secret hygiene than that i.e. allow passwords commands or use secret apis.
Re:Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents on Sunday January 18, 2026 @09:54AM (#46668243)
I am a human and I can't...
Re:MIT Non-AI License on Saturday January 10, 2026 @01:28AM (#46563325)
Well the thing is, you have a copyright that you can license. However from what it currently looks like, fine-tuning/training is not copying.
Re:Binaries on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @07:21AM (#46432593)
Doesn't make any difference in practice. The debug info is never mapped into memory by the loader. This only matters if you want to store the two separate i.e lazy load debug symbols if needed.
Re:VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor" on Saturday December 27, 2025 @02:05PM (#46404242)
It's ok actually. I have read some Windows code. Certainly better commented than Linux and certainly much more readable than glibc.
Re:Pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken on Saturday December 27, 2025 @03:12AM (#46400126)
I can second that. If there are multiple commits: https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb is handy to add formatting changes into the right commit after commits already happened.
Re:Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @01:59PM (#46368163)
I think this fits the description well.
Re:Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @01:57PM (#46368140)
We work on GPU accelerated VMs, so that in future we can also bring NixOS + VPNs to desktops/end users to machines that don't run NixOS. We will use it as an application runtime where can control the whole stack. Just now we are mostly focused on managing distributed NixOS machines. The VPN helps to provide services on any kind computer, even if not running in a datacenter. You can read the description here for context: https://docs.clan.lol/

Show HN: I build a strace clone for macOS

https://github.com/Mic92/strace-macos

Ever since I tested software on macOS, I deeply missed my beloved strace that I use when programs are missbehaving. macOS has dtruss but it's getting locked down and more unusable with every machine. My approach uses the signed lldb binary on the system and re-implements the output you are know from the wonderful strace tool. I just created the tool yesterday evening, so it may have a few bugs,...

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git has rerere for this usecase, jj doesn't - you have to find the conflict resolution manually in your history in this case if you made a mistake.
Re:Pwning the Entire Nix Ecosystem on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:25PM (#45600114)
I haven't seen anything about requirements for gpg. Also the ux of it is not so great, so it's easy to just not have a signature without causing too much suspicion. Would be a much easier attack than what Jian Tan pulled off. Just wait for some contributor to go on holiday and send a malicious v2 patch. There are so many patches in the linux kernel processed that no one wouldn't notice.
Re:Pwning the Entire Nix Ecosystem on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:16PM (#45600038)
I can't see any of that. They even tell you to not have any gnupg signatures: https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html
Re:Pwning the Entire Nix Ecosystem on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:29AM (#45593175)
Don't they use email to accept contributions? Seems like security nightmare w.r.t to impersonation.
Re:Beyond package management: How Nix refactored my digital life on Thursday September 11, 2025 @02:59PM (#45214948)
We are also working on something as part of clan (https://clan.lol/). Video from our NixCon 2025 talk is hopefully soon out.
Re:Beyond package management: How Nix refactored my digital life on Thursday September 11, 2025 @02:54PM (#45214895)
There is jetpack-nixos, if this an option, which is decently maintained and for a client of numtide we build https://github.com/numtide/nix-gl-host

So they can use the host driver in nix based services with Jetson

Re:Secret Management on NixOS with sops-Nix on Monday August 25, 2025 @05:16PM (#45019139)
Technically sops-nix doesn't require sops files to be added to the repo. It's just what most people choose because it makes deployment convenient - if you have your deployment tool uploading sops files that would be a way around. I have also heard people using private flake inputs. You may find https://github.com/numtide/systemd-vaultd useful if you go the vault route
Re: on Sunday June 01, 2025 @06:29PM (#44154222)
One of the nixos-anywhere maintainer here. I am currently debugging the digitalocean cloud-init for the nixos-anywhere-examples repository. Has someone contact to digitalocean regarding that? There is a shebang that could be easily fixed to run on NixOS (/var/lib/cloud/scripts/per-instance/machine_id.sh).
Re:Show HN: Picohsm, a $5 open-source hsm on Monday April 01, 2024 @02:57AM (#39891512)
Also for elliptic curve it seems to be much faster, which is what most people might use these days.

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