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johntash··on Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
fwiw when I opened the site, my fans spun up and firefox slowed a lot. No idea what it's doing, but it's definitely using a ton of cpu.
johntash··on I am giving up on VM Gaming
have you tried using proton//steam on linux lately? I find almost every game I want to play actually works decently well now. The ones that don't are multiplayer/online ones that require some sort of anti-cheat.
johntash··on Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
If you already use jira, maybe try putting the specs directly in the jira ticket? And/or in a confluence page?

I'm not sold on SDD yet, but part of that is because we already have decently detailed tickets and designs.

johntash··on Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface
Gotcha, I guess I should have asked if you were using 'claude -p' or something else to re-use the subscription.

It looks pretty interesting though, I'll give it a shot

johntash··on Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series
Don't forget to watch SGU too, and I think there were a few other movies too?
johntash··on Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface
Any idea if claude code will continue working with paseo after the billing/usage changes in a couple weeks?
johntash··on I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)
Did you set up solar nodes in random spots or only areas you own/control?

I've wondered if it'd be legal to just chuck a couple into some random trees.

johntash··on I analysed 20 years of my chats
Sometimes I feel bad that I lost years of chat history from then too, but you made me realize that might be a good thing.
johntash··on Show HN: Fungible – A local personal finance app in the terminal
It might be too late, but have you thought about using something like ledger/beancount for the storage?

Having a nice tui/plaid sync for plaintextaccounting would be nice.

https://plaintextaccounting.org/

johntash··on ASMTP – SMTP for Agents
Why not actually use smtp+imap/pop3 if that is the intention?

Also I'm going to complain a little bit about the name: SMTP is for sending (not reading) mail, so asmtp to me at first glance looked like 'async-smtp' which didn't really make sense. And 'agent-smtp' sounds like "let your agents send e-mail" vs an api spec.

johntash··on Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
My understanding is that zed wrote a wrapper around 'claude -p' for ACP support so I imagine there isn't too much of a memory savings there since it's still actually running claude code.
johntash··on Subnautica 2 Early Access
I really liked Subnautica, but haven't been following the drama of subnautica 2 since the old creators were fired.

_Should_ I give my money to unknown worlds?

johntash··on New Claude Code programmatic usage restrictions
frontier models are still way better than local models from what I've seen. To get close to them with large context windows and decent performance, you need more than a reasonable machine imo.

I'm hoping local llms start rapidly improving even more though.

johntash··on Tell HN: Starting June 15, claude -p usage will change
I assume this will affect things like using claude code inside of zed or vscode too?
johntash··on Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?
How are you expecting search to work without JS? I'm pretty sure you would need either some sort of backend OR JS for any sort of search to work.

Or maybe another option would be to outsource the search part to "site:yourdomain" on google or something similar.

johntash··on Officially canceling our Anthropic plan, it's [too expensive]
I'm assuming they're using the enterprise plan where you have to pay per token and there's no included usage?
johntash··on Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?
> You need all those speakers? One for each room?

Not op, but one reason I have a speaker in _almost_ every room is for notifications. Simple stuff like "the garage door is still open" or weather alerts, etc. I rarely actually play music on all of them.

johntash··on Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis
> what is it with C level executives and AI?

My assumption is that they are extremely excited about AI, because they are also extremely excited about being able to reduce their workforce while expecting more output from smaller teams.

johntash··on I have officially retired from Emacs
If you haven't used it before, give it a shot. Worst case you waste a few years of your life.

Doom emacs and Spacemacs are both good starter kits to give you an idea of what you could do.

johntash··on David Silver of DeepMind raises $1B to build AI that learns without human data
Matter more to who though? Probably not the people making most of the profits :)
johntash··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
I sorta get that reasoning, but is a 24 hour cooldown really going to stop scammers? They're already used to multi-day scams, so wouldn't they just say they'll call back in a day to finish the process?
johntash··on Show HN: Matrirc – run irssi in 2026, talk to people on Matrix
I like that this is an irc->matrix bridge instead of a matrix->bridge. I honestly don't use either much anymore, but I'll probably give it a try.

I didn't know irssi was still maintained in 2026. There hasn't been a release in a while, but there are at least a few recent-ish commits. Has everyone moved on from irssi to weechat?

johntash··on Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)
> apply my database migrations and populate the database with static datasets before I deploy my application

You could a) have the app acquire a lock in the db and do its own migrations, or b) create a k8s job that runs the migration tool, but make sure the app waits for the schema to be updated or at least won't do anything bad.

johntash··on Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
> https://depsguard.com if anyone is interested.

I really appreciate that you didn't include a "curl | bash" command to paste for installing, but at the same time it's what I was expecting when I clicked.

I'm pretty sure I saw a comment on HN where the user wrapped all of their npm/pip/etc commands with bubblewrap. I've been thinking of doing something similar and basically just seeing how many of my daily commands I can sandbox. My hunch is that _most_ of them don't need to operate outside the current directory and don't need internet access.

johntash··on Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
How do you keep llms from writing _too much_? I've built a few similar tools and systems, and they're all way too easy for the llm to just keep documenting things to the point the whole system is a mess and becomes less useful the bigger it gets.

One example experiment I had was seeing if I could get a llm to build its own knowledge wiki where I would paste a few links and have it go do some research on whatever the subject was, then distill what it finds into specific wiki pages with links to other pages or the source refs. It looked good until you read the actual data.

This was a few years ago though, so maybe it's worth trying again with something like opus 4.7.

johntash··on Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
Do you use local models for these, or are you okay with giving private details to anthropic/openai?

(that's one of my biggest hurdles for really adopting any useful assistant type of agent)

johntash··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
Keep in mind this isn't just about personal data on work hardware. It also leads to things like "we noticed you didn't move your mouse or type anything for 45 minutes, what were you doing?" type of micromanagement.
johntash··on Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
Out of the listed options, Garage is actually really simple for something that runs on multiple servers. It was also the only easy option I found that can replicate over WAN and isn't super latency sensitive.
johntash··on Clean code in the age of coding agents
One thought I've had a few times is "well.. this is good enough, maybe a future model will make it better." so I won't completely disagree.

But my counter argument is that the generated code can easily balloon in size and then if you ever have to manually figure out how something works, it is much harder. You'll also end up with a lot of dead or duplicated code.

johntash··on Clean code in the age of coding agents
Do you have any recommendations of something like konsist/harmonize that work for multiple languages by any chance? I've been looking for a solution to org-wide architectural linting that can has custom rules or something so I could add rules for a Dockerfile as well as python in the same way.
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