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Building AI browser automation on top of state machines.

[0] https://taskbot.app

[1] https://ai-gents.work

[2] https://asyncmachine.dev

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pancsta··on I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
Id love to see go-app.dev deployed that way. Seems like shipping WASM as a single HTML works https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52582367/a-single-file-w...
pancsta··on VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
Im very happy they dont call it an IDE, which it isnt.
pancsta··on Orchestrating 5000 Workers Without Distributed Locks: Rediscovering TDMA
I do a lot of logical-clock based synchronization using asyncmachine.dev (also in Go), you may want to check it out as “human time” can be error prone and not “tight”. It does involve forming a network state machines, but connections can be partial and nested.

Your results are very hard to read due to formatting, but the idea is interesting.

pancsta··on Let's discuss: future of refactoring in the era of LLMs
You should always distribute AST-level refacs, which are deterministic, instead of prompts. You can easily prompt these out, but nothing really changes here besides who writes the migration (human vs LLM).
pancsta··on The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?
The most AI gens Ive seen was in r/selfhosted, with some ppl from the sub complaining about the trend (with mods deleting the complaints).
pancsta··on Europe's cookie nightmare is crumbling. EC wants preference at browser level
> all websites are using some kind of tracking to know what kind of users visit

Server side analytics exists, its the ad optimization and feeding data brokers which is the reason. You can disable cookies for google analytics (storage none).

pancsta··on Ask HN: Gemini 3 and the stagnation of coding agents, what gives?
> coding agents that I can treat as a thought partner?

Search engines dont think, search engines match.

pancsta··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
> if you’re down, Spotify is down, social media is down… then “the internet is broken” and you don’t look so bad.

Which changes nothing to you actually being down, youre only down more. CF proxies always sucked - not your domain, not your domain...

pancsta··on Turning browser automation into an AI Agent
Reads like youve missed https://www.webbench.ai, check the scores - 43-66%.
pancsta··on iPad Pro with M5 chip
iPad Pro is a great terminal, I shred code on it daily. Running a build server on a portable is a bad strategy (battery, wait times, session resume). It’s the top layer of 3 layers in total (portable, GUI, build server). It handles realtime audio / video well, which are the only things that cant be remoted. You dont need OS26 for it to be a very productive terminal, it’s been possible for years. You do however need a proper backend stack, which can also be portable (but separately).

Do you know whats better than an iPad? 2 iPads (yes, shredding code on 2 simultaneously).

pancsta··on Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?
Translation is not creation.
pancsta··on MAML – A new configuration language
KDL supports multiline indents properly, unlike this one. No need for MAML, someone simply didnt do his research (outside of JSON).
pancsta··on Ask HN: Why do so few sync software use block-level/delta syncing?
rsync, rclone?
pancsta··on Reasoning LLMs are wandering solution explorers
Search engines dont think, search engines search and match.
pancsta··on Mise: Monorepo Tasks
> Taskfile and Just are fantastic for single-project task automation. They're lightweight and easy to set up, but they weren't designed with monorepos in mind. While you can have multiple Taskfiles/Justfiles in a repo, they don't provide unified task discovery, cross-project wildcards, or automatic tool/environment inheritance across projects.

Not true, Taskfile supports inheritance of both itself and dotenvs. The main selling point of mice seems to be tamed multilang mixing. In case of pure-golang monorepos, mice seems like a lot of extra bloat.

For less developed / standardized platforms like py/node, it may come in handy. Of course it had to be written in rust…

pancsta··on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
SSH is always deployed, wireguard needs to be (additionally) deployed. Wireguard gives a network address, SSH gives you a network port.
pancsta··on Chat Control is already live on Facebook Messenger
Every company is for profit. OpenAI was a “non-profit”. “Worse” and “good enough” can be true at the same time. Selfhosting signal is inferior to selfhosting matrix [0].

[0] https://softwaremill.com/can-you-self-host-the-signal-server...

pancsta··on WTF is up with everything using Android?
I run jetbrains remote development on my chroot (the backend). Its important to not take termux seriously and go the chroot way.
pancsta··on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
UDP tunnels are the main feature, way lighter than wireguard, also OpenID auth.
pancsta··on Chat Control is already live on Facebook Messenger
Everyone should be selfhosting a matrix server, with a guest web inbox. Then, some ppl may connect into networks if they want. Lets not forget that Signal is also a for-profit company. IMs should be like DNS, email, or IRC.
pancsta··on Failsafe-go – Adaptive concurrency limiting in Golang
I wonder how concurrency is related to failsafety, although this library is my goto for the latter. I guess it mixes well with the rest of the strategies provided, yet the question still remains… Seems like a shoe on the other foot.
pancsta··on Reddit's API wasn't officially available so I built AI browser agent to automate
TLDR semantic spambot with UI

Reddit API: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/wiki/api

pancsta··on Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
Another custom wayland compositor, this one not written in a scripting language.

https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs

pancsta··on Thoughts about latest meeting of CEOs with Trump
Self hosting is the only way and actually not a bad idea (also quite popular and on the rise). On top of that, a common folk can use AI for end-user customizations of such open source deployments. The worst case scenario is that email will be like CB radio, to follow on your example…
pancsta··on The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust
Working with 3 intersecting stacks is more complex than a single stack. Go toolchain is batteries included and coherent. Author admits to not using it bc of legacy (and preference).
pancsta··on Why QUIC might kill TCP for good
Bench wireguard (kernel not userland) against an ssh tunnel and you’ll know…
pancsta··on GoDaddy misrepresented my $95,000 domain purchase (evidence inside)
Maybe why.ai
pancsta··on Jujutsu and Radicle
Unfortunately its written in a simplistic TUI framework. Will never scale, pass.
pancsta··on Nyctal: Zero dependency Golang Wayland compositor
Possibly useful, especially because Go, but without Mesa not useful for me.
pancsta··on Show HN: Go-Pubsub – A Lightweight, Real-Time Pub-Sub Library for Golang
You bench on windows and use non-english in source files.
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