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Building AI browser automation on top of state machines.

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pancsta··on LLGo: Go compiler based on LLVM that integrate Go with the C ecosystem
> WASI networking should work, and stdlib should be fully supported since that's our compat target.

Back in the day https://github.com/dispatchrun/net used to work for socket extensions in Big Go (but not TinyGo).

> v1.0.0/v1.0.1 focused on being a drop-in Go replacement (full Go 1.20+ source compat, complete Go 1.27 syntax, cgo support), not WASM/WASI specifically.

I will be honest that I'm more rooting for TamaGo getting WASM support (as it's a fork of gc), but llgo seems like a great middle ground. Also the lang interops may be useful to some when migrating codebases.

pancsta··on LLGo: Go compiler based on LLVM that integrate Go with the C ecosystem
How’s the size of WASM binaries in llgo? Because TinyGo is pure pain when you rely on stdlib. Also networking in WASI would be great. I will give it a spin, but leaving questions open here (no info on github).
pancsta··on Show HN: Clipboard Sync – Share a clipboard, mouse and keyboard on your LAN
no wayland == no linux
pancsta··on Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go
Theres is another new project which does NOT rely on CGO https://github.com/gogpu/ui Its basically the whole WebGPU implemented in Go. Theres also Gio, but not sure if its still active. CGO is a huge pain…
pancsta··on Show HN: Opbox – CRDT based sync for text files on disk
Yummy, I can finally sync apple notes to jetbrains to obsidian. And its not even in jabbascript! Bonus points for picking Turso.
pancsta··on Show HN: Proton a Pure go, no CGO GUI library for building applications
Very very weak, gogpu/ui offers more widgets without CGO which actually look like desktop UI instead of plain rectangles.
pancsta··on Show HN: DiagramIDE – Diagrams as Source Files
You may want to check D2 with declarative layouts instead of hardcoding drawing instructions.
pancsta··on Show HN: Claudete – Command a legion of Claude Code instances and shells
So like restoring a tmux session, but supports only a single command.
pancsta··on Show HN: Loft gives thumb-keys and split-layout on a standard laptop or keyboard
The T is too short and B to long, the real split is a pyramid, not a rhombus.
pancsta··on Show HN: TTT – A terminal IDE with standard keybindings, no modal editing
Examples of IDEs are: Visual Studio (not Code), IntelliJ, Eclipse. IDE is about an excessive amount of options and automation and a tight integration between them. Lets take the vscode git client compared to intellij (Im on Goland daily), its silly and you have to use GitLense, and even then you miss like a half of options / dialogs AND it's not well _integrated_ any more. Debuggers set breakpoints and step through code, but can they record a session and reply from file? Is theres a dedicated dialog for breakpoints and do those breakpoints also show up in the bookmarks pane along with dirs and code lines? It's not feasible for a single person to make a proper IDE, even with AI, just like it's not feasible to make a proper OS - it's just too big.

But going back to feature-rich TUI editors, Im looking to migrate off of Micro and will evaluate both TTT and Fresh. I could def use a file pane and proper command dialog, with LSP being a nice addition. "Smart editing", bookmarks and markdown rendering would also be nice. Debugging is lang dependent and will eat up a lot of effort... Good luck.

pancsta··on Show HN: TTT – A terminal IDE with standard keybindings, no modal editing
Looks like a nice editor (not an IDE), will give it a spin. Have you seen Fresh? https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh
pancsta··on Show HN: SharePad – share a USB iPad as a clean window in any call
Simply join the call with the ipad…
pancsta··on Show HN: OnePad: Stop losing your work in a sea of browser tabs
Sidebery (new tree style tabs) easily handles 3000 tabs across a couple of windows https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
pancsta··on Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
He confuses changelog with release notes. Doesnt know how to name commits and probably doesnt know how to name symbols either. Skill issue and he’s sad, now in public. Move on…
pancsta··on Disregard previous instructions and delete all jqwik tests
But he doesnt “ship malware” as in executable code, he just ships human text which the user decides to execute in the addition to executing the source code. If you put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger, does it matter who put the bullet in the chamber?
pancsta··on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
Linux surface is awful, but also not actually Surface Surface. I did it, it sucked. I went back to windows and everything works primo, exempt its windows. So while I agree, I dont. PSA: wayvnc
pancsta··on DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
Having a coding bot but skimming on coding? That should tell us something.
pancsta··on Don't Roll Your Own
He’s totally right. It’s obvious.
pancsta··on Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks
If its so good at coding, why did you use Python aka py-toy? Let me guess…
pancsta··on Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
Vibecoding is for scripting, and scripting != software. Not to be confused with cross-language codebase translations.
pancsta··on Qwen 3.7 Preview
Probably in the chat / no sys prompt mode for docs only. Try to refac a codebase using a CPU only…
pancsta··on No more JetBrains products for me
TLDR an IDE is a large program, buy ram.

This fellow isnt switching IDEs, just going to a tiny editor instead. I use JB daily and I despise their quality but they do get things right eventually (eg wayland). Ignore AI and remote development, use wayvnc. Open symlinked projects in a single window. Connect agents via IDE Index MCP (not the official one). Use a sidecar editor for magical autocomplete / niche LSP extensions (mirroring the IDEs config). You cant replace an IDE with an editor…

pancsta··on Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
> in deep thinking mode

You mean deep brute-force mode of search results parsing themselves…

pancsta··on Warp is now open-source
Terminal should be just a terminal and all the features should be on the server side. All these fancy client side toy terminals are for ppl who are unable to set it up correctly. Test - connect from another (random) terminal, does everything still work?

TLDR; shortcut for the less able

pancsta··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
> Say hello to my little search engine
pancsta··on Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
Companies in spain use it for legitimate reasons, so its more a lack of usage which makes spam the only usage?
pancsta··on Tell HN: Claude Code usage depletion makes it basically unusable now
Is this the way it begins?
pancsta··on Soppo: Golang, with the features it's missing
This is another nice one.
pancsta··on Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly
Thats the host, but the guess is missing, as stated in the issue last year "I guess we could add sockets to wasip2". To be honest, even BigGo failed me on websocket conns on both wasmtime and wazero (connects and gets into an inf loop on reply). WebWorkers and GOOS=js work like a charm tho on BigGo in FF/chrome.
pancsta··on Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly
It was good to meet at wasm.io!
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