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tomComb··on Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read
That would be great! Please do.
tomComb··on Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
But it wouldn’t be non paying customers. That was from the on demand section. I just want to pay for what I use without getting into a subscription.
tomComb··on Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
? You say 'yes' but you seem to be answering a different question. Docker desktop only makes me choose a max ram - it dynamically scales RAM usage. I don't need fully automatic like that, but the ability to vertically scale RAM for an existing instance is really important, particularly given the cost of RAM these days.
tomComb··on Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
But your pricing page suggests that that is not available without a subscription: in the on-demand pricing section "persistent Snapshots" and "Persistent VM's" have an 'x'.
tomComb··on Launch HN: Freestyle: Sandboxes for AI Coding Agents
Can your service scale ram? like the way docker desktop does. Manual is fine.
tomComb··on Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
And fly.io sprites
tomComb··on We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant
And Turso has built a Virtual Filesystem on top of their SQLite.

AgentFS https://agentfs.ai/ https://github.com/tursodatabase/agentfs

Which sounds like a great idea, except that is uses NFS instead of FUSE (note that macFUSE now has a FSKit backend so FUSE seems like the best solution for both Mac and Linux).

tomComb··on Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
And zerobrew, like the original Homebrew, is compatible with Linux.

It appears that Nanobrew is not.

I care about the light-weight efficiency of these new native code variants much more when I want to use brew on some little Linux container or VM or CI, than I do for my macOS development machine.

tomComb··on My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)
The pebble index seems like the optimal form for this.

https://repebble.com/index

Could be pressed even if your hands were busy.

tomComb··on Your phone is an entire computer
The pixels all ship with unlocked bootloaders.
tomComb··on Google Workspace CLI
Yikes, I wrote that? I hate it when people write cryptic replies like that.

What I meant was 'yes', Google Workspace CLI appears to quite similar to 'gogcli', the CLI written for OpenClaw. Both provide CLI access to a broad range of Google services for both workspace and regular gmail accounts.

GAM, on the other hand, is an admin tool, and strictly for Google Workspace accounts.

tomComb··on Google Workspace CLI
This - gog - yes. But I think it is different than GAM which is an admin tool. reply
tomComb··on Google Workspace CLI
I think it is unrelated.
tomComb··on Switch to Claude without starting over
I felt that way too, until I noticed how different their schemes are for discovering these files, e.g. Claude will pick up context files in parent folders, and Codex doesn’t.

Maybe it’s better that they maintain different names to prevent people from assuming that they work the same

tomComb··on Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM
I think nanoclaw is actually designed to be run that way.
tomComb··on Deno Sandbox
Yes, sprites looks great too – would certainly be interested in a comparison.
tomComb··on Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation
You are right, it is. But it would be a mistake for us to use this opportunity to attack them for it.

We should applaud their donation today, and at another time assess the meager contributions of many companies that should be shamed.

tomComb··on ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
You can see a chat timestamp when it shows up as a search result.

I’m not suggesting this is sufficient, I’m just noting there is somewhere in the user interface that it is displayed.

tomComb··on I'm returning my Framework 16
Yes, that does sound good, but if someone wants an inexpensive laptop that is also “actually designed for Linux”, they should keep in mind Chromebooks. I don’t think of these as competitors to the framework, but as a lower end alternative that is usually overlooked.
tomComb··on Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025
So then one solution might be to buy a Chromebook, and put regular Linux on it? I don’t think the Chromebook are locked down.
tomComb··on Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025
Yikes, Node.js did really badly. If this holds up, my take-away would be ...

If I want to use TypeScript for Functions, I should write to the v8 runtimes (Deno, Cloudflare, Supabase, etc) which are much faster due to being much more lightweight.

tomComb··on Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line
Everything seems to be about agents. Glad to see a post about enabling simple workflows!
tomComb··on Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
Pixels and Chromebooks have never had any ads. Windows 11 is plastered with them.
tomComb··on Gnome is better macOS than macOS
js is the easiest language to handle safely and securely (due to its origins in the browser, of course), and can even be run fairly efficiently since it is now probably the most optimized language. And most importantly, is probably the most widely known language.
tomComb··on Open Source and Local Code Mode MCP in Deno Sandboxes
Cloudflair has built python FaaS on top of their workers service, which is very similar to this Dino service. They did it using Wasm.
tomComb··on Control LLM Spend and Access with any-LLM-gateway
I don’t think those are comparable. simonw's llm Has a python SDK, but it’s very much CLI first. Light LLM is very much about the SDK. You can wrap some agent SDK’s around it, like Gemini, but that’s for agents not work flows. I can’t really think of them as in the same category.
tomComb··on Zed is our office
True, but the option of wysiwyg for editing markdown would really be a great addition. Or even just for preview ... https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/21717
tomComb··on Head in the Zed Cloud
Workers is a v8 isolates runtime like Deno. v8 and Deno are both open source and Deno is used in a variety of platforms, including Supabase and ValTown.

It is a terrific technology, and it is reasonably portable but I think you would be better using it in something like Supabase where are the whole platform is open source and portable, if those are your goals.

tomComb··on Claude Skills
> the thing I most need are context-management helpers like "start a claude with this set of MCPs, then that set, and so on".

Isn’t that sub agents?

tomComb··on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
I’m still using - free g suite - play music - finance - nfc wallet is just google wallet isn’t it? - chromecast, video and audio-only I guess play music is now YouTube music, and doesn't have uploads, so that can be considered dead, but the others seem alive to me.
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