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tommy_axle··on Show HN: Wg-admin – web UI for an existing WireGuard host
This sits in the right spot using the existing wg conf and tools.
tommy_axle··on Ask HN: My domain registrar (Hover) rug-pulled me for $3000
Although the timing was suspicious it looks like they might be correct about the price. namecheap has the same price https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma... (a bit cheaper at porkbun around $2.5K)
tommy_axle··on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing
It wouldn't be a first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal
tommy_axle··on Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP
Yes, definitely the official directory for apps/connectors where possible, which security and vetting is a priority. It's similar in some ways to how it was/is with mobile where you have the official store vs directly running an apk.
tommy_axle··on VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
Vite is great and vite 8 was a huge speed-up so definitely a nice win for them. Remaining independent is always great but at the same time there are other "new homes" that could be worse so let's keep our fingers crossed and hope it works out.
tommy_axle··on Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623
tommy_axle··on GitHub Is Down
If self-hosting the runners too then it's doable. Not 100% sure for Forgejo but with Gitea and act_runner it's possible and pretty economical if you have an extra mac mini.
tommy_axle··on Why TUIs are back
Map to "jj" and call it a day since your finger is already on the home row

Also ctrl + [ is standard terminal/ascii for esc so that might be a bit more ergonomic than reaching for esc

tommy_axle··on Copy Fail
Go version came in handy https://github.com/badsectorlabs/copyfail-go especially for systems without the very latest python (os.slice)

Slightly more readable Python version at https://gist.github.com/grenkoca/b82281a4706e936072979acf54b...

tommy_axle··on Copy Fail
Could be worse (we'll see) as this could be a wild ride along with react2shell or some of the compromised packages as of late.
tommy_axle··on OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise
I wouldn't go that far. Right tool for the job as always. Axios offers a lot over fetch for all but the simplest use cases plus you get to take advantage of the ecosystem. Need offline, axios-cache-interceptor already exists. Sure you can do all of those things with fetch but you need more to go with it taking you right back to just using axios. Also is no one annoyed that you can't replay fetch like the xhr? Same with express: solves a problem reliably.
tommy_axle··on Codex for almost everything
OpenClaw acquisition at work.
tommy_axle··on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
Pick a decent quant (4-6KM) then use llama-fit-params and try it yourself to see if it's giving you what you need.
tommy_axle··on The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not (2024)
Nah, prepending will lead to a messier diff than the parent example.
tommy_axle··on Can I run AI locally?
I'm guessing this is also calculating based on the full context size that the model supports but depending on your use case it will be misleading. Even on a small consumer card with Qwen 3 30B-A3B you probably don't need 128K context depending on what you're doing so a smaller context and some tensor overrides will help. llama.cpp's llama-fit-params is helpful in those cases.
tommy_axle··on What Claude Code chooses
More like redux vs zustand. Picking zustand was one of the good standout picks for me.
tommy_axle··on Vim 9.2
With all the buzz about orchestrating in the age of CLI agents there doesn't seem to be much talk about vim + tmux with send-keys (a blessing). You can run as many windows and panes doing so many different things across multiple projects.
tommy_axle··on I asked Claude Code to remove jQuery. It failed miserably
If doing it directly fails (not surprising) wouldn't the next thing (maybe the first thing) to do was to have AI write a codemod to do what needed to be done then apply the codemod? Then all you need to do is get the codemod right and apply it to as many files as you need. Seems much more predictable and context-efficient.
tommy_axle··on Ship Types, Not Docs
so like GraphQL?
tommy_axle··on Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests
My guess is business (if they are doing well on the platform)
tommy_axle··on Show HN: No more writing shitty regexes to police usernames
I see a service like this as being in the ip lookup API category (like ipinfo.io) but I wanted to mention that for this (and IP lookup, captcha etc) I would expect that if the service is down then you allow the registrations then review later, and not simply prevent all registrations.
tommy_axle··on Show HN: No more writing shitty regexes to police usernames
Ok so taylorswift is reserved but taylor_swift and realtaylorswift can be used? It seems like impersonation would still be a problem.
tommy_axle··on Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
An aside: it looks like there is a certificate error for https://certkit.com/ as it's for *.mscertkit.com (this was on Chromium + Linux)
tommy_axle··on Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back
You want it to be as close to deterministic as possible to reduce the risk of the LLM doing something crazy like deleting a feature or functionality. Sure, the idea is for reviews to catch it but it's easier to miss there when there is a lot of noise. I agree that it's very similar to an offshore team that's just focused on cranking out code versus caring about what it does.
tommy_axle··on Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir
Technically writing calls is also taking the downside.
tommy_axle··on Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop
Not the OP but yes you can definitely get a bigger quant like Q6 if it makes a difference but you also can go with a bigger param model like gpt oss 120B. A 70B would probably be great for a 128GB machine, which I don't think qwen has. You can search for the model you're interested in on hugging face often with "gguf" to get it ready to go (e.g. https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/gpt-oss-120b-GGUF/tree/main). Otherwise it's not a big deal to quantize yourself using llama.cpp.
tommy_axle··on Evaluating the impact of AI on the labor market: Current state of affairs
There was more also going on in that time-frame: several interest rate hikes, no fix for section 174 changes by the end of 2022. Maybe someone will pinpoint whatever had the largest impact in a detailed study.
tommy_axle··on Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'?
Not sure, most were probably created just for this hackathon so I'd expect few if any. It's just a good way to see how far one can take it with vibe coding. It's easy to crank out smaller apps these days so marketing and distribution will be more important going forward.
tommy_axle··on Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'?
One way to gauge is by taking a look at some of the projects submitted for Bolt's contest at https://worldslargesthackathon.devpost.com/project-gallery
tommy_axle··on Claude Code is all you need
This piece is also covered by a bunch of other cli/tui agents (like codex-cli and opencode) allowing you to switch between Claude and other models (comes in handy depending on the task) so it really all depends on the setup you like. As mentioned in the sibling comment there are ways to get it to work with Claude Code too.
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