Hacker News: AgentElement

New comment by AgentElement in "The next era of AI is about infrastructure, not just models"

AgentElement — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:32:35 +0000

This is a problem. Mozilla is completely dependent on it's primary competitor for funding Firefox. Although I don't agree with Mozilla's current direction, trying to diversify their primary source of income is rational from this perspective.

New comment by AgentElement in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

AgentElement — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:51:51 +0000

Some folks like to have a computing environment free of proprietary influences and extremely strong vendor lock-in. I cannot claim to posses any apple devices.

New comment by AgentElement in "Managing dotfiles with Make"

AgentElement — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:03:29 +0000

With nix + home manager, you can use `mkOutOfStoreSymlink` to make symlinks between the dotfile repo and the target destination in `.config`. I've found this to be the most ergonomic way to have nix-managed dotfiles. Because the out-of-store dotfile repo is symlinked, you can make little changes to your system without doing the whole commit and switch dance.

For example, here's a snippet pulled from my dotfiles that does this for multiple dotfiles at once:

  home.file =
    builtins.mapAttrs
      (key: value: {
        # symlink ~/dotfiles/configs/{value} to ~/{key}
        source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "${config.home.homeDirectory}/dotfiles/configs/${value}";
      })
      {
        ".zshrc"                                    = "zsh/zshrc";
        ".p10k.zsh"                                 = "zsh/p10k.zsh";
        ".config/sway/config"                       = "sway/config";
        ".config/nvim/init.lua"                     = "nvim/init.lua";
      };

New comment by AgentElement in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

AgentElement — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:34:35 +0000

There is a choice of operating systems, which cannot be said about macs.

New comment by AgentElement in "First Ultrasonic Chef's Knife Vibrates 40,000X/Second for Easy Cutting"

AgentElement — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:16:55 +0000

One does not even need a top-quality professional electric knife sharpener to produce an edge for kitchen work. An inexpensive 1500 grit whetstone suffices.

New comment by AgentElement in "Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event"

AgentElement — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:30:05 +0000

Find one or two people to exhibit your stuff alongside you. The event is more fun in a group.

New comment by AgentElement in "Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event"

AgentElement — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 02:02:48 +0000

I exhibited there, and I had a lot of fun. My friends co-hosting the noisebridge booth got a lot of folks to find a makerspace near them. Several general attendees told us that the very first time they had soldered was at Open Sauce, when putting together their badges. The event has positive impact, and I'm hoping it sticks around.

Open Sauce 2025

AgentElement — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 08:39:16 +0000

Article URL: https://opensauce.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44613684

Points: 1

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New comment by AgentElement in "Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA"

AgentElement — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:57:14 +0000

This is not surprising, and further growth is inevitable. I am heavily involved in a local Linux users group, and the number of people switching away from Windows increases every year. Anecdotal, of course, but Microsoft's enshittification of Windows makes the argument in favor of a free OS easier every year too.

New comment by AgentElement in "Framework Laptop 12 review"

AgentElement — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 04:28:18 +0000

First-class Linux support is the reason that half the regulars in my local Linux Users Group have Frameworks. It's probably the most common laptop brand I see in my tech circle, and anecdotally I can say that it has eclipsed thinkpads in my specific community.

New comment by AgentElement in "Design for 3D-Printing"

AgentElement — Sun, 04 May 2025 23:51:34 +0000

This is a fantastic article. It neatly summarizes several tricks that took me years to pick up.

Another useful trick to minimizing material in a print is to not print surfaces at all. Most of the mass in a print is concentrated in the shell. If the top and bottom surfaces are not particularly critical to the function of the part, then you can remove either surface. The slicer can still fill in the volume enclosed by these surfaces with infill. If you use a planar infill, such as a rectilinear, hexagonal, or triangular infill, the parts can look quite nice. This trick works particularly well on mostly flat parts.

I use two TPU parts printed in this manner daily: A phone case [0] and a relief strap for a pair of headphones [1].

[0] https://www.printables.com/model/615154-google-pixel-8-case

[1] https://www.printables.com/model/577575-hifiman-comfort-stra...

New comment by AgentElement in "Waydroid – Android in a Linux container"

AgentElement — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:47:07 +0000

Wow, this phone is almost perfect - TRRS connector, uSD card, user-replaceable battery, and available in the United States. Not having an OLED panel might be a dealbreaker though.