Hacker News: BeefySwain

New comment by BeefySwain in "Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025)"

BeefySwain — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:47:25 +0000

Is that the same BASIC as this?

New comment by BeefySwain in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

BeefySwain — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:38:51 +0000

I'd love to see more info on this

New comment by BeefySwain in ""

BeefySwain — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:44:00 +0000

I assume because the discovery is branching. If the an agent using the CLI for for GitHub needs to make an issue, it can check the help message for the issue sub-command and go from there, doesn't need to know anything about pull requests, or pipelines, or account configuration, etc, so it doesn't query those subcommands.

Compare this to an MCP, where my understanding is that the entire API usage is injected into the context.

New comment by BeefySwain in "Sunsetting Jazzband"

BeefySwain — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:44:11 +0000

What is happening with Ghostty?

New comment by BeefySwain in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

BeefySwain — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:05:48 +0000

Does batteries included somehow result in upgrading years old projects being a larger lift? I would think the opposite.

New comment by BeefySwain in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

BeefySwain — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:07:30 +0000

Also, as someone who has tried to build tools that automate finding flights, The existing players in the space have made it nearly impossible to do. But now Google is just going to open the door for it?

New comment by BeefySwain in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

BeefySwain — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:06:01 +0000

Can someone explain what the hell is going on here?

Do websites want to prevent automated tooling, as indicated by everyone putting everything behind Cloudfare and CAPTCHAs since forever, or do websites want you to be able to automate things? Because I don't see how you can have both.

If I'm using Selenium it's a problem, but if I'm using Claude it's fine??

New comment by BeefySwain in "Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters"

BeefySwain — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:47:39 +0000

(genuinely asking) why not SQLite by default?

New comment by BeefySwain in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

BeefySwain — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:15:36 +0000

Pendragon?

New comment by BeefySwain in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

BeefySwain — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:01:25 +0000

Consider that this isn't just a random AI slopped assortment of 9,000 tests, but instead is a robust suite of tests that cover 100% of the HTML5 spec.

Does this guarantee that it functions completely with no errors whatsoever? Certainly not. You need formal verification for that. I don't think that contradicts what Simon was advocating for though in this post.

New comment by BeefySwain in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

BeefySwain — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:50:41 +0000

The equivalency here is not 9 billion versus 90 billion, it's 9 billion versus 90 million, and the question is how does the decline look? Does it look like the standard of living for everyone increasing so high that the replacement rate is in the single digit percentage range, or does it look like some version of Elysium where millions have immense wealth and billions have nothing and die off?

New comment by BeefySwain in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

BeefySwain — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:20:46 +0000

Do you mean gait recognition?

New comment by BeefySwain in "Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly"

BeefySwain — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 01:36:37 +0000

What's wrong with Docker for this?

New comment by BeefySwain in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

BeefySwain — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:47:52 +0000

Campfire is definitely not FOSS: https://once.com/license

New comment by BeefySwain in "Ollama's new app"

BeefySwain — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:46:09 +0000

No it's not

New comment by BeefySwain in "Claude 4"

BeefySwain — Fri, 23 May 2025 00:32:12 +0000

I'm curious what tooling you are using to accomplish this?

New comment by BeefySwain in "Email Forwarding for Your Domain"

BeefySwain — Sat, 10 May 2025 20:58:06 +0000

How does this compare to https://mxroute.com/?

New comment by BeefySwain in "Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLA"

BeefySwain — Tue, 06 May 2025 04:00:48 +0000

Why does this keep happening? Do people not understand the implications choosing an open source license.in the first place? There are a million licenses, in fact you can just make your own one up! But when you choose a class of license the specifically allows commercial exploitation... you don't get to act wronged when it happens.

New comment by BeefySwain in "Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life"

BeefySwain — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:34:04 +0000

Anyone know what keyboard that is and where I could get my hands on one?

Just the keyboard. Not the entire unit.

New comment by BeefySwain in "Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases"

BeefySwain — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:20:56 +0000

Android effectively stopped being "open source" when they added Google Play Services. Try running anything on stock AOSP now. Good luck!