Hacker News: CactusBlue

New comment by CactusBlue in "SpaceX files to go public"

CactusBlue — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:35:32 +0000

If you have a big enough portfolio, direct indexing (using something like Frec or Wealthfront) could be an interesting option, and weighting the companies that you don't want at 0.

New comment by CactusBlue in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

CactusBlue — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:31:58 +0000

It feels like the Microsoft version of "IBM Watson", where they renamed seemingly unrelated projects to Watson.

New comment by CactusBlue in "About the Atmosphere"

CactusBlue — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:45:05 +0000

> It's not enough for the people who run a service to be good people – they also have to take steps to insulate themselves (and their successors) from the kind of drip-drip-drip rationalizations that turn a series of small ethical waivers into a cumulative avalanche of pure wickedness

I completely disagree with this guy. No amount of process or protocol can be a substitute for an actually decent organization culture; without the latter, everything falls apart no matter how good the former is.

New comment by CactusBlue in "Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup"

CactusBlue — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:49:50 +0000

Mostly just markdown-based skills. I've personally had more luck with harnesses, preconfigured permissions, and scripts to automate the frequent workflows, and the repo seems pretty light on that.

New comment by CactusBlue in "Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites"

CactusBlue — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:10:58 +0000

Building exactly this; in Mikoto Platforms, "Spaces" can be located on any physical node, and DMs are E2EE routed through multiple nodes

New comment by CactusBlue in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

CactusBlue — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:00:10 +0000

Slightly tangential, but this paragraph is the only one on the rules page with a "id" attr set, so that you can link to this specific rule

New comment by CactusBlue in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

CactusBlue — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:00:52 +0000

Then explicitly refuse service, instead of mocking your userbase.

New comment by CactusBlue in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

CactusBlue — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:59:44 +0000

Eh, AP has its own sets of problems (underspecified protocol, split-brained on discoverability, new developments are met with hostility in the community)

New comment by CactusBlue in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

CactusBlue — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:49:39 +0000

As a startup founder, your userbase is your god. Either treat them with utmost respect, or learn to explicitly fire your customers.

New comment by CactusBlue in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

CactusBlue — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:33:29 +0000

I don't care about the specific situation either way; What I am observant of is how the core team has handled their userbase and lack of protocol robustness.

New comment by CactusBlue in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

CactusBlue — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:37:43 +0000

and I actually don't hate that bit (I really like lexicons, although I might have approached it in a different way) - what I hate is the aggregation layer. I know that it is possible to have an AppView-less atproto app (e.g. RedDwarf), but I feel like much of the ecosystem still defaults to the assumption that it will go through the Bluesky AppView.

New comment by CactusBlue in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

CactusBlue — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:25:22 +0000

We already could've done that before, just throw a HTML file on a HTTP server on a cheap VPS

New comment by CactusBlue in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

CactusBlue — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:22:07 +0000

I don't even think having Jesse Singal on the platform is the problem (like it or not, I believe that all beings must have the right to communicate); the problem here was the communication failure when communicating this decision to the userbase. They could have just reiterated their rules and left it at that; instead, they chose to mock their userbase, write them off as harassment, and banned users left and right, abusing their position in network to censor people at every layer of the protocol.

New comment by CactusBlue in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

CactusBlue — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:18:10 +0000

We don't need "open" networks (Digital Panopticons), we need private networks.

New comment by CactusBlue in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

CactusBlue — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:13:35 +0000

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/waffles-eat-bluesky/

New comment by CactusBlue in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

CactusBlue — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:09:40 +0000

How do you feel about the recent communication failures from the team to the userbase? As another builder of an open-source social platform, we must all understand that it is paramount for any company to not antagonize its customers, doubly so for a SOCIAL platform. I do understand that Bluesky and ATProto has to deal with a lot of baggage from both the old userbase and the new influx from the X/Twitter exodus, but engaging in user-antagonistic communication caused me to sour on the whole protocol.

New comment by CactusBlue in "GPT-5.4"

CactusBlue — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:06:23 +0000

Reminds of Unity features

New comment by CactusBlue in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

CactusBlue — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:10:12 +0000

I think the main advantage of the XML here is that the model is expected to have a matching end tag that is balanced, which reduces the likelihood of malformed outputs.

New comment by CactusBlue in "Should your developer company go open source?"

CactusBlue — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:35:22 +0000

> After building Airbyte into a large open-source data infrastructure company...

Didn't Airbyte rugpull their license to ELv2?

New comment by CactusBlue in "Beyond agentic coding"

CactusBlue — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:12:03 +0000

This feels like an opposite of my experience. I find just having a bunch of Claude Code terminals running in the background to be the most "ambient", while I find autocomplete/auto-navigate the likes of Copilot/Cursor to be so annoying that I don't use any AI autocomplete now. Regardless, I think there's still a lot of room for structured AI programming flows, especially regarding semantic search, code flow tracing and intelligent find and replace.