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New comment by CommanderTvis in "Show HN: Fakeipedia – Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist"

CommanderTvis — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:14:39 +0000

If it didn't have Wikipedia's layout and structure, I'd say all the articles were from something adjacent to the SCP Foundation. The narrative style is much more SCP-ish than Wikipedia-like, because Wikipedia's main strength is its interconnected network of articles, which eliminates the need to tell the whole story on a single page. Only SCP Foundation articles try to capture the idea of an entire world on a single page.

UPD: And, well, sadistic and otherworldly descriptions of the unenviable existence of all humanity after something terrible happens are the SCP Foundation's bread and butter.

I ported JetBrains' ThinkRail from a WebView to Avalonia with Ghostty

CommanderTvis — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:37:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/CommanderTvis/writing/tree/main/sharprail-avalonia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992698

Points: 5

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New comment by CommanderTvis in "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"

CommanderTvis — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:03:46 +0000

Fun fact: IntelliJ itself switches to Ghostty VT (with Swing rendering)

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/55910d2...

As the relevant issue states, it's exactly because it should perform better for TUI agents.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/projects/IJPL/issues/IJPL-226...

New comment by CommanderTvis in "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"

CommanderTvis — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:47:01 +0000

You can actually plug Zed's ACP into Air's acp.json file to draw subscription tokens:

{ "agent_servers": { "Claude Code": { "command": "bunx", "args": ["@zed-industries/claude-code-acp"], "env": {} } } }

Swap bunx with npx -y if necessary

New comment by CommanderTvis in "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"

CommanderTvis — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:28:21 +0000

{ "agent_servers": { "Claude Code": { "command": "bunx", "args": ["@zed-industries/claude-code-acp"], "env": {} } } }

is to be put into your Air's acp.json (or swap bunx with npx / pnpm exec if you have only one of them)

Show HN: I forked JetBrains' new agent IDE to host Claude Code

CommanderTvis — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:00:32 +0000

ThinkRail is JetBrains' open-source IDE shell for AI coding agents: worktree-per-tab, chat + file tree + terminal, but hardwired to one agent (Pi).

My fork adds a plugin API so it can host others too, starting with Claude Code running in the same UI.

What's new over upstream:

- A prototype of real plugin system - Claude Code as a first-class citizen — config, IDE bridge, and terminal status all wired in as a builtin plugin, so you get Claude Code sessions in the same worktree-scoped UI as `pi`. - Seven other builtin plugins split out the same way: blueprint (interactive specs), PDF preview, branch graph, a live drawing/visualize surface, and file-type icons

Nightly builds via a Homebrew tap are provided.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741832

Points: 2

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New comment by CommanderTvis in "ThinkRail (JetBrains incubator) – A Web-Based GUI for Pi Coding Agent"

CommanderTvis — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:49:29 +0000

I am an external contributor and had a few PRs merged there and I'm using a heavily customized fork.

Two core ideas I think are right: - Worktrees as the essential unit of the project interface, not a secondary feature. It kinda makes it a default thought for every coding session: maybe I create worktree instead of sending multiple agents in one workdir. - A hierarchical spec view

The interesting tension is that it's built around pi, which has a tiny share, while the potential users of agentic IDEs are already on Claude Code or Codex. That's why my fork is about hosting Claude Code compatibility and adding to GUI what's my missing for CC.

ThinkRail (JetBrains incubator) – A Web-Based GUI for Pi Coding Agent

CommanderTvis — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:39:22 +0000

Article URL: https://thinkrail.ai/blog/introducing-thinkrail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439511

Points: 4

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Rewriting a production compiler's IR with AI agents in five weeks

CommanderTvis — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:35:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/CommanderTvis/writing/tree/main/rr-truffle-rewrite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344173

Points: 5

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