<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: MithrilTuxedo</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MithrilTuxedo</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:52:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=MithrilTuxedo" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>They have some tricks on managing file access that others don’t.<p>I thought it was a Windows thing. My Windows work computer is so heavily managed and monitored I assumed that was why Copilot stops being able to get terminal output or find the file I'm looking at. It's the same problem in IntelliJ and VSCode, with different models trying to find things in different ways.<p>Now that I think of it though, I've only used Copilot at work. At home I use Debian but I've never tried using Copilot. Claude, OpenCode, Gemini, and IntelliJ's AI Chat pointed at local Ollama models never have issues finding files or reading files and terminal output.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:35:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865105</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ahhh.... I couldn't figure out why they said that. I forgot the Statue of Liberty had double-helix staircases.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:08:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821719</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I assumed you'd want to run one immutable model that can fit in memory without any temp files.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:18:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802417</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802417</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm thinking of Debian and how much effort it takes to maintain stability and security over time.<p>I can't imagine we'll really be able to trust AI without it's use in open source software where we can see how reliable it is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:33:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602284</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Java (incl. Scala, Closure, Groovy, Jython, etc.) is better suited to running as a server. Let agents write clean readable code and leave performance concerns to the JIT compiler. If you really want you can let agents rewrite components at runtime without losing context.<p>Erlang would offer similar benefits, because what we're doing with these things is more message passing than processing.<p>Rust is what I'd want agents writing for edge devices, things I don't want to have to monitor. Granted, our devices are edge devices to Anthropic, but they're more tightly coupled to their services.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:34:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469878</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Data centers in space makes no sense"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I bet they can already weaponize their satellites to prevent the launch of other satellites.<p>Putting data centers in space keeps them out of reach of humans with crowbars and hammers, which may have been a vulnerability for those robots Tesla is building.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:03:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879947</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Ratchets in software development (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>So it's important that there is a moment when these things aren't optional.<p>I haven't found anything more effective than making sure it happens fast enough other devs don't have time to think about disabling it. They might make their changes locally relying on an IDE without running the full build, which pushes the exceptions to the build agent. Developers may not have privileges to modify those builds directly, but complaints and emergencies slowly erode impediments to deploying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:28:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857906</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "The US reduced debt following World War II and what it would take to do so again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fossil fuels were cheaper too, and dilution was the solution to pollution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:25:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922826</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "US reopens Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas development"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The wildlife refuge part isn't. It's managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:09:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45756027</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45756027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45756027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Louis Rossman: Politician calls constituents criminals with no right to privacy [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I expect there will eventually be enough cameras publicly streaming public spaces for anyone to be able to track any vehicle anywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:54:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715129</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It really depends on the context.<p>Everyone's bandwidth would be saturated if no one assumed their reader knew what they were talking about, but assumption is a form of lossy compression that allows both miscommunication and misunderstanding.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:26:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104310</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104310</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Think of them like different social groups.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:08:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45021102</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45021102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45021102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The unit of decentralization is the group, not the individual. The client-server relationship is still centralized.<p>Joining a community is a highly centralizing act. ;-p</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:53:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45021001</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45021001</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45021001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Green card holder, walking dog: deported"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Self-deport where? He moved here when he was twelve.<p>Not to mention...<p>>According to the family's attorney, Zavvar was charged with a misdemeanor for marijuana possession in the late 1990s. In 2004, he was stopped while reentering the country, which initiated deportation proceedings.<p>Biden pardoned simple marijuana possession.<p><a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/10/06/granting-pardon-for-the-offense-of-simple-possession-of-marijuana/" rel="nofollow">https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/president...</a><p>>which pardon shall restore to them full political, civil, and other rights.<p>I think it stands to reason that covers orders to give up all rights and self-deport, as a consequence of simple marijuana possession.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:39:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44820021</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44820021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44820021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Inequality, decay of democratic institutions linked to accelerated ageing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, their standards haven't been lowered. They have been raised to your dissatisfaction, and this article still made it through.<p>>I will seek my answers to the universe elsewhere.<p>You'll have to look elsewhere for articles that pose a threat to disadvantaged groups.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:08:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44566348</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44566348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44566348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted a Lot of This"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I enjoyed reading this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 01:52:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44213995</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44213995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44213995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Do we need publicly-owned social networks to escape Silicon Valley?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If it's all under one hierarchy controlling it, that's true. If the platform is decentralized and the development of the platform is independent from its use, that vulnerability from the top doesn't exist.<p>I'm thinking of public platforms like the internet or Bitcoin or Mastodon. Twitter isn't public, so there is no way to know what influence other entities have on it. The same is true of any individual using any platform, but there are too many individuals. We want control over the use of a platform to be divided across as many entities as possible.<p>There is no unbiased platform for all people to discuss ideas in nature. I don't know why anyone thinks they can create one. You can't increase communication by raising the noise floor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 17:27:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089306</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Consider that a lot of NIH research funding has already been cut.<p>They effectively ended research they didn't want to release, wasting funding already provided, while counting it as wasteful spending.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 23:01:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43864307</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43864307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43864307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "The Columbian Orator taught nineteenth-century Americans how to speak"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is this book not in Project Gutenburg?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 03:34:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43640366</link><dc:creator>MithrilTuxedo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43640366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43640366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MithrilTuxedo in "Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of opening URL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think of them in terms of the adapter pattern. It would be great if I could talk directly to the SME on the other end of my problem, but the interface I'm going through is the interface for <i>everything</i> so the first layer you hit is the facade with a bunch of adapters that don't know much about the implementation behind the interfaces they're trying to get your message to.</p>
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