Hacker News: Pxtl

New comment by Pxtl in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

Pxtl — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:21:39 +0000

Honestly the TUI in most of these coding agents is so fancy I have trouble thinking of them as "terminal". I use Pi Coding Agent and the fact that it's terminal means it's easy to run inside something properly sandboxed in a YOLO mode using normal bash commands instead of relying on individually sandboxed tools.

Once I got the tmux settings for proper scrolling and whatnot it feels fine. Honestly the TUI of tmux is the one that really enrages me - so much complexity for just "I want to switch terminals on my remote".

New comment by Pxtl in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

Pxtl — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:15:41 +0000

My point is that in the late '90s that was the prevailing assumption about the growth of the internet. We have learned that this assumption was wrong.

> the definition of truths and lies can change with time and location

This is moral relativism.

New comment by Pxtl in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

Pxtl — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:00:21 +0000

> And who shall we appoint at the supreme arbitrator of what is lie and what is knowledge?

Ask the parents of the Sandy Hook children, they'll tell you.

New comment by Pxtl in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

Pxtl — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:33:29 +0000

And hydroxychloroquine before that.

New comment by Pxtl in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

Pxtl — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:07:56 +0000

The "information wants to be free" discourse of just under 30 years ago feels so charmingly naive now that we've seen how lies are also information and can travel even better using the same flow.

New comment by Pxtl in "Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb"

Pxtl — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:04:31 +0000

So if a book is banned by a widespread movement of extremists taking control of local governing bodies and the federal government is not involved, that's okay then?

New comment by Pxtl in "Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin"

Pxtl — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:35:03 +0000

Do persons not birth?

New comment by Pxtl in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

Pxtl — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:11:35 +0000

AI could theoretically also be used to optimize existing code instead of producing new features, allowing existing tech to run on lighter hardware. Rent me an rpi if the software is fast.

New comment by Pxtl in "Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin"

Pxtl — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:07:11 +0000

Yup. Not sure which particular stopped-clock struck right within the generally anti-science MAHA movement but I think everybody is happy to take the win.

New comment by Pxtl in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

Pxtl — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:49:29 +0000

I'm not. The political alignment of this site is very evident.

New comment by Pxtl in "Lines of code got a better publicist"

Pxtl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:45:14 +0000

To play devil's advocate for a moment (although I hate it): LoC often actually means NIH... but NIH suddenly has a pretty big proponent in the form of resistance to supply-chain attacks.

Basically the choices are:

1. Roll your own

2. Lockfile your deps for too long

3. Chase the bleeding edge for every dependency

The first is security-through-obscurity because DIY libs will have bugs and vulns but they won't be well-known. The second means missing known vulnerabilities. The third means supply-chain risk.

The rash of attacks and the ease of LLM-powered roll-your-own has shifted the risk-reward calculus towards 1.

But I hate it. This is the further Peter Pan never-gonna-grow-up of our industry that we cannot develop solid best-practice tools and must churn endlessly.

New comment by Pxtl in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

Pxtl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:31:29 +0000

qwen3.5 9b runs okay on my 12GB gaming GPU. It's very stupid as a coding agent but it's possible to get useful work out of it.

New comment by Pxtl in "Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers"

Pxtl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:24:09 +0000

Cosmic rays can probably be resolved with some parity bits and redundancy. Especially since these don't have to be located way up in geosynch, lower orbits get you more magnetosphere protection.

Not that it isn't a problem, but I think heat dissipation will have the edge.

New comment by Pxtl in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

Pxtl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:21:30 +0000

Sounds like they slapped in a bunch of common plugins and released it as a product to promote the free-for-a-limited-time use of their new coding AI service.

New comment by Pxtl in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

Pxtl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:20:03 +0000

The latter. It looks like it's meant to be a batteries-included agent to promote their free-for-a-limited time AI service that it connects to by default.

New comment by Pxtl in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

Pxtl — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:37:26 +0000

I would've assumed lockfile-by-default. We're still going with auto-updating?

New comment by Pxtl in "Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests"

Pxtl — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:13:03 +0000

I look forward to hearing from the usual suspects how the inevitable failure is the fault of wind and solar power.

New comment by Pxtl in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

Pxtl — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:05:38 +0000

Things that are tedious but simple but I'm unfamiliar with.

"Go add a gh action to compile and deploy this thing and run its tests" is one I've found it's good at. Yes I know how to make a gh pipeline but it's always a hassle to remember what goes where.

Cranking out unit tests is okay. It's good at summarizing things so it's not half bad at writing jsdoc/xmldoc comments.

New comment by Pxtl in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

Pxtl — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:02:36 +0000

And why would the hypothetical "OwnAI" product be any different?

New comment by Pxtl in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

Pxtl — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:34:41 +0000

We didn't get people buying family-level file servers for the family photo gallery and documents at any real scale, so i doubt we'll see similar for AI especially when the cost is that much higher for GPUs vs an SBC machine.