Hacker News: aerzen

New comment by aerzen in "If you're a button, you have one job"

aerzen — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:33:19 +0000

Software patents? Care to elaborate?

New comment by aerzen in "Immich 3.0"

aerzen — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:25:52 +0000

My wife only printed the 6 photo albums because I gathered all our photos from three different Google Photos accounts, a hard drive, and two laptops.

And yes, we only look at physical photos or the "on this day X years ago" reels. But to get here, Immich was a valuable tool.

New comment by aerzen in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

aerzen — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:35:03 +0000

It seems like China is becoming the "freedom superpower" while USA is getting "corporate superpower" vibes. Huh

New comment by aerzen in "A new Android malware from Google"

aerzen — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:32:28 +0000

There is precedent of Google making changes in light of "security" that break ad blocking Chrome extensions. See chome extension manifest 3.

So this concern cannot be dismissed with just "slippery slope falacy", it's a new vector of the same power grab strategy.

New comment by aerzen in "A new Android malware from Google"

aerzen — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:02:28 +0000

Does Huawei not use android or Google play services?

New comment by aerzen in "Show HN: PMB – local memory for coding agents that shows if it is used"

aerzen — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:05:23 +0000

This looks like something I'd need - AGENTS.md only gets you so far. Does anyone have experience with using memory like this?

My main concern is that it can overwhelm the context window with useless facts.

New comment by aerzen in "European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status"

aerzen — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:24:17 +0000

Seems like good news - market share of AWS and Azure in EU is huge, so I naturally support efforts to kurb power of such duopoly.

But what would be practical effects of DMA on AWS? Who is the customer, who is the vendor?

New comment by aerzen in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

aerzen — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:41:23 +0000

Spawning processes should not be on the hot path of any program.

New comment by aerzen in "tsz: high performance TypeScript checker, emitter, and language service in Rust"

aerzen — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:34:45 +0000

It seems like tsx is a wrapper around tsc for easy compile+run workflow.

tsz seems to be a compiler, a replacement for tsc

New comment by aerzen in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

aerzen — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:37:36 +0000

Good point. There might be a small advantage if one does not want to give bash access. But general answer to "how do add custom tools like we can in pi" is "you don't". Keep it simple.

New comment by aerzen in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

aerzen — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:15:42 +0000

Ok, what about having tools be discoverable from the environment, similar to how $PATH works in POSIX?

There could be an env var $AGENT_TOOLS, a string of paths delimited by `:` and tools would be discovered as some specific format of file. Maybe a JSON that contains tool name, list of parameters and the command to run it.

This is essentially decoupling tools from the agent, allowing more customization and per-project environments. It does require shipping and installing more binaries, one for each tool probably.

New comment by aerzen in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

aerzen — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:33:40 +0000

For converting HTTP URLs into interactive images of the webpage.

In other words: an internet browser.

New comment by aerzen in "Capability-Based Security for Redox: Namespace and CWD as Capabilities"

aerzen — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:32:06 +0000

CapNProto RPC protocol

New comment by aerzen in "GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?"

aerzen — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:45:12 +0000

Because some auth provider recommended it as the only app to use. While it is a good app, it does backup into Drive.

New comment by aerzen in "Rses – cross-resume between Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode"

aerzen — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:43:15 +0000

Is this useful if I am using pi coding agent? It can swicth between models mid session?

New comment by aerzen in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

aerzen — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:57:33 +0000

Forgejo is also OSS, so you can easily migrate git and issues and prs and everything to your own hosted instance, if codeberg proves untrustworthy. Which I can't on github.

New comment by aerzen in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

aerzen — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:16:21 +0000

Could the title say "process to install non-curated Android apps"? "Sideload" and "unverified" imply that the collection of centrally approved apps is the default way to install software.

Or maybe it is and android's promises about openness are dead.

New comment by aerzen in "Show HN: OmniQL – One Query Language for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis"

aerzen — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:53:25 +0000

Why does JOIN get the prefix then? Is it a command? I would assume that it is a GET clause.

New comment by aerzen in "Show HN: OmniQL – One Query Language for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis"

aerzen — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:07:10 +0000

The `:` prefix is an interesting choice. I don't fully understand when it is needed. It seems to always be used at the beginning of the query. But why is it not used before WHERE?

New comment by aerzen in "Apache Arrow is 10 years old"

aerzen — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:24:35 +0000

I like arrow for its type system. It's efficient, complete and does not have "infinite precision decimals". Considering Postgres's decimal encoding, using i256 as the backing type is so much saner approach.