Hacker News: amlug

New comment by amlug in "I am worried about Bun"

amlug — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:21:38 +0000

Are they wrong though? AI or not, compiling code is math - not philosophy. So what's wrong here?

New comment by amlug in "I am worried about Bun"

amlug — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:20:48 +0000

Is there any Typescript that is compiled wrongly? If so, go ahead and show me.

New comment by amlug in "I am worried about Bun"

amlug — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:20:11 +0000

I'm the "AI cringe guy" if you want to call it that. Yet I am still waiting for someone to produce typescript that compiles wrongly.

I have limited time, and the little feedback that guy provided turned out to be perfectly well answered by AI. So sorry, but either you actually criticize something actionable to just shut up, but I don't have the time to debate this if the simple few lines don't get answered.

Show HN: Mango – A native, open-source MongoDB GUI. 7 MB, no Electron

amlug — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:37 +0000

Article URL: https://mangoquery.com/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613265

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: EasyShot – macOS screenshot thumbnails that don't disappear after 5s

amlug — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:15:57 +0000

I kept missing the drag window on macOS's built-in screenshot thumbnail. It fades out in ~5 seconds and if you're not fast enough, you have to go find the file on your Desktop.

EasyShot watches your screenshot folder and shows a floating thumbnail that stays until you drag it into whatever app you need — Slack, Figma, email, wherever.

It's a single Swift file, no dependencies, ~200 lines. Notarized DMG or build from source in one command. Took about 30 minutes to build because the problem was driving me insane.

https://easyshot.dev https://github.com/skelpo/easyshot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436732

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by amlug in "Claude Code reverse-engineered itself. Two subagents refused. It called them shy"

amlug — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:31:41 +0000

We're building a TypeScript-to-native compiler (Perry) and wanted to evaluate whether Claude Code's codebase is something we could realistically compile. Since it's closed source, that meant reconstruction. Claude dispatched 7 subagents — two refused to extract the system prompt on ethical grounds, the parent called them "shy" and did it anyway. 12,093 lines reconstructed, 0 systems penetrated. Key technical findings: internal codename Tengu with 654+ feature flags, sandbox-exec with dynamically generated SBPL policies, bubblewrap on Linux, three-tier context compaction, deferred tool loading via ToolSearch, and smart-quote normalization for LLM-generated curly quotes. Happy to answer questions.

Claude Code reverse-engineered itself. Two subagents refused. It called them shy

amlug — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:31:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.skelpo.com/blog/claude-code-reverse-engineering

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427034

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by amlug in "Show HN: Pry – TypeScript compiled to native code, no Electron or V8"

amlug — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:59:25 +0000

Hey HN — I've been building Perry, a compiler that takes TypeScript and emits native binaries. No V8, no runtime, no Electron. It maps to platform-native UI widgets: AppKit on macOS, UIKit on iOS, Android Views on Android, GTK4 on Linux, Win32 on Windows.

Pry is the first real app built with it — a JSON viewer, deliberately small.

It's in the iOS/macOS App Store and Google Play right now. Linux build works, Windows is waiting on code signing.

The compiler itself is written in Rust. It handles TypeScript parsing, type checking, and lowers to native code. The UI bindings aren't a wrapper library — the compiler generates the actual platform API calls.

This is a building-in-public thing. Pry is the proof-of-concept. The bigger goal is a full IDE. Happy to answer questions about the compiler architecture, the app store submission process, or anything else.

Compiler repo: https://github.com/PerryTS/perry App links: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pry-json-viewer/id6759329040 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.perry.pry

Show HN: Pry – TypeScript compiled to native code, no Electron or V8

amlug — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:57:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/PerryTS/pry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234301

Points: 2

# Comments: 1