Hacker News: colinmarc

New comment by colinmarc in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

colinmarc — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:02:57 +0000

I would very much like to read the German, if anyone has it.

New comment by colinmarc in "Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness"

colinmarc — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:24:12 +0000

This is trivially circumventable by changing the system prompt (they string match against a blacklist).

New comment by colinmarc in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

colinmarc — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:11:06 +0000

I can't tell what's worse: intentionally obscuring the fact that the vast majority of people would pay ~no wealth tax or unintentionally forgetting that the vast majority of people would pay ~no wealth tax.

New comment by colinmarc in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

colinmarc — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:50:11 +0000

Wow - I love programming in YAML! You know what would make this really fun? Sprinkle in some Jinja. Then we'll be cooking with gas.

New comment by colinmarc in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

colinmarc — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:38:08 +0000

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691021

New comment by colinmarc in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

colinmarc — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:38:04 +0000

I know of one: https://lubeno.dev

New comment by colinmarc in "I've sold out"

colinmarc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:24:59 +0000

I use mise to install it in a manageadble way (and basically everything else on my computer).

Anthropic greps for 'Pi', 'OpenClaw' in prompts and blocks them

colinmarc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:49:05 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/FlorianKluge/status/2041855675295318039

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691021

Points: 5

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New comment by colinmarc in "I've sold out"

colinmarc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:04:28 +0000

I don't think Earendil and OpenAI seem very similar. The former is a tiny startup of friends working on exclusively open source stuff.

New comment by colinmarc in "I've sold out"

colinmarc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:01:03 +0000

Pi is a coding agent harness, like Claude Code, but significantly better and more elegant. Here is a good post describing it: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/

I switched a few months ago and have not looked back. Unfortunately Anthropic blocked access from Claude Subscription users today, but that's a different story.

New comment by colinmarc in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

colinmarc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:27:15 +0000

I would absolutely be in favor of those measures.

New comment by colinmarc in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

colinmarc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:32:33 +0000

There are obviously certain harms we are comfortable (trying to) prevent 13yos from having access to. So it's a matter of degree.

The internet you describe has been gone for a long time. The internet that replaced it is several degrees more harmful, to adults and children alike.

New comment by colinmarc in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

colinmarc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:45:00 +0000

I'm surprised by the complete lack of dissent or even nuance in the discussion here. I'm much more ambivalent on this: the historical record for prohibition is not good, but instagram and the like are uniquely and disastrously harmful and the companies pushing them on children are powerful in a way that has no real historical precedent. In the balance, anything the reduces the power those companies have over our lives (and our politics) has to be at least considered. In other words, I don't think this is necessarily the right measure - but I'm desperate.

Didn't regulating cigarettes kind of work?

New comment by colinmarc in "Orion 1.0"

colinmarc — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:28:55 +0000

I opened this link intending to post exactly this. 1Password is just extremely broken on Orion. It's a testament to how much I like the browser that I'm still using it despite that (and despite the fact that Github was completely broken on Webkit this summer, but that's not Orion's fault).

New comment by colinmarc in "Show HN: A Vulkan-Video-based game streaming tool for Linux"

colinmarc — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 09:19:14 +0000

> Would the Swift UI also work on an iPad?

Yes, but probably not for the first version.

> Do you have any comparisons with other tools (eg steam streaming, moonlight)

Steam streaming just doesn't really work on linux. Moonlight is somewhat similar in terms of direction, and has an established client base. I know of at least two projects to build servers for the Moonlight protocol[1][2].

The Moonlight protocol is a bit weird, because it's an open-source reverse engineering of a NVIDIA project, GeForce now. There are fundamental limitations to the protocol, for example that the cursor must be rendered in-stream or simulated. Using my tool, the cursor is rendered locally, and custom cursor images can actually be pushed to the client, for a seamless experience. This sounds like a minor detail but it matters a lot for subjective latency. I'm also working on employing tricks like hierarchical coding using FEC in the protocol, because I hate VBR encoding for games (it makes text blurry and breaks immersion). Those tricks aren't really possible in Moonlight.

All of the Linux solutions I know about have significantly higher latency compared to Magic Mirror, although I don't have numbers for exactly how much higher. (I have a benchmark to test the latency of my tool, but the others don't.) I'd encourage you to try them out and get a feel for the difference.

Finally, I think Magic Mirror is the easiest to install and get going on the server. It has almost zero runtime library or service dependencies (there's a pesky dynamic link against libxkbcommon which I haven't managed to remove), so you don't need to mess with pipewire or docker or anything - it's completely self-contained.

All that said, the existing tools have the advantage of a larger user and contributor base, whereas Magic Mirror is just me on a mission so far :) So they're likely to be much more stable and usable.

[1]: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine [2]: https://github.com/games-on-whales/wolf

Edit: an earlier version of this article mischaracterized the status of GeForce now :)

Show HN: A Vulkan-Video-based game streaming tool for Linux

colinmarc — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:47:27 +0000

I've been working for about 6 months on a new game streaming/remote desktop tool for linux. Gaming on linux is pretty exciting right now, given all the improvements in compatibility, but game streaming isn't really there yet, and the remote desktop space is fairly underdeveloped too.

The server acts as a wayland compositor to get the streamed app or game to render completely off-screen (somewhat like Gamescope, if you're familiar), and it uses Vulkan Video to pass the app's rendered textures directly to the encoder ASIC on the same card. The result is very fast and very low-latency, without a lot of moving parts. Running on the same machine, I get about 15-20ms median latency round-trip (from user input to the frame responding to that input being displayed on the client), which is about one frame at 60fps.

The client is the weakest link right now, but I'm working on a Swift UI macOS/tvOS client that should be a bit nicer to use. You'll also need a reasonably strong GPU to run the server.

Thanks for reading and checking it out! And please leave a bug report if it doesn't work for you, it's quite new and I've basically only tested it on my setup. Running the server with `--bug-report` will dump a video capture and trace log to a folder in /tmp, which you can attach to the report.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40181947

Points: 4

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