Hacker News: evbogue

New comment by evbogue in "Waymo in Singapore"

evbogue — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:10:42 +0000

Singapore would do better banning cars altogether.

New comment by evbogue in "Htmx 4.0"

evbogue — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:30:49 +0000

As a former CEO of HTMX I thank you for your service as the current CEO of HTMX.

New comment by evbogue in "ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data"

evbogue — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:17:28 +0000

And yet, they don't advertise content hashes so the data cannot be distributed by the software.

New comment by evbogue in "ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data"

evbogue — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:12:34 +0000

Yes like all of this would benefit from their team studying the implementation of Tahoe-LAFS.

New comment by evbogue in "ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers"

evbogue — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:50:22 +0000

Upside: data is always available even if Bluesky's funding is pulled. Downside: we lose deletes.

New comment by evbogue in "ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers"

evbogue — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:49:11 +0000

IPFS already exists. What I want is distributed Bluesky, since it's a product success and I do like most of the proto and the team. Do you want to fix this? I just spoke with Claude and I don't think it'd be too difficult these days for us to fix this in the core product.

New comment by evbogue in "ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers"

evbogue — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:05:37 +0000

Having the content available everywhere seems like the definition of a distributed system to me. Hashing content is not a discovery issue, one simply iterates over a list of hosts and asks if they have the msgs by their hash.

New comment by evbogue in "ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers"

evbogue — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:59:02 +0000

Yes, and is that useful within the structure of the Bluesky ecosystem?

What if PDSes replicated the content of PDSes? Then it'd be available.

New comment by evbogue in "ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers"

evbogue — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:13:41 +0000

Yah it clearly has always done this, but why doesn't it support multi-PDS replication?

But you're right that the screenshot proto and the copy and paste proto are quite successful as a distributed system these days.

New comment by evbogue in "ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers"

evbogue — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:49:39 +0000

Yah atproto auths moving data from the pds to the index, similar to like https, but they missed authenticated distributed data storage somewhere along the way. Why is that, I wonder?

New comment by evbogue in "ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers"

evbogue — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:26:01 +0000

The article seems to forget about content addressable storage and signing key cryptography and how these tools might make their software more distributed.

New comment by evbogue in "Many Let's Encrypt renewals had errors today"

evbogue — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:38:06 +0000

Like peers could sign sites?

New comment by evbogue in "We need a federation of forges"

evbogue — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:58:59 +0000

We need git-ssb

New comment by evbogue in "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"

evbogue — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:53:36 +0000

Yes, and it only supports storing one's data in one place. If we use local-first as our measuring stick for a decentralized system then ATProto fails since we can't store the msgs anywhere -- such as on the nodes of my friends. Prior art such as secure-scuttlebot had this figured out, and thus no one ever complained about ssb being centralized.

New comment by evbogue in "At Protocol: Building the Social Internet"

evbogue — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:47:43 +0000

It is not common, but it is becoming more common: https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

New comment by evbogue in "Claude Design"

evbogue — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:39:41 +0000

Twitter Bootstrap 2 was the height of web design. If we can go back and stay there forever why should anyone fault our society.

New comment by evbogue in "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"

evbogue — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:36:24 +0000

ATProto would need to use signing key cryptography and content addressable storage to be distributed. If we can't store our data with third parties or create an offline-first system then it's not a decentralized social network.

New comment by evbogue in "Codex for almost everything"

evbogue — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:37:15 +0000

Codex-cli / OpenClaw. If you need a browser use Playwright-mcp.

I can't see why I'd want an agent to click around Gnome or Ubuntu desktop but maybe that's just me?

New comment by evbogue in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

evbogue — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:19:38 +0000

I use it. I think everyone should try the original version out before it gets too muddled so they get the spirit of the thing even if it doesn't end up being the thing -- in a safe space where you know what data you're allowing it to claw thru.

New comment by evbogue in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

evbogue — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:51:17 +0000

This is why I'm hoping fiatjaf has a recommendation here. I have a feeling he might have a proposal that solves this. But doesn't solve all of it, just some of it.