Hacker News: exploderate

New comment by exploderate in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

exploderate — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:46:54 +0000

> Gemini CLI is an open-source AI agent

This is not good for open-source. Claude is not open-source, copilot-cli is not and antigravity-cli isn't either.

Apparently the major players decide to keep the secret agent source, well, secret.

New comment by exploderate in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

exploderate — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:55:57 +0000

Ah wow, that must be the most expensive mouse pointer ever. I wonder if it can also click links. I just tell AI to "click this" and it will figure out what is under the pointer, query a graph of UI widgets and trigger a "click" event for me. Maybe with a sub-agent that has application context, "this is a browser".

If we manage that, my plans for a pure XML based shell might not be too futuristic '' ...

New comment by exploderate in "Apt-bundle: brew bundle for apt"

exploderate — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:33:57 +0000

Or just homebrew on Linux?

New comment by exploderate in "Apt-bundle: brew bundle for apt"

exploderate — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:04:19 +0000

So, this is better than `dpkg --get-selections/--set-selections`? Oh, because it's partial?

New comment by exploderate in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

exploderate — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:57:24 +0000

What, of course we do?

Summarizing, explaining pages directly, without copying to another app. Reading pages out aloud. Maybe even orchestrating research sessions, by searching and organizing...

New comment by exploderate in "XSLT RIP"

exploderate — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:42:55 +0000

I wish there was a native XSLT library for Golang. Every model wants to shell out or requires CGO.

New comment by exploderate in "Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel"

exploderate — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:33:33 +0000

The one line "article" on lwn.net has a link to this email:

  From: Kent Overstreet @ 2025-09-11 23:19 UTC
 
  As many of you are no doubt aware, bcachefs is switching to shipping as
  a DKMS module. Once the DKMS packages are in place very little should
  change for end users, but we've got some work to do on the distribution
  side of things to make sure things go smoothly.

  Good news: ...

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bcachefs/yokpt2d2g2lluyomtqrdv...

New comment by exploderate in "Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts"

exploderate — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:52:52 +0000

This will make working with Google Docs easier, as they can copy&paste from Markdown.

New comment by exploderate in "Multiple security issues in GNU Screen"

exploderate — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:12:47 +0000

Yes, that's why all the cool kids switched to tmux 17 years ago. The only argument the screen camp had was "no serial port support in tmux". To which we answered something about a smaller more modern code base...

New comment by exploderate in "Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google"

exploderate — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:24:55 +0000

Can you explain how? Or is your argument "One guy in a basement in Bulgaria could build Firefox for 50 Stotinki."?

New comment by exploderate in "2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls"

exploderate — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:15:15 +0000

> I don't think it's a generation thing, I think it's that what we generally consider normal has changed, but that some people got left behind in the old normal.

Isn't that the definition of a "generational thing"?

Now I have to think every time, is this someone I have to text first? Or do they consider texting then calling redundant? Anyhow, I think both are important communication techniques, adults should be able to do remote direct verbal and async written.

New comment by exploderate in "Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner"

exploderate — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:24:05 +0000

Sophos was the latest scandal. Though, it's unclear to me to which degree their antivirus tools helped to install the malware. Maybe it was just the target selection from telemetry data. Maybe they used it to deploy the "kernel implant"?

https://www.heise.de/en/opinion/Analysis-and-opinion-Sophos-...

New comment by exploderate in "Xorg being removed. What does this mean?"

exploderate — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:16:00 +0000

Wow, I need to get some of that "binary code". Sounds dangerous, probably has "pointers" and other sharp things?

I'm happy the gigantic ball of ill-maintained shell scripts from the last century is gone from my systems.

New comment by exploderate in "Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11"

exploderate — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:42:30 +0000

1) SSL

2) HTTP/3

3) Other (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP)

New comment by exploderate in "That's a Lot of YAML"

exploderate — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:28:19 +0000

At least you can do " Have fun putting this in JSON :->" in XML.

New comment by exploderate in "That's a Lot of YAML"

exploderate — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:26:17 +0000

Indeed, back then it as "Yet another Markup Language" (https://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-12-10.html). I remember using it to write blog posts with static generators, like webgen around 2004.

New comment by exploderate in "Build your own Docker with Linux namespaces, cgroups, and chroot"

exploderate — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:40:44 +0000

Dockerfile and "market place" (hub) were the big ones in my opinion. Even though Dockerfile syntax was a mess in the beginning, being able to specify a base and a few commands was a huge improvement in usability. Then running build and push to make your image widely available. Collaboration was so easy compared to the alternatives, Linux jails, jailer, debootstrap, lxc and such.

New comment by exploderate in "GitHub slashes engineering team in India"

exploderate — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:14:14 +0000

LLMs are probably better at generating specifications than writing code.

New comment by exploderate in "Working Remotely? Pair SSH with Teleport"

exploderate — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 10:48:38 +0000

Should be fine if you host your own tmate server.

New comment by exploderate in "Vanced has been discontinued"

exploderate — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 12:08:36 +0000

This one is funny, maybe it helps:

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe