I’m thinking maybe 1 or 2 weeks from now…

This has always been a fear of open source development… but in reality it’s over exaggerated, thousands of FOSS ideas are posted every day…

My advice would be to treat posting your project like a launch, and get all the readme’s, docs etc ready before posting, so it has the best chance of growing an audience, which seems to be your goal.

But if you really don’t want other people to recycle your idea, then open source is not for you…

Needs more sensationalism to get their attention, like “Tell HN: Claude won’t implement this basic feature!” /s

This is why most open source landing pages used nextjs, and if most FOSS landing pages use it, then most LLM’s have been trained on it, which means LLM’s are more familiar with that framework and choose it

There must be a term for this kind of LLM driven adoption flywheel…

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What if you don’t want the AI to have any write access for a tool? I think the ability to choose what parts of the tool you expose is the biggest benefit of MCP.

As opposed to a READ_ONLY_TOOL_SKILL.md that states “it’s important that you must not use any edit API’s…”

There’s an extension that I loved called “Proven” (now archived) which uses keybase.io proofs to show other proven accounts next to hn users

https://github.com/dschep/proven

Also about this:

> Mermaid Diagram Rendering

Honest question, how often are people posting raw mermaid diagrams in comments here?… I’ve never seen one

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“Creating value” in open source has never been about capturing value at all, it’s always been about volunteering and giving back, and recognising the unfathomable amount of open-source software that runs the modern world we live in

“Capturing value” is the opposite of this, wall-gardens, proprietary API’s, vendor lock-in, closed-source code… it’s almost antithetical to the idea of open source

What’s stopping anthropic/openai from just running a cheaper LLM model based on how difficult the question is?

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Let’s be honest, this was always the case. The difference now is that nobody cares about the implementation, as all side projects are assumed to be vibecoded.

So when execution is becoming easier, it’s the ideas that matter more…

CNC relies on precise formal languages like G-code, whereas an LLM relies on the imprecise natural languages

Software doesn’t win by being “finished” it wins by out competing other software

This makes tailwind much more predictable for component based UI architecture, in your example you would define a component so that verbosity of css is explicitly defined once where it’s used, not buried within a bootstrap framework somewhere.

If you’re not using a component based architecture, then tailwind is much more verbose, but still useful, as copying/pasting tailwind HTML is insanely easy and reliable. This is not true for bootstrap.

Bootstrap has it’s place, it’s good for cases where you’ I don’t care about the details of how it looks. But with component based architectures, tailwind is a much more flexible and better abstraction in my opinion.

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