Hacker News: icy

New comment by icy in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

icy — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:54:06 +0000

We’re solving for this very issue. Issues & pulls will belong to the repo, backed by a “COB” (collaborative object) system.

Tangled CI runs on microVMs

icy — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:46:57 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.tangled.org/spindle-microvm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728912

Points: 6

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New comment by icy in "The forge we deserve"

icy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:10:40 +0000

Tangled is built for jj :) We support stacking using jj change ids: https://blog.tangled.org/stacking

New comment by icy in "The forge we deserve"

icy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:10:09 +0000

That's Tangled! Self-host your knots, AT Protocol for identities, and an "indexer" at tangled.org (easily replaced).

New comment by icy in "The forge we deserve"

icy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:08:58 +0000

Cool. It's been years since ForgeFed came out but it isn't anywhere nearly as federated as Tangled is. What gives?

The forge we deserve

icy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:46:55 +0000

Article URL: https://btao.org/posts/2026-05-09-the-forge-we-deserve/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582147

Points: 67

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go-libghostty: Go bindings for libghostty-vt

icy — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:55:07 +0000

Article URL: https://tangled.org/mitchellh.com/go-libghostty

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060914

Points: 2

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Tangled – combat LLM spam by building a web of trust

icy — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:07:17 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.tangled.org/vouching/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977230

Points: 9

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

icy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:03:35 +0000

This is incredible. Thanks.

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

icy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:28:16 +0000

AT Protocol uses OAuth: https://atproto.com/specs/oauth

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

icy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:30:55 +0000

I've written about this: https://anirudh.fi/future

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

icy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:16:14 +0000

The cool thing is you can just host your own knot then. Host repos of whatever size you want.

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

icy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:05:00 +0000

Except there isn't already ForgeFed.

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

icy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:59:34 +0000

> Why does it need VCs? Why not company and corporate sponsorship like Ladybird?

You talk about corporate sponsorship like that's trivial to find. Trust me when I say we spent over half a year chasing down grants/sponsorships only to be met with closed doors, extremely long wait times for pennies. We'd also be required to keep our day jobs—which means less focus on Tangled dev, and ultimately very slow progress overall.

We debated VC heavily (we're both idealists after all), but figured we can make it work—it's ultimately the founders that make bad calls leading to enshittification. There's plenty of examples of VC-backed companies that haven't enshittified. Tailscale is an excellent one, and hence we brought on Avery as an angel in our round.

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

icy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:43:17 +0000

Pick whichever. We <3 the Radicle team and they're admittedly solving a much harder problem (gossiping git!) and rather elegantly at that.

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

icy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:37:41 +0000

Tangled is built entirely in the open: https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core, and our primary goal is to be "permanent software"—i.e. be fully reproducible and entirely self-hostable at minimal cost.

VC money is a means to an end. We're both Indian founders in Europe, and grants are nigh on impossible to find (4–12+ months for anything to materialize). VC is quite simply the quickest way for us to build a team, setup infra and accelerate development. We're also incredibly aligned with our investors on our goals (we took 6+ months to find the perfect partner for this).

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

icy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:19:07 +0000

There is! https://radicle.dev :)

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

icy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:18:31 +0000

Ha, we heard this but decided to stick to it because hey, it isn't hurting anyone. No harm in a little bit of fun.

We need a federation of forges

icy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:00:59 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.tangled.org/federation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948603

Points: 599

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New comment by icy in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

icy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:02:00 +0000

We did raise $4.5M recently to build exactly this: https://tangled.org