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New comment by jFriedensreich in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

jFriedensreich — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:28:53 +0000

the answer to facebook being bad is obviously not block-listing but allow-listing content. we had the same learning in security years ago. what this might look like is ai assisted desired data extraction and using clients tailored to user needs and user agency to use that data. Unfortunately alternative platforms that are user aligned are not the solution as you cannot force your whole cities groups or old family members to move which is the main pain point for people who use adblockers and still also on facebook.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?"

jFriedensreich — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:53:34 +0000

yes, especially compared to deno bun does not have proper isolation or permissions at runtime layer which is why anthropic tries to fix the lack by a mixture of app layer (build into claude code) and os layer (srt) however using runtime permissions would allow much better security if done right.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?"

jFriedensreich — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:46:45 +0000

because their js code is so bad and slow that they need the bun performance hacks and optimisations.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models"

jFriedensreich — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:37:29 +0000

What the hell, as far as i see this is not open source but has the tag line "Meet LM Studio Bionic, the AI agent made for open models" How can someone justify this complete clash of values, who is even an audience for something this. cursed, the agent and harness layer being open is probably more important than your models as you can just switch models every week and they are commodity.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

jFriedensreich — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:14:55 +0000

I am confused by this article landing on front page, it does not seem to contain any new insights but besides mostly reading ok falls apart when mixing up model and harness comparison in an amateurish way. Why would the subpar search tool zai provides be relevant for comparing models? They did not even mention the >capability< to use said tools but talk about MCP/ search providers as if thats not an implementation detail.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

jFriedensreich — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:14:38 +0000

separation of model and tooling is as important as legislative and judicative, and just ignore any tooling or harness not true open source. they will all slowly creep into your life and choke you trying to lock you in.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

jFriedensreich — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:42:08 +0000

Does this even still matter? No good behaviour in the world can restore trust in claude code and in fact all of Anthropics tooling, apps and harness teams except the core model research which still produces great models but seemingly losing ground to z and openAI. The GLM 5.2 hype and the limited impact of the fable lock down should be clear signals that models have no moat and frontier labs will do anything in their power to lock users into their toxic ecosystem of tools and taking context hostage.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "Microsoft reveals why Windows 11 keeps saying a file is in use after closing app"

jFriedensreich — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:28:47 +0000

This issue was what had me give up on windows forever and its been around since forever. There are many situations when there is just no way to release files except restart. When the basics don't work nothing else even matters.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

jFriedensreich — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:35:50 +0000

ps the refactoring it did as part of the solution was a bit verbose and had a few abstractions i knew would not be needed and asked it to remove but were solid otherwise.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

jFriedensreich — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:33:36 +0000

I had a pretty involved cross module state bug with complex dependencies and also reactivity issues interleaved. I tried fixing it multiple times manually with 4h time box as well as claude models up to opus 4.6 high and codex 5.3 all which failed. When the GPT-Pro model came out i heard it was not supposed to be an everyday coding model but tried anyways as it looked impressive. It took a single 8h run burning 200$ with doing nothing but occasionally waiting for test runs or me writing “continue”. After 8 hours, and fearing i wasted the money, the bug was consistently fixed, not just one edge case that triggered the behavior.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

jFriedensreich — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:35:16 +0000

As a society its good for resilience to embrace small pockets of complete ai withdrawl. We should be happy some groups go through pain to keep best practices and processes alive that do not rely on any ai whatsoever. But most of these are unbearable for pragmatic normies to be around. This is made worse by the fact that seemingly a high percentage is not fully motivated by morals but by a deep insecurity that makes them militant, overly judgmental, bipolar thinkers and prone to weird authoritarian dynamics and exclusionism that i only know from the “vegan power” hatred for vegetarians and militant antifa s hatred for the “realist left”.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "The lasting influence of Netscape Time"

jFriedensreich — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:04:20 +0000

One of my favorite documentaries, also because it captures so much personal reality and feeling of what it must have been like, it really inspires me.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "Killed by Apple"

jFriedensreich — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:03:49 +0000

The only thing missing i could find was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashcode which had a pretty great data binding UI that i never quite saw like that.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

jFriedensreich — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:02:16 +0000

A permission broker for deno + opencode fork that can run in deno instead of bun.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "Immer: Immutability the easy way (2018)"

jFriedensreich — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:35:27 +0000

Never found a good application for any of these immutable js data libraries. Maybe it could be helpful to prevent bugs in middleware chains of expresslike backends but for ui libraries it always felt like the libraries basically recreate mutable data structures with virtual proxy objects but at that point what does immutable even mean? you have completely virtual objects and can do whatever you want to make the rendering performant and reliable, at that point it would look probably more like a data binding layer with virtual objects to something like tanstack query

New comment by jFriedensreich in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

jFriedensreich — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:10:52 +0000

I still don't understand how people consider bun as a viable runtime when its owned by evil corp trying to use it for capture of the tooling layer and its the most insecure runtime on top of that. Meanwhile deno is performant and has dramatically improved node compatibility while exposing a proper permission broker api.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

jFriedensreich — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:16:53 +0000

And new prices for playing cards not even set yet... TIL nintendo still makes cards in japan.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem"

jFriedensreich — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:05:09 +0000

Same reason linux or databases need to be open source. A sandbox is not a nice to have or a feature anymore, it is as fundamental building block to running any software. You cannot depend on closed source building blocks, not as closed source product and especially not as open source product.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem"

jFriedensreich — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:58:39 +0000

What do you mean "not free as in beer"? Its not free as in anything? Sandboxes need to be open source, nothing else is acceptable.

New comment by jFriedensreich in "Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem"

jFriedensreich — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:56:07 +0000

Not really, its more like saying no one needs another windows when linux exists. By "no one needs" i mean the world needs open source sandbox building blocks that are up to the challenges of the current age, no closed source solution can be a fundamental building block for the world to become better and more secure. No non-local building block can be at the foundation to anything that makes the world better and more robust.