Hacker News: jedisct1

New comment by jedisct1 in "Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace"

jedisct1 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:20:45 +0000

Keep sending all your secrets and giving full control of your devices to Anthropic.

This is fine.

New comment by jedisct1 in "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model"

jedisct1 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:07:05 +0000

The Claude plans (or whatever they’re called) are the only reason to use Claude Code.

Otherwise, it’s just obfuscated spyware that inserts ads into Git commits by default, and has been shown to consume far more tokens than other harnesses for the same tasks and models.

I really see no valid reason to use it. I tried a recent version to see whether things had changed since last year, and it’s just even more bloated.

New comment by jedisct1 in "PingCap TiDB Leaks"

jedisct1 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:43:24 +0000

It's written in Rust, so it's safe.

New comment by jedisct1 in "C# now beats Rust on WASM size"

jedisct1 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:41:20 +0000

Not very hard... Rust wasm binaries are ginormous.

If you care about WASM performance, size and memory usage, Zig is a much better candidate.

New comment by jedisct1 in "If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?"

jedisct1 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:52:15 +0000

Agents can log traces, which can be super useful for RL, prompt optimization, tool improvements, etc.

Check out Calibra for example: https://calibra.swival.dev which turns traces from Swival into nice web pages, allows diff'ing traces, etc.

New comment by jedisct1 in "Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi"

jedisct1 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:09:43 +0000

Moonshot AI are also whitelisting user-agents: https://swival.dev/pages/providers.html#generic-openai-compa...

Weird.

New comment by jedisct1 in "You said no MCP"

jedisct1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:45:45 +0000

Swival.dev has a tool to run Python code, and it can expose the MCP tools as Python functions.

This saves a couple prompts and tokens, but only in very specific cases, only with MCP servers that don't already support code mode, and only with large models.

In practice, I've not found that to make a real difference.

Plus, it's likely that more and more MCP servers are going to use code mode natively anyway.

New comment by jedisct1 in "Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API"

jedisct1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:37:10 +0000

Typescript is perfect for that kind of application. Plus, the same code runs everywhere, no need to ship native binaries for every OS and CPU.

New comment by jedisct1 in "The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026"

jedisct1 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:50:56 +0000

As someone who had pretty much given up on Rust after being very disappointed with its SIMD support, and had stopped following developments in that area, I was genuinely surprised to see someone announce this today:

https://val.markovic.io/articles/philbin-the-safest-and-fast...

Performance is competitive with Zig, without using the "unsafe" keyword or nightly Rust.

Nice.

New comment by jedisct1 in "Unreal Agent"

jedisct1 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:37:54 +0000

This is exactly what Swival was built for: https://swival.dev

New comment by jedisct1 in "Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity"

jedisct1 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:07:08 +0000

Looks similar to Anonymized DNS, which DNS users have been using for more than seven years: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-denis-dprive-dnscrypt-...

New comment by jedisct1 in "Unreal Agent"

jedisct1 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:48:54 +0000

Happy with swival.dev ...

New comment by jedisct1 in "Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud"

jedisct1 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:36:58 +0000

You know, swival.dev is fully opensource, doesn't hide anything, fully supports GLM, has excellent context management to keep token usage low, and doesn't send anything you didn't ask to the cloud.