Hacker News: jpeeler

New comment by jpeeler in "IRCv3"

jpeeler — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:46:22 +0000

People have different definitions for "working". I assume that the people who claim that Matrix doesn't work are the ones comparing to alternative commercial solutions and all the polish that usually accompanies those.

A decade ago Moxie Marlinspike argued[1] that to develop Signal more quickly, he and his team could not be distracted by federation. At the time I wasn't sure what to think, but it does seem that the effort level of using the integrated approach of client/server/protocol may just logistically be easier.

[1] - https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

New comment by jpeeler in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

jpeeler — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:33:47 +0000

Heh, reference was not immediately obvious to me (it's from Iron Man):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHgkVOOTl_Y

New comment by jpeeler in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

jpeeler — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:11:02 +0000

Did anyone else think the "that's on us" was a funny reference to a certain provider's response pattern? Or maybe I'm just so engrossed that I'm losing my mind.

New comment by jpeeler in "Superlogical"

jpeeler — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:29:03 +0000

Somewhat related, I recently heard of fentas/atty from:

https://erock.prose.sh/posix-shell-is-all-you-need

New comment by jpeeler in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

jpeeler — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:04:50 +0000

To connect this comment to another, in the video mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916460 Tim mentions he prefers to be called a "hacker".

https://youtu.be/34r8Ypxzkk4 (28:42-28:54)

New comment by jpeeler in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

jpeeler — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:20:44 +0000

Half of the solution at least on Android is https://gpslogger.app. Then you need to find a way to render the data to a map, such as with https://dawarich.app. Looks like the last time I looked at that project (and wasn't quite sold on it) was 1.5 years ago, so time for a second look.

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

jpeeler — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:42:30 +0000

Looks similar to https://github.com/nolabs-ai/nono. Maybe one day you can fill out https://github.com/LuD1161/agentjail/issues/10 with a comparison to that project too.

New comment by jpeeler in "Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers"

jpeeler — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:42:41 +0000

Would be curious if this could be made to support sendspin (and is this technology the best for an open "homegroup" like audio experience)?

New comment by jpeeler in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

jpeeler — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:01:15 +0000

Was hoping this would be mentioned. This version of functionality will probably be more universally accessible to all configurations as compared to the soft reboot released in 254:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v254

Soft rebooting was even more exciting for me, but I wasn't able to get it to work on my bluebuild based system (customized universal blue). I haven't tried it in a while though.

New comment by jpeeler in "Redeploying Fable 5"

jpeeler — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:46:51 +0000

Good question, anybody know? I've seen harnesses optimize for token efficiency (maki), simultaneous agent operations (jcode), extensibility (pi), etc... But I have no idea if each focus area is superior and if the rest of the operations are comparable.

It bothers me that the Claude Code leak (from what I read, didn't look) a few months ago showed a lot of careful consideration for context handling. I assume this means that each harness performance/correctness would differ drastically just from this alone.

New comment by jpeeler in "AI coding at home without going broke"

jpeeler — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:18:59 +0000

If you don't want to do that, don't use a VM. I like nono:

https://github.com/always-further/nono

New comment by jpeeler in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

jpeeler — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:20:16 +0000

Mise does seem to be in a class of its own. As mentioned elsewhere, it does rely on other registries such as aqua and obviously asdf. For people who want to use Mise for brew packages, there's https://github.com/kennyg/mise-zerobrew.

New comment by jpeeler in "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?"

jpeeler — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:57:45 +0000

The kitty developer is philosophically against multiplexers, but he also has concern about performance (which I share somewhat as well). Herde is not quite as fully featured as zellij/tmux, so that partially is biasing me. I think that a native app could be potentially nicer to avoid all those concerns, along with my setup (only in Linux really) of a tiling manager handling the windowing instead of that being part of the solution. A big part of the value add of Herde is actually the monitoring of the Claude session and not so much the multiplexing reimplementation. One of my patches allows jumping to the next blocked/finished session so I can quickly give feedback or observe different agents. I can envision a GUI solution for that workflow being something better than what a terminal easily allows.

New comment by jpeeler in "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?"

jpeeler — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:20:42 +0000

I'm currently using herde[1] to handle/supervise multiple agents (with some patches I need to try to upstream) along with Nono[2] for sandboxing. This sandboxing approach avoids use of a microVM, which lets me use tooling I already have installed inside the sandbox. The downside is getting all the policies correct as it seems every project needs some new type of access, though Nono does try to make policy writing easy.

I've been considering switching my approach to using a microVM through microsandbox[3]. The pro of this approach is you can essentially skip the policies and rely on the security of the VM boundary. The negative is that now you've lost all your installed tools, so you need to either provision at runtime or build something (like an image) beforehand to match your dev environment.

I still don't know which is less maintenance. And while I think herde is pretty well thought out, I do think about something that works outside the terminal may be nicer.

[1] https://github.com/ogulcancelik/herdr

[2] https://github.com/always-further/nono

[3] https://github.com/superradcompany/microsandbox

New comment by jpeeler in "Before GitHub"

jpeeler — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:58:54 +0000

I was hoping that by now we would have an up and coming DVCS replacement that functioned as a "github in a box" (pretty sure fossil has been described as that, but it's too much on the cathedral side). Being able to mirror an entire project though version control would significantly help with mirroring if we go back to a decentralized world. Maybe going back to decentralized project hosting is just another pendulum swing similar to how compute moved to the cloud...

New comment by jpeeler in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

jpeeler — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:18:16 +0000

Wish it supported coreboot. It seems hard to find modern hardware that does.

New comment by jpeeler in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

jpeeler — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:10:24 +0000

Maybe because 64 GB is $849.

New comment by jpeeler in "Make Tmux Pretty and Usable (2024)"

jpeeler — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:14:17 +0000

I was going to say, but zellij doesn't connect the session to the GUI. However, I did not know about kitty's --use-foreground-process, which doesn't solve the problem completely but may be good enough.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/sessions/#more-complex-sessi...

New comment by jpeeler in "Zellij 0.44.0: Remote Sessions, Windows Support, CLI Automation"

jpeeler — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:02:17 +0000

Seems like a big release? As a non-user currently, I had missed that 0.43 also includes the ability to access sessions over HTTPS. Almost all of the release notes for this one left me saying, "Yes, I want that."

New comment by jpeeler in "macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)"

jpeeler — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:04:48 +0000

I've been collecting a list of sandboxing related projects as well, some lower level than others. I wish I had time to evaluate them all:

- https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock

- https://github.com/mishushakov/libkrun-go

- https://github.com/earendil-works/gondolin

- https://github.com/butter-dot-dev/bvisor

- https://github.com/amlalabs/amla-sandbox

- https://github.com/eryx-org/eryx

- https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap (not new)

- https://github.com/coplane/localsandbox

- https://github.com/sd2k/conch

- https://github.com/Gerharddc/litterbox

- https://github.com/finbarr/yolobox

- https://github.com/coventry/sandbox-codex

- https://github.com/osks/ctenv

- https://github.com/tianon/gosu

- https://github.com/colony-2/shai

- https://github.com/rcarmo/agentbox

- https://github.com/coder/httpjail

- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/componentize-py

- https://github.com/tursodatabase/agentfs

- https://github.com/always-further/nono

- (another list on HN Deno Sandbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876022)

- Did not check if any/all of these are here: https://github.com/arjan/awesome-agent-sandboxes