Hacker News: kirtivr

New comment by kirtivr in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

kirtivr — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:38:11 +0000

For enterprise customers

If your organization uses Gemini CLI or our IDE extensions via a Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise license, or if your organization uses Gemini Code Assist for GitHub through Google Cloud, your access remains unchanged. We’ll continue to support Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist with access to the latest Gemini models and other updates.

Oh, at least they didn't drop off Enterprise users. I think the general transition is towards building specialized products on top of agents. A lot of people are using claude code, codex, and other subsidized coding agents for non coding purposes as well.

New comment by kirtivr in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

kirtivr — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:30:39 +0000

+1 for this feature. And being able to download specific OSes instead of the entire 121GB zip file.

New comment by kirtivr in "Map of Metal"

kirtivr — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:25:20 +0000

Love it, though it looks like the website got the HN hug of death.

One of my favorite documentaries to learn the history of metal is "metal: a headbanger's journey" (available on YouTube).

New comment by kirtivr in "Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'"

kirtivr — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:19:33 +0000

Exactly.

At the end of the day, we would rather have a more stable and bug-free kernel than not.

It's not that much work for me anymore to report and even fix that obscure monitor driver bug that sometimes causes my machine to bootloop, unless I boot without graphics and start the XOrg server manually.

I often find myself surprised at how easily frontier models are able to find bugs across abstraction layers, that only original authors can comprehend. We need more positivity around these contributions as well.

New comment by kirtivr in "Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'"

kirtivr — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:26:33 +0000

I'd really like maintainers to get their hands dirty with AI agents as well to help speed up the reviews.

Over the last year there have been way too many stories and Twitter posts like these.

Yes, maintainers are overloaded, but that's only because we haven't yet built the tools to support them.

Other than such statements, I would, as a builder like to hear the sorts of tools and requirements maintainers are looking for which would make their work easier!

We need to move fast without breaking things.

New comment by kirtivr in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

kirtivr — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:21:34 +0000

A less known hack that can help people build professional websites that do not have the crazy gradients, wonky logos, typography and other tell-tale signs of being LLM generated:

Get the TailwindCSS lifetime membership. Costs about $50 if I remember correctly, but they give you all the UI blocks and CSS components, and then you can simply create a frontend-design skill based on Claude's (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...) that instructs the coding agent to only use TailwindCSS catalyst and UI blocks (you'll have to download these).

This is how I built my own website.

New comment by kirtivr in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

kirtivr — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:02:43 +0000

Jetbrains does not have their own IDE-integrated coding agent?

What do Jetbrains users use then? Amp?