Hacker News: knotbin

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

knotbin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:31:25 +0000

Correct me if I'm wrong but the project you're referring to appears to be closed source.

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

knotbin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:28:55 +0000

ATproto federates in a very different way than Mastodon. There is no concept of "instances" on ATproto.

Your account is hosted on a PDS and you sign into the app with your PDS sign-in and records go to your PDS, but everything on the app is from what's called an "AppView" which provides a centralized view of all data in all PDSes so it feels just like you're using a regular centralized app. But there can be multiple AppViews and AppViews can be self-hosted.

So unlike with Mastodon, it doesn't matter what PDS "instance" you're on because the app layer is completely separate from it.

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

knotbin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:47:05 +0000

> Look how well that has turned out even though Bluesky is open source.

??? Bluesky can make decisions, mistakes, or moderation choices you disagree with and you can just go to https://blacksky.community, a completely independent AppView with different moderation that was up for the entirety of a 24hr outage Bluesky recently had.

I'd say AT Protocol is turning out pretty well.

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

knotbin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:35:34 +0000

Yeah that's why Tangled didn't go with ActivityPub (Mastodon protocol) and went with ATproto instead, which is specifically built to solve that problem, so individual servers are all aggregated by centralized AppViews (that anyone can host) that give a singular unified "view" of the network that is just as cohesive as a centralized network feels.

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

knotbin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:32:44 +0000

You completely missed the point. The point isn't that you should find a company that you trust and think is ethical. The point is to shift the power dynamics so you don't have to trust anyone. That's what building on ATproto does. Tangled is also fully open source and anyone can host their own knot and AppView.

Show HN: Open Source TikTok Alternative on AT Protocol

knotbin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:43:20 +0000

Article URL: https://sprk.so

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582497

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by knotbin in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

knotbin — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:04:02 +0000

Weird to push this feature as if it's for new users when it only works if you already have a Pro subscription

New comment by knotbin in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

knotbin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:22:45 +0000

"This is just marketing"

Do you know how many other INFINITELY LESS EXPENSIVE forms of marketing there are? Of course it's marketing, Ryan Dahl even said openly "I can justify spending money on it because it does get Deno's name out there" on Twitter.

But yeah sure this is just an evil plot to get you to use a free MIT licensed runtime or a cloud hosting provider.

New comment by knotbin in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

knotbin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:11:20 +0000

Yes. Ryan Dahl has openly said this. It isn't a "gotcha" nor is it something they're hiding. Tweet from Ryan Dahl:

> I can justify spending money on it because it does get Deno's name out there - blog posts posted to http://deno.com, etc - but without support it's pretty likely our legal bills will dwarf whatever that marketing is worth

New comment by knotbin in "Claude on LSD"

knotbin — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:57:06 +0000

We gave Claude LSD, so it can browse websites and interact with them, similar to OpenAI Operator, but returning structured data from the website. This uses the MCP (Model Context Protocol) to give Claude access to the LSD API, making it so someone can write and run an LSD SQL query without knowing anything about the language.

Claude on LSD

knotbin — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:57:06 +0000

Article URL: https://lsd.so

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936091

Points: 1

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Show HN: Self hosted Twilio for blue bubbles

knotbin — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:28:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/yevbar/lusid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41427713

Points: 14

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