Hacker News: lifty

New comment by lifty in "Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark"

lifty — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:51:35 +0000

You might combine a general world model with a python coding model in that case. Not sure if it's better, just saying.

New comment by lifty in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

lifty — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:17:49 +0000

I like this approach, it's what I had in mind, but Crux doesn't seem to support desktop targets. I know on MacOS you can get nice looking apps with their native toolkit, on Linux you have GTK4 which can be decent looking, but not amazing, and on Windows, I truly don't know. Native apps on Windows look crap to me (without even mentioning the advanced fragmentation in UI toolkits in Windows). Maybe someone has some good examples for Windows and Linux, using native SDKs.

New comment by lifty in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

lifty — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:16:38 +0000

Thanks, I will keep an eye on this as well. Wish you success!

New comment by lifty in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

lifty — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:20:01 +0000

I have my eyes on that, looking forward to V3, maybe they manage to ship mobile support as well. That would be fantastic. For anyone that doesn't know, it's still a browser based stack.

New comment by lifty in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

lifty — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:09:29 +0000

Slightly off topic, but what is the best way to build a cross platform GUI app these days, but something with good graphics, typography, etc. I mean a beautiful app. I would prefer to have a shared core in Go, and then something around it to give me the GUI. I know on MacOS it is straightforward to build something beautifully looking with their native Swift toolkit, but not sure on Linux and Windows. Is it better to just use a web view, or perhaps Flutter?

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

lifty — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:09:07 +0000

I see a lot of negative feedback here, but I don't agree with it. This is really fantastic what you have built, especially for longer running agents that are used repeatedly, in which case the initial investment of giving only the permissions it needs is worth the effort. To that end, ability to combine several agents which have different roles, which are narrowly scoped in terms of permissions, would be a very useful feature. Perhaps you could even have an agent or UI overlay driven by AI, which can quickly scope the permissions for a new agent, so that users don't need to do it manually.

New comment by lifty in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

lifty — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:33:27 +0000

There's a very dark scenario where for some reason or another (all out nuclear war or asteroid hit) sunlight is blocked, in which case having stable base load energy production from nuclear would be very useful. I know this is an unlikely scenario and hopefully it never happens, but it's always good to think about tail risks like these.

New comment by lifty in "Zed 1.0"

lifty — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:58:06 +0000

Now that Zed supports remote development, I really hope they can release it for tablets (iOS/Android) so that we can use it as a client for a remote development machine. That would be delightful!

New comment by lifty in "Claude.ai is unavailable"

lifty — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:37:31 +0000

Productivity dipping hard across the world.

New comment by lifty in "DeepSeek v4"

lifty — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:29:48 +0000

My work is on a p2p database with quite weird constraints and complex and emergent interactions between peers. So it's more a system design problem than coding. Chatgpt 5.x has been helping me close the loop slowly while opus did help me initially a lot but later was missing many of the important details, leading to going in circles to some degree. Still remains to be seen if this whole endeavour will be successful with the current class of models.

New comment by lifty in "DeepSeek v4"

lifty — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:30:15 +0000

Wondering how gpt 5.5 is doing in your test. Happy to hear that DeepSeek has good performance in your test, because my experience seems to correlate with yours, for the coding problems I am working on. Claude doesn't seem to be so good if you stray away from writing http handlers (the modern web app stack in its various incarnations).

New comment by lifty in "I am building a cloud"

lifty — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:28:11 +0000

There are several things going on even now, 1 hour after your comment. But I appreciate that they list them. That hopefully means that they have a good culture of honesty, and they can improve.

New comment by lifty in "I am building a cloud"

lifty — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:12:09 +0000

Those managed databases from the big cloud providers have even more machinery and operator patterns behind them to keep them up and running. The fact that it's hidden away is what you like. So the comparison makes no sense.

New comment by lifty in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

lifty — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:06:05 +0000

I made this switch months ago, ChatGPT 5.4 being a smarter model, but I’ve had subjective feelings of degradation even on 5.4 lately. There’s a lot of growth in usage right now so not sure what kind of optimizations their doing at both companies

New comment by lifty in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

lifty — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:29:23 +0000

Did he empathize with you after or he remained bitter?

New comment by lifty in "Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year"

lifty — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:20:43 +0000

I didn’t mean to compare them, implying that gas or anything else is better. I’m a big fan of renewables, especially solar, but just wanted to bring this aspect up. It’s confusing to me because I get excited when I see these numbers only to later deflate when I figure out the total generated kWh quantity. It would be great if there would be a “synthetic” calculation which takes into account the estimated generation and smoothing out using batteries, which would also take into account the extra cost of batteries. That would be a more apples to apples comparison both in terms of net generation and cost.

New comment by lifty in "Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools"

lifty — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:52:31 +0000

So everything basically.

New comment by lifty in "Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year"

lifty — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:40:51 +0000

Solar capacity is always misleading because it’s intermittent. Capacity of a gas power plant can’t be compared to capacity of a solar power plant, even though it sounds like you are comparing the same thing. Would love to know total kWh generated.

New comment by lifty in "Vulnerability research is cooked"

lifty — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:53:49 +0000

Perhaps a meta evolution, they become experts at writing harnesses and prompts for discovering and patching vulnerabilities in existing code and software. My main interest is, now that we have LLMs, will the software industry move to adopting techniques like formal verification and other perhaps more lax approaches that massively increase the quality of software.

New comment by lifty in "An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023)"

lifty — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:18:55 +0000

Prolly trees can act as CRDTs if you have a merge function that always merges and doesn’t block.

So my initial comment merely tried to make the point that there is a design space where you’re not stuck with the tradeoff of carrying the full Merkle DAG history just to be able to reconstruct the latest version of your document.

Thanks for the video, will check it out!