Hacker News: mrln

New comment by mrln in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

mrln — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:21:47 +0000

Ah, yes. That's crazy. I was thinking they were refering to the lax permissions of the agent by default.

New comment by mrln in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

mrln — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:54:38 +0000

No, it is still configurable. You can specify in your opencode.json config that it should be able to run everything. I think they just argued that it shouldn't be the default. Which I agree with.

New comment by mrln in "Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland"

mrln — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:37:14 +0000

My attempt at a definition of a desktop shell would be: The collection of all the software that aids a compositor (or a window manager on X11) in providing a more complete desktop experience. Now that's kind of vague and probably also not quite correct, so a more concrete explanation would be: A program or collection of programs that gives you desktop notifications, a taskbar (with a system tray), volume controls and more stuff like that, maybe even a neat menu to configure most of this. Usually for standalone compositors/window managers you'd usually use a collection of tools like dunst, polybar, and the like, but with newer tools like quickshell, which was used here, it's reasonably easy to build a single tool which handles most of that. And that's what we're looking at here ^^

New comment by mrln in "Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland"

mrln — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:58:25 +0000

This is not a window manager, so thanks for stating the obvious. You might not like wayland and that's fine with me, but if you decide to hate on it, you should at least know what you are hating on. There are good reasons to prefer a wayland compositor over X11. If you don't care about these reasons, that doesn't mean nobody should.

New comment by mrln in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

mrln — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:27:43 +0000

Yeah, yay works until it doesn't anymore, because the pacman library dependency it uses was updated but yay was not... and then you need to recompile yay manually. I mean, I'll still use it (or rather paru, which works basically the same way), but it's very annoying, when it happens every few months.

New comment by mrln in "Ask HN: If AI wins, don't AI companies lose?"

mrln — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:21:52 +0000

Well, if the AI really is that good, what's stopping the AI Company from charging just slightly less then the 90 saved engineers cost?

New comment by mrln in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

mrln — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:31:18 +0000

I'm pretty sure it reads your code, bro! Sus...

New comment by mrln in "Python developers are embracing type hints"

mrln — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 23:02:48 +0000

With the newest Python versions, most of the time I don't need typing imports!

New comment by mrln in "OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative"

mrln — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:28:52 +0000

Probably because it is AI slop and no one ever read that...

New comment by mrln in "Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses"

mrln — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:50:39 +0000

The link is dead

New comment by mrln in "Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry"

mrln — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:43:20 +0000

I think they suggest that Mac and Linux are supported while Windows is not. But maybe I have issues with my eyes...

New comment by mrln in "Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform"

mrln — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:54:39 +0000

How do you even come to that conclusion? There's nothing on that page that screams "AI slop" to me.

New comment by mrln in "macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format"

mrln — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:18:41 +0000

There's fuse-t, which uses a local network filesystem in the background, iirc.

Edit: but to be fair, that's mostly only relevant for unsupported network filesystems like sshfs...

New comment by mrln in "AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret"

mrln — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:16:29 +0000

"Independent" does not really change anything about the advisory/governance thing. And tech companies are very well known for breaking laws, especially privacy related ones, so I don't see the point either, yes.

New comment by mrln in "German WWII Soldier Grave Found with Mesolithic Tools, Roman and Byzantine Coins"

mrln — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 05:19:46 +0000

The link does not work.

New comment by mrln in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

mrln — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:04:12 +0000

The few times I built TUIs with ncurses I wondered: why do I have to program so much by myself? ncurses is so basic, I didn't have too much fun building UIs with it (more than once). Is there a wrapper or a more modern alternative out there that provides containers and widgets like most GUI frameworks do?

New comment by mrln in "Is Tor still safe to use?"

mrln — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:03:36 +0000

It is not the node that chooses the next one, but the client. A bad node cannot "fake" a good node, because it cannot cryptographically authenticate to be the new node the client selected (the client knows the public key of the newly selected node).

New comment by mrln in "Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?"

mrln — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:41:37 +0000

Yes, you can.

New comment by mrln in "OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20"

mrln — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 13:07:07 +0000

Is OSM not free-as-in-freedom?

New comment by mrln in "Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics"

mrln — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 18:01:54 +0000

> Where do you think the N in NOR and NAND come from?

That makes it sound like you could also do a NOT with XNOR, which is only the case if you can use a constant 0. But that would similarly also be the case for a XOR, but with the requirement of a 1.