Hacker News: n4pw01f

New comment by n4pw01f in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

n4pw01f — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:39:58 +0000

Replace React / Vue with HTMX 2 years ago and still going strong.

Hono + WebComponents + HTMX + serverless is the backend for my apps now.

New comment by n4pw01f in "Files over tools: how we built our agent with a virtual filesystem and bash"

n4pw01f — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:33:12 +0000

We ended up doing the same, own harness with a world view (schema.org) and map reduce rather than a RAG. Happy with the results and context hydration speed

New comment by n4pw01f in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

n4pw01f — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:50:01 +0000

I created a nice harness and visual workflow builder for my Gemini agent chains, works very well. I did this so it would create code the way I do, that is very editable.

In contrast, the vs code plugin was pretty bad, and did crazy things like mix languages

New comment by n4pw01f in "Eight more months of agents"

n4pw01f — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:55:03 +0000

I am seeing shit tons of chatbots for everything under the sun being onboarded at corporate

New comment by n4pw01f in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

n4pw01f — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:25:26 +0000

Why not Jitsi - genuinely curious

New comment by n4pw01f in "Please just try HTMX"

n4pw01f — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:27:01 +0000

I have used HTMX extensively with AI agents. It is fantastic for dynamic views.

Agent one: handles the request and does tool calls

Agent two: reads the result and decides on quality vs a re-drive if it’s low quality

Agent three: decides how to present the information to the user, creates a collection of HTMX elements

HTMX hx-get is reliably, and beautifully rendering the result of the Agentic Workflow without any react, etc.

Very happy and passing quality gates. I love not having security alerts every week to patch because of some buried react dependency library

New comment by n4pw01f in "The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions"

n4pw01f — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:21:30 +0000

I guess we just call them turn servers but technically it’s a “Stateful Dialogue Manager”

New comment by n4pw01f in "The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions"

n4pw01f — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:19:52 +0000

This process can be handled by a “turn server”

Was a pain to set up, but you can score the context completion and then if the score is under 98% or something, “ask” clarifying questions of the requesting agent or person or system