Hacker News: nikisweeting

New comment by nikisweeting in "macOS Container Machines"

nikisweeting — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:59:56 +0000

I just added this to Lima recently, hopefully the macOS container machines support it too: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/pull/4866

New comment by nikisweeting in "Apple's AI Can Now Change Your Passwords. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"

nikisweeting — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:51:56 +0000

Very curious if they're implementing browser driving themselves or using an off-the-shelf library like stagehand, browser-use, etc. to drive the DOM. Hopefully they open source it if it's in Swift.

A11y-tree alone is not enough for many sites because lots of auth stuff happens in OOPIF frames that need special handling/stitching/interactive element filtering.

There's also the issues of many captchas around auth stuff being implemented using canvas elements (that are hard to instrument for browser agents without relying on CUA). Can their on-device 3B model really handle accurate CUA driving? I guess we'll see...

New comment by nikisweeting in "The desperation of NYTimes"

nikisweeting — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:24:35 +0000

Sending 5 marketing emails with no unsubscribe link is not "operating in good faith", that's a blatant CAN-SPAM violation and could be used in a textbook explaining UX dark patterns.

New comment by nikisweeting in "GoPro warned it may not survive"

nikisweeting — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:12:47 +0000

I don't care what country they are from if after 15 years they cant figure out how to make a camera that doesn't reset its clock every time you recharge it.

New comment by nikisweeting in "GoPro warned it may not survive"

nikisweeting — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:40:24 +0000

Good riddance, GoPro squandered their market lead for many years and shipped bafflingly mediocre software that seemed to add more bugs with every generation.

I hope Insta360, DJI, and many more competitors spring up out of their ashes. Assuming fast microsd cards for writes, how much DDR RAM do they really need to buffer videos during recording? 4gb? 8gb?

New comment by nikisweeting in "Map of Metal"

nikisweeting — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:07:59 +0000

Has anyone made something like this for jazz, classical, or hip-hop? The closest I know of are:

- https://www.music-map.com/ - https://everynoise.com/ - https://chartmetric.com/ - https://musicroamer.com/ - http://davidmckinney.com/app

But they're all kind of generic, I would love to see something more genre-specific with additional historic context and personality.

New comment by nikisweeting in "Adding Foreground Tab Tracking to the Chrome Devtools Protocol"

nikisweeting — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:42:50 +0000

Historically tracking "which tab is in the foreground" has been impossible via CDP.

Libraries like Playwright and even Google's own puppeteer resorted to hacks like forcing users to foreground pages manually, or pretending "last opened == foreground".

After writing brittle state sync logic and workarounds for the last 2 years I got tired of dealing around this issue, so I contributed a fix upstream into Chromium!

Adding Foreground Tab Tracking to the Chrome Devtools Protocol

nikisweeting — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:40:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.browserbase.com/blog/cdp-foreground-tab-tracking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214533

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by nikisweeting in "Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

nikisweeting — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:50:14 +0000

Nice, I've been trying to learn assembly myself recently and built a little REPL to play around with it directly https://github.com/pirate/assembly-repl

But I've struggled with the IO parts, it seems every system is so different, it's hard to live without LLVM-IR as the middle layer abstracting away compiler and target differences.

New comment by nikisweeting in "Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE"

nikisweeting — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:25:05 +0000

Or even better: https://zfsbootmenu.org/

New comment by nikisweeting in "Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search"

nikisweeting — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:57:00 +0000

Oh nice, I just implemented something like this for installing from any package manager uv-style https://abxpkg.archivebox.io/, but I haven't added a "search" command yet, I should add that!

What Are Unix Domain Sockets?

nikisweeting — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:21:58 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.sweeting.me/s/sockets-101

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885901

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nikisweeting in "Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents"

nikisweeting — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:47:52 +0000

I've been excitedly following the development of Plain for a while now, it's so cool to see so many of the rough edges in Django get fixed in a nice comprehensive solution.

Great job Dave Gaeddert!

I'm saddened to see some of the other comments saying it's slop, he was working on this long before vibecoding became common! I think there's a lot of really good design decisions and I hope people don't write it off just because he's trying the "for agents" marketing approach lately.

New comment by nikisweeting in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

nikisweeting — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:14:32 +0000

You're off by at least 3 orders of magnitude, anodization is like 1,000x~5,000x thicker (5~25µm) than the natural oxide coating (~5nm).

New comment by nikisweeting in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

nikisweeting — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:12:50 +0000

Yes but anodization implies thickness around ~5–25 micrometers (µm) for aluminum. The natural oxide coating is ~2-5 nanometers (1,000–5,000× less thick).

New comment by nikisweeting in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

nikisweeting — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:53:54 +0000

gotta add vector search! that's the main benefit of these tools imo

I want to be able to search abstract concepts like "package" or "download" or "jazz" and see everything vaguely related like emojidb does.

New comment by nikisweeting in "We're running out of benchmarks to upper bound AI capabilities"

nikisweeting — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:48:32 +0000

We can definitely make harder evals, the problem is a good eval set is indistinguishable from good training data / market edge, so no one is incentivized to share their best eval sets publicly.

New comment by nikisweeting in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

nikisweeting — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:54:56 +0000

My friend is building something similar to Little Snitch but specialized for sandboxing agents / monitoring their traffic / building rulesets to restrict traffic by "learning" from good runs. https://greywall.io/

Curious who else is working on stuff like this / what other solutions exist that are like "Little Snitch" for agent network + filesystem calls.

New comment by nikisweeting in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

nikisweeting — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:52:56 +0000

This is so cool, just bookmarked it next to https://emojidb.org/ which is what I've been using in the past for vector-based emoji search.

New comment by nikisweeting in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

nikisweeting — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:28:43 +0000

Note pnpm does not have this flag yet, please upvote this issue if you want it added: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/11224

Currently pnpm only supports setting this option via persistent config file, not per-run.