Hacker News: nsm

Xanadu was waiting for agents

nsm — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:50:42 +0000

Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526298

Points: 146

# Comments: 60

New comment by nsm in "The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake"

nsm — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:43:29 +0000

Is this area the inspiration for the Gyptians in The Golden Compass?

Syntaqlite 0.6: SQLite dot commands and pyodide

nsm — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:30:12 +0000

Article URL: https://lalitm.com/post/syntaqlite-06/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583793

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nsm in "Zed 1.0"

nsm — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:03:01 +0000

If you are on macOS, there is https://nova.app/

New comment by nsm in "Zed 1.0"

nsm — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:58:20 +0000

Not the OP, but for me ST can't be beat in terms of how easy it is to write a plugin. It uses Python (Zed is Rust). Plugins generally auto-reloads. If extensibility is important to you, ST is still the way to go.

Ruckus: Racket for iOS

nsm — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:54:12 +0000

Article URL: https://ruckus.defn.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614532

Points: 159

# Comments: 19

The Dark Matter of Hardware Engineering

nsm — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:41:43 +0000

Article URL: https://darkmatter.blog/articles/dark-matter-of-hardware

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514826

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nsm in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

nsm — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:34:14 +0000

Two counterpoints:

1. Implying that there are only "a few islands left" shoes a strong bias towards assuming that only thins humans do in the digital realm is relevant, when in fact, the vast majority of things humans do are not in the digital sphere at all.

2. It's pretty clear when most people say that machine intelligence is close, right now, they are alluding to LLM or Deep Learning based approaches. I don't think you should assume they mean machines will catch up in a 100 years. They seem to imply it will be by 2030 or sowmthing.

Syntaqlite: High-fidelity devtools that SQLite deserves

nsm — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:22:44 +0000

Article URL: https://lalitm.com/post/syntaqlite/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410748

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by nsm in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

nsm — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:58:41 +0000

https://without.boats/blog/revisiting-a-smaller-rust/

I think there is a programming language hole for a Rust-like language, but with GC and green threads. One that dispenses with single-ownership, and async/await footguns.

Something like F#/Kotlin is closest in terms of developer experience.

Unfortunately, we are really lacking a language that skews badly on some other axis

- F# - tainted by being Windows only for really long and being Microsoft. - Kotlin - tainted by the JVM - Java 24+ - has virtual threads, sum types, match expressions and other niceties, but tainted by the JVM again (Verbosity included, but this is not really a factor with IDEs and LLMs.)

Note that the opinions above are not mine, but "consensus". I'd say they are all unfair opinions.

I feel like people end up favoring new languages, simply because of novelty. Like, inevitably, somebody is gonna say Gleam. I'm all for having existing BEAM users getting access to new languages, but I'm not sure why one would pick a BEAM language for non-server applications when the developer tooling story for CLI apps, line-of-business apps and so on is so much stronger for the .NET and JVM ecosystems. No offense to the Gleam folks intended.

Why use F# for scripting and automation?

nsm — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:18:59 +0000

Article URL: https://iev.ee/blog/why-use-fsharp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307101

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by nsm in "Nobody knows how the whole system works"

nsm — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:24:53 +0000

Aider has an ide mode close to this. Check out https://nikhilism.com/post/2026/nudge-skill/ to add similar behavior to certain agents. I too, am waiting for IDEs to do this in a polished way. next tab edit is not quite it

New comment by nsm in "Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust"

nsm — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:47:06 +0000

Can people give examples of how they use pre-commit hooks that _cannot_ be replaced by a combination of the following?

* CI (I understand pre-commit shifts errors left)

* in editor/IDE live error callouts for stuff like type checking, and auto-formatting for things like "linters".

Do you run tests? How do you know _which_ tests to run, and not just run every test CI would run, which could be slow?

It's All About the Pixel Economy

nsm — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:57:20 +0000

Article URL: https://cvalenzuelab.com/pixel-economy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850682

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nsm in "What “The Best” Looks Like"

nsm — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:50:20 +0000

Seconded. anecdotally. Heck, the best startup _founders_ I've worked with had young kids while in the most intense phases of the company!

New comment by nsm in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

nsm — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:42:33 +0000

Highly recommend the LookAway app if you are on macOS and looking for something encouraging you to take breaks and maintain good posture.

Canada

nsm — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:07:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jenn.site/on-canada/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758242

Points: 145

# Comments: 124

New comment by nsm in "Skip is now free and open source"

nsm — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:31:51 +0000

What money do you think pays for most of the development of the Linux kernel? I assure you, it is not the altruistic goodwill of people around the world.

New comment by nsm in "Skip is now free and open source"

nsm — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:06:56 +0000

This is only true for a subset of software like mobile apps. Web developers are not paying for anything except compute.

New comment by nsm in "Skip is now free and open source"

nsm — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:05:21 +0000

Would you pay for source-available products? GPL and paid license?

Along with a guarantee that you get to keep access to older versions (Jetbrains and Sublime Text models)?