Hacker News: passive

New comment by passive in "Devvm.dev: One VM for every project"

passive — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:12:19 +0000

It's probably a fine project, but the instructions are like "trust this thing, give us your login" , which still gets alarm bells ringing in my head pretty fast.

New comment by passive in "Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support"

passive — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:36:19 +0000

I have a Pixel 10 that I'm looking to install GrapheneOS on, but even at $1599 I'm still intrigued by this. It seems they are trying to build a real long term device with few downsides, which is a big contrast to a lot of Motorola's recent phones.

New comment by passive in "sshole"

passive — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:00:23 +0000

Did we declare "break the world Thursday" and nobody told me? I feel like it's three weeks in a row that we've had a once-in-a-decade security issue pop up.

New comment by passive in "Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?"

passive — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 03:17:47 +0000

1) Xiaomi Mimo Pro 2) I purchase periodic credits through Tailscale Aperture 3) MiMocode for working with Mimo, Pi with the others 4/5) Nope

New comment by passive in "'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?"

passive — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:31:16 +0000

Unfortunately, the most powerful men in the world at this point are known to harass and assault women. That doesn't mean it's ok when the powerless do it, but you should be careful about attributing it to their demographics. It's something men need to address globally, not try to scapegoat immigrants for.

One of the only "facts" we know about crime is that it correlates very closely with poverty, which makes sense, since those who are doing well have more motivation to avoid disturbing the status quo.

New comment by passive in "'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?"

passive — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:58:49 +0000

This is mostly good things for people to think about, but... "immigrants doing god knows what" just looks like racism dropped into an otherwise reasonable ramble. Hopefully that's not how you meant it.

New comment by passive in "Pierre Computer is being acquired by OpenAI"

passive — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:51:46 +0000

As someone with a cat who used to be named "Vito", but eventually ended up as "Pierre", I'm going to assume "Pierre Computer" somehow makes your AI act more French. :P

New comment by passive in "Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot"

passive — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:26:00 +0000

Very cool, might have to try to rig something like this up in the workshop side of our basement, which is almost always a mess.

$800 is already super cheap, and the openness makes it likely you could implement even cheaper options yourself.

New comment by passive in "Tell HN: Please Vote"

passive — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:13:42 +0000

Also, this is last national election of the Trump era, so have your say while you still can!

New comment by passive in "Do At-Proto Users Know This Is Public?"

passive — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:40:29 +0000

Same in mobile chrome

New comment by passive in "Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer"

passive — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:53:43 +0000

As someone who got into FDM printing about a year ago, and still finds it very exciting, this is a really compelling resin printer. It's priced very well for the capabilities, especially in terms of providing everything a beginner might need to be comfortable with resin printing.

That said, I just noticed Costco online has some FDM stuff, which I think is a pretty exciting development, so if I have any money to spend on 3d printing stuff in the near future, I'll probably spend it there. :)

New comment by passive in "Argus – a free, open-source agentic security operations platform – MIT"

passive — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 23:15:31 +0000

I looked at this because I thought it was something MIT released after years of study.

Seems like it's just a thing a person vibe coded yesterday.

Still perhaps cool, but very different than what I was looking for. :)

New comment by passive in "LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale"

passive — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:34:03 +0000

This seemed like a high possibility, but since our adoption of LLMs in software so far has mostly been to throw out best practices, I am skeptical that it will lead us to expanded verification.

It's like Bezos talking about how we're going to have 3 day work weeks while he makes his employees piss in a bottle.

New comment by passive in "If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?"

passive — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:59:33 +0000

They have "connectors" you can configure for a variety of services, and both specific external tools and custom webhooks: https://tailscale.com/docs/aperture/integrate

I'm building a "bring your own data" layer for agentic work of all sorts, using the webhook method for now.

In the context of Aperture, I watch for agents looking for certain types/sources of data, and instead provide them with an in-tailnet API for accessing that data.

In a personal context, think email, calendar events, music playlists, fitness app records, transactions. I've also found it useful in a professional context, but I think I need to explore that a fair bit more.

It keeps credentials out of agents hands, and provides some relatively standard ways for controlling what agents can see and change.

I need a fair bit of hardening work before I try to get random folk to use it, but I might post something more here in the next week. :)

New comment by passive in "If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?"

passive — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:20:17 +0000

Tailscale makes Aperture available for free, and while it's not something you own, it is in your tailnet, so at least you have a certain amount of control over how things access it. It gives a nice view of what agents are doing, with lots of configurability and extensions, and the team behind it has been updating pretty steadily.

I happen to be working on an extension to Aperture, so I have my own reason to promote it. But I do think it's a nice easy solution, and I promoted it to people before I was extending it.

New comment by passive in "The Brain Sandwich"

passive — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:16:08 +0000

The basic concept here, that you take personal responsibility for the input and output being transmitted to/from the LLM, is an obvious but critical one, so I appreciate this terminology as a way to convey it.

I'll try using Brain Sandwich as guidance for less technical folk.

New comment by passive in "Recreational Programming"

passive — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:23:42 +0000

I did not like how this handled scrolling, made my navigation feel constrained. Maybe I was supposed to use the keyboard to navigate? It doesn't seem particularly clear.

New comment by passive in "Our $445M Series D"

passive — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:35:01 +0000

Sounds like a great company raising money for the right reasons.

Oxide continues to be one of the most inspiring companies in the space, I was just encouraging someone to apply there yesterday. :)

New comment by passive in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"

passive — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:54:18 +0000

As someone in a protracted stretch of unemployment who has watched job seeking get distinctly worse over the last decade, I LOVE that you are doing this, and would be delighted to help it succeed in some way. I'm not sure I'm exactly the person for either role, but I'll take a closer look at the approach so far.

I've been on the management side for a while now, but a lot of my hands-on coding relates to data transformation and integration testing, which seems like it would fit nicely with the core needs of the product.

New comment by passive in "Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models"

passive — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:42:16 +0000

I don't think it's properly understood how directly Trump's administration is using taxpayer money to inflate the AI bubble. This is a small part of that.

As a means to grift directly, but also for leverage over the tech industry, and possibly the entire economy.

People hate data centers, but if they think AI regulation will crash the economy, will they vote Trump?