Hacker News: purpleidea

New comment by purpleidea in "Codex for open source"

purpleidea — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:40:40 +0000

The difference between this one (good) and the Anthropic program (bad) is that openai doesn't force you into a marketing clause while Anthropic does.

I mean seriously, you already ripped off all the worlds open source code. Be more generous and don't demand anything else back. Six months is so little too.

New comment by purpleidea in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

purpleidea — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:55:55 +0000

Looks proprietary. Need fully open source to guarantee that right long term.

New comment by purpleidea in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

purpleidea — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:54:56 +0000

Signal refuses to answer: Why won't they release/open source all of their backend infra automation scripts/tools/etc...

There's no reasonable reason why a 501(c)(3) won't put this out there to make sure there's redundancy so we could built an alternate network if they're compromised by some gag order.

New comment by purpleidea in "The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners"

purpleidea — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:19:34 +0000

Is it zero-indexed, or are they really behind in choosing winners, or am I loosing my mind... Isn't it 2026 not 2025??

New comment by purpleidea in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

purpleidea — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:44:11 +0000

Anthropic is missing the plot by not releasing even the CLI (tui) claude code as open source. On the other hand, Codex is so garbage that as soon as they catch up it will be done for Claude.

New comment by purpleidea in "Ferrari Luce"

purpleidea — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:46:10 +0000

I want a fully open source car. That's luxury!

New comment by purpleidea in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

purpleidea — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:06:19 +0000

You'd think a billion dollar company would be able to normalize the sound level on their video :/

New comment by purpleidea in "Starship's Twelfth Flight Test"

purpleidea — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:33:25 +0000

I don't know why they aren't doing more booster catches. Kind of a bit disappointed they keep skipping. Either they can land them or they can't. If it's not consistent then they're avoiding the possible failure so their stock price (launching soon) stays up, otherwise just prove it's solid and actually works.

New comment by purpleidea in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

purpleidea — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:31:06 +0000

They are confiscated when they notice.

New comment by purpleidea in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

purpleidea — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:29:57 +0000

I like a device with these kinds of specs and this size, but I'd want all of this and all the hardware on the flipper zero as well. Seems all the RF/radio stuff is gone :/ I'd want at least that and more.

New comment by purpleidea in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

purpleidea — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:24:05 +0000

What's inside the canada.tar.gz one?

New comment by purpleidea in "Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes"

purpleidea — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:31:00 +0000

I'd buy any Tesla, even the big truck, if it came with open source software! I don't want a car that's spyware like a phone. Let me be in control of it, let me mod it, let me own it.

Who's going to sell me one?

New comment by purpleidea in "Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming"

purpleidea — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:56:05 +0000

It's so obvious that many of the bugs being found are/were most likely M$ backdoors.

There doesn't seem to be any other plausible explanation. The reckoning needs to come and people need to stop using their products for good.

Would love a whistleblower to explain which part of the government or company forced it.

New comment by purpleidea in "I’ve banned query strings"

purpleidea — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:14:42 +0000

I love this. I'd rather see bans when you get sent from one of the google search redirect links. I know they want to track the exits... Maybe mess those up!

New comment by purpleidea in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

purpleidea — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:27:41 +0000

I actually even tried to get the AI models to build such a theme, but they couldn't figure it out! They would just generate something wrong. When that works, I'm interested!

New comment by purpleidea in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

purpleidea — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:26:25 +0000

Oh wow. I tried zed, but I couldn't get the colour scheme to make the whole thing look like the classic "cobalt" from gedit/gtksourceview. I am legit willing to pay fair $ if someone wants to build such a theme for me.

New comment by purpleidea in "DAG Workflow Engine"

purpleidea — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:54:27 +0000

Here's a different kind of workflow engine with a proper DSL. It turns out config management is the same problem as workflow engines, if you use my modern definition of config management.

https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

New comment by purpleidea in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

purpleidea — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:22:48 +0000

This will just force them to build in some sort of revenue extraction model. Pass! Git and copyleft are fine as is.

New comment by purpleidea in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

purpleidea — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:35:07 +0000

Microsoft Azure has always been a clown show. I've found so many obvious bugs. The quality is not there and never will be. No serious companies rely on it. Use virtually any other vendor or host it yourself.

New comment by purpleidea in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

purpleidea — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:30:00 +0000

The PRC didn't fail, they haven't finished succeeding yet.