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New comment by rothific in "Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git"

rothific — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:38:58 +0000

This is really cool!

Essentially version controlled A2A.

I'm exploring a bunch of agent protocols right now and experimenting with a similar concept for context syncing over git here: https://github.com/cjroth/csp

New comment by rothific in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

rothific — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:27:44 +0000

Updated!

New comment by rothific in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

rothific — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:42:07 +0000

Fair point :)

New comment by rothific in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

rothific — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:45:14 +0000

Thunderbolt was funded from a grant, not donations.

https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbolt/blob/main/docs/fa...

New comment by rothific in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

rothific — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:43:22 +0000

It's not. Mozilla has been more than Firefox for a long time.

New comment by rothific in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

rothific — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:41:23 +0000

Hi, I'm on team that worked on this. No it's not vibe coded. We do pretty intense code review of every PR. It looks like the number you're seeing is including lock files and artifacts that are not part of the core coverage.

New comment by rothific in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

rothific — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:37:58 +0000

I think that wasn't phrased well- it's "revenue" positive meaning donation money covers more than the expenses

New comment by rothific in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

rothific — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:36:16 +0000

Stop spreading misinformation, it's funded by grant money https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbolt/blob/main/docs/fa...

New comment by rothific in "Stop Using Ollama"

rothific — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:48:52 +0000

I've been experimenting with running Gemma with MLX directly within my own harness: https://github.com/cjroth/mlx-harness

New comment by rothific in "Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate"

rothific — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:21:26 +0000

I agree. Also, very different world from Rust, but shadcn has popularized this for UI components and AI skills are done this way frequently.

I'm excited to see more patterns like this for other types of code.

New comment by rothific in "Show HN: Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser"

rothific — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:00:04 +0000

Websockets would work great actually! Basically anything would work as long as you don't use any node or bun specific imports. For file systems you could also use something like this https://github.com/isomorphic-git/lightning-fs

I'm glad you think the try before install scenario makes sense - I think this is definitely the main use case.

New comment by rothific in "Show HN: Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser"

rothific — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:36:36 +0000

Yep, mainly performance - specifically page load time (near instant for Gridland vs ~2-3s for Ink Web). The other issue was flickering. Tbh rendering directly into a canvas is just a better approach and OpenTUI's architect is more modern.

I love that xkcd, I never know what to do, so I'll just ：）)

New comment by rothific in "Show HN: Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser"

rothific — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:26:44 +0000

You should be able to. We forked OpenTUI in order to avoid having to shim a bunch of native stuff. I'd like to make it compatible - email me at hi@cjroth.com if you find a way or want any help making it work

New comment by rothific in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

rothific — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:08:48 +0000

Does anyone know if this is mainly going to affect people in Cary, NC?

New comment by rothific in "Show HN: Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser"

rothific — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:06:05 +0000

Nice! I made a proof-of-concept of using Ink + Ghostty Web a few months back - we didn't end up merging it, but it's still an interesting thing that's possible. I think Ghostty Web is also has tons of potential.

https://github.com/cjroth/ink-web/pull/1

New comment by rothific in "Show HN: Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser"

rothific — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:46:18 +0000

Yes (if you're also down to use React)

New comment by rothific in "Show HN: Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser"

rothific — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:20:28 +0000

Thank you! I'm glad you think so. It's all about fun.

Show HN: Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser

rothific — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:57:47 +0000

Hi everyone,

Gridland is a runtime + ShadCN UI registry that makes it possible to build terminal apps that run in the browser as well as the native terminal. This is useful for demoing TUIs so that users know what they're getting before they are invested enough to install them. And, tbh, it's also just super fun!

Gridland is the successor to Ink Web (ink-web.dev) which is the same concept, but using Ink + xterm.js. After building Ink Web, we continued experimenting and found that using OpenTUI and a canvas renderer performed better with less flickering and nearly instant load times.

We're excited to continue iterating on this. I expect a lot of criticism from the "why does this need to exist" angle, and tbh, it probably doesn't - it's really mostly just for fun, but we still think the demo use case mentioned previously has potential.

- Chris + Jess

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505731

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New comment by rothific in "Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering"

rothific — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:50:27 +0000

There have been a lot of conversations recently about how model alignment is relative and diversity of alignment is important - see the recent podcast episode between Jack Clark (co-founder of Anthropic) and Ezra Klein.

Many comments here point out that Mistral's models are not keeping up with other frontier models - this has been my personal experience as well. However, we need more diversity of model alignment techniques and companies training them - so any company taking this seriously is valuable.

Show HN: Neuroscope – Real-time “x-ray vision” into LLMs’ minds

rothific — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:53:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cjroth/neuroscope

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395835

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