<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sanskritical</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sanskritical</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:25:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sanskritical" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nostr is like a decentralized message queue/key-value store with cryptographic identities. It has been funded by Jack Dorsey. Its most common usages are a decentralized Twitter clone, a tailscale clone without any registration needed called NostrVPN, and diVine, a revival of the classic Vine service. But there's also very interesting stuff like this, a completely decentralized git that uses public relays and cryptographic identities to control ownership.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:43:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600889</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Now we need an alternative that works well and is de-centralized from the get go.<p>It's called Nostr. I post on it every day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:50:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590805</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590805</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>nntp was built on horribly naive assumptions that do not carry to the present day internet. nostr is a better option.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:28:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035241</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>there's decentralized git on Nostr:<p><a href="https://nostrapps.github.io/nostrgit/" rel="nofollow">https://nostrapps.github.io/nostrgit/</a><p>Your public key is your sovereign ownership of your project, and with Nostr is no longer bound to any single entity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:09:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015945</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Steam Machine launches today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> same performances in the same form factor with the same OS (but more upgradability) for less<p>This also remains true for Apple! I don't care about performance. At all. I write text in a terminal! I only care about the hardware working as expected, out of the box, without having to tinker with bullshit. And Steam provides a platform that fulfills this, every time!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:59:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640924</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Steam Machine launches today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I want a simple UNIX workstation that "just works". Apple broke this promise to me with Tahoe, where horrific design decisions compounded the bugs on essential peripherals (Tahoe began spinning up and down my external raid array to sleep constantly, for no reason, making extremely loud noises as the drives repeatedly if it's idle, forcing me to constantly touch files in a while loop over dozens of partitions -- also I have a few petabyte of storage and it now takes ages to mount every reboot, as now with Tahoe Spotlight indexing is done as part of the mounting process and I can't opt out of this behavior and I'm in a warzone where power outages necessitating shutdowns are frequent). I have since used a docked Steam Deck as my daily driver and everything I want just works! It's now my UNIX desktop OS of choice. I've been on the Mac since OS X but Tahoe was so bad that now I consider an operating system designed for wasting time gaming a more serious and less disruptive option to my daily workflow. Heck of a job you're doing, Tim Apple!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:02:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634536</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634536</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "GitHub and the crime against software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nostr is like a decentralized message queue/database with cryptographic identities. It has been funded by Jack Dorsey. Its most common usages are a decentralized Twitter clone, a tailscale clone without any registration needed called NostrVPN, and diVine, a revival of the classic Vine service. But there's also very interesting stuff like this, a completely decentralized git that uses public relays and cryptographic identities to control ownership.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:47:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363606</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363606</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "GitHub and the crime against software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People should consider decentralized git over Nostr, rather than switching to a replacement like Codeberg or Gitlab and waiting for the resulting enshittification after it attracts everyone else.<p><a href="https://nostrapps.github.io/nostrgit/" rel="nofollow">https://nostrapps.github.io/nostrgit/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:48:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361695</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>no recaptcha / works on tor, unlike archive.is:<p><a href="https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/sam-altman-won-in-court-against-elon-musk-but-really-we-all-lost" rel="nofollow">https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.newyorker.com/news/le...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 13:43:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235770</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know. I think people would notice if Google were being MITM'd on Tor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 22:09:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981067</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/" rel="nofollow">https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/when-...</a><p>Works for me. I use only Tor so it is actually far more accessible. Archive.is uses Google's Recaptcha, which for some reason rejects valid solutions submitted via Tor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 21:27:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980603</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Presumably these are lightning invoices, which can resolve in milliseconds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:33:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693519</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693519</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How long until agents begin routinely abusing local privilege escalation bugs to break out of containers? I bet if you tell them explicitly not to do so it increases the likelihood that they do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:12:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552081</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Someone already mentioned the hoarderware issue, which is big for me, so I'll give my other concern.<p>Years ago on Twitter I believe it was lcamtuf that asked "Would you pipe a text file into less?" and Dan Kaminsky (RIP) replied -- "Not now that you asked if I would, no." The obvious implication is that people largely didn't think of simple text parsing utilities as places of concern for security issues, but that is not really in line with reality. I work with crypto and it seriously matters if I got owned in that I can lose amounts of money entrusted to me that I could never hope to recover or repay. I believe it is a basic fiduciary duty to use as much code as possible written in safer languages. Sublime Text is a massive C++ app and I can't look at the code. I am going to preferentially treat the Rust app as better. There's plenty of CVEs in editors. If I could I would replace every binary written in an unsafe language on every machine I ever use.<p>My editor touches every bit of infrastructure I have. I use it every day to change the behavior of production machines. I have no choice to treat my editor as trusted. So it needs to be trustworthy to the maximum degree possible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:27:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110843</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you want an example of an actually lightweight modern desktop editor to take inspiration from, try zed.dev<p>Zed is written in Rust, insanely fast, consumes virtually no resources, has an Emacs input mode (which I use exclusively) and despite not having the greatest support for Emacs LISP (only via limited third party extension, its singular flaw) has replaced emacs-ng as my daily driver.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:39:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110218</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think people who will leave as soon as they feel their work environment has become even remotely uncomfortable are likely sitting in a comfortable sinecure, and it isn't the role of the taxpayer to provide sinecures for people with doctoral degrees.<p>Government workers are meant to serve the government, and the government of the United States is By the People. The People voted for the administration and if someone can't work for the company because you dislike the guy running it, well, it sounds infantile to me. Someone so fragile as to not tolerate political disagreement and reasonable scrutiny and auditing should not be receiving a salary from public funds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:25:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785071</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785071</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my experience legitimately talented people are staying, and the guy whose impressive education credentials seem to train him mostly how to write very wordy excuses for his shortage of actual work product is going back home. Maybe you have a different experience, but my experience is something that seems to be echoed among a lot of people in my social circle.<p>My experience is that people with talent are both driven and valued. Someone who might disagree with the current administration politically but is doing exactly what they want to do with their life in a role that generates measurable utility for the taxpayer is not packing up and leaving, nor losing their job. But many pieces of gristle are getting trimmed off the American government.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:16:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784895</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Vibe coding kills open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Open source software, by the admission of this article, is a critical input to AI agents useful for code generation. So the way I see it is that there is now an entire industry that is incentivized to financially support open source software for entirely new reasons. To keep the models trained on new languages, libraries, and developments in computer science, they need to make sure that high quality modern code is still freely available, forever.<p>Vibe coding eventually creates more value for FOSS, not less.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:22:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767601</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They did not. And many apps (Ricochet Messenger comes to mind) were not visited by a web browser. So it isn't like you could announce an HTTP 302 and just seamlessly transition.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:08:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501499</link><dc:creator>sanskritical</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sanskritical in "Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think relay discovery by clients has improved by leaps and bounds and will continue to do so. Previously you had to give some complicated "follow me at such and such relay" thing. These days you can just tell people your npub and things seem to "just work". I don't know what's going on under the hood, I can only say that clients figuring out which relays have content seems to have improved drastically.</p>
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