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New comment by sepositus in "A simple web we own"

sepositus — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:57:46 +0000

Yes, the protocol is going to be open and the plan is to submit PRs to various projects when we're at that point. It's not really an "either or" with ygddrasil but more like a "both and."

New comment by sepositus in "A simple web we own"

sepositus — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:56:29 +0000

> I've been interested in doing something similar in the past, but I could really never solve issues like domain squatting and stopping individuals from claiming every name possible

I think that's just a property of a naming system. Without something like a centralized threat of force that can know every person participating in the system - there really is no recourse. The approach we are taking is making it difficult to create a speculative market around names which seems to be the driving force behind squatters.

Happy to discuss it in more detail: hackernews@sepositus.com

(Note: that's an alias that goes to my email address which I avoid putting in public places for obvious reasons).

New comment by sepositus in "A simple web we own"

sepositus — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:18:01 +0000

I am in the process of co-founding a new protocol which creates a decentralized root of trust using normal plain-text names (i.e. `foo.bar`). One of the goals I hope to obtain is allowing domain-style lookups of private websites hosted on P2P networks. It's lofty, but the dialog used by OP is _very_ close to why I think it's necessary.

New comment by sepositus in "Keep Android Open"

sepositus — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:50:53 +0000

How specific is the law? What if side loading requires a "trusted" signed certificate where trusted means from Google Play?

Not even playing devil's advocate, just wondering how many loopholes actually exist.

New comment by sepositus in "The Codex App"

sepositus — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:25:11 +0000

Usually I find the hype is centered around creating software no one cares about. If you're creating a prototype for dozens of investors to demo - I seriously doubt you'd take the "mainstream" approach.

New comment by sepositus in "The Codex App"

sepositus — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:25:17 +0000

Always sounds so interesting and then I do a search only to found out it's another product trying to sell you your 20th "AI credit package." I really don't see how these apps will last that long. I pay for the big three already - and no I don't want to cancel them just so I can use your product.

New comment by sepositus in "Show HN posts p/month more than doubled in the last year"

sepositus — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:12:52 +0000

This is a valid observation. I wonder though if people who have been coding for decades, but choose to use AI assistance, would fall under the same AI slop category. It’s an interesting dilemma because the overwhelming amount of content getting posted just ends up breeding a ton of negative feelings towards any amount of AI usage.

Show HN: Supply chain security for everything that isn't a container

sepositus — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:25:34 +0000

Article URL: https://blob.meigma.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745509

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sepositus in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

sepositus — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:53:00 +0000

It's most likely because people just assume it's a misogynist quote.

New comment by sepositus in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

sepositus — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:48:37 +0000

"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times."

New comment by sepositus in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

sepositus — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:14:53 +0000

But it immediately forgets the results of step 1 by the time it hits step 3 (due to context rot) and starts inventing action items.

Show HN: Blobber – Push and stream arbitrary files with OCI registries

sepositus — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:24:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/meigma/blobber

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560821

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by sepositus in "Why We're Moving on from Nix"

sepositus — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 01:48:16 +0000

Wow, this is literally the story of my team. Luckily there’s enough autonomy for us the escape the gravitational pull of the few remaining evangelists, but this is essentially what led us to this point.

New comment by sepositus in "I think it's time to give Nix a chance"

sepositus — Mon, 26 May 2025 17:36:33 +0000

> they just don't try hard enough

The answer was in my post. Nix isn't for everyone, and that's OK.

New comment by sepositus in "I think it's time to give Nix a chance"

sepositus — Mon, 26 May 2025 17:34:38 +0000

For reference, I use Nix to manage three different machines, always via home-manager and nix-darwin (I left NixOS awhile ago and haven't looked back). I don't think it's "inevitable" that you'll hit the difficulty wall, but certainly likely.

As an example, I was recently playing with Pyinfra which is like a pure Python version of Ansible. It turns out that one of the dependencies uses an archaic version of setuptools and the package owner had inserted some _very_ hacky code that ended up breaking on two of my systems. Now I'm relatively experienced with Nix, so it took me a few hours to track down, but it would have been days if not impossible for a beginner.

Nowadays I package brew along with my machines and as soon as something smells funky in Nix I just manage it with brew. Much more peaceful.

New comment by sepositus in "I think it's time to give Nix a chance"

sepositus — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:52:57 +0000

The most common answer I've seen is that Python packaging just "doesn't do it right" so it's impossible to get a clean Nix experience with them. Which, to some degree is true, but it also reveals the opinionated nature of Nix and why it often falls flat.

New comment by sepositus in "I think it's time to give Nix a chance"

sepositus — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:49:58 +0000

Welcome to the honeymoon phase. Mine lasted about a year. Eventually you will have to leave the comfortable area of "those who have done it before" and engage with some long, unwieldy, mostly undecipherable stack trace.

When I asked a long-time Nix vet why he thinks people leave, he provided the most insightful answer I've seen yet: they just don't try hard enough.

New comment by sepositus in "I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it"

sepositus — Thu, 22 May 2025 03:09:15 +0000

I've recently developed tinnitus within the last few months, so I'm still early in my researching. However, I've found a lot of people that discount this approach and swear it only makes things worse. That's why I've been hesitant to try it.

Do you think a lot of it has to do with having the right mindset?

New comment by sepositus in "An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio"

sepositus — Thu, 22 May 2025 00:46:47 +0000

I've had the opposite experience. If I give it that much context it starts to hallucinate parts of the application that it very much has access to look up. This only starts happening at large context windows.

New comment by sepositus in "ChatGPT Helps Students Feign ADHD: An Analogue Study on AI-Assisted Coaching"

sepositus — Tue, 20 May 2025 20:13:24 +0000

I'm constantly having to fight for my child's ADHD meds (as in, they are never available at any pharmacies around me). It's been such a nightmare ever since they were diagnosed. To know people can go around faking it for, presumably, free access to Adderall is even more frustrating.