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New comment by tfrancisl in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

tfrancisl — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:28:39 +0000

$160 billion valuation and market capture among some top (non-AI, traditional enterprise) companies, I think.

New comment by tfrancisl in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

tfrancisl — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:26:39 +0000

Seconding this. I'm not happy with the fact that the drivers are proprietary, I really prefer FOSS. But, I am tired of having to deal with FUD around performance and issues with NVIDIA devices which simply don't exist at scale.

I have friends who are stuck on Windows not because they play games with Windows-only anticheat, but because theyve been told by GNU heads that NVIDIA drivers simply don't perform acceptably on Linux.

New comment by tfrancisl in "Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded"

tfrancisl — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:06:50 +0000

Whether they did that or had an LLM one shot it, I dont really care. Commit history is pretty important if you ever want to try fixing bugs or improving features in the future.

New comment by tfrancisl in "Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded"

tfrancisl — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:46:13 +0000

250k lines of code in one commit is reason enough to disregard the project entirely, IMO. Vibe code if one wants, but that is just madness...

New comment by tfrancisl in "I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?"

tfrancisl — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:55:37 +0000

There is a project by a group of nix/nixos enthusiasts aiming to replace some of these core deps https://github.com/manic-systems/nixos-core. I havent tire-kicked it much, but it seems useful.

New comment by tfrancisl in "The Coming Loop"

tfrancisl — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:51:10 +0000

I can't blame you when the first few sentences almost always evoke one of the "creators of XYZ" (I don't know how you can say a model or model harness has a singular creator when the model was trained on everyone's data and the harness was built by a whole team?) and treats their word or experience as gospel.

Who cares what Cherny thinks? He is selling his product, and he will probably cash out soon enough while his credibility is as high as it is.

New comment by tfrancisl in "Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects"

tfrancisl — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:02:05 +0000

You don't sponsor people or projects to complete specific issues or build specific features in the first place. Sponsorship is a reward and token of appreciation for doing good work.

New comment by tfrancisl in "Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects"

tfrancisl — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:29:14 +0000

Better yet: give them cold hard cash instead of what is arguably monopoly money for many OSS devs. Ironically this is something GitHub made "easy" with sponsorships several years ago.

New comment by tfrancisl in "Health insurance claim denial rates range from 13% to 35% by insurer"

tfrancisl — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:10:39 +0000

... which many would argue is between a patient and their doctor. We dont pay premiums for no reason, and the insurance company isnt really allowed to determine what "necessary" means.

New comment by tfrancisl in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

tfrancisl — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:02:03 +0000

It works on darwin and any linux just fine. Theyre even working on a "standalone" like HMs, if you really want to decouple your user programs from your system.

With some programs it is as simple as you show, but with others there are options around the config and other nix module nasties that I avoid if I can. hjem-rum is a sister project to hjem that provides some similar modules.

New comment by tfrancisl in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

tfrancisl — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:57:50 +0000

I'm saying that I value the completeness (thoroughness may be a better word) as well as the reproducability and portability that nix ensures over convenience. I cant tell you the amount of times I've pulled a precompiled tool and it just doesnt work because of one quirk of their packaging or another.

Also noting that I don't see the problem as "dotfile management" but as "system AND user configuration management" which extends beyond some plain text files in $HOME.

ed.: and home manager is just one tool which provides not only dotfile management, but drvs for installing particular programs and configuring then in highly opinionated ways -- I do not use it

New comment by tfrancisl in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

tfrancisl — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:47:11 +0000

Its the only complete, reproducible, and portable solution, in my opinion.

I like mise, but at the end of the day some programs are more complex than just pulling a precompiled, dynamically linked binary and hoping it works.

New comment by tfrancisl in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

tfrancisl — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:40:09 +0000

If you like home manager but also like to understand how your "home"/user programs are configured, take a look at hjem!

New comment by tfrancisl in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

tfrancisl — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:39:28 +0000

What a snakepit of a comment! I know there are tensions within nix but this feels like a classic case of Chestertons fence at a big scale.

New comment by tfrancisl in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

tfrancisl — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:37:03 +0000

Or nix without home manager, and ideally without flakes as well. Two solutions looking for problems, IME.

New comment by tfrancisl in "Last.fm is now independent"

tfrancisl — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:01:19 +0000

I use it with Spotify to track my listens and sort by artist, album and the like. It definitely still has value, even for Spotify users!

New comment by tfrancisl in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

tfrancisl — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:56:53 +0000

No, which is why I started my message with "No, ..."!

New comment by tfrancisl in "Picking up the Pieces: Popular Spec-Driven Development tool abandoned, forked"

tfrancisl — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:30:59 +0000

It seems the original author of the popular SDD toolkit for agent frameworks has gone no-contact. One of the maintainers has forked it. This is concerning as the original author maintains control of the associated NPM package.

Picking up the Pieces: Popular Spec-Driven Development tool abandoned, forked

tfrancisl — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:30:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/open-gsd/get-shit-done-redux/discussions/1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294983

Points: 1

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New comment by tfrancisl in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

tfrancisl — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:39:27 +0000

I agree with the messaging generally, but unfortunately to fight implicitly unprofessional behavior with a terse response like this would look explicitly unprofessional!