Hacker News: timwis

New comment by timwis in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

timwis — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:46:07 +0000

Fyi you can point a domain/subdomain (eg lan.mysite.com) at that 100.x IP and it will only work for those on your tailnet.

New comment by timwis in "Giving up on smart rings"

timwis — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:23:37 +0000

Pebble Index!

New comment by timwis in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

timwis — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:16:47 +0000

Is that not still down though because it still relies on GH actions to orchestrate?

New comment by timwis in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"

timwis — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:33:34 +0000

Only at the current point in the conversation though, right? You can't rewind and then fork from a previous message, as far as I know

New comment by timwis in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"

timwis — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:50:52 +0000

The /tree feature is incredible for context management. It's really surprising the other harnesses haven't slurped it up yet. It lets you rewind back to any previous message and fork the conversation from there, removing your 'side quest' (e.g. where you dig into something the agent said) from the context. Some other harnesses have a 'rewind' feature, but this lets you maintain the previous conversation history in a separate thread, and even jump between them.

New comment by timwis in "Cheap Self-Hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud"

timwis — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:06:53 +0000

For those interested in this I also recommend autobase, a set of ansible roles for a highly available postgres cluster on hetzner or other clouds: https://github.com/autobase-tech/autobase

New comment by timwis in "DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world"

timwis — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:56:03 +0000

Just FYI, those discussions might be ending because your analogy comes across as a threat to punch them in the mouth, rather than because it convinces them.

New comment by timwis in "DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world"

timwis — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:54:00 +0000

My interpretation of the concern is that propagate implies that the new value is being pushed out to other resolvers, when in fact those other resolvers pull the new value (once their cached value expires).

New comment by timwis in "Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal"

timwis — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:36:49 +0000

I started using this today and am really enjoying the notifications when agents are awaiting input, and the status indicators!

But it feels odd to have it outside of tmux. I've got everything else in tmux, but I have to switch to another terminal tab to get to my agents, and then back to my normal shortcuts. I find that a bit jarring... Is that what other folks are doing?

New comment by timwis in "Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal"

timwis — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:34:13 +0000

Can you say more about what it gives you over tmux alone? I've assumed it's just native tmux tabs

New comment by timwis in "Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal"

timwis — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:54:32 +0000

Does this mean adding instructions to AGENTS.md saying to end everything with the bell character? Or do harnesses have this in their settings somewhere?

New comment by timwis in "What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant"

timwis — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:27:34 +0000

Really interesting! I wonder if using a different communication channel (eg Discord) could eliminate the cost to reply to everyone?

New comment by timwis in "Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing"

timwis — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:59:25 +0000

Forgive me if I'm being naive, but can't you just tweak the compaction prompt to differentiate? Presumably that's what you would do in the separate prompt anyway, right?

New comment by timwis in "Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing"

timwis — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:47:32 +0000

Can you say more about how this applies to long-running conversations? I've been thinking about them as well, but can't write wrap my head around how this would be better than (or even different to) standard compaction.

New comment by timwis in "So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI"

timwis — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:43:21 +0000

I agree. I was hoping for a few positive examples, but didn't see any. The only one I know of is the OIDC discovery endpoint.

New comment by timwis in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

timwis — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:47:31 +0000

Came here to say the same thing. How could the author possibly illustrate the point of the book without at least 4 case studies and a reference to prehistoric humans?

New comment by timwis in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

timwis — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:24:41 +0000

You could also use nsenter if curl is installed on the host, eg

docker inspect -f '{{.State.Pid}}' container-name

# let's imagine that outputs 814538

nsenter -t 814538 -n curl example.com

New comment by timwis in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

timwis — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:19:12 +0000

I've tried most of the tools out there but have used cursor most consistently. Sure, some of the UI quirks get in the way sometimes, but I've found its auto complete predictions to be unparalleled. More importantly, these days I mainly use its Ask mode, Plan mode, and Agent mode. I like that I can use Opus via subscription pricing without Claude Code's wild and buggy harness. And I find cursor's plan mode to perform better than Claude's, but that may just be my personal preferences. I know cursor stopped being the cool thing a few months back, but I genuinely feel most effective with it!

But I'll stop using it now, for the same reason I wouldn't buy a Tesla, or support that maniac in any other way. And I'm sad about that :(

New comment by timwis in "The Future of Email"

timwis — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:21:47 +0000

I read this article and was surprised when I reached the end because the whole thing felt like it was setting the stage for some announcement or new thing. But nothing came..? Forgive me if I'm being thick but what was the takeaway?

New comment by timwis in "A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions"

timwis — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:56:04 +0000

Dark Forest theory, anyone?