Hacker News: troyvit

New comment by troyvit in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

troyvit — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:21:27 +0000

This is kind-of neat too, at least in the near term:

> In the coming weeks, we will relicense all of our source-available tools, including Tart, Vetu and Orchard under a more permissive license. We have also stopped charging licensing fees for them.

New comment by troyvit in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

troyvit — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:00:19 +0000

I bet I should've had that coffee first :)

You use git at a level beyond mine; I've been fumbling with it for maybe 2/3 of the time you've been actually using it, so I appreciate you even taking the time to respond.

I think what gets me is that according to the article, GitButler is designed "for the GitHub Flow style" of development. git isn't limited to one flow, why should its successor be? Git didn't need $17M funding (and the strings that come attached to that) to change the world. Why should its successor?

But yeah I should've had that coffee first, so thanks for the respectful push-back and I hope the rest of the community appreciates it.

New comment by troyvit in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

troyvit — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:53:47 +0000

Huh. I look at what it took to build Git to begin with[1] and have to wonder if the thing that comes after it is really going to be _that much_ better. Git came about because there was a need for it. I feel like GitButler came about because there was a need for funding. Maybe I just need to have my coffee before commenting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#History

New comment by troyvit in "US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year"

troyvit — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:09:47 +0000

There's ways to influence useful idiots besides lobbying.

New comment by troyvit in "US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year"

troyvit — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:03:54 +0000

Maybe it's not a question of if the administration is compromised, but rather who is doing the compromising. Hell why can't it be both?

New comment by troyvit in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

troyvit — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:49:18 +0000

I haven't finished the article yet but I think your point is an important one, and that's to run the commands with a context in mind. The article seems to be coming from the perspective of somebody who is brand new to the project, and as your experience indicates, interviewing teams and leads before running those commands might add more understanding to what they're telling you.

New comment by troyvit in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

troyvit — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:32:41 +0000

> this is a great example of where the government should step in and say “welp, you took too long, we’re now funding municiple fiber and we’ll give it to everyone cheap. sorry.”

That's what my town (Longmont, CO) did! We had laid a fiber loop around the city back in the '90s for traffic signal coordination. Over the years the town would engage different private companies to try to get them to lay fiber (or even directional wifi) to the door. None of them took off, so the city decided to do it themselves. Xfinity tried to sue us and ran a weak attempt at astroturfing, but after about five years of concerted back-hoeing most of the town has gigabit. It isn't 25 gigabit by any means but it works.

Bonus: you call a 303 number for support and somebody who lives here picks up like "What can I do for ya, hun?" (I exaggerate, but not by much). Half an hour later your problem is solved.

Edit: It's $50/month for that.

New comment by troyvit in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

troyvit — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:25:19 +0000

Go through all the positive comments and upvote them. It feels good.

New comment by troyvit in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

troyvit — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:02:32 +0000

The article covers this:

Instead, [the arbitration ruling] relied on a non-disparagement clause in her severance agreement with Facebook to silence her. Which it did, from March 13, 2025, her publication day. We could still publish the book, but our author could not talk about it.

So she followed the clause.

Personally I don't care. If she can publish the ugly truth about Meta and snag a pile of their money in the process I say power to her.

New comment by troyvit in "Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure"

troyvit — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:10:50 +0000

That second one is already happening.

New comment by troyvit in "Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure"

troyvit — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:16:40 +0000

Not rob them blind, just rob them a tiny bit to make up for a generation's worth of extortion.

New comment by troyvit in "Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure"

troyvit — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:30:57 +0000

This talk from Cory Doctorow made the rounds on HN when it happened:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

In it he espouses going a little further. He posits that other countries should repeal their versions of the DMCA and just start jailbreaking American megacorps' app stores, hardware, software, etc. and providing their own, much cheaper (or free) versions. Free trade has already broken down, what do they have to lose?

As you might guess he puts it a lot better than I do.

New comment by troyvit in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

troyvit — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:23:51 +0000

Yeah I think you hit on the head a good way to use it though. I'm not on MacOS but KDE has a little tool called krunner[1] that lets you perform simple tasks from a small pop-up on your desktop. It would be cool if I could do slightly agentic things from there with a local model like ask what the capital of Austria is, or what's the current exchange rate between two currencies.

Then save the heavy lifting for the big boys.

[1] https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner

New comment by troyvit in "Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away"

troyvit — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:56:43 +0000

I've gotten used pixels off of ebay more than once and never had a problem. I feel like if it was that simple swappa.com wouldn't exist though. Maybe I've been lucky?

New comment by troyvit in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

troyvit — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:55:10 +0000

It's not quite that bad yet. Public media still love, for now.

New comment by troyvit in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

troyvit — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:40:28 +0000

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/12/cloudflare_vs_italy/

Definitely my bias here so take it with a grain of salt. I still use cloudflare and I'd probably still work for them.

New comment by troyvit in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

troyvit — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:36:34 +0000

Haha I built that list almost entirely from companies that rejected me so I hear you.

New comment by troyvit in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

troyvit — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:51:26 +0000

If you're looking to scale, then you're looking for companies that scale, and if you're looking for companies that scale, you're not looking for angels. I used to think Cloudflare was an exception to this belief but today I'm not so sure.

New comment by troyvit in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

troyvit — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:50:12 +0000

I tried to focus on for-profit, but I'm just saying there's nothing wrong with non-profits either. In fact I don't think I consciously mentioned a non-profit but I might have.

New comment by troyvit in "Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements"

troyvit — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:55:14 +0000

How distributed would it have to be to make up for the lack of redundancy? DDoS attacks work for a reason, so how feasible would it be (if you had massive buy-in) to scale tiny data centers? I honestly don't think that feasible, because you can't get that massive buy-in, but I'm curious what others think.