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New comment by vinnymac in "The Amazon tax"

vinnymac — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:21:10 +0000

As someone who notices a lot of things, I was talking recently with someone who notices almost nothing. When I spoke about my desire to seek out the truth, they simply replied, "I just want to live a happy life."

There’s a perception that those who seek knowledge and truth are somehow less happy. Ignorance, and the willingness to take the path of least resistance, can be seen as an advantage for those who would rather not look too closely. Fundamentally, perhaps the difference comes down to red pill versus blue pill, and the illusions we’re willing to accept.

New comment by vinnymac in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

vinnymac — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:39:43 +0000

Thanks to you I’ve now upgraded to v16, and can confirm the logs API works beautifully!

New comment by vinnymac in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

vinnymac — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:33:59 +0000

Nice! I was hoping they would add this in v16. Unfortunately I am still on v15 of all my instances of Forgejo

New comment by vinnymac in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

vinnymac — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:53:19 +0000

If you know GitHub actions then you’ll immediately understand Forgejo actions. It was designed that way intentionally. There are some differences, but at least for me not enough to warrant any pitchforks.

If you have advanced use cases you might be more frustrated, but I’m not aware of any off the top of my head. I think my biggest complaint is that they haven’t exposed action logs over the API, so I can’t build tooling around them at the CLI level, feed them to an LLM, or more quickly diagnose problems that arise without using the website.

New comment by vinnymac in "Incident with Github.com"

vinnymac — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:39:01 +0000

I’m hosting my own https://tangled.org knot and spindle, and also hosting and building my own Frontend browser for https://forgejo.org looking forward to open sourcing it in the future for others to enjoy.

For people who want a similar experience today, I’d recommend trying Codeberg (An official instance of Forgejo) though. However, keep in mind they voted in July to ban mostly AI generated repositories. You can read about that here: https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-...

New comment by vinnymac in "Qwen3.8-2.4T"

vinnymac — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:14:31 +0000

Same, I have gotten good results out of Opus 4.6,4.7,4.8 for my security work though. So I continue to use them for this.

Curious if you’ve find yourself enjoying DS or Kimi more than Opus 4?

New comment by vinnymac in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

vinnymac — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:48:13 +0000

I once described Mythos and then Fable as escaping the box we put them in. This would certainly fit that narrative.

New comment by vinnymac in "Turn And Face The Strange"

vinnymac — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:45:34 +0000

> For a long time they would have global outages where the status page would list everything as green and the only reason you'd know something was wrong was the forum threads. Their response was that they were too busy fixing the issues to update the status board. Right.

Are you talking about AWS or Fly here? I seriously cannot tell.

New comment by vinnymac in "Building on ATProto"

vinnymac — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:25:17 +0000

I created a web-of-trust forum built on ATProto. https://caterpilla.rs

Probably one of the most fun projects I’ve ever worked on, and I largely attribute that to the protocol.

I’m particularly interested in the permissioned data spec, but don’t want it to hold me back, so some functionality is on ice, and I went live without it.

New comment by vinnymac in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

vinnymac — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:21:04 +0000

Yesterday I gave Claude Fable a difficult task. It then proceeded to spawn 415 agents. It got it done, but damn was it expensive.

New comment by vinnymac in "My Homelab AI Dev Platform"

vinnymac — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:55:27 +0000

I’m working on an open source Forgejo Frontend that exposes additional features like this, and offers a better user experience, faster large diffs, and basically fixes every little thing I don’t like about Forgejo. Would be interested in hearing more of your complaints so I can continue to improve.

New comment by vinnymac in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

vinnymac — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:00:35 +0000

No doubt in my mind, a future Apple model will be the best to use for this purpose. They likely have more swift to train on than anyone else, and would benefit directly from more quality apps, rather than the slop flowing into the App Store (>1k app submissions per hour; they claim)

Show HN: A Bluesky client for PICO-8

vinnymac — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:50:20 +0000

I’ve been working on this for some time after learning about PICO-8 and its constraints to fit into the p8 cartridge limits and was looking for a challenge.

So I made Picosky, a Bluesky client for the PICO-8 console to see what would be possible combining GPIO with sockets. Initially I just aimed to like a post on my feed, and then it grew from there.

Which also inspired a sibling game, https://npicomx.vinnymac.dev based on my experience contributing to the npmx.dev project in early 2026.

Both games require more play testing for bugs, so share feedback and let me know what you would have done differently.

Thanks

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New comment by vinnymac in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

vinnymac — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:47:34 +0000

Well said. In creative spaces they talk about “Dirty” vs “Clean”. Dirty they say lets you move fast. Clean is slow.

Happen to be a startup that isn’t mission critical to someone’s health and well being? Great, now you can use AI and be as dirty as you would like.

Are you working with dangerous chemicals that are ingested by others, or systems that control hunks of metal flying through the sky with hundreds on board? Maybe we should stay clean in those environments until we make AI itself clean.

New comment by vinnymac in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

vinnymac — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:31:09 +0000

Curious, why do you say that as if the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button isn't still on the homepage in 2026?

New comment by vinnymac in "GitHub and the crime against software"

vinnymac — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:10:04 +0000

Same here, I now self host Forgejo and Tangled Knot + Spindle.

Only use GitHub for employers at the moment, but don’t intend to put new code there going forward.

New comment by vinnymac in "GitHub and the crime against software"

vinnymac — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:48:06 +0000

I’m actively working on a free and open source alternative Frontend for Forgejo that I self host called Joui

New comment by vinnymac in "GitHub and the crime against software"

vinnymac — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:44:58 +0000

I’m in the process of developing an alternative Frontend for Forgejo that’s incredibly fast, and works perfectly well on Safari and Firefox.

Here is a screencap of the wip mobile UI on old safari: https://files.catbox.moe/bo7pxn.jpeg

New comment by vinnymac in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

vinnymac — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:03:01 +0000

I’ve always felt this automation shouldn’t exist at all, but should rather be selectively controlled via a hook. The hooks yarn offers out of the box for example can be used to run any code you need to after install. Putting the project owner in control instead of the dependency.

New comment by vinnymac in "NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised"

vinnymac — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:59:39 +0000

In case others are unaware, you just have to set https://yarnpkg.com/configuration/yarnrc#npmMinimalAgeGate to the value you want. It defaults to 1 day.