Hacker News: xtat

New comment by xtat in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

xtat — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:23:38 +0000

These projects tend to go a certain direction...

After a few months with lazyvim I'm missing barebones nvim. Batteries included is nice but requires maniacal restraint.

New comment by xtat in "Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server"

xtat — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:20:57 +0000

Really nice- I want a distro package. Managing updates manually gets out of control fast if you run many services.

New comment by xtat in "Ghostty 1.0"

xtat — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:10:58 +0000

My takeaway is that it's mostly useful for apple stuff-- why would "platform native" matter on Linux?

New comment by xtat in "Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft"

xtat — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:31:42 +0000

Canada got scary pretty fast

New comment by xtat in "The EPA wants total removal of lead pipes"

xtat — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 16:38:54 +0000

First thought was how is this not already a thing.

New comment by xtat in "Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education"

xtat — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:28:19 +0000

I find the word unregulated a bit loaded in this context- analogous to "unfreedom"

New comment by xtat in "Twitch will now let streamers simultaneously stream on any service they want"

xtat — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:40:54 +0000

The grip that Twitch has on it's creators is unreal.

New comment by xtat in "Apple exec Eddy Cue set to testify in Google trial about $19B search deal"

xtat — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:10:12 +0000

SV will protect SV - bigtechs are frenemies

New comment by xtat in "Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates"

xtat — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:42:41 +0000

IMO it's all downhill since nexus one, and Apple has just always been terrible.

New comment by xtat in "Mozilla.ai"

xtat — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 02:32:15 +0000

no concrete product or code "We created a company" has such a grifty smell

New comment by xtat in "Run Llama 2 uncensored locally"

xtat — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:54:04 +0000

These posts always feel like content marketing when the title promises a tutorial on running the latest model and you click and it's someone's frontend.

New comment by xtat in "What happened with ASUS routers this morning?"

xtat — Thu, 18 May 2023 15:22:42 +0000

From the top comments it seems like we're skipping the fact that the guy has automatic updates turned off and it's pulling down and execing arbitrary code anyway.

New comment by xtat in "Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful"

xtat — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 17:44:29 +0000

Yep - dream device is a phone that runs android+ios under strict supervision

New comment by xtat in "Facebook Announces Meta Verified"

xtat — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 03:48:49 +0000

Have a feeling this is going to change real fast with FB becoming an extension of usgov

New comment by xtat in "Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile"

xtat — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:28:49 +0000

These kind of stories make me feel like the western world has failed and we should start over

New comment by xtat in "Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap"

xtat — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:30:53 +0000

idk not a great look for signal

New comment by xtat in "Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin?"

xtat — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:37:54 +0000

this... this is content marketing

New comment by xtat in "San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet"

xtat — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:01:18 +0000

Appreciate it the response- for me it's a bit personal because I spent a decade of my life trying in vain to love SFBA, and I wish that I could have information on the true experience from the hacker community.

New comment by xtat in "San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet"

xtat — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:14:10 +0000

curious @dang - why did this get moved when it has almost 10x the votes here? feels like this will bury the story

New comment by xtat in "'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm"

xtat — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:52:19 +0000

Also how many employees does meta actually need? 1% of what they have currently? (70,000!)