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Just have Claude generate assets like that with blender or something. It gets you good enough 3d models pretty quick

I feel validated. Have turned to Astro or HTMX for years. They just made sense. That being said, I vibe coded a complex local-first SPA in Astro last year and the agent struggled with caching and service worker code. It literally wrote an entirely duplicated and separate SPA for “offline mode”

Amazing! I've dreamed of something like this for so long. I've tried to get into tiling window managers but they just feel claustrophobic to me. Being able to zoom out a bit and get some space like this with the window still in view is very relaxing. I can "take a step back" from what I'm working on and feel the system 2 start to kick in. Human memory is very spatial (memory palaces, method of loci, etc) so I always imagined optimal screen-based HCI would eventually land on an interface like this. The panning/zooming interface is so natural, even babies understand it.

Truth be told, though, I mostly alt+tab, autocomplete, or search my way through digital systems. It's like fast travel in a video game vs running from town to town yourself. If you know what you need to do and you're trying to get things done quickly, you fast travel. But there's some intangible value to manual travel. It helps you get your bearings and gives you time and space to process. So maybe this isn't a "hyper-efficient" window management paradigm, but it does give you mental space to breathe and reflect.

Technical Thoughts: - It's too bad Apple's APIs require disabling SIP for this to work as well as the author intends. I haven't tried it yet with SIP disabled - Even though this is technically impressive, the AI-generated copy is off-putting and sends a signal that the project and code are low quality. I know that's a debatable indicator of quality, but in a sea of vibe-coded AI slop projects, human-written prose really does stand out. Especially important if you hope to convince users to turn off SIP

I know caring about syntax is verboten, but Goose checks off a lot of my dream language syntax features. UFCS, implicit it parameter, trailing block lambdas (with curly braces!), algebraic data types, exhaustive enum matching, pattern matching, etc... the list goes on! It almost looks like Kotlin but more functional b/c it doesn't have the JVM OOP baggage (I'm a big Kotlin fan). And an interesting, fast memory management paradigm to boot! Honestly, even with a garbage collector, this language looks so fun to write and read.

Was also wondering this the other day. Every harness I’ve looked into seems to be monolithic. I would really prefer specialized profiles/configurations instead of loading up every skill and MCP server imaginable into a big stateful works-on-my-machine mess. I just want to run `pi --profile=./gamedev.toml “build a side scroller where you’re a turtle”` and have it do the thing.

There’s some likelihood the parent comment is astroturfing (not saying they are, just that it’s a possibility). There’s less of a chance mine is, since I don’t offer an alternative and my review is more critical.

Rail makes city planning and expansion more predictable and less chaotic compared to adding bigger and more roads. It’s not an either/or.

The SVP has the right idea as a leader. I’ve often framed this as adding “regression tests” to our process. Ask yourself and the team, “what measures can we put in place to save us from ourselves and decrease the likelihood of the failure reoccurring?”

I like this idea. A simple bus route that delegates to waymos for the last mile seems like the best of both worlds. And maybe easier to develop public transit routes because they can be simpler.

Also hope it can applied to more rural areas eventually too, where driving is the only realistic option. DUIs, accidents, and whatnot are way higher than they ought to be in these places because there’s few or no alternatives. And you’ll never convince everyone to give up their imbibing.

For another datapoint, I took the plunge on a pair of xreals and trying to do real work in them felt like a joke. They’re not comfortable enough to wear as normal glasses, so you end up using them more like you would a VR headset. And at that point, they’re just a semi-transparent low-res screen that’s never quite in the right spot.

I feel like many of the comments are skeptical or dismissive but this seems like a really clever idea. So many classic textbooks use pseudocode to get the gist of an algorithm across, so this isn’t an unprecedented level of abstraction to be working at. It makes sense that there would exist a middle ground of abstraction between an English essay and actual running code.

Another interesting thought about this: it’s almost like a quick and dirty transpiler for your own programming language design ideas. I’ve toyed with writing my own ”perfect language” and this seems like a quick and dirty way to test out the ergonomics of various syntaxes and concepts via pseudocode.

Tangled feels like the future but it seriously needs private repos ASAP to capture the momentum of the current GitHub exodus.

Oof, was just replying to the comment above and didn’t check the age. There’s no silver bullet, unfortunately

Would be nice if there were a hn feature, userscript, or plugin to just filter comments from new accounts. Bonus if there was some sentiment analysis or llm-based analysis to filter out unsubstantiated inflammatory comments too.

no affiliation, just want to say exe.dev is amazing! They got all the primitives right and it’s changed the way I approach starting new projects.

Random naive thought, could I use this to backup and version all of my user data? E.g. just point Lore at my ~/Documents folder and call it a day? I'm sure there's some scalability constraint but I have music projects, game projects, markdown notes, photos, videos, etc. and have thought in the past it'd be convenient to treat all my files like a monorepo.

Thanks for the level-headed response. Agreed, "blame the kings" is also an overly simplistic take. There's rarely a single entity to blame. Just wanted to bring some nuance to the hate getting thrown around here.

Redirecting frustration towards the systemic issues that drive perfectly normal people to work for a terrible company like Meta seems more productive to me.

I hate what Meta does just as much as the next guy, but shaming friends who feel like they have no better employment option doesn't seem like the best way to make a difference here.

This is a pretty uncharitable perspective. Most folks I know working at Meta or Amazon aren’t morally bankrupt. They just have kids, debt, poor parents with health problems, etc. They work at Meta to support their loved ones. And it’s not like you can walk onto the street and just wave down a morally superior job with similar pay and benefits. Blame the tech oligarchs, not the workers.

This misses the point that parent was making. The conversation shouldn’t be “move your data to countries you can trust”. It should be “use protocols that don’t require trust in the first place”.

I’ve had the same thought and would love this. MacOS shortcuts are too deeply ingrained in my fingers.

But every attempt of mine to make Linux shortcuts Mac-like has had too many sharp edges to be useable. Toshy didn’t seem to work well with Wayland and felt heavy. Probably the best so far I’ve found has been keyd and custom configs for your most used apps.

A community effort might get us there. Distribute the hours of tinkering across many passionate users instead of everyone doing it in a vacuum.

It’s kind of wild to read through these comments and realize hn is still riffing on the same ideas. Is it e2ee? Does it run on Linux? Who would pay for something you can slap together in a weekend with a few bash scripts? Really highlights this community’s values, skills, and blind spots. Also a bit of a bummer that the privacy and open source situations today are even worse in many ways.

Regardless of the intent, it was poorly executed and highlights security gaps inherent in the distribution model of browser extensions.

Agreed. Times are tough. Open source is under-appreciated. People are going to crack and slip up like this. We’re only human.

I did webdev for a long time, so yeah. If you want the story, I was looking into guix on asahi and ended up on https://www.asahi-guix.org/ which didn’t load anything, so I checked the page source and noticed the element.

Noticed a suspicious element called give-freely-root-bcjindcccaagfpapjjmafapmmgkkhgoa in the chrome inspector today.

Turns out about a month ago, the popular open source [JSON Formatter chrome extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/json-formatter/bcji...) went closed source and started injecting adware into checkout pages. Also seems to be doing some geolocation tracking.

I didn't see this come up on hn, so I figured I'd sound the alarm for all the privacy-conscious folks here.

At this point, I feel like browser extension marketplaces are a failed experiment. I can just vibecode my own json pretty-printer extension and never deal with this problem again.

Good points. What local models have you found work best for your use cases? I feel like if we get to opus 4.6 level intelligence running on local hardware, we’re in the clear for a lot of day to day use cases.

Definitely interested! I've reinstalled Fedora Asahi Remix several times on my old M1 after fiddling my way into a broken state. NixOS sounds like a tinkerer's dream but getting started is a bit intimidating.

Thanks for sharing. Much better source.

This is smart and a good first step. Everyone can't be trusted to do the security dance flawlessly, though. We need sane defaults. Least privilege by default for 3rd-party code. Deno's headed in the right direction with this. But I think the solution needs to exist deeper in the stack. The surge in popularity of `curl -fsSL https://my-cool-ai-starup.ai/install.sh | bash` style installers is particularly concerning to me in this regard.

Totally agree with all of your comment. To solve for structured data instead of everyone writing parsers, I’ve enjoyed using nushell (not affiliated, just love the idea). https://www.nushell.sh/

It’s like powershell but not ugly and not Microsoft.