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mikodin commented on Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents agent-safehouse.dev/... · Posted by u/atombender

NegativeLatency · 4 days ago

It’s nice having control and ownership of your software.

I’m assuming it’s similar to why people run plex, web servers, file sharing, etc

Also personally I’d rather not pay monthly fees for stuff if it can be avoided.

mikodin · 4 days ago

Piggybacking on this - I think it well equips us for a future when local models are stronger. I for one am grateful for efforts like these

mikodin commented on Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness pi.dev... · Posted by u/kristianpaul

solarkraft · 16 days ago

I happen to be somewhat familiar with OpenCode and am considering using it as a personal AI workspace (some chat & agentic behavior, not worrying about initiative behavior just yet, I’d try to DIY memory with local files and access to my notes) because it seems to have a decent ecosystem.

Pi appears to have a smaller, less “pre-made” ecosystem, but with more flexibility, enthusiasm and extensibility.

Is this correct? Should I look towards Pi over OpenCode? What are the UI options?

mikodin · 16 days ago

I've been using PI for this - just switch to "oh my pi" and am liking it!

Honestly, it's been a dream, I have it running in a docker-sandbox with access to a single git repo (not hosted) that I am using for varied things with my business.

Try it out, it's super easy to setup. If you use docker sandbox, you can just follow what is necessary for claude, spin up the sandbox, exit out, exec into it with bash and switch to Pi.

mikodin commented on Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) llm-timeline.com/... · Posted by u/ai_bot

fergal_reid · 17 days ago

My story of kids growing up in a post AI world:

There's a gag in Star Trek 4 where Scotty goes back in time, and tries talk to a computer.

The gag is funny because he is from the future where you talk to computers normally. When the computer doesn't respond, someone hands him the mouse, and he tries use it as a microphone.

I watched that scene with my kids recently (9 and 6).

They didn't get the gag. They thought Scotty was completely reasonable to try and talk to the computer.

It took a while to explain.

mikodin · 17 days ago

I was on a plane two weeks ago, and this girl - likely 12 was trying to get the screen in the seat to work by tapping it. Her Mom (likely in her 30s) started doing the same thing, both confused.

I gave it a beat and then reached over and pushed the button to pop out the remote control for them. It was a cute head smack moment for the Mom and the daughter didn’t know what to do with the remote for a solid few seconds.

This happens to me as well when I’m in a public bathroom without a sensor, and I wave my hands underneath obliviously for a few moments.

Life is funny

mikodin commented on Fast KV Compaction via Attention Matching arxiv.org/abs/2602.16284... · Posted by u/cbracketdash

WarmWash · 21 days ago

Considering the insanity of the AI arms race going on now, and the incredible sums of money be thrown at any slight advantage, is there any reason to believe that any meaningful AI breakthrough would be openly published for anyone to leverage?

mikodin · 21 days ago

I would say yes.

The reality is that the money being thrown = the time of humans. I guess compute as well, but in terms of people doing innovation - openly published things are the same thing, minus the money.

mikodin commented on Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/th... · Posted by u/kachapopopow

theanonymousone · a month ago

Non-native speaker here. Can someone please be so nice to explain why do we use the word "Harness" here and not e.g. Orchestrate or Steer?

It took me some time to realise what people mean by it, originally confusing it with harvest.

mikodin · a month ago

What always came to mind for me is an “engine wiring harness”. It’s responsible for getting power and data to all the right places without having to manually route cables around the engine / car.

If you google an image of it, maybe it’ll make sense

mikodin commented on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents entire.io/blog/hello-enti... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

straydusk · a month ago

> Checkpoints are a new primitive that automatically captures agent context as first-class, versioned data in Git. When you commit code generated by an agent, Checkpoints capture the full session alongside the commit: the transcript, prompts, files touched, token usage, tool calls and more.

This thread is extremely negative - if you can't see the value in this, I don't know what to tell you.

mikodin · a month ago

I've found immense value in this, am already doing it with Pi(https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono) and it's very easy to replicate

mikodin commented on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed xikipedia.org... · Posted by u/rebane2001

vages · a month ago

I really like how you have done things. Didn’t mind the waiting time.

Thank you for making my day a little brighter.

mikodin · a month ago

Seconding this—I had to wait a little bit to download it and play around and have some fun with it. I didn't mind.

What I appreciate the most about this string of comments (from OP) is that digging into "doing it for fun", hosting on your own machine, wanting simplicity for you as the maintainer and builder. This has been a big focus for me over a number of years, and it leads to things being not efficient, or scalable or even usable by others—but they bring me joy and that is more than enough for most things.

The reality is that there are of course ways to make this more efficient AND it simply doesn't need to be.

Good job on making something that people are clearly interested in, it brought me some joy clicking around and learning some things.

If you want it to be more than just this, of course you'll have to make it faster or have it be a different interface—installable offline typa thing so we can expect a bundle download and be fine with waiting. For example I can see this as a native app being kinda nice.

If you don't want it to be more than this, that's okay too.

Regardless, well done

mikodin commented on Show HN: Yashiki – A tiling window manager for macOS in Rust, inspired by River github.com/typester/yashi... · Posted by u/typester

typester · 2 months ago

Hi HN, I'm the author. I've been a long-time user of AwesomeWM and River on Linux. I recently moved to macOS and couldn't find a WM that satisfied me (specifically regarding dynamic layouts), so I built one in Rust over the weekend.

Blog post: https://typester.dev/blog/2026/01/18/yashiki-window-manager

Happy to answer any questions!

mikodin · 2 months ago

I know you did this in a weekend, but it would be super nice to get some screenshots, or a video into what makes this different.

I also don't know what the "river/awesome philosophy" is, so therefore I don't know what this WM does that makes it different than something like Rectangle for example.

And truth be told, I'm not going to look it up. I am only adding this comment because I'm sure there will be a ton of other people that fall into the same category as me.

Good luck though, super cool to see that you built this in a weekend!

mikodin commented on Cloudflare acquires Astro astro.build/blog/joining-... · Posted by u/todotask2

ghurtado · 2 months ago

I don't see the relation between those two

mikodin · 2 months ago

I essentially do a 1 click deployment for my personal site with Cloudflare.

I don't want to deal with the cloud infra for my personal site.

I could, I've done it in corporate, I've done it for my startup 2 years ago. But I'm rusty, I don't know what the latest people are using for configuration, etc.

Because there is 1 click with CF or Vercel and I don't have to think about it—I don't. If they increase their price it likely wouldn't be enough friction for me dust off the rust.

I think this is the relation. I'm not locked in, it's just HTML pages, but I am through my own habit energy, tech changing, and what I want to put effort into, which is not infra and serving my site.

mikodin commented on Cloudflare acquires Astro astro.build/blog/joining-... · Posted by u/todotask2

mmooss · 2 months ago

I don't understand how Cloudflare's bottom line benefits:

Some here say they gain Astro users, that Cloudflare will become part of the default deployment. But given Cloudflare's current scale, how much are Astro's users worth? Is it even worth the distraction for Cloudflare? Companies lose energy to lots of small, low-value operations.

Most acquisitions begin with announcments that nothing will change, in order to retain customers and employees. They say '<acquistion> is so great, we don't want to interfere, and we're keeping existing management and letting them run things'. After the transition period - often 1 year - the old managers leave and the big changes happen, sometimes including shutting down the product because it was an acqui-hire all along or an IP acquisition.

It seems like Cloudflare must perceive some profit beyond what is announced.

mikodin · 2 months ago

Yeah I see the benefit right off the bat, this is a direct head to Vercel and NextJS.

With that said, I have no idea on the market share or profitability of any of that or Cloudflare vs Vercel.

Also perhaps the rails that will be put in place for seamless 1 click Astro deploy will continue to push them forward with other technologies as well, so it's not just about Astro.

I do feel that fear as well, is this an unnecessary distraction for CloudFlare? Time will tell.