Wonder if OP is also an author of: https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/ , though looking at the website - probably not.
Readit Newstrymas commented on Show HN: Itsyhome – Control HomeKit from your Mac menu bar (open source) itsyhome.app... · Posted by u/nixus76
> equivalent written in "two weeks"
This is indeed a nonsensical timeframe.
> What I am saying is that just throwing out phrases that something is "simple" or "basic" needs proof, but at the time of writing I don't see examples.
Fair point.
> > equivalent written in "two weeks"
> This is indeed a nonsensical timeframe.
Sorry - I should have explained that it's an ironic hyperbole. Was thinking quotes will be enough, but Poe's law strikes again.
Although I understand your frustration (and have certainly been at the other side of this as well!), I think its very valuable to always verbalize your intuition of scope of work and be critical if your intuition is in conflict with reality.
Its the best way to find out if there's a mismatch between value and effort, and its the best way to learn and discuss the fundamental nature of complexity.
Similar to your argument, I can name countless of situations where developers absolutely adamantly insisted that something was very hard to do, only for another developer to say "no you can actually do that like this* and fix it in hours instead of weeks.
Yes, making a TUI from scratch is hard, no that should not affect Claude code because they aren't actually making the TUI library (I hope). It should be the case that most complexity is in the model, and the client is just using a text-based interface.
There seems to be a mismatch of what you're describing would be issues (for instance about the quality of the agent) and what people are describing as the actual issues (terminal commands don't work, or input is lost arbitrarily).
That's why verbalizing is important, because you are thinking about other complexities than the people you reply to.
As another example `opencode`[0] has number issues on the same order of magnitude, with similar problems.
> There seems to be a mismatch of what you're describing would be issues (for instance about the quality of the agent) and what people are describing as the actual issues (terminal commands don't work, or input is lost arbitrarily).
I just named couple examples I've seen in issue tracker and `opencode` on quick skim has many similar issues about inputs and rendering issues in terminals too.
> Similar to your argument, I can name countless of situations where developers absolutely adamantly insisted that something was very hard to do, only for another developer to say "no you can actually do that like this* and fix it in hours instead of weeks.
Good example, as I have seen this too, but for this case, let's first see `opencode`/`claude` equivalent written in "two weeks" and that has no issues (or issues are fixed so fast, they don't accumulate into thousands) and supports any user on any platform. People building stuff for only themselves (N=1) and claiming the problem is simple do not count.
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Like the guy two days ago claiming that "the most basic feature"[1] in an IDE is a _terminal_. But then we see threads in HN popping up about Ghostty or Kitty or whatever and how those terminals are god-send, everything else is crap. They may be right, but that software took years (and probably tens of man-years) to write.
What I am saying is that just throwing out phrases that something is "simple" or "basic" needs proof, but at the time of writing I don't see examples.
I said relatively simple. It is mostly an API interface with Anthropic models, with tool calling on top of it, very simple input and output.
If I would get a dollar each time a developer (or CTO!) told me "this is (relatively) simple, it will take 2 days/weeks", but then it actually took 2 years+ to fully build and release a product that has more useful features than bugs...
I am not protecting anthropic[0], but how come in this forum every day I still see these "it's simple" takes from experienced people - I have no idea. There are who knows how many terminal emulators out there, with who knows how many different configurations. There are plugins for VSCode and various other editors (so it's not only TUI).
Looking at issue tracker ~1/3 of issues are seemingly feature requests[1].
Do not forget we are dealing with LLMs and it's a tool, which purpose and selling point that it codes on ANY computer in ANY language for ANY system. It's very popular tool run each day by who knows how many people - I could easily see, how such "relatively simple" tool would rack up thousands of issues, because "CC won't do weird thing X, for programming language Y, while I run from my terminal Z". And because it's LLM - theres whole can of non deterministic worms.
Have you created an LLM agent, especially with moderately complex tool usage? If yes and it worked flawlessly - tell your secrets (and get hired by Anthropic/ChatGPT/etc). Probably 80% of my evergrowing code was trying to just deal with unknown unknowns - what if LLM invokes tool wrong? How to guide LLM back on track? How to protect ourselves and keep LLM on track if prompts are getting out of hand or user tries to do something weird? The problems were endless...
Yes the core is "simple", but it's extremely deep can of worms, for such successful tool - I easily could see how there are many issues.
Also super funny, that first issue for me at the moment is how user cannot paste images when it has Korean language input (also issue description is in Korean) and second issue is about input problems in Windows Powershell and CMD, which is obviously total different world compared to POSIX (???) terminal emulators.
[0] I have very adverse feelings for mega ultra wealthy VC moneys...
[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=is%3Aissu...
trymas commented on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=l-kZG... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
I “like” how Overton window (??? I hope I use it right) shifted dramatically in USA.
- “law and order” is “good”, when _de facto_ most of constitution is not being applied for a year and laws or court orders are applied selectively. Not to say that “law and order” is vastly different depending on the size of your bank account;
- “terrorist” now is anything you don’t like, especially if it’s anti establishment. True freedom of speech is now apparently “violence” (and of course this dictatorial (adjacent) government would think that, as it’s biggest danger);
- “antifa” is apparently now a boogeyman, though I’d say he used it correctly as he is (apparently) fascist;
Also it is forced against people, how population can choose otherwise?
OTOH, I was hired by an enterprise that was many months into a giant backend rewrite. After wrapping my head around the many plans, I realized they were rewriting Django, badly. One weekend I prototyped the whole thing… in Django. It worked. It met the specs. It was a CRUD app with a REST API.
I came in to work Monday morning, showed it off, and inadvertently triggered a firestorm. Later my boss told me not to do that again because it caused havoc with schedules and such.
So I quit and found a better job. Sometimes the new guy can make a better version themselves over the weekend, not because they’re a supergenius, but because they’re not hampered by 47 teams all trying to get their stamp on the project.
(In before “prime example of overconfidence!”: feel free to doubt. It was a CRUD app with a handful of models on a PostgreSQL backend. They were writing a new Python web framework to serve it, complete with their own ORM and forms library and validation library. Not because the existing ones wouldn’t work, mind you, but more out of not realizing that all these problems were already sufficiently solved for their requirements.)
It feels like I have worked with you (though obviously not). Had same experiences to the T.
Maybe it's just something that happens to many in web development world, not-invented-here and all...
trymas commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
A giant space datacenter with square kilometers of solar panels doesn't make sense. A cluster of Starlink-sized satellites, which orbit near each other(1) and which are connected using laser-links might make sense.
(1) There are orbital arrangements that allow satellites to stay close together with minimal orbital corrections. Scott Manley mentioned this in one of his videos.
Sounds like we would want to elevate from water wasting on Earth to pollution in space.
The fact that so many people are discussing their terminal just confirms the fact that a terminal is incredibly basic.
English is not my first language, but do you mean "foundational" instead of "basic"?
By your logic (that many people discuss) web browsers are "basic", IDEs are "basic", programming languages are the most "basic" thing (how many of them! discussions are limitless!!).
EDIT: have the gut to explain yourself instead of downvoting ;) , I am not discussing in bad faith , but you do you.
trymas commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
What in particular is wrong/misleading in the Starcloud whitepaper, then?
Previous discussions on HN:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390781
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45667458
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43977188
I will not re-read them, but from what I recall from those threads is numbers don't make sense. Something like:
- radiators the multiple square kilometers in size, in space;
- lifting necessary payloads to space is multiples of magnitudes more than we have technology/capacity as the whole world now;
- maintanence nightmare. yeah you can have redundancy, but no feasable way to maintain;
- compare how much effort/energy/maintenance is required to have ISS or Tiangong space stations - these space datacenters sound ridiculous;
NB: I would be happy to be proven wrong. There are many things that are possible if we would invest effort (and money) into it, akin to JFK's "We choose to go to the Moon" talk. Sounded incredible, but it was done from nearly zero to Moon landing in ~7 years. Though as much as I udnerstand - napkin math for such scale of space data centers seem to need efforts that are orders or magnitude more than Apollo mission, i.e. launching Saturn V for years multiple times per day. Even with booster reuse technology this seems literally incredible (not to mention fuel/material costs).