Looks very interesting, am I reading it correctly that this is only available on AWS for "bring your own compute"?

Thanks for actually providing a Safari extension, this is rare!

That was the toughest lift of all! Firefox and Chrome extensions were easy, just had to go through a quick review. Apple rejected the safari extension 4-5 times and wanted me to make changes to the metadata and even questioned the extension itself. Took a lot of back and forth to get the safari extension approved.

Hah, I was just going to do a post of thanks for providing a Firefox extension and not sticking to Chrome only!

Sadly I don't think I'm going to use it. I'm the kind that prefers to read only the comments and not the names attached to them.

Yea, I'm not blaming anyone for not providing one (Especially as you have to pay the developer fee if you don't already have an account for other reasons) so it was a pleasant surprise!

While I have our attention: Is there any plans on making the hacker smacking profile not public?

The author is known for deep dives on data sets like that (I'm following him on Linkedin for that), so makes sense they always mention their setup even if it doesn't apply to his specific data set.

There's a pretty popular project https://www.conductor.build that looks pretty similar, was there anything that you were missing from that one (if you were aware of it)?

Oh this is great, did not know about this but going to check it out. I like that it also has a little git thing on the right. Thank you for sharing this.

Point taken

>There's a pretty popular project https://www.conductor.build that looks pretty similar, was there anything that you were missing from that one (if you were aware of it)?

There's probably a dozen new ones of these per week. It's the obvious idea at this point. Eventually the model providers will do it, and that's what we'll all use.

Yeah probably. Then again, opencode is not provider-specific && I prefer it to claude code (though I do use CC for personal stuff outside work because $$) and I missed their zen black or whatever the opencode $200 is.

My dream is a more indie world, so I'm glad to see you building too.

But we don't all need to share our personal, custom agent setups like we are going to be the new sliced bread. I have my own, I think it's great and better than most out there, but I'm not going to Show HN it amidst the Claw HN submissions, if ever. I generally link to interesting pieces in comments when someone asks how I implement a particular feature.

My custom agent setup is a component in a larger developer "swiss army knife" I have been building for 8ish years. Same handle on github if your are curious, project is "hof" with a rename imminent.

The agent part is built on ADK, which I believe is relatively on par with opencode, which I also see is highly regarded. The multi-workspace feature is built on Dagger and the VS Code virtualized FS and SCM interfaces. I can browse or get a diff at any turn-to-turn span, make edits that go right back in.

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> Eventually the model providers will do it, and that's what we'll all use.

Haven't they already, to varying degrees?

Seems better like the current state...of there not being anything like that? Perfect is the enemy of good.

There are many existing projects like this, I'm not going to pick the one started by a former VC

Ask if those have not changed things, why would a VC run thing make things better? The last 2 decades have shown us what VC centeredness has brought us

Can you point out some existing ones with traction? I'm looking more at the list of people who are on board with it ("Trusted by open source creators" section) than who is actually running it, which I think is more important to get buy in than whoever is pulling admin strings in the back.

> Can you point out some existing ones with traction?

That's kind of the point, there are none. The question is why? If people cannot even click a button to support when it's right there...

I don't think people coming out of the VC world are going to fix it, call me cynical if you like

You said: "There are many existing projects like this", directly followed by "That's kind of the point, there are none." when asked for an example. Which one is it?

It's seems like a pretty thankless fundraising job but one where having connections to companies, banks and experience with distributing funds comes in handy. What's in it for a VC? I'd assume incoming deal flow and connections to new open source companies.

Seems more promising to me than a technical open source maintainer stepping up to do it on the side. But time will tell.

there are many existing, none with meaningful traction

it looks like there are no direct connections, they are investing, taking fees, and distributing the leftovers

Former VC!?

KV ... you gonna take that lying down? :P

> There are many existing projects like this

Also please link, we're not aware of any other endowments exclusively focused on Open Source.

Look at OP's profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kvinogradov

https://runacap.com/

Not the former VC, but an active venture capitalist: https://kvinogradov.com. I earn money by investing in open source / AI / infra software startups, and I spend money by donating to nonprofit open source projects :-)

Also, it is not a VC who run things, but the team which consists of people with diverse backgrounds (founders/executives/devs x OSS/nonprofit) and the donor community (which everybody can join): https://endowment.dev/community/

It's the VC "class", similar to the Epstein Class, nowhere near as bad or vile, but have definitely been one of the primary reasons the wealth gap and inequality have risen and continue to rise

With your strong feelings against VC, I hope you are aware that HN is the message board of one of the leading VC firms?

> but have definitely been one of the primary reasons the wealth gap and inequality have risen and continue to rise

That's a pretty big leap you are doing there.

You can click my handle to see I've been a part of the HN community longer than yourself, I'm fully aware of the many associations

I have /rant'd on YC and the dilution of help to their startups after they stopped heeding their own advice to "do things that don't scale"

> I've been a part of the HN community longer than

Dang, got me beat, too. :) gg

It's not a competition, but it is faux pax for GGP to make the comment the way they did. I would hope you all would know that having been here more than a decade

This happens all the time, not really surprised as the GitHub API makes it pretty easy to extract valuable leads with real and confirmed email addresses.

I don't like this way of putting it, it's good the github API makes this easy as that makes it an useful. Should not try to imply this should be restricted just because of some bad actors. It's just going to annoy legit users and the bad ones will scrape anyway.

I'm just stating a fact, not implying anything. It's the good old saying with the sharp knife, it can be used for good and bad.

Ok sorry I guess I read too much into it.

Yea, been going on at least a decade

I'm not really interested in using it, or giving someone access to my GitHub account but I do hope that something like that will inspire someone at GitHub.

> I will attach images below

Where?

That's not what vendor lock in means. If you sign up for a cloud hoster and then build your whole product on propriety services that you can't get anywhere else instead of using an off the shelf database or open source software, that's vendor lock in.

If you'd have to switch to a different tool to do your coding that's not vendor lock in.

In this case you are locking your workflow to the vendor's solution.

I've been on OVH forever, but recently switched to Hetzner as OVH doesn't have their equivalent of their auction servers which are great if you are looking for combinations of SSD + HDD servers. These don't really exist at OVH unless you pay > 200 euro / month.