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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.