Why “primitives” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
When there's a retail-grade desktop os built with capabilities as a foundational feature, it will want a shell with appropriate primitives and an ergonomic syntax for them. Pwsh…
by psd1 · Oct 31, 2026
> flow that crosses several state transitions (and may have other disjoint parts of the state updated in the meantime, via other transitions) now has to be rewritten as a (serie…
by SkiFire13 · Oct 31, 2026
Different philosophies. herdr has defined a few core primitives (machine -> space -> tab -> pane -> terminal) and lets you customize all the ui around it. Among all the ADEs I'v…
by sooheon · Oct 31, 2026
Org 1 will probably survive better as they will adopt the right primitives - logging, compliance, etc. Ref: Agent management by Microsoft, AI Gateways springing up everywhere, etc.
by tomrod · Oct 30, 2026
Having worked on it for a while, I now disagree. The permission primitives should be baked in from the start rather than the bolted on after spaces because people continued to a…
by verdverm · Oct 30, 2026
If you run a bunch of coding agents in parallel (Claude Code, Codex and Copilot in my case), on different projects, you've probably noticed that it only works for so long until…
by sybhn · Oct 30, 2026
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