YHK - yet another hacker news clone

LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents

34 points l2dy 2 hours ago 16 comments

nico 1 hour ago | parent

Here’s an alternative that runs on your browser: https://nicobrenner.github.io/lossy-git/demo.html

PS: it’s just a fun play on memory/storage and AI. Hope you enjoy :)

trollbridge 1 hour ago | parent

This was more interesting/amusing than the OP!

trollbridge 1 hour ago | parent

How is this any different than something like btrfs?

rvz 1 hour ago | parent

The difference is this one (layerfs) was vibe coded™ and the other (btrfs) is battle tested in mission critical systems for years in the Linux kernel and used by many companies in the SNP 500.

Do not be fooled by the "vibes" of the website design which many here are. If it is too good to be true, it most likely is.

trollbridge 1 hour ago | parent

That's what I was concerned about. An unstable filesystem is worse than no filesystem at all; I'd really like to switch to bcachefs but it simply needs to have a few more years under its belt before I'll be comfortable with it (particularly for some of its best use cases, where it becomes responsible for backups).

ryan-c 1 hour ago | parent

I would not trust btrfs with anything mission critical.

otabdeveloper4 46 minutes ago | parent

> is battle tested in mission critical systems for years

And still crashes and corrupts filesystems all the time.

(I have one server platform where just doing `insmod btrfs` immediately locks up the server, hard, without even any kernel panic or log message.)

teiferer 34 minutes ago | parent

How recent is that code?

totetsu 1 hour ago | parent

Or this https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08199v1

compsciphd 1 hour ago | parent

Been there (16 years ago), done that (15 year ago), patented it (13 years ago) :) almost the same name too.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-atc-10/apiary-easy-...

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa11/tech/full_papers/...

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8589947B2/

russfink 7 minutes ago | parent

Would you mind ELI5’ing the similarities? I’m seeing only high level concepts that sound the same.

evandena 49 minutes ago | parent

Dumb javascript is preventing me from seeing the footer, by scrolling back up to some content it thinks I shiould see.

shayonj 42 minutes ago | parent

Kudos. We did/built something internally to solve similar-ish problems https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/283/versioned-filesystem-fo...

avadodin 21 minutes ago | parent

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Sathwickp 19 minutes ago | parent

Nice website, but that's about it

weddpros 17 minutes ago | parent

ho yes please hack my browser scroll so I can't read your site (MacOS Safari)