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Can someone just gather up all the media types that HN recommends and put them in one collection?

I get it: HN people give generally good recommendations to the HN crowd.

Next up: Hacker Games, Hacker Niche Social Media sites, Hacker Enterpreneurship blogs, Hacker Art, Hacker Instagram Channels To Follow.

Bundle it and call it: Hacker Index or something ;-)

This makes me think that perhaps we should like have a social feed. If I, for exmaple, say that one of my friends I'd follow them. Then whatever they synchronize as a recommendation, I'd get in my feed.

So that's not a like they give but a separate "publish this into my recommendations for my friends" feature. Which would then show up in my feed and everyone that subscribes to my friend.

A pubsub system basically. Users publish, friends of said users (if they want to) subscribe, and then that's how they get content.

Interested in a touch screen apple if it supports Apple Pencil. Then I can finally do Math Academy on one device

I nowadays vibecode entire apps to see what I want. Then I go build it

I can see this. In the areas in my life that I have been most intense, I have been most successful (despite not being the most talented at it relative to other areas in my life).

Fun to see a write up about game studies. Takes me back :)

I never thought about this and now I see that I had all these questions too. Thanks for making that clear.

As someone who meditates and recently fixed his sleep, I can relate

Can’t we say the same about LLMs? Yet interpretability of them is rough.

We can build black boxes and exploit the behavior of what we see.

But we can’t always go to deeper and deeper layers of understanding.

QM is not a black boxes we built but one could perhaps say it’s a black box that we see.

The longer I live, the more I feel air and water are similar in that regard. Fish live in water, we live in air which is less sticky. If air was stickier, more species could fly since flying and swimming are basically similar things but water molecules seem to pack tighter (that’s my guess at least) so when you displace it, you can generate a force (e.g. by flapping).

In that sense, I think any form of atmosphere, it will have its own music but it would probably not sound great in other atmospheres.

Yep and then you'll have some war stories how things break in production because they weren't initially included in the nonfunctional requirements. Have enough of these war stories and you'll basically be a software engineer. Albeit, a software engineer that has never coded before, but definitely someone who understands production issues.

Not needed yet, we needed to capture the UX first to see if we could create what we'd want to create.

I recently vibe coded an application fully and tested it with users. So all the functional requirements were there.

Guess what wasn’t?

The nonfunctional requirements.

Also: my app needs to do LLM classification. But instead sometimes the coding assistant wrote not an LLM api call but it wrote a regex to classify instead. This was despite the fact that I mentioned to not use regexes to classify things with.

Non-technical people don’t know what a regex is. Usually they also aren’t knowledgeable enough about nonfunctional requirements.

All of this may improve over time of course. But right now, I am not impressed (in terms of replacing SWEs).

Hurr durr durrr!

Yea, same. For that I'm slowly turning towards AI-assisted coding with some hand editing afterwards.

I agree, I do like them for creating believable interaction prototypes though.

Agreed, I need to do a lot of prompt crafting when some math academy thing is explained poorly by them.

What sometimes helps is to ask them to make something interactive and visual. Like 3B1B does

I did something like this, though not as an app. It was pretty cumbersome to do. Next time I'll just bring a travel phone.

I like his vibe. I guess it helps that I've been doing MA as well, although not daily. I'll get back to it soon though.

> Humans are close to their ceiling.

If Math Academy teach 10 year old kids calculus, I doubt that.

The Amiga is before my time, but I'm getting TempleOS vibes a bit, graphics-wise.

Well, it wasn’t where I was as I walked my miles daily. But it was a breath of fresh air compared to Haslett. Haslett reminded me that the walkability of REO town to the Michigan State Capitol seems more like a coincidence than intentional urban planning. Because Haslett often lacked any sidewalks.

I remember one time walking to the Lidl for a 6 mile roundtrip. I think it was the first time when I realized why Americans don’t walk. That walk was one bad experience while nothing bad was happening. For contrast: I live near Amsterdam my whole life.

Fun to see something about East Lansing here. While I am Dutch, I have been there in the neighborhood (e.g. Lansing itself) on and off for 6 months in total when I had a long distance marriage (we live in the Netherlands nowadays). I’m a fan of Blue Owl coffee there.

REO town was cheap to rent and quite walkable to the city center (or “downtown” as they call it). I liked it more than I thought I would. Many places there aren’t walkable but from REO town to the city center it was possible. One thing I noticed was that walkability wasn’t priced in the rents at all since after a 1 mile walk from the city center, studio apartments were about 800$ (2024) whereas in the city center itself it was more like 1100$ IIRC. In my view going 300$ while just having a 1 mile walk seems like a steal.

MSU is massive nowadays. It’s crazy how big it is. It feels like an actual town. I wonder how big it was then.

As for the article itself. I find it interesting to read how certain groups were just taking action and there was no discernible leadership that could talk to each other. I wonder if this would have happened if that was the case.

The car manufacturing culture in Michigan in general is a low-key tourist worthy thing to check out (e.g. in the Detroit Institute of Art). But I have my father in law for that, haha. Asking Claude what a CNC programmer does because he’s not that great at explaining it to a total noob like me :’) once I understood that he had a macro language inside what he called G-code it was fun to ask what he programmed haha.

Thank you for saying this. This is how I feel. I used Ubuntu as a daily driver for a while, and then I went back to MacOS and life was so much better.

Interesting, I really don’t see your point. It would definitely be a lot more useful if we also understand it.

But extra lives saved definitely counts for a whole lot and is definitely useful.

One comparison I see: there are so many religious people that simply wish they are saved from their cancer (or whatever else). They pray for it. They don’t care how it happens. They simply want to live longer, etc.

It’s a sketch of an argument, I hope you know what I am getting at.

I am just saying: the whole SpaceX IPO and spinning that as an AI play: that looks like a cash grab. So nowadays yea it looks like it.

But when he started it? Nah

I'm happy you wrote your comment though. For funzies I'm imagining that your comment is also written back in 2023.

That'd have been a hoot and a riot to watch. And I definitely would've grabbed my popcorn, haha.

The part that does count is that we can verify that we does what we want it to do. We just don't know how.

Same with the black box part of AI. What the weights represent? Arcane dark magic if you ask me. What do they do? Well with LLMs we're all experiencing it.

Nobody in their right mind would start a rocket company in order to make more money. I feel like he just wants to play real life Factorio and he wants everyone to tune in on his Twitch account and watch him play. Meanwhile he was trying to fix democracy [1] (and protect his own companies) by buying Twitter and at some point he realized he fucked up.

But who knows, I could be wrong.

I'm not exactly a fan. I'm not exactly against him either. He just seems like a hardcore geek to me that got way too much money and way too much buy-in.

[1] I'm not saying I that I think he was fixing democracy. I'm saying that I think that he thought he was fixing democracy.

For 1 million dollars?

I hope you are right.