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DetroitThrow··on Amazon without the knockoffs
On top of that, it has a more restrictive license than AmazonBrandFilter. Given this appears to be a very simple AI project, why not just reimplement any missing functionality from AmazonBrandFilter into something under a free license? The most difficult to duplicate component is MIT.
DetroitThrow··on US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
She's not as big on some of the broader interpretations of the 4th amendment that more civil liberty minded justices would lend credence to.
DetroitThrow··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
He's entitled to his political views and just as we're entitled to potentially use or not use his service because of them :)

Not sure why it's such an issue to discuss the political views of the beneficiaries of services we use. I understand it's mostly uninteresting as far as comment sections go, but it's always bizarre to see a defense of political association when often the impetus for sharing this type of information is for people/consumers to exercise their right to associate with business based on their political outlook.

DetroitThrow··on Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers
Everyone gets to share but it's also completely within the forum rules to call out irrelevant anecdotes as uninteresting to the discussion.

I have no idea why you're making a comparison to a TV show; nothing that was described was anything akin to that. I just made examples out of insufferable and clueless forum comments, that very clearly detract from discussion more than they contribute to it.

I don't think you should assume that describing meaningless and unrelated anecdotes as "uninteresting" is equivalent to users calling for a forum ban, which is seemingly what you're doing when you point to forum rules when encountering a critique.

DetroitThrow··on Fintech Engineering Handbook
When performance isn't a concern, I largely agree! Not every financial system can use big decimal as their base, though, too. And HFT isn't the only place in the financial sector where this performance concern might pop up.
DetroitThrow··on Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers
"10% of Americans are uninsured. A US state is pushing to insure all of their residents."

"I'm insured!"

"Open-source software projects are being spammed with LLM generated PRs. Contributions are becoming more restricted".

"I have a repo that isn't being spammed!"

Sometimes sharing a somewhat related experience is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, and also completely uninteresting. It does not matter that somehow their "experience is valid".

DetroitThrow··on Fintech Engineering Handbook
Agree with this, working from HFT to payments to account management in the past.

You can have the blockchain team be an expert in converting integer cents, or the forex team be an expert in sub-cent conversions. You don't want to require _every team_ to have expertise in float math, by default.

DetroitThrow··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
Spam from a bot! I think there are automatic filters to prevent this so I'm surprised it wasn't banned before we all had to see it, maybe @dang can comment on how quickly these are supposed to be resolved
DetroitThrow··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
No.
DetroitThrow··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Unfortunately this is how export controls work. We don't let foreign researchers around national security parts of national labs, even if they work there, because it's simply the easiest security measure you can take. It doesn't mean it's a good outcome for researchers or research. It's insurance of US directed funds.
DetroitThrow··on US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Methodology leaves a lot to be desired in terms of understanding the tasks you've used. Being detailed about why they're more meaningful tests than the long horizon and coding tests used by other rankings is important.

False positives and poorly defined tasks/acceptance criteria have let some models have insanely inflated scores on bad benchmarks.

And sure, you can say they're not disclosed to prevent gaming, but if you're the only one who can review them then the might as well be a random number generator display with an unreadable UI.

DetroitThrow··on An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight
HN constantly undervalues meth and this has been called out since at least 2009. Horrible.
DetroitThrow··on Shopify outage [resolved]
Psychosis from AI is, by definition of psychosis, dysfunctional. Or are you saying he isn't suffering from AI psychosis?
DetroitThrow··on Shopify outage [resolved]
I wonder if this is related to the CEO's AI psychosis
DetroitThrow··on Zig: Build System Reworked
Pascal has a lot of influence on this, but Go as well! My PL friends often talk about Go's benefits and flaws when thinking about advancing other their own projects or improving the mainstream languages they work on.
DetroitThrow··on Zig: Build System Reworked
Not working within the bounds of lifetimes, and more ecosystem that doesn't live in the world of lifetimes, gives Zig some of the wonderful dev ergonomics of Rust while making it easier to prototype.

For small, short game dev, or even smaller embedded projects, this ends up being a wonderful way to live as often times you're trying to eke out performance in ways that would require breaking out of whatever type abstractions or using unsafe.

For long-lived systems, for systems that need to have lots of people with various skill levels work on them, for a mature ecosystem, for a language/standard library with stability... You probably don't want to pick Zig right now. Some of these points will change over time with Zig becoming more mature, some won't. Zig will always be super cool to build things in.

As far as most low-level programmers not liking Rust like some other commenters say, lol, lmao even.

DetroitThrow··on Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests
Lol it's pretty bad UI
DetroitThrow··on Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
it was a good alternative to cock.li for some time. alas
DetroitThrow··on Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off
based on your other comments, you don't appear to be all that savvy in evaluating what things on the market did the things you claim to have needed
DetroitThrow··on Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off
Nothing fits in this category, it's revolutionary (if you ignore every electric SUV on the market) !!

Buyers who got an expensive and gaudy pile of shit will never want to admit their pile of shit doesn't smell to themselves.

DetroitThrow··on I want to live like Costco people
I've had friends homeless recently, Costco was the basis of the best choices of their poverty finance even when living out of a car.

I think it's accessible to even the poorest people who work in the US, but it doesn't mean it's cheap for them or worthwhile without a home/reasonable commute.

Time is a major commodity for people working 2 or more jobs and an hour and back commute to Costco is often not worth it.

DetroitThrow··on AI Product Graveyard
Wish there was some better self moderation capability to ban sites or users that just post nonsensical slop.
DetroitThrow··on AI Product Graveyard
Some of these acquired products aren't dead or even in maintenance mode though, they're still running. So it doesn't really make sense to include them in a graveyard, among the other very much alive projects like Streamlit and LangFuse, or missing dead projects like Sora.

This is just slop. I wouldn't give this too much attention.

DetroitThrow··on AI Product Graveyard
It's missing some of the most famous AI products that have been turned off too. Horrible list.
DetroitThrow··on AI Product Graveyard
it's because this is just unverified slop that i doubt was thrown together by a human. Langfuse has ongoing conferences and is still used by many frameworks.
DetroitThrow··on Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation?
Looks cool! Want me to post it for you? If you have a message I can attach, I'd be happy to.
DetroitThrow··on Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation?
>I had an open source project launching but I found out that I cannot make ShowHN post

FYI, this is because a lot of ShowHN had turned into low quality slop. Not suggesting that it is, but if you do think your project could be slop, consider not posting it here.

This is not just the first stop in promoting your resume project or whatever random open source library. This is for showing _interesting_ projects to the community to get feedback.

DetroitThrow··on Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
They're trying to make it seem like it's not below 95% uptime really hard, so that might be the KPI they're trying to uphold.
DetroitThrow··on Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
>AI agents have changed the scalability properties of basically the entire internet.

Why is GH the only service provider seeing such consistently bad availability then? Everyone has had to scale massively all the time, if GH is choosing moltbots capacity over basic availability for the rest of the humans, they have made the wrong choice.

DetroitThrow··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
"Decent" is doing some work. This is going beyond any norms I've encountered in OSS to close issues by default via a LLM or an "issue holiday".
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