brianjlogan

Any integration with existing orchestrators? Plans to support any or building your own?

My key indicator is if I scroll right on mobile and see horizontal bleed over. For some reason models still fail at this so it's clearly vibe coded.

I started using Zed as a half measure. I think I'll start using AI for planning and suggested implementation steps.

I am seeing non technical people getting involved building apps with Claude. After the Openclaw and other Agentic obsession trends I just don't see it pragmatic to continue down the road of AI obsession.

In most other aspects of life my skills were valuated because of my ability to care about details under the hood and the ability to get my hands dirty on new problems.

Curious to see how the market adapts and how people find ways to communicate this ability for nuance.

Oh I didn't realize that was the same year!

That was indeed quite a year. The Rest is History podcast on it was quite good.

The US relationship with China is fascinating. My entire life it has both been an economic boogeyman, the nation nipping at our heels, and yet also the manufacturing engine powering everything out companies were creating.

Ignoring the one sided benefits of that even though you shouldn't it kind of reminds me maybe of the US and Britains relations?

Not a 1:1 but the continental separation, the "greed" of external companies trying to exploit the natural resources and work force.

And yet we're allies today.

If you're interested in the topic I'd highly advise checking out Sarah Paine and her lectures. An interesting view point of Mao and the rise of China.

I know a number of people who grew up in extreme poverty who are extremely well reasoned here and others who are extremely spoiled and fortunate who would gladly enter into a holy war.

I don't think you can quite generalize that much.

Additionally cooperation is an evolutionary advantage and world war is a species level threat now that we have nuclear weapons.

I don't believe that everyone wants peace. I believe the people who have the ability to shape policy and invest capital would want peace.

Which I think is also complicated. Kind of harkens back to the cliche that WW1 was caused by old people romanticizing war. Most letters between the heads of states confirmed they were anticipating industrial destruction and death but they felt the pressure to initiate war anyway.

As an American I feel like I've been going through a bit of an identity crisis from what I remember growing up.

Probably the rose tinted glasses of being a child but being from Florida I always had a sense of amazement and wonder as I heard the sonic boom of the shuttle returning to earth.

Really felt like I was coexisting in this incredible scientific powerhouse of a country full of bright and enabled peoples that knew how to prioritize curiosity and innovation.

Feeling like a bit of a "vibe" post which is everything wrong lately but I can't help but feel some satisfaction that we're still able to accomplish something like this in our space endeavors.

Hmm...

Interestingly one does not look at the solutions to de-escalate conflict. Despite the proxy wars we've had a relatively peaceful world since WW1/WW2. Please humor me here, I'm not saying the world is horror free.

The emphasis I would hope would also be for improved negotiation tactics, better resource sharing and goal alignment between groups of people.

Why is it that we can dream up more conflict but not peaceful scenarios? Fear is a better attention grabber than the slog of compromise and mutual understanding.

Edit: Fell into the trap of commenting on politics. To an actual curiosity technical position. Has anyone seen any good content on living underground from an energy efficiency point of view?

I'd imagine one day there will be a limiting factor of cash to burn as well.

Not really true for modern cloud architectures. If you have an appropriately tuned Observability stack you're probably pretty familiar with the logs.

So curiously I wonder if it's not that Anthropic/Claude can do this magically. More like can individuals at IBM who are heavy hitters just leave and create their own company and effectively provide these services because AI gives them the productivity to do so?

To be fair the author shows an example of using NixOS. It's absolutely another layer of indirection (probably several) but it does make that usual Linux "fun" less problematic because of its immutable nature and API design.

https://brianjlogan.com I haven't done much with it but my plans are to try and spend more time writing. Haven't even ported over most of my prior content. I've been on the web since I think 2007 learning HTML as a kid uploading files via FTP. I need to figure out a better RSS reader that I can subscribe to other blogs like Julia Evan's

Is anyone else unable to read the report on mobile? Completely broken styling for me.

Thank you!

This was a super interesting article for me as I'm working on a prototype software aiming to promote spaced repetition and some newer wave learning science as a common approach to "leveling up" in an age where AI is pushing the competitiveness of human labor.

I've thought about posting to HN but I'm a little apprehensive of when and how to post.

Anyone interested in this and/or have some advice for posting my prototype online for feedback?

I ran my own home router and I used Kea and Power DNS using Systemd Containers to provide service for my whole home.

I was really impressed. I think the folks who put it together did a good job of addressing the major warts of my experience with isc-dhcp-server.

I'm sure it's a tremendous challenge writing software that's supposed to live up to modern expectations while still attempting to deliver on all of the legacy dependents and their unique use cases.

Makes me think of that article on how Cloudflare wrote their own Golang DNS Server and like some 900 whopping people use LOC records but they still support it

Small business it actually can be a meaningful way to refer people digitally and make business connections.

I think big business it's also a way of keeping in contact with former colleagues so that when you're interested in jumping to another company you can do it easily in one place.

Otherwise it's a place for sales people to pump out garbage posts.

Why are there so many people making code editors?

It seems like we've hit a veritable Cambrian explosion of editors and I don't understand what market signals are being picked up where people find the editors insufficient.

Imgur Link https://imgur.com/a/iYKxSQu

Interesting. I am a native of Florida and happen to have a really horrendous backyard for mosquitoes. I've had county officials out to examine the area and can't find sources of water causing them.

I'd like to know how to empirically measure a population of mosquitoes to be able to evaluate the over time effectiveness of the treatments I've used as nothing seems to help.

Mosquito tubes with pesticide placed around the property, butane dispersers, zappers, citronella candles. I've tried everything! More than willing to try this.

That being said on an ecological level I am concerned about wiping out sub species non biter mosquitoes.

https://www.alieward.com/ologies/culicidology

Great episode going over them but I'm curious as to whether science should step in and eliminate human menacing mosquitoes. Why? Well clearly we're trying to accomplish it ourselves and there's no selection for sub species here.

We always hear about mosquito science rumors down here in the land of UF inventing love bugs (myth). I wonder if it would be capable of impacting only a single species. (Neutering males with a generic modification ruining breeding efforts.)

They didn't hire people to control labor. They were enabled to hire people for R&D because it gave them a tax loophole.

https://www.techspot.com/news/108230-how-little-known-tax-ch...

And it was removed so tech CFOs are realigning their hiring/retainment to save money on taxes.

Remember non-devs are affected just as much by this "new world". Perhaps even worse because they don't understand what's going on.

I wouldn't buy a joystick if you're into Flight sims. I'd look into a Hotas setup or a virtual reality setup where the whole cockpit is simulated (VTOL VR).

I started out on Microsoft Flight Simulator back in 99-2000. I feel like that was the peak joystick purchase era.

Get a monitor with a good refresh rate, get a good gaming keyboard and mouse, potentially look into mechanical keyboards if you watch some videos and find it interesting.

Watch some YouTube PC gaming channels.

Also there's SO many games you're right it is overwhelming.

You could easily go ten years back. And buy the top ten games on some gaming site rank list.

Obligatory mentions: - Red Dead Redemption 2 - The Last of Us - BioShock Infinite - The Witcher 3 - City Skylines (Sims City like)

Really depends on what category of game you like. Highly highly subjective thing these days.

You can almost make friends by aligning on the types of games you like because it's a bit of a personality litmus test.

I'd imagine a lot of people in HackerNews play Factorio quite seriously.

Honestly though that paragraph does have meaning to it. Simstim is a thing. Is it a quite adventurous description of it? You may not "fully" get the description at times. However I never read it and went "This is garbage."

In the way that I couldn't keep reading Altered Carbon because the writing was extremely grating to me.

Probably because a vast majority of those people don't read HackerNews to be fair.

Honestly the comments so far don't line up with my experience.

Possibly for the very experienced devs/games on HN who are making their own mods Nexus was limiting and annoying.

For me it was the level of difficulty just low enough I didn't have to work to enjoy mods. I remember trying to install mods on Halo CE pre mod managers and it was a nightmare.

Did Nexus solve all of that? No but it was an easy enough experience that I could know one website, one tool, and be able to mod my games.

For the normies. For myself Nexus was a fixture throughout my teens and into my adult life.

I'm very thankful for all the hard work they put in.

It's impossible to keep everyone happy all of the time, but for some people like myself it just worked and we were able to enjoy it.

Do you have any more observations of this happening?

I only use Reader. What's the other for?

Been using readwise. I quite like it. I'll gladly pay the price if it means preventing encrapification down the road.

It does everything that I liked out of Pocket and Omnivore.

It also has a neat sync feature where all my notes/highlights get saved to my Obsidian.