cauenapier

Nobody trolled it before the HN FrontPage.

Whatever it is, if something hit the crowd, you will end up with people trolling. No matter how much moderation you add.

You can check it now and things are much calmer and friendlier. The same if you go to other people's websites using TownSquare.

Regaring the mobile resources usage, I'll need to fix it. I'll be working on it next.

Thanks!

That's definitely coming!

Oh noo, thanks to mention it! It was working recently. I'll fix it asap.

Regarding the name, I'm exploring other ideas, but that's not hard.

Yeah, there is kicking and ban features. As well as forbidden words.

But I'm also adding more moderation functionalities. Feel free to send me an email with more ideas :D

Nevertheless, in general, the sites using TownSquare are much much quieter then the landing page.

Sorry! I wasn't present because the post went to the FrontPage while I was at Rock in Rio. Two days of shows, going to sleep at 5 am. The original post didn't get to the FrontPage, but just later it got bumped.

Most of it were bots programmed to be saying silly things. I have already implemented some better counter-actions to that. This are much calmer now that the HN post is not on front page anymore.

Most of it were bots programmed to be saying silly things. I have already implemented some better counter-actions to that. This are much calmer now that the HN post is not on front page anymore. it is pretty fun when you meet someone on a site and had an interesting conversation

Thanks! And more customizations are coming!

That's also coming! It's already in the roadmap since the beginning. I'll add some of those props myself, but I'm working on a plugin architecture so people can add their own stuff.

Actually, there was. But I haven't added all of them to the landing page. I wasn't expecing making HN front page :sweat (opooops) But there is already some basic moderation and ban/kick functionalities.

However, there is still lots of room for improvement.

Yeah, but don't lat the HN crowd spoil the thing. You can check the other sites that are using Hackernews and you might have a great experience! I've been chatting with a lot of people with similar interest and had a lot of very nice interactions!

Thaaanks :D

Thaaanks! I've thought about weather , but I loved the idea for day/night! I'll definately implement that soon!

It already has block/ban and block word list, but unfortunatelly I haven't added them in the settings for the landing page before HN made it front page.. Opsy

You can change your color by clicking in the pencil icon.

Thaaanks :)

Thanks!! :D Yes there is already rules/settings to stop words and ban people. I'm also improving overall moderation and banning mechanisms.

When you go to a nice website and encounter people with similar interests reading the same thing, the experience is awesome!

Yeah, I'll definatelly improve that! I wasn't expecting HN crowd :sweat

Actually, there is moderation. The problem is that the page came to HN before I added the moderation keywords or implemented more things :P But overall, it's possible.

On the details like benches and trees, you can also customize it. YOu can add as many props as you want, wherever you want, and style them accordingly. :)

Well, this is the behaviour of the crowd. Before HN, or even if you go to other websites that are using TownSquare, it can be quite fun.

A hade a lot of very funny and meaningful interaction with people visiting the sites

Cool! Let me know when you add it! I'll like to make a blog post about it :)

Thanks!!! I had a lot of fun working on it. And I'm so surprised (and happy) for the amount of people that appeared and just said they loved the idea. It was a lot of fun today!

“The internet is dead” feels emotionally true if you only look at algorithmic feeds full of AI sludge and engagement bait. But I think that’s mistaking the loudest layer of the web for the whole thing.

The internet isn’t dead, the human parts just aren’t concentrated on a few megaplatforms anymore. They’re scattered across personal blogs, niche communities, indie sites, and small networks that don’t optimize for infinite scale. The web feels worse because the default surfaces are worse, not because humans left.

Calling it dead risks turning a discoverability problem into a nihilistic one. The interesting work is figuring out how to surface and grow the human corners, not declaring the whole system a loss.

I wrote a short piece expanding on this idea: https://cauenapier.com/blog/the-internet-is-not-quite-dead/

Perhaps we should ask be using aluminium foil hat now

What’s wild about Step-3.5-Flash isn’t just the quality, it’s how close it is to fitting on personal hardware.

The int4 weights are ~110GB. That sounds insane, but 128GB unified memory machines already exist, and people are running it today. A few years ago, a 200B-class model was pure datacenter territory. Now it’s “expensive laptop / workstation” territory. That’s a huge shift.

The interesting part isn’t that this model is big. It’s that hardware curves and model efficiency are finally intersecting. Sparse MoE + quantization means frontier-ish reasoning is no longer locked to hyperscalers. We’re basically one consumer hardware generation away from this class of model being normal for power users.

One thing I’m still unsure about is whether faster building (LLMs, vibe-coding) actually helps surface direction faster or just makes it easier to avoid stopping and reflecting. Curious how others experience this.

Additionally, This will only start being useful when people start registering the products in the platform. That's my biggest challenge now.

Interesting idea. But I wonder what you have in mind. I plugin that that open when you go to Amazon to see the ratings, "cost per usage" and any other statistics? Or are you thinking about something else?