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gamegod··on Show HN: Floe – an open-source plugin for sample libraries – CLAP/VST3/AU
This looks great. Maybe a Kontakt killer? There's definitely a niche for something like this. It's good cross-promotion for your sound libraries too.
gamegod··on The August 17 outage
Yeah, seems like AI slop is going to kill GitHub's free tier. I just don't see how the economics of having to host this much slop and provide service to slopcoders is going to convert into dollars for them otherwise. None of the humans involved are going to end up in big enterprises. It's all cost, with no pathway to revenue.
gamegod··on So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂
To me, this is great that demonstrates how ridiculous carbon capture and storage is. I just can't imagine us paying to do something like this at scale, when we have a much more straightforward alternative: Stop burning fossil fuels, and use clean energy instead. Right? Like why even both going through the effort of carbon capture, when we're still going to have to stop burning fossil fuels anyways, in order to fix the climate?
gamegod··on Iroh 1.0
Sounds good, but the first step in your quickstart is getting an API key, and I'm oh, so I guess your sales pitch was a lie and this is really just another Cloudflare-like play to build another intermediary in the internet. If that's not the case, then I shouldn't need an API key for hello world...
gamegod··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
It's 100% fake, and half the comments here are from 20 year olds working at AI companies.
gamegod··on Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
It's the ultimate product for marketers. It inserts itself as an advertisement into every conversation now and defends itself against criticism. Just crazy. There's no hope for the rest of us.
gamegod··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
This is such an insightful comment. It also underscores why these AI companies' marketing efforts are promoting rewrites.
gamegod··on Session is shutting down in 90 days
If you need decentralized messaging and not some cryptocoin front, Delta Chat (https://delta.chat/) is what you're looking for.
gamegod··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
Giving the oil companies, some of the richest companies on the planet, MORE money is a benefit? Is that your idea of good governance? You don't think there's better uses of that money that's coming right out of your pocket and everybody elses?
gamegod··on Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box
if you're rich enough, you too can buy the US government
gamegod··on Show HN: Aventos – An experiment in cheap AI SEO
I stumbled across this a few weeks ago via Google or Kagi. One problem I have with a lot of AI tooling today is that I can't tell if it's a legit product, or just a toy that somebody vibe-coded in a day. AI can easily crap out a website that looks like this.

This is all just my 2 cents, so take it with a grain of salt, but I see trust and authenticity as a huge issue (made worse by LLMs), and it's doubly so with AI-based companies because it attracts flies.

One question I have is it's not clear to me that this all just doesn't boil down to plain old SEO. Does your platform generate recommended actions on how to improve your ChatGPT ranking? (and how is that different from just improving your PageRank?)

gamegod··on TruthWave – A platform for corporate whistleblowers
If this is a business, which it sure seems like it is, then this is such a messed up idea. Exploiting whistleblowers and the whistleblowing system for profit. And they're trying to incentivize whistleblowers with money too.

Whistleblowers take all of the risk here, and only get 20% of the proceeds. Seems like a pretty shit deal, besides being confoundingly greedy.

There already are people you can trust, who aren't anonymous, who are professionals bound by ethics, and who aren't out to sue for profit: Journalists. investigations@icij.org

gamegod··on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly
We don't use American English in Canada either.
gamegod··on Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App
> How is C meaningfully more accessible than rust

They've been teaching C in universities for like 40 years to every Computer Science and Engineering student. The number of professionally trained developers who know C compared to Rust is not even close. (And a lot of us are writing Python because it's easy and productive, not because we don't know other languages.)

gamegod··on uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
Bragging that your program is faster than anything written in Python is a low bar, lol.

Also, it seems like a sign that even Python tooling needs to not be written in Python now to get reasonable performance.

gamegod··on Insanity: Locked Out (2020)
Here's what happened to the Sidewalk Labs building: https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/10/torontos-bright-hope-inn...
gamegod··on Ask HN: Where Do Seasoned Devs Look for Short-Term Work?
As others said - use your network. Making a post on LinkedIn and trying to get your network to reshare it could help a lot.
gamegod··on Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back
It's absolutely abhorrent that you think combating the effects of racism in the healthcare system is political. Do you also believe that about sexism in the healthcare system?
gamegod··on Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
Did you put rate limiting rules on your webserver?

Why was that not enough to mitigate the DDoS?

gamegod··on DOOM CAPTCHA
What kind of monster doesn't give us WASD or at least ctrl to shoot?

Awesome captcha though :)

gamegod··on Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer
I appreciate the response, but that's not what I was asking. I'll rephrase as a workflow question: After I make a design in your editor, I'll want to reuse that for future emails. Is there a way to load a saved design back in (that I previously made in your editor) so I don't have to redesign every email from scratch?
gamegod··on Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer
Looks awesome. Is there a way to load saved templates?
gamegod··on Rogers networks reliability and resiliency assessment after 2022-07-08 outage
That's a pretty broad, borderline-racist statement, and I think you should consider deleting it.
gamegod··on Canada imposes 5% tax on streaming to fund local news, diverse content
That's how US media would like to portray Canada (socialism bad!), but we're doing just great over here and making pretty decent decisions for ourselves. We don't get everything right at first, and we're way behind on our green transition, but we'll get there in the end.

This new tax complements our CanCon rules [1] which help protect Canadian artists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content

gamegod··on Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song
Yeah, but he gets great time-on-site engagement numbers by doing that. Somebody give this guy a job in Silicon Valley!
gamegod··on Multipath TCP for Linux (2022)
WebRTC data channels use SCTP, which ain't nothing! https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8831

(SCTP over DTLS, that is...)

gamegod··on Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
It's because this site is dead and more than half the comments are written by bots. On average HN article, like 75% of the comments make absolutely no sense.
gamegod··on SolveSpace – Parametric 2D/3D CAD
This software is low key the best open source CAD software. Although it looks ancient, it's under active development and has a much lower learning curve than FreeCAD IMHO. It's a really good fit for the skill level of someone who has a 3D printer. I've designed dozens of parts for my printer and random crap around the house with Solvespace. It's a very useful tool.
gamegod··on SolveSpace – Parametric 2D/3D CAD
You should really give Solvespace 3.x a shot... it's come a long way and a lot of performance issues have been solved.
gamegod··on DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
It's because the other types of Droplets are overpriced and less competitive to begin with.
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