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greenie_beanson Ask HN: AI Panic, you buying it?

idk about the marketing ploy, but the latest mainstream media coverage is giving covid panic vibes. which is making me think it'll be fine. it's also entertaining how the rationalists who work for the AI companies are being extremely irrational with their fear

greenie_beanson Wendell Berry has died

nah, i live a very fulfilling life outside of work. i just found programming enjoyable to do, instead of freelance copywriting which legitimately made me wanna die and never write again. decided that programming was a good source of income that wouldn't starve my writing life

greenie_beanson Paid Phones

yes! just tried to post this here. amazing.

greenie_beanson Wendell Berry has died

this one hit me hard! why do i work in technology

greenie_beanson The Twelve-Factor App (2025)

need something better than the .env honeypot in this AI age. but idk what that might be

greenie_beanson CMS with AI, Not AI CMS: Wagtail 8.0's New API

hell yeah excited to do stuff with this

greenie_beanson Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models

sorry i'm a writer who edits... this project is genuinely interesting and i'm curious to see where it goes. i would try to market it as ML instead of AI, given the current temperature of AI in publishing and writing circles. if somebody can improve upon track changes in a git-like, narrative-tree way, then that might be super useful tool!

greenie_beanson Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models

i just use track changes for that + a "trash" doc, or an entirely new story if it needs more space, but go off.

i also made an app for my writing process and quickly realized it was a distraction from the actual work of writing

greenie_beanson Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)

fwiw, we get bad hurricanes more than that and also the mid-south is the new tornado alley. there was a very bad ice storm this past winter. natural disasters happen everywhere. and it's hot AF in july and august, like so hot that you stay inside all day.

greenie_beanson Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?

also indisputable that market forces cause developers to not build because the ROI is not there or it's too risky

greenie_beanson Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?

you are correct that we need to increase supply, and socialized housing creates more supply. great idea

greenie_beanson Claude Opus 5

the writing style is so bad. cryptic sorta smart sentences that beat around the bush. say what you are trying to say!

greenie_beanson Who Is America's Homer?

no talk about the only american writer with the guts to try to be like homer? the battlefield where the moon says i love you by frank stanford. obscure just like homer was in his time.

also, no mention in these comments about william faulkner?

though, i would bet money that "the american homer" will be somebody most readers have never heard of.

it's definitely not twain or hemingway, like everybody is saying. if you think it's twain, then it is faulkner, who was the first white writer to not write a one dimensional black character.

and no talk about toni morrison?? zora neale hurston??? do y'all read american literature?

greenie_beanson New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium

why are we talking about bernie sanders in the context of new york state? he's a US senator from vermont. this is state-level politics, not federal, in the state of new york, not vermont. and he's not mentioned once in this article?

greenie_beanson 98% Isn't Much

> 98% is great for exceptionally good things, like dramatically increasing someone’s quality of life, but very low for basic expectations, like a baby surviving a babysitter taking care of them.

this is your brain on data science. so absurd that i laughed out loud when i read "like a baby surviving a babysitter taking care of them" like what is that phrase doing in this sentence and argument

greenie_beanson Most arguments are about ego, not ideas

would you like to argue about this?

greenie_beanson Why I Stopped Arguing with People

i would like to point out the irony that people are arguing about this in the comments.

my life has gotten so much better when i actively don't engage in arguments. especially when i know i'm right.

of course it's easier said than done but growth is a long road.

greenie_beanson Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore

YIMBYs will point to a chart of new multifamily builds and conveniently not look at the building starts before the regulations were moved and then certainly not think about what was happening in the economy during that time.

a market with regulations: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST

crazy that there were more houses being built pre-GFC when all those burdensome regulations were so suffocating and it never rebounded

greenie_beanson Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore

i never hear YIMBYs talk about this: https://yonahfreemark.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Freemar...

greenie_beanson Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore

i said "a SFH" not a neighborhood development with nice and fake numbers, and a scenario totally disconnected from reality. if costs that much to build in an area that shouldn't have a structure then that's on you.

thankfully we have regulations that disincentive those projects. there are plenty of other spots to build especially in the denser areas

greenie_beanson Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore

idk you definitely need a lot of money to build a building, i didn't realize that was up for debate. also we are not talking about code regulations, we're talking about local regulations

greenie_beanson Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore

yeah i don't think NYC people are gonna leave SF for NYC. those are two totally different cities with different experiences and different culture. you can live an urban lifestyle in all 50 states btw

greenie_beanson Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore

yeah for sure and i didn't say that isn't a cost. i said it's a small part of the cost, almost negligible compared to the cost to actually build

greenie_beanson Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore

it most certainly is not going to cost me $100k in engineering to design a SFH in arguably one of the most regulatory burdened states in the US: vermont

greenie_beanson Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore

housing is expensive everywhere, not just in SF and NYC. def expensive in Austin. how do the zoning laws in SF make NYC more expensive?

greenie_beanson Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore

i would love to hear a YIMBY consider the market forces/how capitalism works and not just reduce it to regulation. aka when it costs over $500k to build a single apartment unit and most of those costs are construction with very little of the regulation burden driving up that cost.

greenie_beanson The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate

they charge my $60 bar tab for $20 and get tipped $20. then the bar closes and we hang out at the bar drinking for free. you should only comment on things that you know about. sorry you don't have the same experience

greenie_beanson The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate

i love connecting with a bookseller at a local independent bookstore. or a bartender. or a server. etc. such a more interesting life if you connect with people at the businesses in your community