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hahahahhaahon Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles

> Gold is now up 50 percent since August 2

SP500 with reinvestment for comparison is 72%

NVidia without reinvestment 900%

hahahahhaahon Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles

How do people feel about gold? To me it is purely speculative vs. index funds. If I were rich mabe have a bit of gold for the bunker next to the long life tinned gourmet meals. Better than fiat but not as good as company investments.

hahahahhaahon Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

Show me reality: vibe coded AI blows up on HN and says "429" (probably... it said non 200 status code, and no F12 to check)

hahahahhaahon Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

Render has 2 meanings here. Clever.

hahahahhaahon How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

3d printer: you learn something of you make CAD designs yourself and print them yes. It is a skill.

hahahahhaahon Backseat Software

Windows is unusable. I kept a long time because of "family member will wanna use Excel" but that is not a thing anymore. Alternatives are good. Very little Windows specific software I need anymore. Really just Backblaze better pricing is all I care for.

hahahahhaahon Backseat Software

> Yes

> I am sinful and will go to hell

hahahahhaahon Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer

Simple. It is not in their interest to do this. It is a lot of work, for no revenue.

hahahahhaahon EmulatorJS

Yes, when I last played the button makes it flap and by default the bird falls.

On this game the bird stays level and pressing a button made it fall (without any up movement beforehand)

hahahahhaahon AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals

Next.js sure makes a good benchmark for AI capability (and for clarity... this is not a compliment).

hahahahhaahon EmulatorJS

Whats with that demo. On mobile every button just drops the bird and ends the game.

hahahahhaahon Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

Guess it is no different than Docker Desktop charging based on your revenue. The idea being charging based on some second order.

hahahahhaahon Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

Or add a 45% apple tax afyer they click buy. E.g. costs $100, price comes up as.$100 with added apple tax as line item. total $145.

Click here to avoid apple tax takes you to web page if allowed.

hahahahhaahon Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal

Importantly they also render in your source code. I love a good diagram at the top of a file.

hahahahhaahon Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model

I'd love to "chat" to that model see how it behaves

hahahahhaahon Time Station Emulator

I was like is the clock transmission only 50khz and then wow it relies on harmonics.

hahahahhaahon Time Station Emulator

THIS is what you call hacking

hahahahhaahon Doing the thing is doing the thing

I dont take the post too literally.

I take it to mean: if you can just do the thing now (you are in the right place, healthy, with tools and prerequisites) and you choose not to because of (procrastination reasons) then you could be doing the task but you choose not to.

For corps: timesheets is one of the things.

hahahahhaahon Doing the thing is doing the thing

That is OK if that fed into a decision to do another thing now because of <good reasons>.

hahahahhaahon Doing the thing is doing the thing

Planning to do the thing is a new thing, thing2

Doing the thing2 is doing the thing2

hahahahhaahon Prism

Bringing slop to science.

hahahahhaahon A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

It is also amazing seeing Linux kernel work, scheduling threads, proving interrupts and API calls all without breaking a sweat or injuring its ACL.

hahahahhaahon Parametric CAD in Rust

Why not use OpenSCAD?

hahahahhaahon Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company

I'll ask the dumb question sorry!

Who is this for / what problem does it solve?

I guess security? Or maybe reproducability?

hahahahhaahon I made my own Git

Fast Useful Change Keeper

hahahahhaahon 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

Recommend mods change it to this (or parent)

hahahahhaahon Ask HN: How much emphasis to put on unit testing and when?

It is a matter of horses for courses. Be driven by what the tests cost and what they accomplish.

Costs may be:

* Developer time to make and maintain.

* CI time means slower CI and higher costs there.

* Ossification of source code (especially unit tests, less so integration). Meaning harder to refactor as you also need to rewrite tests.

Benefits:

* Finds bugs

* Can be a handy local dev loop and local debugging loop

* Documents code and proves that documentation is correct

* Helps with AI assistance

* Integration tests should make refactoring easier or more confident.

I would err on the side of good coverage (80% excl stupid stuff) unless I have in hand a specific reasin not to.

hahahahhaahon A list of fun destinations for telnet

Also teln.et (Ethiopia)

hahahahhaahon All In – a small tool to check real buyin after decisions

https://www.cognu.app/all-in/5hlyjtip/results

hahahahhaahon Ask HN: Is YC worth it anymore?

Are you "giving up a bit of equity"? I think more accurately you are pointing your front tyres towards a path of aiming for fast growth and investment. YC doesn't want 7% of a $1m arr Haskell consultancy as the endgame for your company for example. They want a shot at a 10B company. See their home page and it now gives that vibe.

So more like you are giving a large chunk of equity for a lot of investment over many years to build a unicorn, unless you fail. Which most likely you will. Based on probabilities. Fail may mean getting some $ though.