losteric

it's part of a webring of vibecoded slopsites

the post seems to be link farming for the poster's startup that hosts the site

AI-written blog post, basically link farming for the associated "Auditable workspaces for AI coding agent" product (that owns the git repo).

I care because: It's not clear what a human learned or found valuable? If a human learned anything at all

Can you elaborate on the project? Because I just see a vibe coded project with failing builds and no associated interesting development story or example applications.

I’m also curious how OP came about this? No comments on the post, two comments on HN, most history are submissions that are almost all [dead]

The Google matches for this name are inconsistent and suspicious. Did the LLM just pick a random name?

It seems like AI is really hurting the people who don't have a hoard of experience - the juniors and early mid-level tech people.

The incumbents with experience are doing amazing. PM's with Mythos aren't replacing the PE with 20 years of experiences lol.

Plain headless Chromium is easy to detect by websites with anti-bot measures. Plain headless Chromium avoided getting blocked by websites only 2% of the time, according to our stealth benchmark.

Our browsers avoid blocks 81% of the time on our stealth benchmark, and 84.8% on Halluminate BrowserBench, the highest of any provider.

Seems very unethical, no? Who uses service providers like this? The whole point of anti-bot measures is to get rid of bots - you are not wanted there.

These kinds of services inevitably make the web more human-hostile and expensive. Websites will continue pushing back on automated usage, meaning more hurdles to access content.

No doubt part of why we see this push for verified ID on the web - not just age gating and "protect the children", but also protect sites from bots, and protect ad revenue (not a statement of support; just seems like an obvious higher order effect)

How does this

If this source [0] is true then 65% of audiobooks (in 2022) were non-fiction. Likewise that the audiobook industry has grown by nearly 3x since a2022.

Lead to

by my math, it's simply that people prefer to listen to self-help books (which matches my own experience).

I'm not sure I see the math there, when most nonfiction is not self-help books (and an increase in the broader genre says nothing about a specific niche)

I can’t even figure out what to pick from the myriad of streaming services I have. How would I prompt an AI for dopamine fix?

Why would I pay for services that will be enshiftified when I can build an app that does exactly what I want in an afternoon.

When we talk about “the market”, the customer base, remember it’s a market that typically doesn’t know how to or care to even install an adblocker.

Right after WW2, trust was way higher. There was a belief in common good and progress and all that.

Can you share what some of those apps are?

using it all day (say 8h) costs between 0.7 and about 14 kg of CO2 in the US,

How do you get to this range? That's quite a spread.

When I last ran the math, my daily usage (efficient and effective productivity, not spamming Gas Town) came to about 0.67 kg of CO2, which is roughly equivalent to my individual emissions from the 1 mile public bus ride home from work.

“The community” - which community? Where? This is a brand new website, there’s next to no online presence for the name (all seemingly unrelated).

It reads like using LLMs to fake some credibility

The problem with billionaires is they have a vastly disproportionate voice in the political system, which leads to ineffective politicians and policies not aligned with a thriving society.

eg: cutting funding to the IRS and advanced science, both of which have long proven positive dividends… or advancing new wars abroad to directly blow up money.

Plus wbillionaires are nothing special. Right time, right place.

Steve Jobs is a perfect example of someone who was in it for the love of the game. He wouldn’t have been any different if his income was taxed at 90%.

The top 1% own 31% and the top 10% own 68% of household wealth.

The group you’re talking about, 70-95 percentile, are often people that just own a house near a big city or a farm/small business.

That’s so conspiratorial. They could just stream with a slightly delay to interrupt the feed on disaster. I think it’s way more likely they just didn’t have a good broadcasting team.

What is this submission??

It's linking a closed issue, with a fairly incendiary title off of one sentence by a now-deleted Github user.

How did you even find that?

This blog post doesn't say anything about your experience.

How well does the resulting code perform? What are the trade-offs/limitations/benefits compared to SQLite? What problems does it solve?

Why did you use this process? this mixture of models? Why is this a good setup?

Money follows ROI. Making those speculative or detrimental industries less profitable is the answer.

Regulations on micro-targeting, data privacy, algorithm transparency, legal liability for content, etc.. all push back against the externalities of ads/social media.

Regulations on energy and land use can make eg data center build outs more expensive, pressuring back against speculative AI trash.

Taxing big tech companies, subsidizing manufacturing education, and judicious import tariffs.. would all create incentives for investing money and labor in hard capabilities

Advertising always seems like a prisoner’s dilemma. If no one advertised, people would still buy things.

Does Cosmos.gl do what you need? https://cosmos.gl/?path=/docs/welcome-to-cosmos-gl--docs

The ROI is you’re more likely to buy thinking you get a discount, and especially after doing the work to get the discount code.

The trick is it’s priced assuming that discount will be taken off.

Was your app converted to use some Rust framework, or just Rust?

Wow, pretty much no one I know drives under any influence regardless what they use.

I wonder how many of these people were under the influence of alcohol and other substances.

This by itself completely un-sold me. Requiring such rote memorization is a hard pass for me, it seems the user should just be able to self-assess whether they got it “right” (like Anki cards).

If you lived in an area with many restaurants offering the same favorite-cuisine/foods, and you were picking one to eat at indefinitely and exclusively… how would you choose?

That’s where the analysis paralysis would come in to play in dating.

Code is a hack in the same way that gears and wheels and levers are hacks. People don’t want mechanical components, they just want machines to do stuff for them.

Every good Amazon org has sacrificial bad employees. Managers know a team of all-stars creates risky team dynamics under PIP