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frikk commented on Tell HN: HN was down · Posted by u/uyzstvqs

squeefers · 3 days ago

> I blocked twitter for a while in my hosts file and a dozen times over those first few days I instinctively opened a new tab and typed twitter in?

youd go through that effort when you could have just stopped though.

frikk · 3 days ago

We all admire your absolute mastery of your own habitual reflexes and mind. For the rest of us, there is a daily battle of wits, desires, weakness, and habit.

If I could snap my fingers and break toxic habits and patterns, I would have done so decades ago :)

frikk commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

digitalsushi · 11 days ago

does anyone remember that episode of star trek tng where the kid is given a little laser engraver that carves a dolphin from a block of wood? and the kid is like "i didn't make this" and the teacher (who abducted him, ew) is like "yeah but it's what you wanted to make, the tool just guided you"

so in 2026 we're going to get in trouble doing code "the old way", the pleasurable way, the way an artist connects with the work. we're not to chefs any longer, we're a plumber now that pours food from a faucet.

we're annoyed because our output can suddenly be measured by the time unit. the jig is up. our secret clubhouse has a lightbulb the landlord controls.

some of us were already doing good work, saving money, making the right decisions. we'll be fine.

some of us don't know how to do those things - or won't do those things - and our options are funneled down. we're trashing at this, like dogs being led to the pound.

there's before, there's during, and there's after; the during is a thing we so seldom experience, and we're in it, and 2024 felt like nothing, 2025 feels like the struggle, and 2026 will be the reconciliation.

change sucks. but it's how we continue. we continue differently or we dont exist.

frikk · 11 days ago

I like your perspective. What do you think "2026: the reconciliation looks like?

Also I need to track down that Star Trek TNG episode... it sounds poignant.

frikk commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

camdenreslink · 11 days ago

Surely there is an order of magnitude more training data on plain CSS than tailwind, right?

frikk · 11 days ago

In my experience the LLMs work better with frameworks that have more rigid guidance. Something like Tailwind has a body of examples that work together, language to reason about the behavior needed, higher levels of abstraction (potentially), etc. This seems to be helpful.

The LLMs can certainly use raw CSS and it works well, the challenge is when you need consistent framing across many pages with mounting special cases, and the LLMs may make extrapolate small inconsistencies further. If you stick within a rigid framework, the inconsistencies should be less across a larger project (in theory, at least).

frikk commented on Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine? chrisbako.com/posts/2025-... · Posted by u/ChrisbyMe

ChrisbyMe · 16 days ago

Very cool, this is exactly what I was looking for to answer the how question.

These projects look awesome, if I'm ever in the UK I'll checkout their museum.

frikk · 16 days ago

I've visited this museum and it was the highlight of my trip to the netherlands. I also wondered, for hours, about how cool it is to hook up modern hardware to these old systems. Can you imagine playing one live, similar to how an artist would play a synthesizer kit?

frikk commented on Django 6 docs.djangoproject.com/en... · Posted by u/wilhelmklopp

gnulinux996 · 16 days ago

What is the Java equivalent of Django?

I really love django and everything around it, but I would also like to write a webapp in Java.

Getting django + rest_framework up and running and actually be productive takes me max 10 minutes, trying to do the same with spring boot I am a week in and I had to open the jakarta specs to understand the magic.

frikk · 16 days ago

How about this? https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard

frikk commented on Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned levs.fyi/blog/2-years-of-... · Posted by u/Ostatnigrosh

nmfisher · a month ago

$ git clone repo && cd repo $ claude

Ask away. Best method I’ve found so far for this.

frikk · a month ago

This technique is surprisingly powerful. Yesterday I built an experimental cellular automata classifier system based on some research papers I found and was curious about. Aside from the sheer magic of the entire build process with Cursor + GPT5-Codex, one big breakthrough was simply cloning the original repo's source code and copy/pasting the paper into a .txt file.

Now when I ask questions about design decisions, the LLM refers to the original paper and cites the decisions without googling or hallucinating.

With just these two things in my local repo, the LLM created test scripts to compare our results versus the paper and fixed bugs automatically, helped me make decisions based on the paper's findings, helped me tune parameters based on the empirical outcomes, and even discovered a critical bug in our code that was caused by our training data being random generated versus the paper's training data being a permutation over the whole solution space.

All of this work was done in one evening and I'm still blown away by it. We even ported our code to golang, parallelized it, and saw a 10x speedup in the processing. Right before heading to bed, I had the LLM spin up a novel simulator using a quirky set of tests that I invented using hypothetical sensors and data that have not yet been implemented, and it nailed it first try - using smart abstractions and not touching the original engine implementation at all. This tech is getting freaky.

frikk commented on The coming long-run slowdown in corporate profit growth and stock returns [pdf] (2023) federalreserve.gov/econre... · Posted by u/luu

TylerE · a year ago

Companies should be prohibited from doing buybacks for, say, 5 years, after any layoff.

frikk · a year ago

I recently learned that buybacks and short selling historically have not been legal, its only in recent history that they've been standard practice en large (1982 is when buybacks were legalized, I think)

frikk commented on Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet blakewatson.com/journal/o... · Posted by u/blakewatson

Ridj48dhsnsh · 2 years ago

Not being indexed by search engines is a fatal flaw in my opinion. There might be some interesting discussions taking place on Mastodon, but I would have no way of knowing.

frikk · 2 years ago

This is an interesting thought.

As an analogy, there might be some interesting discussions happening at my local Community Center, or my neighbor's house, but I would have no way of knowing. But to discover these discussions, I would need to meet someone with a shared interest who would, in turn, share with me a place that they go to for continued discussions and to hang out with interesting people who share an interest.

So maybe, if done correctly, this is a feature? The good content is one extra network connection away, but easy enough to find if an advocate chooses to highlight content, share a connection, or otherwise create an inbound reference to the community.

frikk commented on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020) mrdbourke.com/what-if-you... · Posted by u/azhenley

DicIfTEx · 3 years ago

There's also a famous clip from Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World where a penguin does something similar,[0] and I've seen it theorised (possibly in the book Empire Antarctica, but I'm not certain) that this may be a mechanism to find new breeding grounds (though, as you say, in a way that may be good for the species but is bad for most of the individuals so called).

[0] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zWH_9VRWn8Y

frikk · 3 years ago

This also reminds me of the Radio Lab episode that tracks bird migration, including one bird (that they were actively tracking) that simply peeled off the group and settled down somewhere else that wasn't part of the historic migration path. Feels like the same idea.

In the book A Mote in God's Eye, they have a concept of the Crazy Eddie (presumably named after the 'eddies' in fluid dynamics), which is a mythical social phenotype where the member disagrees with the status quo and believes there is an unknown solution to their thus-far unsolved generational problem. Simply believing in a solution that is worth searching for denotes the member as 'insane'.

Kind of seems like we, as natural beings and members of natural systems, absolutely have some kind of pattern-breaking behavior built in at a systemic level. A master-level emergent behavior that can exploit local maxima but still succeed in finding other local maxima to ensure the survival and adaptation of a species.

frikk commented on SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/Balgair

Aqueous · 6 years ago

this is one of those moments where i really, really feel like we are all characters living in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash

frikk · 6 years ago

It's truly too on the nose.