Can somebody brief me on what's people's incentive of posting AI slop on HN? What are they gaining here?
Definitely weird. No new comments from @praveenhm to HN in almost two years and then the first one made is some ChatGPT-generated one.
Readit Newsrob commented on FFmpeg 8.0 ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8... · Posted by u/gyan
rob commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko
Is there a big enough commercial market for private Python package registries to support an entire company and its staff? Looks like they're hiring for $250k engineers, starting a $26k/year OSS fund, etc. Expenses seem a bit high if this is their first project unless they plan on being acquired?
rob commented on Lidar-based GIS map of New Hampshire stone walls nhgranit.maps.arcgis.com/... · Posted by u/rob
If anybody is in Connecticut like me, here's a LiDAR map you can use for the state to find your own stone walls here:
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/4c801e35f200493ebff...
("Hillshade 2023" and "Hillshade 2023 SE illumination" are the two I use.)
rob commented on Lidar-based GIS map of New Hampshire stone walls nhgranit.maps.arcgis.com/... · Posted by u/rob
This is neat. I'm curious to know what the practical uses of this information are? Anyone know?
I'm not affiliated with the site I submitted, but some just really love stone walls, especially those of us here in New England. I'm part of a "New English Stone Walls" Facebook group that has ~65,000 members.
To me (I'm in CT) there's something really cool to be in a forest surrounded by trees but see a perfectly made stone wall just there in the "middle of nowhere." I think about how much time and effort it took back in the early ~1800s to clear all that land, move all those rocks across fields without modern machinery, and put so much effort into constructing these walls. Some are over 6 feet wide and many are in incredible shape for being put together ~200 years ago.
There's also the "Stone Wall Initiative" spearheaded by Robert Thorson of the University of Connecticut that also has tons of info:
(He also has a really good "Stone by Stone" book available on Amazon.)
rob commented on Most Illinois farmland is not owned by farmers chicagotribune.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/NaOH
Land can’t be financed, businesses can be financed. Businesses that own land are much more easily financed, with the lowest interest rates.
When you buy land to develop, you have to pony up cash for it. I have never heard of a lender lending without a cash flow producing asset as collateral.
> Land can’t be financed
Doesn't seem accurate. See: