Readit Newsvorador commented on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update antirez.com/news/154... · Posted by u/antirez
There are free options and there continue to be non-free options. The same is true for LLMs.
When's the last time you paid for a compiler?
vorador commented on Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors” twitter.com/_ZachGriff/st... · Posted by u/RebeccaTheDev
Then don't rent your house. This is a risk of rental properties.
Look, if you have a house in a tourist spot and you say "no parties!", you're not gonna make any money. And if the residents don't like said parties, they can rally together to make AirBNBs illegal in their area. That's how many (most?) touristy places are.
This is just pushing the externalities to the residents. It takes several months for airbnbs to get banned, and it's tough for smaller cities to get the bans enforced.
There must be a better answer than "pass a law so the american multinational does a better job at regulating its rentals"
vorador commented on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education moritz-mander.de/blog/my_... · Posted by u/cheesepaint
They could have published the procedures/numbers online. IME companies decided that publishing notices/articles on the web, setting up subdomains and modifying apps are expensive projects. That leaves only noreply@bank.com for communication.
It could also be misguided security guidelines – because of things like caller id spoofing where scammers would spoof one of their actual numbers to lull people into a false sense of security
Reznor is still highly active in scoring, I’d say his heyday is now depending on definition. The Social Network score is absurdly good.
Also, second time I’ve mentioned Reznor in context on HN today. Weird.
Not to detract from your point but the movie was (already!) 15 years ago
vorador commented on We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch blog.glitch.com/post/chan... · Posted by u/js4ever
Is this the end of fog creek? I remember they had shut down most of their services by the time their rebranded to glitch.
I wonder if anything is left of the company besides Joel's blog posts.
vorador commented on The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup worksinprogress.news/p/th... · Posted by u/herbertl
How does this benefit poor people who could barely afford their homes and can barely afford to commute to their job halfway across the city by car?
If applied to an area that already is only middle-class people, then sure.
Or resident parking permits.
Most poor people don't own their house and often don't have a car – if you do own both you're middle class.
vorador commented on Show HN: Check Supply – Send Checks in the Mail check.supply... · Posted by u/pfista
Exciting – many landlords in SF only believe in checks for some reason
For what it's worth, I don't think people are trying to say it's a zero skill sport. It's not an indictment of you or the sport.
I see the "argument" as: in sports like soccer or basketball, skills like dribbling or shooting accuracy don't have a skill "cap" and are generally uncorrelated to physiology. This is compared to the skill of descending a mountain at speed, which is dictated by how fast you can actually make yourself go, which is a matter of physiology.
It's not that strategy and skill don't exist in cycling, it's that raw power output (Watts per Kg) is ultimately the deciding factor once cyclists get to the skill cap of piloting their bike down a mountain.
So basically, could I cycle down a hill at 50-70mph? Absolutely not. But among the people who can, then the competitive advantage becomes how fast you can make yourself go down that hill.
The competitive advantage is not physiological. Following your reasoning, that'd mean an F1 driver's competitive advantage is how fast they can push the pedals to get to 300kmph.
The real advantage is how fast you can navigate dangerous mountain roads which are narrow and have many hairpin turns.
I think because there's less "skill" required, in the sense of hand-eye coordination, than ball sports. The predominant factor seems to be how hard and how long you can push yourself. Once you reach the human body's natural physical limits, chemical advantage seems like the only way to break through those.
This is very wrong. These guys go downhill on small country roads very fast – sometimes over 100 kmh. You need deep riding skills to handle these speeds without getting injured.