On my old phone (Nokia 8) the random header image takes a while to process and afterwards the content pops up. On my Pixel 8 it's basically instant. Both times tested in Firefox.
I wish I could have a HN front page without AI (or "$foo rewrite in Rust"). I'm not an anti-AI luddite, but it's just way too much at this point. Surely there are other interesting hackery topics we could talk about.
HN is available as RSS and you or I could vibe code up a filtering proxy in ten minutes, and you could use that in your feed reader. It’s easier to solve the problem than to complain about it.
Add another 2 minutes and you could have the list of keywords to filter as a configurable url parameter, so you can amend it easily when the next technology you want to hate comes along.
Is it really censorship when 90% of AI related posts are just not-so-thinly-veiled advertisements with zero potential for meaningful discussion beyond "yes I agree fellow independent user, I also love Claude Code™ from Anthropic® and it has 1000x'd my productivity, their $5000/mo plan is a steal and everyone should buy it!"
> Is it really censorship when 90% of AI related posts are just not-so-thinly-veiled advertisements with zero potential for meaningful discussion beyond "yes I agree fellow independent user, I also love Claude Code™ from Anthropic® and it has 1000x'd my productivity, their $5000/mo plan is a steal and everyone should buy it!"
I'm far from sold on vibe-coding or heavy-ai-assist (whatever you want to call it) but I find these "How developers use Claude Code" blog posts fascinating and not for a second do I think they are paid ads.
Do you really think the blog posts shared here on HN talking about how people are using Claude (among other tools) are all (or mostly) paid ads?
I believe at least some of them are, yes. The rest might just be riding the hype to get on the front page, but the effect is the same.
There are dozens of solid vibe coding CLIs (soon probably hundreds, a new one is released every week), yet the only one that is guaranteed to be discussed 24/7 here is Claude Code, the other ones might as well not exist in comparison. The talking points are always the same, too: the expensive $200 plan and the fact that it's actually an amazing deal that everyone should buy are guaranteed to be brought up every time, hell, it's the top comment on this very post.
I'm beginning to see it brought up in unrelated posts all the time, too: "I made something like this with Claude Code", "I implemented this by letting Claude Code run overnight", and so on. Combined with posts like this one where people obsess over it to the point that it almost seems like satire (there's another post on the front page right now talking about how it's literally magic and how you should let it run wild on your prod servers), it's starting to feel more like a cult than anything else.
Everything is undergoing chaos all at once, everywhere.
Programming has not had such a powerful upheaval since probably forever. Some is grift, some is awe, some is sadness. What I want out of programming since craft in some regards, but more like rigor over craft. While I have some friends that really really enjoy writing code in the small, and that is now gone. They have to find a new niche to hid in, but corporate america it is not. And this same action will continue to erode and reshape what it means to be a technologist in really really different ways that we have no idea what they will look like.
If you don't like all the AI articles, then I suggest you ask Claude to write you a new front end to HN using the firebase api and an embedding model. I would point you towards https://searchthearxiv.com/about which you could probably extend to use hn as the backend. I have some features in mind if you want to chat.
At least this hype cycle seems to be accelerating. Its always darkest before the light. So hopefully the day after every single front page link is something AI related, there won't be any. But that might be because the earth has exploded and not because the bubble finally burst.
The thread before with someone flogging off their educational book they wrote "with Claude in an afternoon", as if anyone would benefit from investing days or weeks of learning effort into consuming something the author couldn't be fucked spending even a single day on, that one was well crafted satire, right?
Something similar happened to me once. I still don't know what exactly happened, but in Dropbox some files were deleted, I still had my local copy, but then Dropbox synced the file deletions and I didn't notice. Only when it was too late did I notice that files were gone and their support was unable to help. I think I managed to recover some files with one of the NTFS "undelete" tools, but that was probably the day I started to treat "the cloud" differently. Nowadays I don't even know what's still in my Dropbox ...
I was clearing out Dropbox when I moved away from it, and it _wouldn't_ let me delete my copy of `tex.web`, because it thought it was some sort of special dropbox file. (It was the source to TeX.)
It's been a few years, but I think I managed to delete it in the web UI. (This was on macos, and they had a kernel extension keeping an eye on things by that point.)
I really enjoy board game adaptation of Dorfromantik.
Its a rather relaxing co-op game.
There's also a "Duel" version of the game were two players (or teams) compete by playing with the same sequence of tiles. :)
The bsnes emulator has a similar problem.
The official "website" is the Github repository at https://github.com/bsnes-emu/bsnes/ but some unknown entity has snagged bsnes.org and is now also publicly linking to SNES ROMs they host on Github (Github doesn't care, you can report those repositories as much as you want. If you're not a rights holder they won't do anything).
Another part of this is the rise of search, period.
Back in the Ancient Times, when "search" sites were in fact, directories of sites, not unlike the Yellow Pages, you had a categories and listings.
I've been using The Emulator Zone since 1997. Long before Google, and found them under Yahoo's "Games" category. Since they've been around for over 25 years, I trust them. The often do grab the software from repositories and make it easily available. The site does have ads, but I haven't encountered a malicious one. It's all for stuff I actually use (Microsoft Azure, fragrances from House of Creed, and Hertz Car Rental right now), so I have a little leeway with these people, but TEZ has never actively attempted to obfuscate or confuse the reader unlike this site and others like it.
Pages like TEZ or the "Awesome XYZ" list repositories that have become rather popular on Github are perfectly fine.
Those are great hubs to get a grasp of what's available. Sometimes they are a little out of date, but if you're interested enough you'll find the up-to-date information by yourself :)
But these parasitic pages that pretend to be official (project) pages should be purged. :/
For now they might link to original releases, but they could very well switch to malicious downloads from one second to the next after having gained enough "trust" and traffic.
And that *unofficial* bsnes site reflects poorly on the emulation community because they actively promote downloads of game ROMs hosted (practically) on their website because they control the Github repository the games are uploaded to.
From that article, that's the original Hamming windows with a_0 = 0.54 and a_1 = 0.46.
> Setting a_0 to approximately 0.54, or more precisely 25/46, produces the Hamming window, proposed by Richard W. Hamming. That choice places a zero-crossing at frequency 5π/(N − 1), which cancels the first sidelobe of the Hann window, giving it a height of about one-fifth that of the Hann window. The Hamming window is often called the Hamming blip when used for pulse shaping.
This is pretty much how I feel every time delving into FFTs. Like, I get the concept, but something in my brain just shuts off when it comes to actually trying to grok it. I do however very much appreciate those that have created software where I just provide --input and they handle the rest.
I also have trouble wrapping my head around all of this, and complex numbers, for that matter. Never mind that I'm employing this stuff all the time in GNU Radio.
The source code is unminified and unobfuscated.
Another somewhat similar toy is https://max-m.github.io/InstaECB/index.html :)