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scrameon Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadam_Jacobs

He began to attend and record 15 concerts each month, and has said "It went pretty quickly from just being an occasional thing to something I did far too often."

So his average is every other day. Also, most concerts / shows have more than one act. I went to an MF DOOM show back in the day at a small club with FIVE opening acts, and then DOOM had THREE more openers in his set time. That's 9 total acts on one night. Even the sprawling wu-tang tour last year had run the jewels as an opener.

scrameon Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made

you say in your own essay that you're response was "bitch sick my sick". you come across as a narcissistic arrogant spoiled brat.

scrameon The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok

This is the guy that created bittorrent, btw. I know that was a long time ago, but he's not just some random blogger.

scrameon GPT‑5.3 Instant

What's the point in learning to work with these models when a new one comes out every 2 weeks?

scrameon Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

quite a bit of software you would need to understand the assembly. not everything is web-services.

scrameon Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs

Assuming you can buy GPU's at a reasonable price.

scrameon The Jeff Dean Facts

My further comment will be buried, but its a rip on Chuck Norris facts, and was pretty ... whatever ... "geek culture". That was only proved by Chuck Norris' endorsement of Mike Huckabee back in 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--EGyU57efY

scrameon The Jeff Dean Facts

I get jeff dean is a great engineer and probably had nothing to do with this, but I always thought this "googly" memeing of chuck norris was so lame.

I mean, chuck norris even did it to endorse mike huckabee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--EGyU57efY

scrameon The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

so... what's he actually doing with 10 terminals of claude code?

scrameon Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML

yes, because most everyone dreads working with javascript, which is why there is so much tech built around not dealing with it.

scrameon Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML

this article is quite good. Thanks!

scrameon Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML

thanks. I was honestly asking, because I'm trying to catch up on CSS progress and am kind of surprised at stuff it can do now.

scrameon IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

and it never will, because IPv4 has become a defacto reputation system for the exact same reason that IPv6 was created: a limited supply. It wouldn't surprise me to see the continued balkanization of the internet that there is a particular underclass of exclusively IPv6 traffic, but its not going to take over everything because once decentralized systems are now in the hands of a few decisionmakers in the case of, say, email.

scrameon Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML

like what?

scrameon Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize

> Mysti — Built by DeepMyst Inc

links to: https://deepmyst.com/ Site 404's.

> Made with Mysti

Ringing endorsement.

scrameon Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

I left a different comment, but I think this is good. You're example is 3306 and has a useful breakdown. Not everyone has that port memorized by trauma, and not every mysql instance uses that port.

New tools are always welcome, and having a purpose to explain a purpose seems like a good pitch.

scrameon Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

This is great. One of those things that just formats and does all the little niggling things you have to do sometimes. I like that it is simple, and doesn't (thank god) need npm or some other package manager.

to quote the top comment: just show a screenshot of its results, if its useful its fine, being fast is just gravy.

scrameon Maybe the default settings are too high

Seriously, we're just posting self-help grifters now?

scrameon Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

if you rented it or borrowed from a friend it was very very unlikely you had the manual. I don't remember how I eventually figured it out, but it's the landing instructions that I think are misleading.

scrameon Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away

Look up "fractal dimensions".

scrameon Java Hello World, LLVM Edition

people still use make for things. how many stand-alone utilities require npm?

i don't know graalvm, but I've used too much ant, buldr, gradle and maven. I'm not really convinced Graal VM would make anything better just because you are more familiar with it.

The author even says to just use what you like because that part doesn't matter.

scrameon Java Hello World, LLVM Edition

agreed. i get if you're great at cli usage or have your own scripts, but if you're publishing for general use, it should be long form. that includes even utility scripts for a small team.

also, putting it out long-form you might catch some things you do out of habit, rather than what's necessary for the job.

scrameon Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned

> an overwhelming faction of AI projects fail.

An overwhelming amount of software projects fail, AI just helps them get there faster.

scrameon Show HN: Venturu – Zillow for the market of local businesses

I'm getting nothing for seattle or king county except asking me for my email address and a captcha. i turned off ad blocking, it flashed something for like 2million and then went back to the "nothing available".

scrameon JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective

this broke my head. I think I haven't touched Java in a while and kept thinking continue should be in a case/switch so ittook a minute to back out of that alleyway before I even got what was wrong with this.

scrameon Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance

want the whole point of Javascript to use client side manipulation? Is it's come back to SSR, then do we need all the JS baggage?

scrameon Go ahead, write the “stupid” code

vonnegut said:

"Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go".

scrameon Vibe coding has turned senior devs into 'AI babysitters'

were they before?

scrameon The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are

yeah, they say in the introduction even that it is to give a language to common patterns that emerge in C++ style OOP. It gives examples of what it might look like, but isn't an instruction manual on what to do. Its to give a common language "this is a gateway" as opposed to "this is where stuff goes in", or "front-door" or whatever tribal names / descriptions people come up with.