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Show HN: Transcelestial Space (Made 100% with Cursor and Claude in 24 hours)
CEO and Co-Founder here. A weekend before our launch I decided to force myself to just use Cursor Composer and Claude Sonnet 3.5 to create our landing page for Transcelestial's Space business line. Images by ImageFX by Google. It's been a goal we set forth to do at the start of the company and finally have been able to open up the behind the scenes tech we have been building for it.

Hence design and story telling was key for me and I wanted to put it exactly on paper. I have been pushing the team to do more with AI so took this on as a challenge to get this website up, forcing myself to not write a line of html, css, js and instead JUST using cursor composer.

I kept waiting to feel:

- dread as a coder to see my skills taken away (and done better by AI),

- shame on not "rolling sleeves up and just writing code"

- fear that it will not be as good from design or code perspective, etc

In the end, all I felt was a deep rooted excitement I have only occasionally felt in my life. Got this live in time but also walked away filled with a hope for the possibilities this unlocks for creative people. This by no means is a complex project but having coding web pages since the days of Dreamweaver and my high school back in the early 2000s, I know many things which I could have possibly done faster if I was writing it myself but definitely 24 hours would not be possible.

what a time we live in and all I feel as a life long coder is happiness and awe of what it will unlock in terms of ideas for people like me and kids around the world.
How is dramatically lowering since 1970s compatible with stable after 1955? The fact is tax on the rich started going down in the 1970s and since the 90s tax havens and other shenanigans like renting out your own mega yacht to off shore shell companies even though you were using it. And a million other ways these people don’t pay.

For the richest tax is optional to the point where that get loans against their shares rather than pay capital gains tax. It’s an absolute disgrace and it’s got to a point where governments need to taxing them properly.
Astronomy is one of the few sciences that I've studied that has given me existential dread.

In particular, the scale of the universe just hurts my brain: If you were to scale down the Sun to the size of a coarse grain of sand (1 mm), then the orbit of the Earth would be about 20 cm across, with the planet itself being microscopic at this scale (10 micrometers). Jupiter would be a barely visible speck 55cm from the Sun.

At this incredibly tiny scale, the next nearest star in the galaxy is about 30 kilometers (18 miles) away! That's roughly the same as a trip across a typical city, but our Voyager probes at this scale have gone only 15 meters over a period of 45 years! That's comparable to the rate at which hair grows (1 mm/day).

Hence, a good mental model for thinking about the scale of our galaxy is: Stars are grains of sand separated by tens of kilometers on average across a circular space the size of the orbit of the Moon.
It was perfectly fine on Symbian phones, and even after the whole iPhone drama, many games for iOS were initially done in Flash, as Adobe added AOT compilation capabilities.

However Adobe decided it wasn't worth it, given how plugins were going on browsers as well.

Naturally the Flash hating mob never got this.
I'm just using Cloudflare's own words.
Answer: Microsoft happened.
> I see no reason why you have to perform a nuclear attack here.

You reason like a person here, not as a state.

It’s not a matter of life and death for a few single individuals in a triangle. It is of millions of individuals at once, and whole countries.

You do not want to leave the option of a potential other nuclear attack, the scale of the damage is nothing comparable. You do not want the statu quo to be broken, to have been broken. The fact is was shows that the state in front of you (which triggered the initial nuke) effectively lost its sound mind. There is a single solution to that, however brutal it is. And that’s the perspective of this single solution that is at the core of the deterrence: if you shoot, you have the absolute guarantee that you’ll be dead in return. So you don’t shoot.

If there is no such guarantee of retaliation, you have no incentive not to use it.
This is not a common term in the US.
Yes. The authoring tool was the brilliance of flash. It allowed non-coders to make interactive things really easily.

Anyone whose made an Instagram filter or TikTik effect recently - it was like that, though even easier, but allowing you to do actual coding right down to very low level stuff should you desire.

and you could get push your creation to any screen in the known universe with essentially zero testing.
Well yes, when it was first studied they called it a "model psychosis" because it gave one temporary psychosis which then wore off.
Skype went downhill for me after it was acquired by Microsoft with many paper-cuts like account management and constant re-designs.
Not only it was possible, it has available during the last years from Flash.

Many Flash haters have no clue that before Unity and friends many of the first generation games on iOS were actually AOT compiled Flash games, despite Apple.
More likely we’d all be using FreeBSD
This wouldn't be possible, since Edge supports both Microsoft PlayReady and Google Widevine DRM schemes and as far as I know, Widevine's ChromeCDM is less secure in browsers (L3/software DRM) while PlayReady is more secure as it uses some hardware components.

Netflix probably uses PlayReady for 1080p+ content, but I don't have a Netflix account to test so I can't confirm
That is the exact same phenomenon. Artificial sharpening is introducing high bandwidth components to a signal. If you bandwidth limit (low pass) a signal to fit below the Shannon-Nyquist limit you will get ringing as the signal cannot be represented accurately and will smear in the time domain. Given a bandwidth constraint, artificial sharpening above a certain threshold will result in ringing.
There are also glass straws. Don't have them around with kids
Totally agree but at least I don't know more about how long this has been developing for and what attempts have been made at curing it - if this is indeed the intention...
There's a thread here suggesting the idea that it's a stunt to get extort more money from donors. While I wouldn't go quite as far, I think it's undeniable that there's a rift between long time users of Mozilla products and their current strategies (or at least their tactics if they don't have a strategy).
I still believe Firefox is the best browser out there, mainly because they've resisted the temptation to take ad blocking APIs away but having to disable all suggested xyz, save to cloud, experiments, user metrics, ... Just takes a while and leaves you with little trust.
What about Cloudflare's pengora?

Edit: or https://github.com/memorysafety/river

Edit 2: or https://github.com/sozu-proxy/sozu
Nothing too innovative, I've made some chained, LAN connected lighting for around the house. Some button boxes for sim racing. I built a small CNC machine and a 3D printer, which have let me build various things for the car and the bike. Last week I made a very specialised splint/cover for an injury on my shin, shhh don't tell the healthcare industry about 3D printing.
They exist in various forms...
I think the doom() function is still getting rolled out across the major browsers. IIRC newer versions of Chrome have a working implementation.
If the immigrants that we've allowed to come here are so fickle that they would leave for China if China presents better opportunities, I would prefer that they leave now and get it over with. My country is not an economic zone for extracting value. It's my home.
Because the humans are reasoning and the LLMs aren't? I have yet to use an LLM for a complex problem and not have it hallucinate.

I expect a reasonable counterargument here would be 'but the LLMs have chain of thought now, and that's reasoning". I disagree, but I think that's a reasonable point of view. I can concede that point because it does not materially change the value of the output. Even if it does use chain of thought, an LLM gives you extremely trite solutions based on probable text, it still has no context in which to reason, it's "reasoning" in platos cave using the shapes of real world objects, filtered through a lossy language model.

LLMs are great for one thing: brainstorming, and brainstorming is only useful if you have no idea what to do in the first place. Once you know _anything_ substantial about the subject matter an LLM loses its value to you as a conversation partner.
Names are nominal, reproductive strategies are not.
You do know most companies in the world have a department specifically for handling financial matters, right? (Hint: it's not the IT department)

Also, I don't know if you're aware of this, but technology has advanced sufficiently that nobody needs to manually pay a monthly bill anymore. I know it sounds crazy, but there's these things called "bill pay", and "recurring credit card changes", that have existed for 20ish years now. Might want to read up on the latest trends!
This comment would land a lot harder if you actually mentioned any specifics.
What can we eat/do to boost this barrier?
Thank you for the feedback! I think this is an advantage of Rust that prevents common pitfalls related to concurrent programming, making web servers written in Rust safer.
Again: why do you seem to think I don't understand how the senate works.

The senate works the way it does. The house is intended to be the chamber of the populace. Roughly 100 years ago we artificially limited the house of the commons. The senate never changed.

So why do you keep bringing up the senate?
Saw it at probably 11. Had the same nightmares for probably 15 years. Really shouldn't have watched it. Woke up many times looking out the window for the blast from Sarah's dream that I had just seen in mine.
1) The graph still shows karpacz, which is super confusing.

2) Where's nginx in this graph? It feels very disingenuous. Esp when serving a default nginx page
As welcome as the efficiency and performance features are, the convenience of lets encrypt integration in Caddy wins the decision almost all the time. No more certbot cron jobs or worries about having the certs in the right place or permissions etc.
for this to be equivalent to Caddy, that is the most important convenience feature.
How are we to describe reproduction without reference to reproductive strategies?
Imo Adobe didn't kill it, WC3 or the plugin design did, take your pick.
I think you present an idealized version of market economies that is not in line with my experience (I live in Sydney Australia our housing system has collapsed). Our disagreement seems predicated on our beliefs around r > g. Have you read Piketty?
What did the Lehman Brothers implosion look like to a techie? (2013)
The point is that the media immediate glommed on to a "popular mandate" with Trump. Yet, it was very much not true.

He arguably won a popular vote. That's barely a pop;lar vote mandate.
People use the general impressiveness of language produced by humans as a proxy measuring their intelligence, that’s how LLMs became AI.

The amount of code out there lets LLMs learn on examples of a lot of tasks and pass SWE benchmarks. Smart autocomplete and solved problem lookup has value. Even if it doesn’t always work correctly, and doesn’t know what it knows.

And for non-programmers they’re indistinguishable from programmers. They produce working code.

It’s easy to see how a product manager or a designer or even a manager that didn’t code for years in a large company can think they’re almost as good as devs.
DeepSeek didn't make exaggerated claims about their hardware. They stated the number of GPU hours for their V3 training run and multiplied by the hourly rate for GPU rentals on the open market to arrive at a dollar figure. That's explicitly not a claim about their hardware! It's a notional value to make comparison with other published training runs easier, and it serves just fine for that purpose.

The article you link isn't debunking DeepSeek's claims, but rather a rebuttal to people who, months later, seized on that notional dollar figure to retroactively explain why Nvidia stock tanked after DeepSeek rose in the US App Store download charts. Who knows what institutional investors' actual reasoning was when they used that news as a catalyst to unload their positions.
Because if you don’t, they might go somewhere else.
Not quite the same dramatic effect that Jacobin was aiming for.
I'm also a fan of pronounceable passwords - I even have a script to generate them,[0] yes it decreases entropy a little. I don't store passwords on my phone, so I sometimes find myself retyping passwords, and I find these much easier to retype.

[0]: https://github.com/tasuki/dotrc/blob/master/.bin/pronounceab...
But how do you know whether a JSON string is a pointer to static data (like in the example with the `main` function) or was dynamically allocated? The same goes for arrays and objects.
I see that it's written in Rust, besides that, what's your ambition for why an end user would choose this project over one of the established players like Caddy/Traefik/nginx?
https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora seems to be focused on providing a library/framework
all chat models seem enraptured by what I have to say. The first one to feign disinterest will pass the Turing test
I agree, ops is like a toilet. Nobody cares, until it does not work.
thats just pedantic and unprovable since you cant know if it has a qualitative experience or not.

trainimg it topretend to be a feelingless robot or sympathetic mother are both weird to me. it should state facts with us.
Name of! Never knew this existed. I think it would make writing some debug statements easier and immune to renames.
Micromanagement and terrible leaders do really go hand in hand I guess.

Even if the results speak for themselves (yet to be seen), you really can't get the concept of "it's just wrong" into the heads of these people, they don't understand the concept. This same personality trait tracks with all the idolized figures in the startup community.

But at least business leaders are there to make a profit. These people don't get that a government's priorities don't include profit or efficiency. It's priority is to govern in accordance with established law.

The root cause, in my humble opinion is that Americans have now fully accepted that the executive branch can pass laws, judge and convict on its own. People vote with the expectation that the president and his administration will enact changes. That is simply wrong! Congress enacts changes, the executive implements them as intended by the legislative branch. The executive branch shouldn't even be allowed to lobby or champion policy at all. Executing the law as the president interprets it is wildly different than dictating new laws via executive orders and arm-twisting. This behavior is hardly unique to the current administration. Neither party wants to reduce the powers of the president, and that makes the nation as a whole unsustainable.

George Washington was right, political parties shouldn't have been allowed.
I do remember there was some point in the mid/late 90s where I had to do a lot of research before buying [desktop] computers and hardware - would this specific network card be supported? Would this graphics card work with X11? etc. Maybe it was trauma and paranoia from the WinModems of the day, that were never going to work.

But by the early 2000s we seemed to switch to a world where I just assumed Linux would support my new hardware, be it a used Zip-drive, a web-cam, or whatever.

These days I'm the same. I fearlessly buy random motherboards, and hardware toys, and just assume they work. So far I've been lucky, but it is a real testament to the driver-developers. The lone developer who makes one pull-request against the kernel solely to add the magic numbers to recognize yet another kind of SD-card, or similar. Really benefits us all, even if they never do another thing.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200400
I'm totally with you on wanting to get paid in a timely manner. (I used to do NET 10 for consulting invoices.)

But you'd do a courtesy call before cutting off a B2B customer? Even just to make sure they got the bill, and that a payment they made hadn't mistakenly not been credited. Which would be an opportunity for an immediate funds transfer or CC charge, if necessary to keep the site up. (Also an opportunity for them to say, "Actually, if you could just make it read-only until the news cycle is over..." :)
Education can still be hacked by studying in Europe, even as an international student.
If you have ever done subcontracting work or been a supplier to a major automotive corps, you’ll know the can be extremely late to pay at times. They use their muscle to get a free line of credit from their suppliers by simply demanding to get an extra 30 days on their deadline every month.

Not saying this is Mozilla’s policy, just pointing out it may be an accident or it may be a lack of funds, or something entirely different.
> It’s not a matter of life and death for a few single individuals in a triangle. It is of millions of individuals at once, and whole countries.

OK, I think this is why we disagree -- because this isn't the scenario I was positing. I was thinking of a case where a "small" (tactical) nuke would get dropped during battle on military forces, to get them to stop fighting. Not a strategic nuke in a population center actually trying to kill millions of people. Those will provoke very different responses in my mind, and I don't think the strategic case is likely. The tactical case is what I'm not so sure Russia will shy away from.
Right because what defeated fascism in WWII was our politeness. You're being silly.
They did this in Futurama

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=futurama+...
Would that not be treason?
This is an insightful article with a really bad title. Do not conflate a specific form of generative AI with all of AI.
Manually doing the work others have automated still helps you understand.
That particular quote seems to come up every once in a while, and I still don't quite get why people feel it's profound or important. China has a very public and well-known list of things that you are not allowed to talk about (Tienanmen Square, a few others). SF doesn't (or didn't) because what was offensive or violated whatever new rule the way-too-online wasn't codified as part of some legal apparatus, it was/is very dynamic. One does not need to actually go to China to recognize this.
I'm not sure I follow what you mean. But, you can trace inductively how sellers of goods and services start to amass wealth, because prices are set by what buyers see as worthwhile rather than at a minimized "cost plus" basis.

And eventually, once you have enough capital, your new job becomes managing your capital instead of whatever you did before. There's two ways to look at that. Your labor is research and planning of your own investments. Alternatively, you are "selling" capital to others who are seeking investments, and they are "buying" it with labor. But the same story as above holds true. The price of capital (in terms of labor) becomes what the market will bear rather than a minimized "cost plus" pricing.

This duality is what it means for labor and capital to be fungible, right?
This web server is probably awesome. However "memory-safe" isn't distinguishing within the Rust ecosystem. There's... a lot... of Rust web servers out there, all of which are presumably memory-safe, because Rust:

https://github.com/flosse/rust-web-framework-comparison

How does Ferron distinguish itself from these? I didn't get that from skimming the landing page.
True but "in mice" in the title would save a lot of time.
Here's the secret to coding with an LLM: don't expect it to get things 100% correct. You will need to fix something almost every time you use it to generate code. Maybe a name here, maybe a calculation, maybe a function signature. And maybe you won't spot the issue until later.

You still "used" an LLM to write the code. And it still saved you time (though depending on the circumstances this can be debatable).

That's why all these people say they use LLMs to write lots of code. They aren't saying it did it 100% without any checking and fixing. They're just saying they used it.
SOTA language models are trained with reinforcement learning now too, so the model distributions can be far removed from the underlying data distribution. Not that I think your overall point is wrong (it's obviously a very strong bias), but things are getting more complex with time.
Pingora is not a standalone web server (like NGINX or Apache httpd), it's a Rust-based framework developed by Cloudflare for building network services, particularly HTTP proxies.
River (built on Pingora) is designed to be a reverse proxy. My web server on the other hand is designed to be a general-purpose web server (it also supports reverse proxying).
At least one other is LLM generated too, from what I saw.
I thought it was drones grabbing them by the tusks.
This isn't my field, so apologies if I'm off-base, but this seems to make viruses do what they couldn't do previously, and moreover, target the brain. Wouldn't that qualify as GoF research? And if so, after millions dead and trillions lost, how prudent is it to conduct this kind of research?
Secrets Hidden Inside Smart Meters Let's Go Down the Rabbit Hole [video]
There are also other problems: while on acid once I came to a realisation that really changed how I experienced things later on. My realisation was that most of my perceptions of things were really "coloured" by a layer of society. For example, during that trip I found some husks of dead lobsters, that were sundried and quite rotten and gory. But during the trip they were this amazing structure of iridescent craziness on a dimpled hard and shiny shell, combined with dried out half rotted soft meat on the inside. I knew that I should keep the germs away from my mouth or cuts/wounds and I think I played and analysed it for a bit, being amazed by its structure, textures and colours. After that the trip got a bit stronger and the focus was on other things, however. Some hours after the trip I came by the same place that I had happenstanced the lobster husk. The same lobster was lying there. It was ugly and disgusting. I had washed my hands thoroughly after playing with it but really had an urge to wash my hands again.
I laughed at how my amazement of the dead lobster had felt so profound just hours earlier.

But. The next day after a nice rest I actually started to see that many things are actually very special and beautiful but our upbringing has destroyed the ability to experience this beauty. Society has teached us that rotten things are ugly. But that is just a layer on your perception. The materiality of things has their intention embedded in them and if their intention is of great beauty, then the materiality tends to be beautiful as well.

What I am trying to say is that first order dismissal of "deep insights" might not be warranted. You might have really had a deep insight, but you cannot correctly assess it because the setting has changed.
I like watching videos of how our cell biology works. This makes me realise the spiritual perspective of why everything is miraculous. Clockwork channel is good.

Your Operating System | Eukaryotic Transcription

https://youtu.be/HZAmbbTcQ3M

Phototransduction: How we see photons

https://youtu.be/NjrFe7JHY1o

How hearing works: auditory hair cells

https://youtu.be/b_3AngVJzp8