Hacker News: nm980

New comment by nm980 in "Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?"

nm980 — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:37:35 +0000

> 99% will be solved by AI with your proactivaly and smart prompt or questions in current work, so the thinking and prompting process is key.

I am still a junior but this seems like you are interviewing the AI rather than the candidate. Also why bother with a technical interview if you expect AI to do their job?

New comment by nm980 in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

nm980 — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:41:43 +0000

Most software is not price elastic so Jevon's Paradox will not matter

New comment by nm980 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

nm980 — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:50:42 +0000

> I haven't had any issues with this getting out of hand on >10KLOC vibed rust codebases.

This rewrite is >750k lines of Rust

New comment by nm980 in "Show HN: Pathetic – Java pathfinding: 10k concurrent paths in ~7ms"

nm980 — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:27:35 +0000

Well written readme was definitely easier to read than most AI generated docs nowadays

New comment by nm980 in "Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea"

nm980 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:27:32 +0000

Can you send the GitHub link again?

And how does this handle rendering larger documents?

New comment by nm980 in "Void: Open-source Cursor alternative"

nm980 — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Is there some benefit from forking vscode instead of creating an extension?

New comment by nm980 in "Open source Google Analytics replacement"

nm980 — Thu, 08 May 2025 01:26:43 +0000

Self hosting would cost more money than free tier for most companies.

> more than 90% of companies use PostHog for free.

https://posthog.com/pricing

New comment by nm980 in "Open source Google Analytics replacement"

nm980 — Thu, 08 May 2025 01:19:51 +0000

What's your sales strategy? Is cold calling companies with google analytics installed on their websites more effective than the blog? Have you been able to retain Next.js users after Vercel released Web Analytics?

New comment by nm980 in "Open source Google Analytics replacement"

nm980 — Wed, 07 May 2025 23:03:24 +0000

Not sure, but I'm definitely interested in following your business and seeing what your strategy will become because I was building something similar but when larger teams starting releasing free solutions I couldn't think of a way to compete. Best of luck.

New comment by nm980 in "Open source Google Analytics replacement"

nm980 — Wed, 07 May 2025 21:05:13 +0000

It also tracks page views, referrers, geographic location, and other analytics common to rybbit

New comment by nm980 in "Open source Google Analytics replacement"

nm980 — Wed, 07 May 2025 21:02:29 +0000

> "Self hosting is not really advertised on their main site"

How would rybbit.io make money if they are only better at self hosting? Wouldn't the users they are targeting only self host anyways?

> "On "Ahrefs", is there even an open source version of their product? I couldn’t easily find it (on mobile)."

Not all of these companies are open source but they are still competitors because they have generous free tiers so the cost of self hosting an alternative wouldn't be justified.

New comment by nm980 in "Open source Google Analytics replacement"

nm980 — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:27:48 +0000

PostHog and Plausible are both open source and not backed by big corporations but if sharing data to third parties and being open source is a concern (which seems to be the selling point rybbit.io is targeting) I would expect users to self host instead of paying for a hosted plan anyways?

New comment by nm980 in "RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement"

nm980 — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:02:17 +0000

The market for Google Analytics alternatives is crowded. There's Plausible, Ahrefs web analytics, onedollarstats.com, PostHog, Matomo, Unami, Grafana, Microsoft Clarity (free at any scale), and so many others. Despite minor differences these products all compete for the same users (e.g. if someone is a PostHog customer they probably won't be using Ahref web analytics) yet most of these companies offer generous free tiers while rybbit only a free trial.

How do products like rybbit.io stay competitive without a similar free tier or major differentiation? Is rybbit generating revenue for its hosted plan?

Predicting Java's Random.java nextInt with simple brute force

nm980 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:32:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nickm980/lcg-predictor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43134847

Points: 2

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New comment by nm980 in "Show HN: Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games"

nm980 — Thu, 18 May 2023 12:01:14 +0000

https://github.com/nickm980/smallville/blob/main/smallville/...

New comment by nm980 in "Show HN: Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games"

nm980 — Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:14 +0000

> EDIT: It actually says in the readme they plan to support StableLM which is interesting because at least at the moment that's not a well performing model

I chose StableLM because that's the only other model I knew of besides ChatGPT. I'm open to adding support for other models after I fix some bugs first.

Show HN: Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games

nm980 — Wed, 17 May 2023 19:41:16 +0000

Smallville can be used to create NPCs with the same level of realism as human players without having to pre-program interactions. The agents store and retrieve past memories which they use to create plans so they can decide where to move, what to say, and how to react to observations. Agents are also capable of interacting with the world around them to change the state of objects on their own.

This project was intended to make it easy for anyone to create custom simulations and my attempt to recreate Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior. I’ve been working on Smallville for the past few weeks and hope other people also find it useful. Would love to hear any thoughts about the project and where I should take it from here.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980223

Points: 112

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