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1. jgraha+r7[view] [source] 2024-02-02 16:53:19
>>Robin8+(OP)
> While I have no reason to doubt Daniel's good faith, it's hard to believe that HN users would be tired of LLM-related news.

I think the answer to this is... go set up your our LLM News web site and build a community. I really love HN but I wanted more retro computing and gaming news so I created by own site (https://twostopbits.com/) using the HN source code. It's not hard. Go build the thing you want and moderate it.

I've been in various online communities for over 35 years and I can tell you that by far the best moderated and longest successfully running community is HN (for a while The Well was amazing).

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2. indigo+rk[view] [source] 2024-02-02 17:52:34
>>jgraha+r7
Wow very cool love the retro angle. Assuming you are using Workers for this?
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3. jgraha+WB[view] [source] 2024-02-02 19:12:56
>>indigo+rk
No, I use a lot of Cloudflare products (the domain is registered through Cloudflare, the site is proxied and protected by Cloudflare, I use Cloudflare's free Web Analytics), but I am not using Workers for this.

The HN source base is a monolithic Arc program and Arc is in Racket/Scheme. To use Workers I would have had to get Racket working on Wasm which I simply haven't tried. Also news.arc does a bunch of file system access and I'd have to rewrite that to use Workers KV or something. So, I decided to use lots of Cloudflare and run the Arc code on a VPS I've had for many years. The whole thing is running in a screen session which I can hop into and be in the REPL when I want.

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