Air-source heat pumps give their worst performance when you need heat the most. Ground source doesn't vary year-round.

> really ugly winter peaks

The problem is those peaks are at the exact same time you need the heat.

Yes that’s precisely what I’m talking about. The role I’m envisioning for GSHPs is as backup to ASHPs to reduce those peaks.

Name checks out.

I grin a bit whenever someone gets that infantile on what's supposed to be a board of high-minded intellectual sophisticates.

But I'm serious. This forum is meant for human beings to satisfy their intellectual curiosity discussing topics of interest which are usually but don't need to be related to tech or programming. The humanity matters, even if it's damned hard to find sometimes because expressing humanity is a negative social signal here.

AI may be the nexus of the industry at the moment but it's destroying everything this community and culture are supposed to be about. Every vibe coded project, every comment passed through ChatGPT, every conversation lacking in any technical merit because 99% of people here only know how to engineer a prompt and are aggressively ignorant about everything else. Every tedious philosophical drain-circling about whether AIs are sentient or whether humans even are. Every arrogant declaration by AI bros about its futility. And the implication behind all of it that the human element doesn't matter.

I mean, Show HN is supposed to be a place for passion projects, and it's turned into nothing but vibe-coded slop. It isn't fun anymore.

So they don't want us here, and we don't want them here. Someone vibe code a forum - because no one else will want to touch it then - and the AI bros can leave so those of us who think human effort still has value can discuss the things we have an interest in in peace, and there they can be as positive about AI as they want.

Yeah, it needs heavy moderation to remove the worthless fluff comments so that readers get high signal-to-noise. You can think an idea is bad but, you know, you gotta say why and have a debate about the details.

Exactly. I think there's an opportunity right now to reinvent public forum moderation with LLMs. Karpathy's recent post is going in the right direction I think: https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/

> When I was taken to the Tate Modern as a child I’d point at Mark Rothko pieces and say to my mother “I could do that”, and she would say “yes, but you didn’t.”

Yes, but you didn't https://www.signedoriginalprints.com/cdn/shop/products/wegot...

Actually Rothko is way harder to paint than it looks.

I've had to read so far down to get a single non-stupid, ignorant, or inflammatory comment. What's wrong with HN, jeepers. Some actual discussion of the thing itself and not just pearl clutching would be appropriate here.

I request you to publish it! :-D

I haven't had time to make a repo, so I'll just drop this here for you: https://jacobstoner.com/subrepl_mcp.py

Just make sure you have the deps installed and add it to CC as a stdio mcp server. Tested on Linux only. I use it daily.

Okay, I will :)

I'll add a new repo for it, maybe this evening, and I'll reply here with a link.

^^

Came to post that blog. It's awesome. Everyone should read it.

Perhaps you do ;-)

I think that the point here is that your domain registrar will pick up the phone if there is a problem, where Google clearly will not.