I owned two MD players and used it for songwriting, along with a small directional Sony mic with a mini jack. This was the peak of non-DAW editing. The quality was incredible, and if SSDs weren’t around the corner, I think this tech would have had a chance.

So satisfying to use too. I miss it.

Energy use is going to continue to climb.

I'm worried about the environmental impacts of this, but from everything I've seen society values model output more. Curious to watch this over the rest of the decade.

solar and battery costs are falling so fast that emissions are likely to go down, even with growth in energy use

Sure sure, you did the maths ?

How many batteries do you need to power-up a datacenter at night ?

Not that many, if you pair it with offshore wind, a large grid (which covers multiple time zones), and ideally nuclear.

The conditions for that don’t exist everywhere, but we don’t need these datacentres everywhere. LLMs aren’t latency-sensitive.

>if you pair it with offshore wind

Unfortunately the current government of the US is entirely beholden to fossil fuel interests so they're actively hostile to offshore wind.

Tony Seba did the maths: https://www.rethinkx.com/publications/understandingstellaren...

Great point. Assuming we can adopt them at the correct pace and on a global scale, then energy doesn't have to be a limiting factor

Express is extremely mature as a backend, although you may not like the middleware patterns compared to Flask, for example. I've used Flask for years, and find these similar, with some differences.

Next.js + Vercel has strong adoption. This probably comes the closest to checking all of your requirements, although I wouldn't suggest using this for all use cases.

IMO the Node backend framework ecosystem is more mature than Python (no idea about .NET) since Python really is positioned better for data science/ML, etc.

Express itself might be mature but it's a fraction of what you need to make a full application.

The JS backend ecosystem is definitely not mature. Eg: ORMs are still being figured out. People are migrating en masse to Drizzle which hasn't even reached 1.0. The best (fastest, better features, etc) PG driver for JS is Postgres.js which is maintained primarily by a single guy. Etc.

Next is a bad option IMO. They keep experimenting while having users on board and introducing breaking changes. The performance for SSR is terrible. Hosting it outside of Vercel is a road full pain. Etc.

I've never used Python but Django (or Rails, or .NET, etc) are more mature than most of the NPM ecosystem.

It sounds like you're looking for a Django/Rails type framework for JS-- you're not really going to find this. Javascript isn't really the ecosystem that's going to give you something opinionated, although it'd be a nice addition.

I'm not sure you're giving JS it's due. Prisma is an excellent ORM-- it makes Sqlalchemy feel clunky. I'm not sure about your comment on SSR performance either, although I do agree that Vercel tends to be a lot of pixie dust on top of EC2.

What have you used previously?

I didn't dig into this deeply, but I miss this aesthetic more than I'd like to admit. I'm sure it reflects on simpler times, but there's some comfort in seeing projects like this for me.

It's great to see more and more adoption for MCP. I'm not sure it's the most bulletproof protocol, but it feels like it's in a strong lead, especially with OpenAI support.

I've been using Codex for the last 24 hours, and background mode boosts your output. You can have Codex work on n+ features async. I had it building a database model alongside frontend authentication, and did both pretty well.

I really think the best place for marketing/promotion, specifically for dev tool projects is twitter/x.

So many developers are on twitter.

All of this being said, Hacker News is pretty great place to share :)

I was thinking the same thing. How could we compile this data? Seems like something that would be popular and should exist

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