Ha! I very recently started something for peppers (Capsicum) https://pepperrank.com/

I love these niche sites! my friend recently started this for Tinned Fish (absolutely and solely for the love of the fish and with no plans to monetize.) He loves that a few random people will rank hundreds of tins. http://tinventory.co/

I've seen some similar sites

https://pepperscale.com/hot-pepper-list/

https://scovillescale.org/

https://pepperdatabase.org/

I feel like I remember using another one much more similar to your site a while back but I can't seem to find it. But pepperscale is really cool and has individual profiles for cultivars

all objectively better names

Data quality on Scoville is unfortunately garbage; Testing is expensive and both individual plants and individual growers/fields are highly variable, so nearly everyone is playing 'telephone' making subjective claims in relation to "known" standard varieties which are also usually subjective claims.

"Slightly hotter than a Jalapeno" means very little when a Jalapeno is anywhere from 3,000 scoville to 60,000 scoville.

I've learned in the course of making this site, that pretty much all information about peppers is garbage. That's half the reason I wanted to start this.

How expensive is testing now? It looks like the standard method is HPLC analysis of capsaicinoids. I found old forum posts from about 10 years ago indicating $50-$65 per test from providers including SBL, which doesn't sound bad, but I don't know if prices have gone up recently.

Part of the issue is that there's a massive variety between peppers, and genetic diversity is incredibly wide, making it nearly impossible to determine the exact type of pepper you have. There are a few different universities and governments that "certify" peppers, but they aren't connected in any way.

That makes a lot of sense. I was thinking about testing a particular pepper you have for chemical content, but genetic testing and mapping results to pepper type names does sound more complicated/expensive.

Why are you making my screen look dirty? lol

lol I kind of thought it made it look like a hot sauce label. but maybe not.

I feel like a lot of folks down here are focusing too much on the agent part. That's purely marketing. No one who worked on the service, I am sure, was building exclusively for agent usage.

This is simply the framing device that all marketing needs to present these days.

Of course it's just marketing, but that doesn't mean it's above criticism, especially when it's shoved so hard down our throats.

"Please stop talking about the thing we can't stop talking about"

My Mac Studio with 96GB of RAM is maybe just at the low end of passable. It's actually extremely good for local image generation. I could somewhat replace something like Nano Banana comfortably on my machine.

But I don't need Nano Banana very much, I need code. While it can, there's no way I would ever opt to use a local model on my machine for code. It makes so much more sense to spend $100 on Codex, it's genuinely not worth discussing.

For non-thinking tasks, it would be a bit slower, but a viable alternative for sure.

You just need to adjust your workflow to use the smaller models for coding. It's primarily just a case of holding them wrong if you end up with worse outputs.

...Does AI suck at front-end? This is news to me.

We already have Astro

We stood still on Intel 14nm for YEARS, then a few years of decent progress, and now this. Moore's law is taking a beating.

Moore's law only really works when at least part of the world is functioning under practically ideal conditions. Right now that's far from what's happening.

Unless maybe it's headless, then I still expect a component library or something. Still, I see nothing.

It's more like ReactJS/SolidJS (but in Rust) rather than a component library like Bootstrap. Although I definitely agree the home page can do a much better job of explaining this.

All knowledge started as someone's opinion. The goal isn't to avoid opinions, it's to stress-test them. That's exactly what HN is for.

As others have said, that's just not the reality of a modern work machine. If I need a new GPU or more RAM, I'm positive I need everything else upgraded too

I guess they can't afford it, but my ego is telling me I could do this.