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GlassOwAteron Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place

Same here. I’ve met a lot of smart, passionate people in the space that are very respectable.

GlassOwAteron I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform

That’s the attitude he’s talking about!

GlassOwAteron VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia

GlassOwAteron Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in UK exhibition (2021)

Sadly, I read about this in 2008 when I was researching an exhibition in the United States and then obviously decided not to go.

GlassOwAteron Show HN: Reverse Pac-Man

Poo-Man or Puke-Man

GlassOwAteron Milwaukee police considering trading mugshots for facial recognition tech

Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. It looks like they have been working on facial recognition since 2001. This is all I found with a quick search https://nicic.gov/weblink/welcome-interagency-use-facial-rec...

Oh plenty more when you put in the full name. https://search.brave.com/search?q=%22Pinellas+County+Sheriff...

GlassOwAteron Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction

I like this. It reminds me of Snapseed. Feature request if it isn’t too hard, the ability to overlay an image and blend them together.

GlassOwAteron Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction

I’m getting some touch control issues and inability to download the image on iOS.

GlassOwAteron The Tontine Coffee-House (2018)

Interesting read. I was only familiar with a bastardization that goes by the same name. An ex is from Liberia and while her mom now lives in the states she still sends money to contribute to a tontine.

They pool their money together and then rotate who it all goes to every month or some pet period.

Sounds like a scam run on the financially illiterate.

https://www.modernghana.com/news/772009/tontine-microcredit-...

GlassOwAteron Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town

Haha yep!

GlassOwAteron I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days

I’m approaching middle age and have always wanted to learn to code and run servers, but would get caught up somewhere on tutorials and eventually give up in frustration.

Over the past year I have accomplished so much with the ever patient LLMs as my guide. It has been so much fun too. I imagine there are many others in my shoes and those that want to learn now have a much friendlier experience.

GlassOwAteron Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll

Fun! He’s a great speed walker too

GlassOwAteron DigiKey's Tariff Resources

They won’t be using tariffs to lower taxes for lower income citizens. Tax cuts for the rich have already been proposed.

GlassOwAteron Apple Watch with Android

What’s that about the SpO2?

GlassOwAteron U.S. math scores drop on major international test

How about COVID reducing IQ?

GlassOwAteron My finetuned models beat OpenAI's GPT-4

Is this something, as a tech enthusiast that's no expert, I can easily fine tune are run?

My use case would be fine tuning on technical docs. Specific news, 2 years of blog posts, primary source material, and Twitter explainer thread. I want to gather all the niche information of a topic from the last two years, dump it into this and have an LLM that is a subject-matter expert.

GlassOwAteron Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it

Uh oh.. my doctors never told me this. That explains the last 10 years x.x

GlassOwAteron New Bill Would Require Phonics-Based Reading Instruction in California

As someone without kids. Is it uncommon for parents to encourage children to read outside of school?

GlassOwAteron Mystery-o-matic.com random murder generator is open-source

Would it fairly easily port to a blockchain? And would you be interested in bringing it to Evmos?

GlassOwAteron Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

I have a company that makes terpene-infused hard candies (nothing illegal/gray area). When we started in 2016 we were soon kicked off of Stripe, because the candy was classified by them as a drug. I then learned about their strict views and how they also ban other legal products/services from using their service. That was very frustrating.

GlassOwAteron Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo

This looks great. I am involved in a crypto community and could see using this to help onboard users to our ecosystem. Get them familiar with how to use the various applications and learn about the technology behind the chain.

GlassOwAteron Maine's constitution has unprintable sections

Where do you live? I bet I can conquer your house.

GlassOwAteron Show HN: Reliable AI-generated text detection at checkfor.ai

1% chance OP’s post was AI generated.

GlassOwAteron The Ingenious Cardboard Bed

Lol they say their 3 ply cardboard is the important part.

I might have to make my own furniture. https://www.packagewarehouse.com/boxes/cardboard-boxes/corru...

GlassOwAteron Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode

The quality of my life is not defined by how close I am to fast food diners or other frivolous goods and services.

GlassOwAteron Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

Will this allow me to run Photoshop on Linux? That’s the big thing keeping me from switching.

GlassOwAteron The businessman and the fisherman (1963)

Twist: the fisherman is already rich and has a fleet doing his work.

GlassOwAteron Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP

I don’t know anything about all this. Is there a way to do something similar on a Raspberry Pi hooked to a monitor as a second screen for a Windows laptop?