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Xotic007

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Building HiredCopilot (https://hiredcopilot.com), an interview-safe job-search copilot that tailors your real resume without inventing. Solo dev.
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Xotic007··on I Just Want to Search
Tbh I too have experienced the same but I think that is just what we are moving towards. I mean everything is now shifting to semantic search and it is better for natural language yeah it sucks that literals dont work as good now but "Optimization".
Xotic007··on Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
That would just turn into a nameable target to avoid. Ofc you'd end up with less obviously-AI text but it wouldn't take much more effort to produce than the AI-generated version did since it is not that hard to game it.
Xotic007··on Show HN: A zero-telemetry clipboard, color picker, and capture suite
really like this, the smartclip part especially. At uni i'm constantly copying questions into llms or pdfs and the moment i copy one more thing i lose the last one and have to redo it. Genuine question though since windows already has Win+V clipboard history what does smartclip add on top is it mainly the privacy masking and being fully offline?
Xotic007··on Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire
really like this. Do you plan to also connect people to each other like for example "wife of" relationship or smth like that in the inscriptions so you can see who was linked to who?
Xotic007··on Show HN: Philosophy for Kids
good idea however AI can be confidently wrong sometimes so how do you catch that?
Xotic007··on Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game
Honestly the games very good, i played all the holes in one go. One thing I’d like though is for the ball to lose a bit less speed when it bounces off the wall.
Xotic007··on A PDF that changes based on how its read
Cool but it's relying on every extractor honoring that replacement-text property which you said yourself is hit or miss. So it's clean markdown until someone runs it through a tool that ignores it and quietly gets the messy version and has no idea that happened.
Xotic007··on Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end
Makes sense. Slop is basically what you get when there's nothing specific to copy and so the AI it just averages every web style together. Qt works because there's really only one way Qt looks.Modern web has a million versions of everything so you average all that and get slop.
Xotic007··on Software is made between commits
A commit is useful because you cleaned it up first. The messing around in between is where you try things and delete the dead ends and most of it is meant to be thrown away. Saving every change and every agent message keeps all that junk around instead.
Xotic007··on The Case for Free Online Books (2014)
OSTEP is genuinely one of the best OS resources out there. Hard to argue textbooks should be behind a paywall when the free version is this good.
Xotic007··on Show HN: Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted
Really like this. The mission stands out the most, you've built something that's honest about being a starting point and is actually designed to send people on to the primary texts and real teachers, which is the opposite of what most apps optimize for. The per-figure factcheck showing what's verified versus recreated is a thoughtful honesty touch too. Lovely project.