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dankwizard··on I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
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dankwizard··on Data on AI-related Show HN posts
I only ingest HackerNews through a vibe coded lightweight AI first viewer, comprised of articles that GPT4o thinks match with my personality, and these too are summarised using AI to give me the gist.
dankwizard··on I don't think AGI is right around the corner
The immigration is actually working to boost literacy levels. Americans have been falling off for a long time.
dankwizard··on Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews
They were mostly honest - I just always included something like 'an upgrade from my last one' but these clones are all so similar and all effective. Can do the whole house on a single charge, strong enough, has the low projecting light to highlight dust, high number of attachments.

Does the job. I'm no vacuum connoisseur (Which you think I'd be after all of these) but none were scammy products.

dankwizard··on Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews
Example of the contents of an offer:

https://imgur.com/a/q634ty4

dankwizard··on Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews
Sure. It's cold, rainy, and midnight but here's what came up in my email when searching "vacuum". It's not all, and you can see some I didn't reply to but -

https://imgur.com/a/F0u9xVM

dankwizard··on Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews
Yes.

I had to leave a video review component (No face). I wonder if any shoppers ever wondered why the same monotone man was constantly buying and reviewing vaccuum cleaners if he's always leaving positive reviews?!

dankwizard··on Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews
You sound like my wife. I don't know. I grew up kind of poor and my mindset still has a "If I can get an item typically worth $100-200 for free, TAKE IT".

The plan was to flip them on FB market place but I've just hoarded them.

dankwizard··on Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews
It was falling behind. The dodgy stores were getting more creative and Fakespot needed to play catch up.

You've got stores that would include a $5-$20 coupon/gift card in the item in exchange for a positive review. Sure, this didn't 1:1 translate but if a user did it would look like a legitimate review.

You've got a plethora of LLMs out there just itching to GENERATE.

Then an expensive option I was suprised happened - I bought a Dyson clone vacuum cleaner off of Amazon. A few weeks later, the company emailed me and said 'We have a new model. Buy that one, leave a review, we'll refund the purchase'. So I did it. This happened about 10 more times in 2024. My outdoor shed is entirely stick vacuums.

Feel a bit dirty doing it but that's ok I've got 12 vacuums that can clean my conscience.

I think Fakespot would have difficulty with all 3 of these scenarios.

dankwizard··on It is not possible to install your own addon in Firefox without Moz's approval
wait you're telling me to develop i need the developer version?!
dankwizard··on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
"Hi yes, I'm Mr. Museum and although we called it the $1,000,000 cube it actually contained about ~$1.5m. This man has stolen $500,000. Send him to the gulags"
dankwizard··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
It actually only sent the notification if it detected in your wallet you had enough to cover 1 x ticket from your local theatre. If you didn't, the Notes app will notify you once it is free on streaming.
dankwizard··on I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
Now that would be a big brain play
dankwizard··on Show HN: I built an AI dataset generator
words can have multiple meanings <:- )
dankwizard··on Show HN: Scream to Unlock – Blocks social media until you scream “I'm a loser”
If 180 is high you've got Tiktok Brain my friend.
dankwizard··on Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
This just in, Games on a Gaming OS developed by a Gaming Business perform better than an OS not explicitly for that.

More news at 11.

dankwizard··on Why do all browsers' user agents start with "Mozilla/"? (2008)
It's funny, UserAgents are only used these days to either A - pretend to be a browser, B - bad actors exchanging decrypts

why haven't we deprecated this junk

dankwizard··on Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
Guarantee the OP used this for a week and never touched it again. Those without self control cannot be trusted if they hold the switch.
dankwizard··on Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform
I'm sorry but what?

You have been lifting weights somewhat regularly for 25 years, majority 3x8-12, and the switch to 5x5 increased your dumb bell bench press from ~20kg to ~35kg?

There is just no way. That is extremely light weight. Like, most beginners who follow any sort of progressive overloading system will be at that level in 4 weeks starting from essentially 0

dankwizard··on Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform
has open source fitness app -> sells when big

has asked us to come together to build an even bigger open source fitness app -> ... profit?

dankwizard··on Show HN: I vibe coded a Gnutella P2P client to learn how it works
Hey everyone look at the prompts I used, how zany
dankwizard··on Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard
The best of a bad bunch. These products are still far from amazing, moreso if you have a picky eye for clarity. And if you need the brightness higher, overheating becomes a problem.
dankwizard··on Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
I can recall about 12% of the first Harry Potter book so it's interesting to see Llama is only 4x smarter than me. I will catch up.
dankwizard··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
Apple have done it again - This is further proof that they are miles ahead of the competition. Kudos Apple.

Stunningly beautiful.

dankwizard··on Claude 4 System Card
Each call goes through an LLM-lite categorizer (NNUE mixed with Deeplearning) and the resulting body has something along the lines of a "politenessNeededForSense: boolean". If it is false, you can trust we remove all politeness before engaging with Claude 4. Saved roughly $13,000,000 this FY
dankwizard··on Claude 4
With Claude 3 I was able to reduce headcount down from 30->20. Hoping I can see the same if not better with this.
dankwizard··on GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
Windows Recall is the local storage, user enabled AI thing. Not what I was talking about.
dankwizard··on GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
If you're programming on Windows, your screen is being screenshotted every few seconds anyway. If you don't think OCR isn't analysing everything resembling a letter on your screen boy do I have some news for you.
dankwizard··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Real talk. And anybody who argues is taking a heavy dose of copium to justify their use of Linux and the ensuite of compatibility issues that entails. Let them have their sense of superiority :' )
dankwizard··on Ask HN: Conversational AI to Learn a Language
If you have a ChatGPT subscription, set up your own GPT with prompting around your level, how you want it to respond, how to correct mistakes etc. Then you can use it for anything - Generate tests based on words you know, roleplay like ordering in a restaurant, write stories and have it correct grammar.

This is what I have to supplement my Chinese and it is incredibly helpful.

Look at the comments already - Everyone is building a simple wrapper to do this very thing but charge you $20 per month for the privelege. These are souless, most likely vibe coded garbage. Avoid.

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