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pizzly··on ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones
Hello WiFi Geolocation technologies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system
pizzly··on WiFi signals can measure heart rate
Seeing that it works for a ESP32 chip I would say that its very likely to work on a smartphones's wifi chip though the article didn't say. Many people carry phones with them everywhere and all the time. You could build a very impressive profile of a person. It could be used to see when they get excited, scared, angry, etc at depending on what they view on the phone, the phone call they received, where they physically located on the earth, who they are around (by looking at identities of other phones near them) and properly other things as well I have not thought of.
pizzly··on Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people
This time is different. A fact right now is that software engineers now can orchestrate LLMs and agents to write software. The role of software engineers who do this is quality control, compliance, software architecture and some out of the box thinking for when LLMs do not cut it. What makes you think advances in AI wont take care of these tasks that LLMs do not do well currently? My point is once these tasks are taken care off a CS graduate won't be doing tasks that they learnt to do in their degrees. What people need to learn is how to think of customers needs in abstract ways and communicate this to AI and judge the output in a similar way someone judges a painting.
pizzly··on The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
Humans experience (play in the real world) is multi modal though vision, sound, touch, pressure, muscle feedback, gravitational, etc. Its extremely rich in data. Its also not a data point its continuous stream of information. Also I would bet that humans synthesize data at the same time. Everytime we run multiple scenarios in our mind before choosing the one we execute without even thinking about it is synthesizing data. Also humans dream which is another form of data synthesizing. Allowing AI to interact with the real world is definitely a way to go.
pizzly··on South Korea deploys hologram police officer
I can imagine cameras connected to AI. AI detects crime in action (beating or something) and initiates the hologram which says cease now the police are coming . Might prevent a a crime from becoming bigger.
pizzly··on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel
I hope this is not the reason. I think x86 is a deadend technology. ARM's energy superiority makes it a better choice. x86 only still being used due to legacy/backwards compatibility but thats changing. Apple moved completely away from x86. Theres more and more ARM based windows computers being sold. Theres no x86 chips in phones.
pizzly··on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
same here. The problem in this region is that they are too restrictive. Libraries have strict rules like not making noise in some areas and being told by security guards to take feet off low tables (which was impractical for reading), parks have so many rules including which sports can be played and not. At least in the region where we live its not the lack of facilities but a culture and rule system that makes public areas useless.
pizzly··on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
I don't know if all places are the same but one time when we were working on laptops at a mall in a common area we were told by security guards 1 hour later to leave so not sure if they can be considered public areas.
pizzly··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
This is a really exciting idea. I really like how it bypasses the algorithmic advertising from Facebook and Co and have more content that you actually want to see.
pizzly··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
https://negativestarinnovators.com We been working on Thieves which monitors websites using AI agents. Users set natural language conditions for websites and get a email, Telegram, Discord, Webhook once their conditions has been met. We also have a REST API replicating the full functionality of Thieves.

Currently working on making it even more reliable, navigate pages and understand website images not just the text of the webpage. Also getting ready for a Product Hunt launch.

pizzly··on The Decline of the U.S. Machine-Tool Industry and Prospects for Recovery (1994)
Its definitely de-globalizing USA's trade but I don't think it will de-globalize the rest of the world's trade. One method for countries to combat US's tariffs is to reduce trade barriers between themselves thus reducing the barriers to sell their goods to other countries instead of US. EU and China just had an initial conversation regarding just this.
pizzly··on Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?
I use LLM for almost everything from summarizing, finding out terminology in very different fields that I have no knowledge of, initial research of any field, coding (no more google searching of stack overflow anymore), pretty much everything. I use search engine only for searching for companies/products due to some mistrust that it would find all the products or companies including very small companies/products. But I am very open to removing search engines completely if this last point is satisfied.
pizzly··on Deep Research is now available on Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental
Just tested it on a case we were working on for months so we can better validate the output. We found it was really good at finding websites from google searches and can navigate websites. From that it gave a good compressive review of the case. Where it failed is searching online databases i.e. one example is a business register. If the search result does not have the exact same keyword it will not review the result. However, the keyword appeared within the document of the search result and thus it missed out on this key information. Overall very good but still needs some work.
pizzly··on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout
My comment may be naive but digital services do not have tariffs. Given the unpredictable manner of Trumps tariffs wouldn't this encourage more startups and companies to focus on exporting digital services instead of focusing on physical goods? If so there could be minimal increase in goods produced in US and instead US consumers just absorb the price rise of goods with the consequences that arise from that.
pizzly··on Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers
Having elite universities scale up the number of seats available can be done. Grow the pie instead of having the current scarcity mindset. This would actually solve much of the current problems. There is no reason you cannot have the same or better quality of education with more students per university. The only reason this problem exists is that by limiting the number of seats you create artificial scarcity and thus higher value.
pizzly··on Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers
Each university could provide a custom entry exam to ensure the test is unique and difficult enough to not be gamed as easily
pizzly··on Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars
You could make the phones communicate via sound, not sure how it would impact the battery nor its communication range. Lots of details would have to be worked out. You have to find the frequency that communicates the longest. Perhaps do short pulses of sound to save battery life.
pizzly··on Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars
Have you considered making the app to take a GPS reading then turn off the GPS to save battery life? If the person say is trapped in rubble they likely not going to move afterwards thus you can relay this location information to nearby receivers.
pizzly··on Everything is Ghibli
Disagree. I think many people will actually be encouraged to try as the barrier to creating art has dropped and some of those people will decide to become more proficient at art.
pizzly··on Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits (2020)
I'm not sure what it was but I remember learning where with a continuous runny noise in certain classes (buildings) with AC. Outside and different buildings were fine at least for me. In those effected buildings I estimate that 5% were also effected by hearing people sniff every minute or so. This definitely caused distraction while learning. A good filter on the AC would properly have solved this.
pizzly··on Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
Need to work on both high tech and low wage opportunities at the same time. Without having high tech there will be a bigger brain drain, many people that gets educated or starts a business with higher ambitions will leave as soon as they can. Having high tech opportunities slows down the brain drain and increases the potential to create different industries that support the country. Also as there will be many first in the country such as building a satellite there will be more potential to grow for anyone wanting to enter that industry even if the current economic benefit is lower than say other countries. For instance USA can grow mostly from developing new technology and their population growth (traditionally from immigration), A country like Botswana can grow from improving their current infrastructure (education, catching up in technology etc) AND new technology and population growth. First movers will get a bigger piece of the pie an have long term benefit. This is a bit simplified but should give a picture of how this would benefit Botswana.
pizzly··on Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter
Energy is definitely a major factor but other factors too. Cheaper infrastructure (data centers), cheaper components including GPUs (once that is cracked) and cheaper data collection (web scraping, surveillance infrastructure, etc). Any novel idea that improves the architectures of models in the future will inadvertently get leaked quickly and then all these other factors come into play. Countries that cannot make models this cheap will subsidize models for national security reasons and promoting their country's interest reasons.
pizzly··on The Lost Art of Commit Messages
Isn't everyone just putting all the changes in code automatically to an LLM of your choice to create a git commit message already?
pizzly··on Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter
One possibility. Certain countries will always be able to produce open models cheaper than others. USA and Europe probably won't be able. However, due to national security and wanting to promote their models overseas instead of letting their competitors promote theirs, the governments of USA and Europe will subsidize models which will lead their competitors to (further?) subsidies. There is a promotional aspect as well, just like Hollywood governments will use their open source models to promote their ideology.
pizzly··on Aircraft detection at planetary scale
This would have applications for police for detecting unauthorized activities such as smuggling or movements of agriculture planes (chemical spraying) on private airfields. Assuming the planes are >25m.
pizzly··on Show HN: Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps
This is very good. One thing though Telegram (at least the linux version) does not support transparency and makes the transparency red. However, Metacheck shows it as transparent. Having all this on one page is a massive time saver.
pizzly··on Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act
This is also about being a monopoly, when there's a monopoly there's no competition. It would be similar to a dictatorship. Developers and customers should've more freedom to buy or sell without being controlled by a dictator. Briefly, there should be more choices from different competitors. This will be healthy for developers and customers.
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