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ParanoidShroom

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ParanoidShroom··on Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
How is this possible? Apple messages are just free for anyone to read?
ParanoidShroom··on There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
Unfortunately here, one big team shipped a product that looks to be a big hit from early Analytics. So they expect every other team with other seniority to achieve same results.

Wonder how it will age.

I'm a bit shocked they don't care much about the strangle contract this introduces by being so dependant on external models.

ParanoidShroom··on There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
Management wants to go vroom vroom. Gambles that new models will be good enough to fix tech debt.

I do agree with you

ParanoidShroom··on GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
Self funded. It's a custom trained efficient model on CPU so it's borderline free
ParanoidShroom··on GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
I run the free service https://countrx.app/ so i have some idea what goes into counting.

The performance as a general model is indeed really impressive and i think they might actually win compared to fine tuned models.

Their feedback loop of training on user data is incredibly strong. I've learned that lots of accuracy results depends on threshold configs, which llms should be able to dynamically set.

Or the future will develop in llms using fine-tuned models as tools? Inference cost and speed does still seem to be below user expectations.

But for being able to one shot with this accuracy... IMPRESSIVE

ParanoidShroom··on Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]
Now you can install a Spotify app and use it as a standalone speaker?
ParanoidShroom··on Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
Yeah culture has gone too shit. Since Sheryl left
ParanoidShroom··on The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van
Having rented one but being Belgian.... Yes
ParanoidShroom··on The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van
Oh man, i rented one of those! I fell in love with the west coast national parks. A month of roadtripping to all those parks. Great memories, sad to see the. Not available anymore. They are speed limited when you floor it in Nevada tho :)
ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
Wife is a lead motion designer, ex Bumble etc. 6+ months of no job results in NYC. Not sure what's going on honestly, all very slow. Any tips welcome :)
ParanoidShroom··on The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?
Thanks for the that feedback but my point is about native apps. not a landing page
ParanoidShroom··on The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?
Yeah I know is awaiting review as i mentioned in the post, the point I'm trying to make is that there are probably a bunch out there already being gen ai apps. I don't think there is a clear way to recognize them
ParanoidShroom··on The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?
Can people spot them?

https://countrx.app/ is something I vibed in a month. Can people here tell? Sure the typical gradiënt page is something to spot, but native apps i think are harder. I would love to see app store and Google Play Store stats to see how many new apps are onboarded.

Looking at distribution channels like Google Play, they added significant harder thresholds to be able to publish an app to reduce low quality new apps. Presumably due to gen ai?

Edit: Jesus guys, the point I'm trying to make is that there are probably a lot more out there that are not visible... Im not claiming i developed the holy grail vibe coding.

ParanoidShroom··on Running Claude Code in a loop to mirror human development practices
Lol I've done exactly the same thing past 3 weeks with a python script. Tests are okayish, it's very exhausting spending hours just reviewing tho.
ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
Reverse image search to match dirty XTC tablets to lab reports https://pillscanner.app/

https://kauwenofspauwen.be/en Belgian food hygiene rating from official gov reports

ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
https://pillscanner.app Reverse image search for xtc pills for harm reduction purposes. All out of pocket. No monetisation. No analytics
ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
https://pillscanner.app Reverse image search for xtc pills for harm reduction purposes.

All out of pocket. No monetisation. No analytics

ParanoidShroom··on The AI bubble today is bigger than the IT bubble in the 1990s
Do you think FANG companies inflate AI on purpose in order to create a scenario for a bust to happen, they can survive it given their vast warchest of cash
ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
It's harm reduction. Obvious? That's not how the real world works I'm afraid. Where did I claim this "solved" the problem?
ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
A reverse image search to detect dirty xtc pills. https://pillscanner.app/
ParanoidShroom··on Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
Can we see the interoperability requests that meta submitted? That would clarify if the shade is legit.
ParanoidShroom··on The IMEI Code: Your phone’s other number
They are primarily used for configuring your visual voicemail lol. Stop the hyperbolic statements.
ParanoidShroom··on FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
I applied to open garden many years ago, solved their coding challenges but after back and forth it didn't go anywhere.

It seem Stas has since then started clostra.com The fireside chat messenger just rebranded. https://www.newnode.com/download.

I love a good conspiracy but shows little evidence.

ParanoidShroom··on Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
I made a reverse image search when I learned about embeddings. It's pretty fun to work with images https://medium.com/@christophe.smet1/finding-dirty-xtc-with-...
ParanoidShroom··on When America first dropped acid
Shroomery has all the information in the world or just youtube. Spore tend to be legal in many places, then buy sterilised kits and inject, its really easy. You can do it all yourself for a bit less money but then you'll see tricky grain infections can be.

>heroic dose. imho they arent worth it, im making assumption regarding the cancer but you might benefit more from an actual `ceremony`. Not to get spiritual but they are more guided, a guided ayahuasca ceremony might be less intense but I personally think would be a better fit.

Hope you'll be fine.

ParanoidShroom··on I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race
I don't see how one would do that. Mind expanding? You won't turn out dividends and salary sounds highly taxed
ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What are you using Vector Databases for?
A reverse image search where I look for similar images by transforming images to a dense vector set by a finetuned triplet loss model.
ParanoidShroom··on Disney Eliminates Its Metaverse Division
What vision exactly? A requirement of things like a facebook login in apps? Not snarky, genuinely curious what the concrete concern is.
ParanoidShroom··on America’s online privacy problems are much bigger than TikTok
Basing on experience and facts I can only say that since TikTok is new and hasn't had many scandals yet, their privacy reviews and processes internally are not mature or not a priority yet compared to other FANG companies that have been burned by it. And why should they prioritize it over growth? I spoke to devs, and they didn't care at all about their privacy reviews. I'm not a TikTok fan, but this behavior was the same as other FANG companies early days. Yet they are being treated different?
ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
A bunch of captcha OCR software 10 years ago, recaptha(45% success), various file sharing captchas like megaupload etc. It used a neural network before it became cool. Bit embarrassed about the destructive nature, caused a lot of spam for services like twitter. I was a broke student, too bad these things don't have w good future
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