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Scroungeron GPT-5

> I remember reading that llm’s have consumed the internet text data

Not just the internet text data, but most major LLM models have been trained on millions of pirated books via Libgen:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/mark-zuckerberg-gave-metas...

Scroungeron GPT-5

Worth reading Re: IQ tests-

https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...

Scroungeron Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome

If I already have down syndrome, would this still work as an adult?

Scroungeron We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]

How does Ublock origin compare to using Brave Browser + NextDNS (Pi-Hole in the cloud basically) tho?

Because I haven't seen a YouTube ad in a looong time and I don't pay for premium.

I just use this combo.

Scroungeron Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

This is a dope idea, nice job!

I would love to see some UI/UX improvements like split view where the map is on the left and the news reading/scrolling happens on the right reading pane instead of on the bottom while horizontally scrolling.

You could even use AI/LLM's to summarize the most important news from each country etc.

Scroungeron Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

Clarify?

Are you building a Google Trends like tool?

I've been using / testing out such tools lately for market research + discovering new ideas etc.

Scroungeron Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

This is kinda cool.

I would use a polished version.

When I read books, I find myself getting easily distracted since my phone has so many alternative apps/things to do OTHER THAN looking up a word in a dictionary.

Scroungeron Grammarly Is Acquiring Coda

Yup.

I also dislike Grammarly because they made it unnecessarily difficult to cancel my yearly subscription. Instead of allowing me to cancel on my own, they forced me to start a thread with their support team, which felt frustrating and inconvenient.

Additionally, I found Grammarly’s approach a bit aggressive, and it often conflicted with other plugins.

ProWritingAid is another plugin that was awfully buggy.

I switched to LanguageTool, which I genuinely love and support. However, to be honest, I’ve always felt that basic features like grammar checking, proofreading, and editing should be built directly into the operating system, rather than requiring additional plugins. Even LanguageTool isn’t compatible with every app, which can be limiting.

Thanks to advancements in LLMs, I’m finally hopeful that this functionality will become standard, eliminating the need for tools like LanguageTool altogether.

That said, it’s probably a long way off, especially considering how lackluster Apple’s AI capabilities have been so far.

Scroungeron Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for open source projects

> I never discovered any movie on IMDB. I go to IMDB to find trivia, cast or some other fact about a movie that I somehow already knew of.

Then you're clearly using IMDB wrong.

IMDB is owned by Amazon, therefore, their recommendation algorithms are quite good.

And like Amazon, if you create an account and feed it data about your preferences and wishlists, these recommendations get better over time.

I've discovered countless new movies and TV shows I wouldn't have discovered otherwise thanks to IMDB.

Scroungeron For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter

Thanks for that!

Super interesting!

Scroungeron For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter

Those numbers remind me of https://notsoprofound.com/the-unforeseen-lsd-overdose-of-197...

Scroungeron For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter

Sounds awesome!

Scroungeron For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter

> Mark McCloud has about 30,000 tabs of LSD.

Hopefully he won't take all of them like these guys: https://notsoprofound.com/the-unforeseen-lsd-overdose-of-197...

Scroungeron Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

> It is fairly lucrative business, $2b last year from serving the lower end of creative tools market.

Started by some 30 yo Australian chick with no tech background too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep21f3ncvBk

Scroungeron GraphWords: Visual Dictionary and Thesaurus

> And Open English WordNet (https://en-word.net/) which builds on WordNet 3.0 and 3.1, improving the core data both with new words and with fixes to the hierarchy.

This looks dope!

Do you recommend some other viewer type software to use on OS X or is everything self contained in the zip file?

Scroungeron Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

> I needed a docking station, and truth is most of those out there suck

Ain't that the truth.

The "top of the line" CalDigit docks are incredibly expensive and buggy.

...and they're on their 3rd or 4th iteration.

Plus not much competition, so not much choice either.

If I could go back, I would have also gotten a single ultrawide monitor.

Plus Macbook Pros multiple monitor support sucks relative to windows AFAIK.