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pedromlsreis

15 karma · joined May 4, 2026

Curious, honest, and an autodidact enthusiast, I'm a data scientist with logical and analytical skills, also passionate about business and ambitious projects, especially in the Financial Services and Energy Markets sectors.
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pedromlsreis··on IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
I think this kind of websites show you the humanity true colours, we don't usually think about that.
pedromlsreis··on Show HN: Net worth tracker to replace your spreadsheet, E2E, no bank logins
This was a solo project, for about a few months of evenings. What it does not defend against, up front: an actively malicious server (the JS-delivery problem that basically every browser-E2E app shares), a compromised device, etc. Those are in the design doc.

I'd most like feedback on the threat model, and on the auth path: login still goes through a normal password-to-server handshake, and moving to a PAKE (OPAQUE/SRP) so the password never reaches the server is the obvious open item I have not done yet. Happy to get into the cryptography also, the no-bank-connection decision, or why it is bootstrapped and not VC scaled.

pedromlsreis··on How long before we stop reading the code?
> the writing and execution of test cases

I'm not sure about this one, though. Today, my experience with LLMs is that they're already pretty helpful for unit test edge cases I wouldn't have thought of. If you mean broader functional tests then maybe, but I wouldn't say the same for unit tests.

pedromlsreis··on The Coming Loop
Right, which basically means that judgment compounds. AI just makes the slope steeper in both directions.
pedromlsreis··on The Coming Loop
Reading through the thread, it's striking how many people are feeling the same mix of excitement and exhaustion you describe. I'm in that camp too... the tools are incredible, but the pace and expectations around them can feel overwhelming.

I fully agree with what you say regarding Boris, but I would emphasize that I don't think he has malicious intention either. He still is doing his job, to showcase the features their product offers.

pedromlsreis··on A tale of two path separators
I'm curious how much of this behaviour is still intentional design vs. just inertia. Are the modern filesystems still constrained by these older choices, or is it mostly for compatibility?
pedromlsreis··on Show HN: I built an 11-LLM consensus engine to detect AI hallucination
Genuine question, how did you get to these 11 LLMs instead of 10 or 12? I'm interested in understanding how you did benchmark these 11 LLMs or whether it was an arbitrary ensemble you selected.
pedromlsreis··on DuckDB Internals Part 1
DuckDB is a great example of how far you can get by removing unnecessary layers... Columnar layout and vectorized execution is a powerful combination for OLAP workloads.
pedromlsreis··on GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
AMALIA, from Portugal, going the same path!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A1lia_(LLM)

pedromlsreis··on Show HN: Chatcode – Remote Control for Claude Code and Codex
You got me curious - why aren't you ready to open-source it? Is it part of the plans, though?

Wrt to multiple products with similar ideas, I fully agree - we also use Uber, Bolt, and many others for the same purpose.

pedromlsreis··on Show HN: Eyeball
0.11% by luck, because I actually got lucky the target number was too close to zero, out of a big scale.
pedromlsreis··on Show HN: Free activity calendar for schools, sports clubs, and organizations
I wonder about the naming choice: FreeCal, even though you can pay for it. What was the rationale about it?