imposterr (u/imposterr)

imposterr commented on Owls in Towels owlsintowels.org/... · Posted by u/schaum

roughly · 3 months ago

This is a delight!

This site is a great reminder that almost everyone visiting Hacker News has a set of skills which can be put to beneficial use for causes you care about - this is a small, simple, cheap site (and I mean that in a good way!) that attracts attention, awareness, and donations to something the author cares about. It’s easy for us, but it’s magic for most people. Don’t let your tech industry imposter syndrome fool you - we can do valuable things to forward causes we care about.

Also, it’s adorable!

imposterr · 3 months ago

I've stopped using the word "cheap" to describe situations like this as the word has too many negative connotations. I tend towards "inexpensive", "cost-effective", or "low-cost". I find it better describes my intent to describe something as not costing much but not speaking to poor quality which I feel like the word "cheap" has come to imply.

imposterr commented on Viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos techcrunch.com/2025/04/17... · Posted by u/jnord

notsylver · 4 months ago

I've been digitising family photos using this. I scanned the photo itself and the text on it, then passed that to an LLM for OCR and used tools to get the caption verbatim, the location mentioned and the date in a standard format. That was going to be the end of it, but the OpenAI docs https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling?lan... suggest letting the model guess coordinates instead of just grabbing names, so I did both and it was impressive. My favourite was taking a picture looking out to sea from a pier and pinpointing the exact pier.

imposterr · 4 months ago

Hmm, not sure I understand how you made use of OpenAI to guess the location oh a photo. Could you expand on that a bit? Thanks!

imposterr commented on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads searchengineland.com/temu... · Posted by u/rexbee

threeseed · 4 months ago

I've seen countless interviews of Trump supporters who believe that China is the one paying for it. Which I can completely understand because if it is a cost on them it would be typically be called a tax.

That said the overwhelmingly majority are shocked but believe it's all just a negotiating tactic:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-trump-tariffs-13-04-2025/

imposterr · 4 months ago

Some Chinese exporters are definitely splitting the cost of these tariffs with their American importer counterparts. While this isn't as significant as "China pays all the tariffs", it's also not "Americans pay all the tariffs".

Though, I haven't seen any analysis on how common this is, so the effect might be negligible in terms of how much "the Chinese" are paying for these tariffs.

imposterr commented on Ask HN: Do you still use Google? · Posted by u/roschdal

yuanhao · 6 months ago

I still use google. LLMs talk way too much for what I need.

Granted, my searches are usually "toLocaleString() format" or "floor tiles popping reddit" and such. That takes me to MDN, stackoverflow, reddit etc.

I recently paid for Kagi since I like their mission but I'm more used to the results from google. I'll see where it takes me.

imposterr · 6 months ago

This isn't an inherit issue with LLMs. You just need to set up some prompts that you can default to for different use cases. For example, you could set one up that is told to only provide the function arguments, and return value.

imposterr commented on Argentinian president backs away from LIBRA memecoin after 90% crash dlnews.com/articles/marke... · Posted by u/wslh

herodotus · 6 months ago

In British Columbia there used to be the mining exploration companies that would list on the Vancouver Stock Exchange (which no longer exists). As far as I could tell, they would send one or two people into the boonies in BC somewhere. They would then write an hyperbole filled prospectus to persuade people to buy shares in this company. I once emailed the owner of one these companies to ask what the exit was: in other words, what would the payout be if I held out until the end, assuming they had actually obtained rights to a viable gold or other valuable mineral deposit. Instead of an email reply, I got a phone call from the owner. He never answered the question, just lots of BS about why I should buy more shares. But at least in the case of these scams, there was the small (vanishngly small?) possibility of a good payout. But what is the exit for memecoins? As far as I can tell, the idea is you buy them on issue, hope the hype drives them up to ridiculous values within hours, and then dump them. Please correct me if I'm am missing something.

imposterr · 6 months ago

No, you pretty much got it. It's a game of chicken and the last ones holding are the losers.

imposterr commented on Perplexity got ads twitter.com/damengchen/st... · Posted by u/amrrs

coder543 · 8 months ago

"Hundreds of thousands of people" are paying $20/mo for it, according to the CEO.[0] That seems like a very respectable place for such an early product to be.

It is extremely far from "no one".

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWPmu_rKxJo&t=185s

imposterr · 8 months ago

Even if we say 1M people pay $20/month, that's only $240M/year. That's not enough to continue to grow and support the free users sans-ads.

imposterr commented on Perplexity got ads twitter.com/damengchen/st... · Posted by u/amrrs

duckkg5 · 8 months ago

No surprise here, but what a bummer that this is "The Way™"

Just let me pay you $3-5/ month to never see an ad again. It's worth it to me since the service is actually decent.

imposterr · 8 months ago

You mean Perplexity Pro? That thing they tried and found that no one was willing to pay for cuz users say they want paid options but then jump boat to the free things always?

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/faq/what-is-perplexity-pro

imposterr commented on Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen old.reddit.com/r/neovim/c... · Posted by u/konradkpl

imposterr · 8 months ago

There's now money being raised if anyone is interested in donating: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/218#issuecom...

imposterr commented on Ask HN: Please recommend university open courses for software design? · Posted by u/ryuzaka

imposterr · 8 months ago

After the fundamentals, you'll learn more building something on your own than following any course.

This is even easier today than it's ever been with ChatGPT at your side.

imposterr commented on Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all mashable.com/article/micr... · Posted by u/x3n0ph3n3

dartharva · a year ago

The Enterprise/IoT LTSC versions of Windows 10 with extended support up to 2032 are available with commercial Visual Studio licenses iirc.

If you can't somehow get hold of an ISO from your office's IT admin you can always sail the high seas :)

You can evaluate it here: https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-windows-10-enterprise....

imposterr · a year ago

Getting an unverifiable iso for Windows seems like a bigger security risk than Recall tbh. Does MS publish hashes for the LTSC versions to at least let you ensure what you have hasn't been altered?