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invalidusernam3 commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
invalidusernam3 · a month ago
I recently launched one of my small side projects. It's quick online multiple choice code tests aimed at recruiters to evaluate applicants: https://hashtagcode.io

The goal was to make a simple way for recruiters to create coding tests to screen people applying for jobs, and to make the process quick and easy for applicants. The default is a 15 minute multiple choice test across a few different domains.

I will eventually monetise it (when I have more free time) but for now it's free (1000 invites) so I can get feedback and improve it

invalidusernam3 commented on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"   simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/simonw
throwaway439080 · 2 months ago
Kind of amazing the author just takes everything at face value and doesn't even consider the possibility that there's a hidden layer of instructions. Elon likes to meddle with Grok whenever the mood strikes him, leading to Grok's sudden interest in Nazi topics such as South African "white genocide" and calling itself MechaHitler. Pretty sure that stuff is not in the instructions Grok will tell the user about.
invalidusernam3 · 2 months ago
The "MechaHitler" things is particularly obvious in my opinion, it aligns so closely to Musk's weird trying-to-be-funny thing that he does.

There's basically no way an LLM would come up with a name for itself that it consistently uses unless it's extensively referred to by that name in the training data (which is almost definitely not the case here for public data since I doubt anyone on Earth has ever referred to Grok as "MechaHitler" prior to now) or it's added in some kind of extra system prompt. The name seems very obviously intentional.

invalidusernam3 commented on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X   nytimes.com/2025/07/09/te... · Posted by u/donohoe
gorwell · 2 months ago
Yes, it did. Every large platform including Twitter was censoring its users due to state pressure. Even Facebook has since admitted that they were told to censor information that was true, and they knew to be true.
invalidusernam3 · 2 months ago
What are you basing this on? Because:

https://www.carolinapoliticalreview.org/editorial-content/20...

> the report shows X’s dedication to content moderation by suspending millions of accounts and removing harmful posts, which could potentially help rebuild trust among users concerned with safety and dangerous behavior. On the other hand, this increased moderation contradicts Musk’s earlier promise of promoting free speech, something he has been very vocal about, potentially alienating users who see X becoming more restrictive.

invalidusernam3 commented on The $25k car is going extinct?   media.hubspot.com/why-the... · Posted by u/pseudolus
1970-01-01 · 2 months ago
Completely unmentioned: Chinese EVs are $10k worldwide except USA.

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2024/08/2025-byd-seagull-ev-sta...

invalidusernam3 · 2 months ago
BYD Seagull is $14k in Czech Republic.
invalidusernam3 commented on Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto   thedeletedscenes.substack... · Posted by u/wyclif
myflash13 · 2 months ago
This is a function of affordability and low regulation. Another place I’ve been to which has so many lovely tiny little coffee shops and boutiques which may also happen to be someone’s home is Lviv, Ukraine.
invalidusernam3 · 2 months ago
Regulation is definitely the big stopper in most of the EU. Here in Czech Republic it would be incredibly difficult to open anything like this.

I almost opened a cafe/bar a couple years back, I even had a reservation deposit on a location, had the money to renovate it, had money put aside for it to fully fund the rent and utilities and staff for a year, but in the end I scrapped the idea because of the bureaucracy.

I needed: a hospitality trade license , a certificate from the inspectors for food hygiene and public health, a certificate for fire/gas/electrical safety, registration with the customs office, staff needed to do training for food handling, and I needed to register the kitchen with the regional hygiene office. It's not unreasonable, but it's a lot of bureaucracy for something I wanted to do as a fun side project

invalidusernam3 commented on Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot   neilchen.co/blog/kasa... · Posted by u/NWChen
dankwizard · 2 months ago
Guarantee the OP used this for a week and never touched it again. Those without self control cannot be trusted if they hold the switch.
invalidusernam3 · 2 months ago
I've had a time limit set on my phone for twitter + instagram to only allow 15 minutes of usage per day. There's an "ignore limit" button when you go over the time but it's surprising how few times I've actually pressed it. 99% of the time I go "yep, that's enough of that for today" and close the app
invalidusernam3 commented on Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book   understandingai.org/p/met... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
invalidusernam3 · 3 months ago
Difference is if it's used commercially or not. Me singing my favourite song at karaoke is fine, but me recording that and releasing it on Spotify is not
invalidusernam3 commented on AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'   livescience.com/technolog... · Posted by u/anonymousiam
DrNosferatu · 6 months ago
Its inevitable: software (and other systems) will also become like this.
invalidusernam3 · 6 months ago
One of the junior developers I worked with years ago wrote code that humans couldn't understand, maybe he was was just ahead of his time
invalidusernam3 commented on Crows and Magpies Snatch Anti-Bird Spikes to Build Their Nests   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/speckx
invalidusernam3 · a year ago
I witnessed this first hand this spring when a pair of magpies were building a nest in the tree outside my apartment. The tree still didn't have leaves so I could track the progress they made each day. They had a least a couple of anti-bird spikes in their construction (amongst other non-organic materials I couldn't quite make out), but the thing I was most surprised by was the size of the nest, it was huge
invalidusernam3 commented on Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma   lunduniversity.lu.se/arti... · Posted by u/belter
plasma_beam · a year ago
If the correlation is proven true then that’s obviously terrible, but I’m in my mid 40s now, tattoo-less, and one of my biggest regrets is not getting a couple tattoos when I was younger. I feel like doing it now looks like a midlife crisis type thing. I always wanted one of those Thai tattoos where they manually tap tap tap the design into your skin with a mallet.
invalidusernam3 · a year ago
Who cares if others think it's a midlife crisis, do what makes you happy. I'm nearing 40 and still get a couple tattoos a year. I love the feeling of a new tattoo, it boosts my confidence and gives me a sense of accomplishment for sitting through the fairly painful process.

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