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soared commented on I hacked Monster Energy bobdahacker.com/blog/mons... · Posted by u/speckx

bn-l · an hour ago

This is a customer avatar. It’s standard marketing theory. And likely know who their customers are.

soared · 31 minutes ago

Avatar or persona is a literal fake person. “This Steve Doe. He works in construction and is 29 years old. He is in a lower income bracket and drinks a monster every weekday with lunch”.

The example in the post is a super generic target market.”gen z, lower income”

soared commented on Privately-Owned Rail Cars amtrak.com/privately-owne... · Posted by u/jasoncartwright

righthand · 2 days ago

This better than every wealthy person owning an RV. Though there is still the last mile problem. Does my personal train car have a vehicle on board (probably I’m rich in this scenario)?

Groups of wealthy people could split a train car. Private Train-car time shares?

soared · 2 days ago

If you can afford one, you can surely afford a second one to put your car/bike/gear/stuff in

soared commented on Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero mindflash.org/coding/ai/a... · Posted by u/AntwaneB

patcon · 3 days ago

I like the spirit of these, but there are waaaay more. Like you only mentioned the ones for professional and skilled coders who have another option. What about all the sub-examples for people all the way from "technically unskilled" to "baby-step coders". There's a bunch of things they can now just do and get in front of ppl without us.

Going from "thing in my head that I need to pay someone $100/h to try" to "thing a user can literally use in 3 minutes that will make that hypothetical-but-nonexistent $100/h person cry"... like there is way more texture of roles in that territory than your punchy comment gives credit. No one cares is it's maintainable if they now know what's possible, and that matters 1000x more than future maintenance concerns. People spend years working up to this step that someone can now simply jank out* in 3 minutes.

* to jank out. verb. 1. to crank out via vibe-coding, in the sense of productive output.

soared · 3 days ago

Agreed. Video game idea that’s been in my head for years, but not sure if it’s actually fun? Too lazy to sit down for a few days and make it. Went back and forth with an llm for 30 mins and I had more of a game than was even in my head.

soared commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

userbinator · 3 days ago

As I've been saying for a while now - if you want to filter for only humans, ask questions only a human can easily answer; counting the number of letters in a word seems to be a good way to filter out LLMs, for example. Yes, that can be relatively easily gotten around, just like Anubis, but with the benefit that it doesn't filter out humans and has absolutely minimal system requirements (a browser that can submit HTML forms), possibly even less than the site itself.

There are forums which ask domain-specific questions as a CAPTCHA upon attempting to register an account, and as someone who has employed such a method, it is very effective. (Example: what nominal diameter is the intake valve stem on a 1954 Buick Nailhead?)

soared · 3 days ago

Tried and true method! An old video game forum named moparscape used to ask what mopar was and I always had to google it

soared commented on Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX... · Posted by u/maxraven

soared · 5 days ago

I wonder if this would be good for vibe coding / natural language for enemy AI. IE, place an enemy down and tell it: “every 3 seconds fire an arrow at the player. If the player is within 7 tiles of you, stop firing arrows, path to the player, and attack it with a sword. When your health reaches 10% run away from the player”

soared commented on Teaching GPT-5 to Use a Computer prava.co/archon/... · Posted by u/Areibman

soared · 5 days ago

Can I use Archon? There is a use case I’ve wanted to explore and this tool can do most of it

soared commented on Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider voidfox.com/blog/payment_... · Posted by u/progval

flopsamjetsam · 7 days ago

> This is because in the US, anyone can pull money out of your account with only the ACH numbers

Whoa, I don't blame people for not wanting to provide ACH numbers in that case. Is there any groundswell to provide a system where this doesn't happen?

soared · 6 days ago

No, since software if built around existing limitations. IE stripe invoices will generate a single use account number per invoice, so you can give that to someone who needs to pay. Aligns payment with invoice since they’re 1:1 and you can pull out funds since it’s always empty

soared commented on Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks zenobiapay.com/blog/open-... · Posted by u/pranay01

soared · 10 days ago

Super interesting read! I work in payments for context and see tons of different payment methods every day. People tend to find a payment method they like, and really only ever use that one method. It’s very hard to get someone to switch - even if an alternative is better. It’s just so ingrained to swipe that same card, click the same autofill button, etc.

Digital wallets did somehow over come this, and those would be a super challenging but potentially valid approach #4. If Zenobia is in Apple Pay, google pay, link, etc it’s natural and easy for customers, saves money for merchants, and disrupts visa/etc without disrupting anything else (ie making people us QR codes).

Tough problem. You need a Jony Ive on your team to help solve it.

Or do like pix and give everyone $1500, but only if they use Zenobia :)

soared commented on Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy washingtonpost.com/nation... · Posted by u/reaperducer

IAmGraydon · 10 days ago

Oof that is very damning. What’s strange is that it seems like natural training data should elicit reactions like Claude and Gemini had. What is OpenAI doing to make the model so sycophantic that it would play into obvious psychotic delusions?

soared · 10 days ago

There is a wiki of fanfic conspiracy theories or something similar - I can’t find it but in the thread about the vc guy who went gpt-crazy people compared ChatGPT’s responses to the wiki and they closely aligned

soared commented on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack twitter.com/p3b7_/status/... · Posted by u/treyd

moomin · 11 days ago

To summarise:

* One actor in the space appears to have done a proof of concept takeover of 51%.

* It’s not clear there was any malicious action nor intent in doing so.

* Performing something like this is definitely expensive.

* The potential impact of doing so is disputed.

* Whether or not it was achieved is also disputed

However, what has been known you some time is that the largest BitCoin miners have more power than the entire community of many alt-coins. Whether this is an issue is a matter for debate. Certainly, until now, no-one has chosen to flex like this.

soared · 11 days ago

Way more context here https://www.cointribune.com/en/qubic-hits-52-72-of-moneros-t...