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navs

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About navs

Software engineer, AU/NZ/Fiji Working on testfeed [dot] ai

sirmews [at] gmail [dot] com

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    Having run a small social media SaaS for a while, the amount of AI bots (and I say AI bots because the comments and direct messages sent by them definitely read like AI), was stagg…

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    I see it all over Reddit. I don't really interact with them enough to know what the content is but anecdotally yes.

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    If this means that Google will do eventually do age verification then I think I trust them more than I trust Persona.

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    As bad as these VCs seem to be it's something to see Prince socializing with other bad actors like Maguire while lamenting the bad actors in the space.

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    This looks like something worth trying and I'm glad it's open source. I've been using https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber for a few months now and I'm pleased with its featu…

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    I have a few hacks that work for me, documented here: https://open.substack.com/pub/theperfectlycromulent/p/how-to... tl;dr Don’t keep your charger handy. Don’t have a good charger…

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    As much as I like to hate MCP, it has a place in its accessibility outside terminal based agents and in its ability to wrangle data before it’s consumed by the agent requesting it.…

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    I mean this is an article coming from an SEO company that's really just trying to advertise its services in the end. Their methodology seems very loose.

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    I'm still astounded that Polymarket, as a feature, is embedded inside Substack. Not a third-party plugin but baked into the platform. YouTube is one thing. It's practically ubiquit…

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    Currently piloting the use of JSD for a synthetic audience survey application, measuring how closely the synthetic response distribution matches a human panel. Been knee-deep tryin…

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    I worked on something similar but with a more naive text matching approach that's saved me many many times so far. https://github.com/sirmews/claude-hook-advisor Yours is so much m…

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    Ask HN: When is it ok to drop support for a platform?

    I recently started a role in a startup focused on building an audience specific social media product. There's a lot to do here and we have a native Android app, a native iOS app, a…

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    Comment #45500054

    I lost my dad the same way in Fiji. At the time I chalked it up to it being Fiji, long considered a third world country. I guess it could have happened anywhere.

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    Have implemented Statsig in two companies as alternatives to LaunchDarkly and loved it both times. Going to be interesting how their other big customer deals with this purchase i.e…