> NPC-core, but with venture capital vibes.
Ouch, that one stung!
Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
81–90 of 153 posts
Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
#82> Okay, let's tackle this roast based on the user's data. First, I need to pick the three most unusual bits. The user is using Safari 17.6 on Mac OS 10.15.7. Wait, macOS 10.15 is Catalina, which is pretty old now—like from 2019. That's a bit outdated, so that's unusual. Next, the screen resolution is 1024x1366. That's a taller screen than usual. Most common resolutions are wider, so maybe they're using an older iPad…
iPadOS’s Safari user agent identifies itself as macOS, that’s why. Prior to iPadOS it did contain the string iPad; that was removed. So it can’t tell if it’s an iPad or a Mac with a small vertical screen, although a human would consider the former more likely.
Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
#83> Roast: Your 324px-wide screen must be a flip phone from 2004, you’re browsing Hacker News like it’s a personality trait, and Australia’s most exciting export is apparently your Firefox-on-Android-15 setup with 8 cores just to read tech bro headlines.
Bravo, No one in person has given a better roast of my FF on GrapheneOS or DownUnder. I'm sold
Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
#84> your Danish language setting in Croydon screams "I VPN to Copenhagen for overpriced pastries." First time an LLM made me laugh
Now that I think about it, I don't think I had laughed at an LLM text yet. Non-ironically pretty cool!
Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
#85> Congrats, you can almost high-five yourself for reading tech bro hot takes on a beta iOS version like it’s a personality. Your setup screams “I refresh Y Combinator in a bathroom stall,” and your Safari browser agrees.
Yup, pretty accurate! Funny it also thinks my 15 Pro is an old iPhone since I’m using lower resolution.
Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
#86It misreads my RAM as being stock, so I guess it's basing it on the model and not the actual system info Edit, nevermind, the user agent reports it wrong, didn't know that could happen Also it seems like in a second attempt, it got caught in a loop, of trying to cycle among the same 3 "unusual" things but deciding it wasn't unique enough
Most browsers won’t report anything higher than 8, even if your system has more memory.
I think its related to fingerprinting attacks.
Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
#87> Okay, let's tackle this roast based on the user's data. First, I need to pick the three most unusual bits. The user is using Safari 17.6 on Mac OS 10.15.7. Wait, macOS 10.15 is Catalina, which is pretty old now—like from 2019. That's a bit outdated, so that's unusual. Next, the screen resolution is 1024x1366. That's a taller screen than usual. Most common resolutions are wider, so maybe they're using an older iPad…
I got similar results and it was kind of hokey.
While I'm incredibly glad we're getting open source LLMs with chain of thought, I'm not really impressed by its current use cases. LLMs are all same-y and it feels like we're getting loafs of cheesy language spam without much sci-fi future.
I expect for this kind of tech to have really novel use cases. For it to sit between me and the internet and remove the ads, nuke time wasting clickbait, and obliterate low-information irrelevant noise. For it to be my personal bodyguard that protects me from any and all forms of attention stealer.
I want this to be tech to give birth to an anti-Google, anti-social media algo, anti-advertiser terminator from the future. Something that torpedoes the previous paradigm and that does it so quickly that the old purveyors can't adjust in time.
It would be delightful if in 10 months from now, internet advertising no longer worked at all and that everyone adopted these same protections for themselves.
It seems like this tech is capable of doing it already.
Please someone make this. I want advertisers to pay me if they want access to my brain.
Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
#88“Your iPhone screen is so skinny it’s basically a vertical Hot Dog mode survivor, you came here from Hacker News like a Vancouverite cosplaying as a Silicon Valley “disruptor,” and with 5 max touch points, your phone’s ready for a jazz hand performance nobody asked for.”
This is indeed how it feels to browse HackerNews from the frozen wastes of Vancouver.
Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
#89> Your Hacker News referrer screams "I argue in the comments unironically," your 12 CPU cores confirm you need all that power to procrastinate on Catalina like it's 2019, and Richmond's only quirk here is hosting a Mac that somehow hasn't died of FOMO from missing software updates.
I'm on an M4 MacMini, running MacOS Sonoma. It's definitely a little confused, but that could be Arc failing to properly report the User Agent? Not sure. Kinda funny, none the less.
Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
#90> Okay, let's tackle this roast based on the user's data. First, I need to pick the three most unusual bits. The user is using Safari 17.6 on Mac OS 10.15.7. Wait, macOS 10.15 is Catalina, which is pretty old now—like from 2019. That's a bit outdated, so that's unusual. Next, the screen resolution is 1024x1366. That's a taller screen than usual. Most common resolutions are wider, so maybe they're using an older iPad…
I got similar results and it was kind of hokey. While I'm incredibly glad we're getting open source LLMs with chain of thought, I'm not really impressed by its current use cases. LLMs are all same-y and it feels like we're getting loafs of cheesy language spam without much sci-fi future. I expect for this kind of tech to have really novel use cases. For it to sit between me and the internet and remove the ads, nuke t…
I've been working on exactly this. Great to know there's some demand for it.
It's now my daily driver for web access. It monitors for content I'm interested in (that's how I found your comment), handles all my searches and feeds, can dynamically adapt its interface, and is working on integrations to submit content for me so that I don't have to leave that interface to write these replies.
Hoping to release it early March but I'm a bit stuck on how to position it. I'm not a marketer and I think it'll just get drowned in the sea of "agent" slop.
Having a full-on buffer between yourself and the internet is a breath of fresh air but I have no idea how I would have found such a thing if I hadn't made it.
Maybe a curator or a bouncer or something. Open to suggestions if anyone has some.