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I built a similar tool that profiles/roasts your HN account: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/ It’s funny and occasionally scary Edit: be aware, usernames are case sensitive
Finally I am understood.
A while back I made a little script (for fun/curiosity) that would do this for HN profiles. It’d use their submission and comment history to infer a profile including similar stuff like location, political leaning, career, age, sex, etc. Main motivation was seeing some surprising takes in various comment threads and being curious about where it might have came from. Obviously no idea how accurate the profiles were, b…
I built a similar tool that profiles/roasts your HN account: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/ It’s funny and occasionally scary Edit: be aware, usernames are case sensitive
I built a similar tool that profiles/roasts your HN account: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/ It’s funny and occasionally scary Edit: be aware, usernames are case sensitive
I feel seen > Your profile reads like a 'Hacker News Bingo' card: NASA, PhD, Python, 'Ask HN' about cheating, and a strong opinion on Reddit's community. The only thing missing is a post about your custom ergonomic keyboard made from recycled space shuttle parts.
You know what must be done.
After reading this I realized I also have an archive of my pocket account (4200 items), so tried the same prompt with o3, gemini 2.5 pro, and opus 4: - chatgpt UI didn't allow me to submit the input, saying it's too large. Although it was around 80k tokens, less than o3's 200k context size. - gemini 2.5 pro: worked fine for personality and interest related parts of the profile, but it failed the age range, job role,…
What was it doing for those 13 seconds? Is it fetching content for the links? How many links could it fetch in 13 seconds? Maybe it is going by the link URLs only instead of fetching the link content?
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You should take this as a sign, and shoot for SWE jobs - given your interest. What you do at work today doesn't mean you can't switch to a related ladder.
Sometimes it’s nice for hobbies to remain hobbies
After a few years post graduation, where I wasn't sure what I wanted to do and I floundered to find a career, I decided to give software development a try, and risk ruining my favorite hobby.
Definitely the best decision I could have made. Now people pay me a lot of money to do the thing I love to do the most... what's not to love? 20 years later, it I still my favorite hobby, and they keep paying me to do it.
When moving my links from Pocket to Wallabag I passed them through Claude for tagging. Worked very well
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Sometimes it’s nice for hobbies to remain hobbies
I believed this, which is what made me avoid computer science in college; I wanted to avoid ruining my favorite hobby. After a few years post graduation, where I wasn't sure what I wanted to do and I floundered to find a career, I decided to give software development a try, and risk ruining my favorite hobby. Definitely the best decision I could have made. Now people pay me a lot of money to do the thing I love to do…
If they get out of the way and let you do the thing you love how you want to do it you'll get good results for you and them.
If they treat you like a cog in a machine and assume they need to carrot and stick you into doing things because you might not really want to be there, you'll be miserable.