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I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by alexnorton »

saeedesmaili wrote: post #16

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,…

I was able to give this a try on every YouTube video I've ever watched by exporting the history from Google Takeout:

https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/youtube?p...

And then a combination of pup and jq to parse the video titles from the HTML file:

  cat watch-history.html \
    | pup '.outer-cell .mdl-grid .content-cell:nth-child(2) json{}' \
    | jq -r '.[] .children[0] | select(.tag != "br") | select(.text | startswith("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=") | not) | .text' \
    > videos.txt

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by noperator »

vladsanchez wrote: post #141

What's your Pocket replacement? Wallabag, Hoarder or something else?

Moved to Wallabag, but note that I don't read anything via Wallabag (or Pocket) UI. I export saved items as an RSS feed which I consume in an RSS reader like Inoreader or FreshRSS.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by noperator »

PureSin wrote: post #142

Thanks for the reminder that Pocket sunset is tomorrow. I did a quick analysis of my data as well via Claude Code: https://blog.kelvin.ma/posts/an-ode-to-pocket-analysis-of-ex...

Awesome! I found this section interesting: https://blog.kelvin.ma/posts/an-ode-to-pocket-analysis-of-ex...

I don't think of HN as a source itself but rather a way to discover sources. So I think my Pocket data reflects sources that I've discovered, but to your point, doesn't represent everything I've read from those sources.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by micromacrofoot »

> but up until recently it felt like only Google or Facebook had access to analysis capabilities strong enough to draw meaningful conclusions from disparate data points

Every advertiser can access data like this easily, when you click "yeah sure" on every cookie banner this is the sort of data you're handing over... you could buy it too.

Every time someone says "they're listening to your conversations" we need to point out that with a surprisingly small amount of metadata across a large number of people, they can make inferred behavioral predictions that are good enough that they don't need to listen (it's still much more expensive to do so)

On a macro level people are very predictable, and we should be more reluctant about freely giving away the data that makes this so... because it's mostly being using against us.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by Ambroos »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #23

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

> We all appreciate the data, but seriously, get a hobby that doesn't involve arguing with a car's GPS.

Brutal, and very accurate. This is great!

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by sram1337 »

gorgoiler wrote: post #148

Interesting article. Bizarrely it makes me wish I’d used Pocket more! Tangentially, with LLMs I’m getting very tired with the standard patter one sees in their responses. You’ll recognize the general format of chatty output: Platitude! Here’s a bunch of words that a normal human being would say followed by the main thrust of the response that two plus two is four. Here are some more words that plausibly sound human!…

That is an issue with general use LLM apps like ChatGPT - they have to have wide appeal, so if you want replies that are differ from what the average user wants, you're going to have a bad time.

OpenAI has said they are working on making ChatGPT's output more configurable

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by insane_dreamer »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #23

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

> HN's grumpy, yet insightful, truth-teller

Ouch.

The Roast section was hilariously cutting, and not untrue.

Top Three Technologies: Are these supposed to be my favorites? Or just what I post about? Either way it got them wrong.

Predictions: I didn't know LLMs were capable of that type of sarcasm. Very clever.

Kudos

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