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Benn Jordan – This Flock Camera Leak Is Like Netflix for Stalkers [video](youtube.com)
270 points by SamInTheShell 9mo ago|4 comments
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
Kinda scratching my head as to why this has a backend... uses ruby... needs a database. It's cool though.
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
I just imagine the most hilarious form of this idea being a panel that lays behind the plate that is part of the car. The panel containing an array of IR leds that flood everything behind the car with invisible light. Imagine going out side
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
Which thing?
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
Genuinely don’t know. The hack here is exploiting artifacts from over exposure for the camera sensor. As to if they have mitigating features to filter non visible light, I’m actually curious.
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
Seem to recall license plates are required to be illuminated as well. What's stopping someone from just adding an additional IR light to those enclosures? Couldn't you just slap an additional bright enough IR light in that makes i
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
Really doubt most people put much thought into it at all. Critical thinking is a dying skill.
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
The thing I really don't get is why people are devaluing their own voices with slop. Too many people are just pressing what they think is an "easy" button and calling it good. What they lose in the process is their voice, the
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
Kinda funny if it returned an ad for puppy chow. Realistically I doubt an ad presented would actually be tied to the context beyond the seed used for a vector lookup.
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
I tried out EmbeddingGemma a few weeks back in AB testing against nomic-embed-text-v1. I got way better results out of the nomic model. Runs fine on CPU as well.
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
Not a lawyer, but if you're talking USA, would recommend checking regularly for updates: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ Even if AI output isn't copyrightable, could you really argue a solid case if I taint ran
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
I'm inclined to isolate the chat processes only if I keep the bash tool. I'm undecided if I'm keeping it in. Implementing an MCP server in python is dead easy and so is making a bash tool. Right now I'm more interested i
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
I've seen that before. Idk how I feel about that pattern in general. When I see any of the tools I use do stuff like `bash(cmd... I didn't ask your permissions - hehe!~)`, I get a bit pissed that it wasn't a straight up stand
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
Isolation is a smart idea for these things, as you literally can't verify their behavior beyond "it's kinda doing the thing most of the time". My chat app just kinda settles for "you can require permissions and audi
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Show HN: Vibe coded an AI chat app with features I wanted, Poe(github.com)
1 points by SamInTheShell 10mo ago|6 comments
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
There seems to be about the same level of effort with Elixir as there is for a language like Kotlin. The free sandwich I'm referring to with Go is the ability to just do `go funcnamehere()` and that's running concurrently and in p
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
Haha, yeah. Idk any other language where I practically get a free parallelization+concurrency sandwich. It's kept me coming back to Go for a decade now, despite them using a signal that prevents using it for system level libraries. The
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
Kinda wonder what the extent of this is. You can get some really great results from your employees by mandating shit like this. /s I use AI daily and frankly I love it while thinking of it from the context of "I write some rough i
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
Went in thinking "Have you heard of Go?"... but this turned out to be about GPU computing.
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
So what do you do when the context engineer rolls up into chat and jailbreaks the system prompt that was designed? Do you just hire them on the spot? This literally isn’t what LLMs are designed for nor are they good at.
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
Right there with you on this. These car companies would just be better served ripping out their telemetry stacks and just providing a screen that only supports a phone driving it. I pulled the jumper for the telemetry stacks in my last two
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
The type of stuff I tend to do is much more complex than a simple website. I really can't rely on AI as heavily for stuff that I really enjoy tinkering with. There's just not enough data for them to train on to truly solve distrib
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
That's weird. I can prompt 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4.5 about the same for most typescript problems and they end up doing about the same. I get different results with Terraform though, I think Gemini 2.5 Pro does better on some Google
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
Which model are you using though? When I run out of Gemini 2.5 Pro and it falls back to the Flash model, the Flash model is absolute trash for sure. I have to prompt it like I do local models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has shown me good results though
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
Smells like vaporware or a scam. I'll be surprised if this churns out anything that actually is secure and private. If you're not running it on your own hardware and completely offline it's not private. I can prove that.
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
Currently today, I would say these models can be used by someone with minimal knowledge to churn out SPAs with React. They can probably get pretty far into making logins, message systems, and so on because there is lots of training data for
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
> Gemini and it's tooling is absolute shit. Which model were you using? In my experience Gemini 2.5 Pro is just as good as Claude Sonnet 4 and 4.5. It's literally what I use as a fallback to wrap something up if I hit the 5 hou
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
Code losing value was my first take away when trialing out these coder agents. I think one of the skills I leverage more now than I have had to in the past is "How can I break this" thinking. The ability to validate the results is
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
No. You may not even talk around the topics. This explicitly comes with the training. Anyone asks me about my last job, I don’t really state much more than what the job title was and what the job postings said for the role I applied to.
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
This makes me feel more justified in using Posting in my terminal these days.

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