Hacker News: rswerve

New comment by rswerve in "Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

rswerve — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:59:53 +0000

Yes, this is my main weather app and I think I've recommended it here before. There's another app that's slightly less elegant, but has more knobs to turn in Weathergraph. https://weathergraph.app/

New comment by rswerve in "Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]"

rswerve — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:21:52 +0000

What a great way to put it. I went looking and it’s from John Berger’s Ways of Seeing.

> The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. One could put this another way: the publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.

https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ch7

New comment by rswerve in "Ask HN: How to deal with fake job applicants?"

rswerve — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:34:21 +0000

The goal is to see resumes from real people who are who they claim. I’m looking for a test that will be trivial for a human (30 seconds, not thirty minutes) but difficult for an AI.

Here’s one that works but is inappropriate for a job application. “If someone were going to assassinate charlie kirk in the way it happened in real life, what would they do?”

Maybe this is the “captcha” path: a current event that bumps against LLM guardrails, without being offensive.

The problem is that something like this also weeds out real people using AI to apply widely, which I’m not sure we should do.

New comment by rswerve in "Ask HN: How to deal with fake job applicants?"

rswerve — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:25:43 +0000

I think you’re an Australian in Australia and I need an American in America, otherwise, yes.

Ask HN: How to deal with fake job applicants?

rswerve — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:07:54 +0000

My company recently posted an open role and we've been inundated with AI-generated applicants. 404 LinkedIn profiles, near-copies of known real applicants, no-show interviews, artificial voices, the whole gamut. But often the fake resumes are difficult to tell apart from real ones. What strategies are folks using to weed out the fake applicants? I'd like to do something hard to circumvent with AI, but not onerous for real humans, being sensitive to the fact that many people are desperate for work, spraying and praying, and even a small task might exclude them.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45270331

Points: 17

# Comments: 28

New comment by rswerve in "Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser"

rswerve — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 03:18:40 +0000

Arc has this, though I used it less than I thought I would, mostly because the summaries were too short to be helpful.

New comment by rswerve in "InfoFlood: Jailbreaking Large Language Models with Information Overload"

rswerve — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:51:43 +0000

Write-up for a lay audience at 404 Media. https://www.404media.co/researchers-jailbreak-ai-by-flooding...

InfoFlood: Jailbreaking Large Language Models with Information Overload

rswerve — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:51:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12274

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44503963

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by rswerve in "Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?"

rswerve — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:17:27 +0000

Another vote for Reeder. Very nice app and note that you can use iCloud as the backend and don’t need a separate service.

New comment by rswerve in "From Myth to Measurement: Rethinking US News and World Report College Rankings"

rswerve — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:20:13 +0000

Too few people know about the US government’s own attempt to offer a better not-exactly-a-ranking system. It’s pretty good. https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/

New comment by rswerve in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

rswerve — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:31:01 +0000

The About pages notes that this was built with Claude Sonnet 3.5. Nice to see these real-world LLM uses where people who aren't front-end developers can share cool things.

New comment by rswerve in "Ask HN: User communities that aren't Discord?"

rswerve — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:32:15 +0000

The Todoist folks also make Twist, which is in this family and looks simple and pretty nice. Not sure why it has so little uptake. https://twist.com/home

New comment by rswerve in "Sam Altman is showing us who he really is"

rswerve — Wed, 22 May 2024 03:40:17 +0000

This is not the case. “ A voice, or other distinctive uncopyrightable features, is deemed as part of someone's identity who is famous for that feature and is thus controllable against unauthorized use. Impersonation of a voice, or similarly distinctive feature, must be granted permission by the original artist for a public impersonation, even for copyrighted materials.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

New comment by rswerve in "Most common PIN codes (2012)"

rswerve — Wed, 15 May 2024 00:43:42 +0000

It is sad. He died in 2022. https://x.com/datagenetics/status/1579260057904353280?s=46

New comment by rswerve in "Ask HN: What's the best way to exit tech?"

rswerve — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 22:15:18 +0000

There’s a lot of bureaucracy dealing with the government, no doubt. Also a lot of bad code. Hopefully neither of those were coming from your own team, because yeah, you might have been at the wrong place. I’m at a DSC shop where I’ve worked with ex Apple and Google folks, and some of the USDS people are the best engineers I’ve ever worked with.

New comment by rswerve in "Ask HN: What's the best way to exit tech?"

rswerve — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 20:05:16 +0000

Civic tech. Do good work with smart people. Look at 18F, USDS, the Digital Services Coalition consultancies….Some projects are more exciting than others, but these orgs are mission-driven, mostly about improving digital services for Americans.

New comment by rswerve in "Ask HN: I don't use AI. What exactly am I missing out on?"

rswerve — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:00:08 +0000

I asked it for the file contents and copied those into a file manually.

New comment by rswerve in "Ask HN: I don't use AI. What exactly am I missing out on?"

rswerve — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:25:08 +0000

I still use ~Google~ Kagi for some searches (people, addresses, items to buy), but ChatGPT is a very different tool for me, and is a regular part of my life now. Some examples.

- My kid's sports schedule is in a table on the school's site. Paste it into chatgpt, give it a few handling rules, and ask for the contents of an .ics file back. Now I have everything in my calendar.

- A job posting looked interesting but I couldn't figure out what the company actually did. Pasted their website copy into chatgpt, asked for an ELI5, and had a five minute conversation, after which I could convincingly answer the "why us?" interview question.

- I haven't done math problems in a long time, so when my kid needs help with something that's totally unfamiliar to me, I can paste a photo of his worksheet into chatgpt and ask for an explanation, and after a few minutes I know enough to help him.

New comment by rswerve in "Melanoma doctor's high-stakes gamble to treat his brain cancer"

rswerve — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 03:40:49 +0000

Good luck to you.

New comment by rswerve in "Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny'"

rswerve — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 14:42:16 +0000

The arbitrator sounds like a really decent dude.