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At what point will we believe AI is a legitimate threat?
I can’t tell if we’re trolling at this point with the mixing up of Shopify and Spotify
This is literally AI slop, I’m surprised this hasn’t been mentioned
I appreciate the good faith effort here to learn (and advise on) programming skills! It’s rare nowadays.
Just wait until I tell you about your local newspaper’s Sunday crossword.
I built this game for fun. There are no ads, and I currently cover the LLM costs myself.
I’m not sure why you’re being so hostile toward the idea of a daily puzzle game. Wouldn’t it make more sense, ideologically, to direct your criticism at pay-to-win games designed to keep you playing for hours a day? This is a simple daily puzzle — a two-minute break that never asks for more of your time. How is that even remotely comparable?
But to answer your question - yes the string must contain only valid english letters and must be between 2-25 characters in length. If you can jailbreak the system with those constraints I salute you!
Others have tried and failed to jailbreak it. Give it a shot if you're keen and post results here.
It's on my list for sure. Thanks for the message!
Thank you! The solution is when user_word === ai_word, so there isn't technically an "answer." The only pre-determined word in the game is the first word the AI chooses, which is the same word for all players, each day.
Posted by
cwackerfuss on Friday May 09, 2025 @10:32AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://www.convergegame.com/
I built a daily word association puzzle where you engage in a quiet, collaborative mind meld with AI. I'd love to have folks try it out and tell me what they think!Here's how it works:
1. Enter your first word to reveal the AI's word of the day.
2. Don't think too hard about it. It's just a starting point.
3. Both of you think of a word that connects the two.
4. To win, you need to say the same...
This is called turn detection, and there are some great tools coming out to solve this recently. (One user mentioned Livekit’s turn detection model). I think in a years time we will see dramatic improvement.
God tier filtering. Do you mind sharing how you integrated AI into the filter system? Your "flagging peanut butter" example also makes me wonder if the LLM is tagging the product with a large number of attributes on each run so it's not prohibitively expensive.
Yea quite good! Here's mine:
Converge No. 11 (7/8)
peanut / ***
shell / ascent
jacket / climb
parka / hike
mountain / trail
peak / path
summit
Posted by
cwackerfuss on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:27AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://www.convergegame.com/
1 year ago I was issued a DMCA takedown from the New York Times.Due to alleged copyright infringement with Wordle, they requested I immediately remove Reactle, the similar word game and open-source codebase that I maintained that garnered 4k stars on Github and spawned 100s of fun variations in many different languages and themes (anyone remember Taylordle?). These downstream apps also received...
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I'm sure they actually do consider data minimization, but only when data collection stands in the way of getting users into the product.
Four Mexican cokes sounds as much like kicking a caffeine habit as it does a pretty bad sugar habit. Good job sticking to it.
I think the style of the illustrations is maybe making this feel more kiddish than it otherwise would be
Posted by
cwackerfuss on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:52AM
from the show-hn dept.
And NFT traders are savvy to duplicated projects being illegitimate. There is only value in the verifiably legitimate project. If you bought a bored Ape that was "right click + save"d and published on OpenSea, it would be worthless.
Posted by
cwackerfuss on Friday October 08, 2021 @10:31AM
from the ask-hn dept.
My cofounder and I are exploring how we can accelerate the adoption of the 4 day workweek, and one solution we're exploring is a SaaS that helps companies run pilots with a subset of their employees. The product would help track OKRs and employee wellness before and during the pilot, and then helps the business make an informed decision about the effects on productivity and other key...
Posted by
cwackerfuss on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:19PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.
I can attest to the pains of working with a complex onboarding flow... At my job, we have about 30 different paths the user could take depending on their usecase. And it's not modeled as 1 30-prong fork that everyone routes through, it's forks that lead back to other steps, skip steps, get data from elsewhere, etc.
The difficulty is that it's typically the product and marketing teams who need to understand the flows the most, in order to understand the conversion metrics and how to optimize, yet they have almost no visibility into the actual state logic that dictates the flow in code. Giving them more control over control flow is a huge win
Looks like OP is building Hazel!
Nic Carter, a bitcoiner, had some interesting points about Bitcoin's energy consumption on Lex Fridman's podcast (EP. #173)
He suggests that most of the energy Bitcoin consumes generally comes from places that consistently produce an excess of energy that otherwise goes to waste. Miners, seeking to maximize profit, gravitate to areas where energy is cheap because supply > demand. I'm not sure what percentage of the energy could be considered "excess."
His other point was that the discussion of Bitcoin's energy consumption should be framed in the context of how much value it brings to the global community. Expecting a valuable global decentralized asset to be entirely without energy costs is unrealistic, it's just a matter of how much energy is feasible. Depending on how valuable Bitcoin is deemed to be, consuming the same amount of electricity as a small country might be justified in the short term, but should clearly be addressed in mid term.