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Sam Patterson
Personal blog · sampatt.com/blogaiprogramminghardware
Sam Patterson's personal blog at sampatt.com covers ai, programming and hardware. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Sam Patterson - Fullstack Developer specializing in decentralization, self-hosting, privacy, and local LLMs
Most-linked posts?
- O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-28
What Hacker News says?
For me, it isn't just about complexity, but about customization. I can have the LLMs build me custom bash scripts or make me my own Obsidian plugins. They're all little cogs in my own workflow. None of these individual components are complex, but putting all of them together would have taken me ages previously. Now I can just drop all of them into the conversation and ask it for a new script that works with them to…
Comment linking /blog/2025-02-11-jsDelivr
on “With AI you need to think bigger”Submitted O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data as a story · 451 points
HN discussionMy site is a React front end hosted on Netlify, and the blog entries are markdown files I write in Obsidian. I also use Listmonk for my newsletter and Umami for analytics, both open source and easy to run from Pikapods. I wrote about my publishing process here: https://sampatt.com/blog/2025-02-18-Listmonk
Comment linking /blog/2025-02-18-Listmonk
on “Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack?”Submitted O3 Beats a Master-Level GeoGuessr Player–Even with Fake EXIF Data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualizing Why Bitcoin Can't Work over HF Radio as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Informed versus Uninformed AI Skeptics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted O3 Beats a Master-Level GeoGuessr Player–Even with Fake EXIF Data as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saving My Table Tennis League's Hard Drive–and Finding Lost BTC as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can AI Tell You What You Need (But Don't Want) to Hear? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sammy's Sensation: Pausing to See If a New Pattern Has a Name as a story · 1 points
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