I've been making excessive amounts of bread.
It's called Who Paid More (https://whopaidmore.com) and the idea is pretty frivolous. Every day (EDT) you volunteer an amount you want to pay to see how your amount stacks up against others for that day. Think ranking and relative % across users for that period and the ability to share those results. Not much more to it at the moment.
I feel a little stuck trying to think of what would make it more fun/novel/rewarding besides just being curious about what people put money into.
Maybe show what I could have actually bought with my money instead of blowing it on a game? (+ affiliate links)
Maybe surprise people with a percent that is donated to charity?
Maybe only accept bitcoin? Or accept bitcoin in addition?
Maybe let me start a sub-contest so I can share with friends to see who can flex the most?
That's hilarious
I found the original concept so absurd but amusing that I wanted to make my own version!! It’s been a welcome distraction as you can imagine and could be the basis for something more. Tbd...
https://whopaidmore.com/results/44b47a99-0f7c-4064-8d23-1925...
I think it could use an additional reward component though...
https://whopaidmore.com/results/44b47a99-0f7c-4064-8d23-1925...
Sadly (?) I'm not currently interested in going down that path, potentially against the law. Don't think I'd want to go bat on those grounds.
Check it out and let me know your thoughts - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/responsively
Key Highlights: - Mirrored User-interactions across all devices. - Customizable preview layout to suit all your needs. - One handy elements inspector for all devices in preview. - 30+ built-in device profiles with the option to add custom devices. - One-click screenshot all your devices. - Hot reloading supported for developers. - Free forever and open source - https://github.com/manojVivek/responsively-app
Would love to hear your thoughts.
Kudos for not over-complicating the product in some weird struggle to find the one key thing that users would pay for and find a way to insert friction there, but of course that means you don't have a near-term way to get paid for your work either.
Edit: I do actually have something constructive to say. The "Help" menu on Mac OS v0.1.1 all points to the default electronjs content and not to content/community discussions about Responsively.
Although my website got a lot of organic traffic and orders within the first two weeks, I was unable to fulfill most orders since manufacturing was on pause and everything was already sold out.
Since then I've continued studying SCM, and I'm also learning Python so that I can build a model to predict this kind of event in the future.
So far so good, it's pretty good to play now, still need more action regulation. The piano had been stored on its side for years, lots of transport, water and insect damage.
Current project: Intermezzo no. 6 by David Benoit: https://open.spotify.com/track/0MJ4ikwkXV4lJiRjklWhS9 (sorry, can't find a youtube link).
Total spent: $100 for the piano, $100 to transport it, $50 to buy string steel to replace the strings that had broken. There is still some worn felt in there as well that will need replacing, mostly on the hammer rest bar and the bottom of the jack support bar. Shaping the hammers was a tricky job (they'd worn down quite a bit, to the point where the original shape was hard to determine).
All in all very satisfying.
Generally, people don't realise that pianos that don't get restored have something of an expiry date. I know that if it's 80 years old and has never been restored, then it's considered to be unusable. But I guess if you put in really hard work one can? Conversely, old pianos in good shape sound great. I think that's my issue with Yamaha grands. They sound soulless.
Steinway pianos for example have to be restored with Steinway parts to have resale value. I guess that's why you get such high prices for them.
Well, it was!
> Generally, people don't realise that pianos that don't get restored have something of an expiry date.
Agreed, especially once the soundboard or pinblock are cracked.
But those are actually quite good on this particular instrument. It was simply a 'budget' grand, 135 so fairly small, made in the DDR so not the best quality (to put it mildly). The fun is in getting it to work again and a great piano to practice repair skills on, you couldn't possibly mess it up much further.
> But I guess if you put in really hard work one can?
Absolutely, but it would definitely not be economical, then you'd have to work on a more valuable instrument.
> Conversely, old pianos in good shape sound great. I think that's my issue with Yamaha grands. They sound soulless.
I'm not good enough to distinguish from a technically good grand and one that sounds 'great', this one actually sounds a lot better than it's $100 price tag would lead you to believe, in fact it sounds a lot better than my $1500 digital one, and it's in many ways much more fun to play.
> Steinway pianos for example have to be restored with Steinway parts to have resale value. I guess that's why you get such high prices for them.
Steinway pianos are valuable because they are sought after, not because each and every one of them is great. I've seen really crappy Steinways sold for their weight in gold.
Bosendorfer is very good too, not nearly at the price of a Steinway, Pleyel has some really nice instruments (but those are getting much older now), Fazioli, Kawai and many others. The history of a piano is about as good as the trees from which its parts have been cut and with wood being a natural product that puts a lot of variability in at the core.
That's why the really good brands pay a premium for the highest grades of wood, that's the easiest way to make a huge difference in quality.
Real-time board games over webRTC video chat. I have chess, checkers, and a scrabble clone.
I've passed it around to friends and to some low traffic forums. The rendering library is a bit heavy for a board game (it makes my laptop's fan spin :)) so I'm fixing that before I share it more widely
I have finally, after some 5 years, setup my RaspberryPi to perform a useful function for me. To validate the claims by my ISP makes about our bandwidth. It's performing a speedtest periodically and updating a Google Sheet with the results. Over time I hope to track and back up their guarantee myself! In the process I am learning about Go, Docker and Google's API. I am also increasing my knowledge of Linux. The project continues with more automation and monitoring.
I've recorded on 2 separate occasions bass lines for different bands in a simple home studio which has been put together since lockdown. I'm collaborating more with a teenage friend whom I used to record and perform with a lot many years ago.
Also, briefly: I've built my family home in Minecraft and plan on extending to some memorable landmarks...
And I hope to get round to reversing the fridge doors before the end!
873 rules, so far. And 99% done. Arguably Vim’s largest syntax file to-date.
Best part? It highlights RED if you type the configuration wrong. As well as TODO, FIXME and nested 3-style comments
The concept is simple: If twitter + youtube had a baby for learning.
An interesting side effect: I've personally had a hard time getting started with writing, and ever since I've launched smalltuts, I've created a new course almost every day.
As one of the examples show this is the perfect way to convey installation / setup guides!
Look forward to how you take the idea forward!
I've been an indie-hacker for 10 years so have seen the effects of my programming decisions over the same period. I've seen how fads come and go, sometimes wreaking havoc. I've also seen how coding decisions affect business (such as strategies to transform data into seo at scales of 10k+ items). I've seen how to keep something running day-and-night as if your livelihood depended on it - since it very much does.
That's the game plan anyway. I'm five episodes in: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC17mJJnvzAa_e9qQqLIfIeQ
For fun I took up the tenor ukulele. Compared to any other instrument I've tried, it's got a much kinder learning curve. You can sound alright playing four-chord rock and pop songs in easier keys like C major after a month.
* Adobe Fresco for its amazing watercolour experience
* Concepts for vector doodling on an infinite canvas (Mischief-like)
(A/D keyboard, left right taps on mobile)
http://countdown.joshuafrankamp.com.s3-website-us-east-1.ama...
This might look familiar to anyone who has seen this set of unity tutorials. I watched the first ~6 back to back and then attempted to rebuild a version of it all from memory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j48LtUkZRjU&list=PLPV2KyIb3j...
I published an article about Zettelkästen: https://github.com/alefore/weblog/blob/master/zettelkasten.m...
I'm also working on an article about software correctness, summarizing my experience working on infrastructure software at Google for about 13 years. It's very incomplete and I'll probably end up restructuring it significantly (not very happy with the current logical structure). I only started working on this two or three weeks ago (as a side project), so I'm satisfied with the progress I've been able to make: https://github.com/alefore/weblog/blob/master/software-corre...
I'm also working on other similar articles on other topics (Bitcoin, Stoicism, Bauhaus), but those are even less complete.
Lastly, I've continued to make significant improvements to my text editor (https://github.com/alefore/edge).
I think it's interesting that I'm finding it hard to focus on some topics, but I'm currently very productive in others.
I already had a pretty large collection of less-structured notes from nvALT, and I love how the new "rules" really help to shape my new notes. I'm converting old notes as I have the time and need.
I was initially skeptical of the idea of timestamping notes in the filename, but I find it counterintuitively useful, and The Archive has really good support for it w/ the Cmd-U shortcut. The Archive also has multiple tabs, which help immensely over nvALT's single pane.
After understanding it better it seems to be very close to the way the internet and hyperlinks work, it also reminds me of historian James Burke Connections school of understanding history.
I have just installed the wiki plugin in Sublime and will try to transition from my folders with extremely long tagged txt's that i search for, and instead go for the hyperlink method.
I have always thought that - western thought at least - works as a node system where the essence lies in the constellations, the extrapolations, and the weird and wonderful stuff happening between nodes of information, in how they are arranged and how they are traversed - something i have struggled with because my thoughts are rarely looked at again, ends up in piles of never revisited bookmarks and is redone instead of built upon.
I am already pretty exited about rearranging my thoughts / todo's / plans in this new way.
I tend to end up doing general geek stuff for small manufacturing businesses. At a certain point they always ask about scheduling automation because their one person who runs the shop can't keep track of everything any more. The existing scheduling solutions are either too far down the rabbit hole of job-shop-scheduling yak shaving to fit or attached to an ERP that's out of their price range for a while.
In this case scheduling automation doesn't have to be perfect. It shouldn't be, it's a waste of time. These users haven't grown into habits that fit an optimized solution; their manufacturing data has been treated as an arcane nuisance because it hasn't provided benefits yet. All they need is something basic to get them started on the way to better habits and improving their data while improving scheduling. I don't know how far I'll get, but it's cathartic and educational to work on for now.
I've seen women posting on solo travelling facebook groups their current or next location and PM each other, especially in non-english language groups.
With the app, you would receive a notification when a new traveller (speaking your native tongue or not) is close using geolocation, then you check their facebook profile and message them (via messenger).
No need to display the app: you just wait for the notifications (which frequency can be changed). This is my idea for solving the egg & chicken problem, so obviously the app doesn't display ads (and is free).
so, get a meat probe. https://www.thermoworks.com/Thermapen-Mk4 is the best one, thermoworks also has probes that you can use the entire cook.
lumberjack pellets are considered the best and are a great deal @ dick's https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p/lumber-jack-competition...
https://www.youtube.com/user/howtobbqright and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjkdaqksNWgA63aZfQ2bAQ are your mentors
Definitely one of my favorite hobbies: over-engineering.
All contributions are welcome, however we're working 2 fulltime jobs and care for a 3 yo in lockdown, so time to work on this project is a luxury.
It's on github: https://github.com/t-tran/slack-chat-backup
Sounds dumb but could be nice one day in the future to be able to look back at it. Also wrote it in Rust so I'm learning a new language while I'm at it.
https://github.com/jz222/loggy https://github.com/jz222/loggy-client
A plus side these days is that it takes enormous amounts of time. For people interested in starting out: My 2019 13" MBP is fast enough for it to be fun, at least for now. So you don't need to worry too much about GPU performance.
https://youtube.com/parttimelarry
Up to 2,000 subscribers now which is very motivating! I feel like there is a lot of demand for this information, but there is a shortage of people who are sharing how to implement trading systems with Python. So I'm teaching myself and sharing on YouTube as I learn.
Hypothesis: As many of us work from home, there are several different things we all do. Be it cooking, hobbies, writing etc. WFH Cave is a place to share your projects and help inspire each other. I currently have around 30 users, mostly friends and family.
Feedback that would help - what is that would stick here. Currently it feels like a normal photo sharing site. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
There were a lot of layoffs recently, so I wanted to do whatever I can to help my fellow engineers. I unfortunately can't help with referrals, but what I can do is share my experience and knowledge. I love Dynamic Programming and decided to record a YouTube course [1] explaining the topic as simple as possible (ELI5).
A lot of people struggle with DP and if you are one of those, feel free to subscribe. I release new videos every Sunday.
Also, since I'm not an an experienced YouTuber and English is my second language, feedback is a massive motivator for me. So, if you have any feedback to share, please, let me know what needs to be improved and I'll make sure to work on it.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnwNEngsXoIp_tgJ2jZWfw
An art project to remind people that the COVID-19 deaths are not just a statistic to track the numbers. Each death is a tragedy.
Real and simulated obituaries are presented at the current death rate by country, age, and gender.
Take a moment to reflect on each one.
Using D and OpenGL. Might rewrite it to WebGPU in the future when it gets more stable.
Operating under the codename Portobello for now but friends and family don't like the name. The landing page is atrocious, but the actual app functionality is nearing an MVP.
I guess the big question for me is do I make it realtime for the launch. The handshake for swapping keys and allowing access to a board/organisation currently happens via HTTP polling, but that's not such a nice experience. Currently the whole thing is hosted on Netlify so moving to websockets would require me to set up another service somewhere, not sure if it's worth it before I validate my idea.
I'm going to do an official launch on Hacker News within the next couple of weeks. Still a lot to do as you'll see.
Instead of renting a GPU instance and setting up a Flask web server, you use git to push your trained model to Flux with some configuration and get back an http endpoint.
For example, you set that your input is the url to an image, and that your output should be the top classification and its likelihood, and that your model is in pytorch.
For example if you have a classifier for dog breeds you:
Make a POST to fluxdeploy.com/username/dog-classifier with json { “url”: “...” } And get back { “klass”: “Great Dane”, “probability”: 0.937373 }
No need to do your own devops, Flux will scale for you. And it’s priced per-request and cheaper than hosting your own web server. Flux also deals with versioning and dependencies.
Still working on streaming inputs like video.
It was originally called Astra, which ended up having even more conflicts.
I use f.lux and love it. Hoping mine is different enough to not confuse. Funny enough, I actually thought it was “f dot lux” and was conceptual thinking of it like “function dot light”
The app itself is a bit of a different take on the problem space than many of the other well-known offerings in the market. iOS only for now, SwiftUI, and built around enabling "Compelling & Comprehensible Input"-based language acquisition using video, audio, and text you've supplied yourself.
Interestingly - when I started the project I reckoned it would be about 2 years to shipping something useful, which would mean about Q3/Q4 2020. I'm starting to think that estimate was, shockingly, about right.
Cheers to everyone and their projects!
I'm always very interested in hearing how other people learn new languages.
More seriously, I'm trying to get in the habit of not talking about any side project I've not shipped yet, since when I "announce" them in advance I end up not shipping anything. Turns out this might actually have a basis in science, as recent studies allege that the brain "discharges" some energy/motivation when one talks about future plans.
I observed this with myself: many years ago I was planning to write a novel. I had already sketched out the plot etc., and of course told my friends a family about it. For about half a year, they kept asking me about the progress. In retrospect, I quite enjoyed being "an author" in their eyes. It seems I did benefit from announcing my project without actually ever finishing it, which may very well have lowered my motivation to pull through with it. Anecdotically QED, I guess...
Telling your plans to friends/relatives makes you accountable to deliver.
By far the hardest thing for me to grasp has been CSS, it’s just so weird and feels so un natural at some points. There are so many ways to do the same thing, which feels a little overwhelming. Also in awe of grid layouts, which I just learned about so at least that’s a good thing!
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One thing we've noticed is that most senators don't beat the S&P500, but the main reason seems to be that they simply have less risky portfolios (e.g. a lot of bond ETFs)
jdwlbr @ google’s email
I'm looking for beta users if you dig the idea and want to help out a feel HNer.
Could TidyCloud allow for a user to OAuth login and request permission to store files across many storage providers (to ensure availability)?
I'm also using C++ as a scripting language inside a virtual machine. It's very performant, things are going well. :)
- Visual Tech Trees (React, javascript) [0]
Games:
- Slay the spire + pokemon (React, javascript) [1]
- HN Comments Matcher (Phoenix, elixir) [2]
[0]: https://ldd.github.io/react-tech-tree/
[2]: https://hn.lddstudios.com/
[0-source]: https://github.com/ldd/react-tech-tree
[2-source]: https://github.com/ldd/hn_comments_game
It's my first real app on Mac OS X. I started the app before the covid crisis though.
But these days I have so much time to iterate on it...
1. Item appears on the screen (like 'vacuum', or 'Q of spades'
2. Whichever team finds it in their house first and returns with it to their screen wins a point
I’m an Actuary who is trying to encourage other actuaries to bring more computer science concepts into their work. I created some dashboards in d3.js to illustrate some of the tougher actuarial concepts and had a lot of positive feedback on LinkedIn.
It's been a great project so far; using it to learn Prometheus, pick up more Go development, host my own NextCloud, and run Plex and a Minecraft server.
PHP, Pure css and mysql to avoid duplicate cards!
- cheatsheetsdb.com - crowdsource them by topic, up/down votes to see which are good
- ispecsdb.com - similar to above but for various product specs
- stackflows.com - something to connect a slack channel's messages as input to a Kanban-like-board workflow (unclear use cases/design)
Past projects: (welcome any comments/suggestions)
[0] https://statuspages.me (all the statuspages on one page),
[1] https://gitgrep.com (hosted git search),
[2] https://quicklog.io (high-level events to narrow log viewing)
Please add your favorite cheatsheets (but not tutorials, guides, or other long form content).
After almost finishing it (only few bugs left) I decided to not bother trying to release it. Like most projects my initial enthusiasm went out the window once I got something working. It’s so ripe for abuse too that it would probably make people feel worse about themselves rather than better. I always sort of knew this but the enthusiasm for the better of me.
I’m instead going to open source all the parts of it (the web app, the sql to recreate the dB, the mobile app, and the API) as that probably has more impact.
For now it still up at https://ottr.chat
My 11 year old son has decided we wants to make a table for his younger brother, so that might turn into a side project for me. If I'm lucky it turns into a side project for our carpenter neighbour instead.
[0] Yesterday after a disappointing job offer, I declared war on everybody.
What was wrong with the offer? :-)
Checkout https://codekeep.io , let me know your feedback
[1] https://goodwill.zense.co.in/resources/6203_Gratia__Computin...
I wanted to build, as I call it 'Global Creative Community' called Branding Pavilion which is an online directory of companies, events, job offers and interviews from the digital industry.
The idea behind this project is to help clients reach digital/marketing/software companies and create an online community.
Software stack of this project includes: Bootstrap 4 as a CSS framework, Vue.js for logic and functionality, Firebase for database and backend, Stripe as a payment method, Cloudflare for protection and security.
Also a simple music streaming server which caters exactly to my needs without taking care of others (now writing a client for it)[1].
Plus learning godot to write a small 2D game with my brother's band :D
And learning Georgian letters (they are beautiful).
[0]: https://code.vanwa.ch/sebastian/tsa [1]: https://code.vanwa.ch/sebastian/stray
About 30 HN community members have signed so far. Post your projects and ideas and email/chat/Zoom with the people you find interesting.
I'm putting it behind a form so that recruiters don't jump on and spam message everyone. Keep building + stay safe y'all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9k1pv6hhGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxj8g_Y1BtA
2. Lots of baking with my girlfriend. This turned out to be a ton of fun
3. Studying for the AWS CSA Associates test on Linux Academy
4. Rebuilding my LinkedIn and resume. Way more time consuming than expected
I want a a basic crud application that allows users to log events in their life by date, journal, or more blog in longer form the day to day experiences they've had during the pandemic.
`pip install clquery` or https://github.com/dongting/clquery
A searchable library of folk & traditional Irish music, displaying the abc notation as sheet music and allowing midi playback.
it's awful at the moment
I find woodworking quite therapeutic!
A data-visualization magazine for skateboarding.
Super niche, but super fun!
Fun site showcasing some overly descriptive color palettes.
Not sold on the economic of the business, don't think there's much money in pretzels.
github.com/glouw/softshader
I'm really enjoying it
But even after reading the "about" section I am still confused on how it works.
I'm hoping to focus on the technical side this time!
- Sleep more / better
- Started running with a coach again (ok where I live)
- Finding a new job
- Started using Headspace
- Re-learning some maths
All in all very happy with the current situation.
(Also, improving my bird song classifier.)
...and making homemade tortillas
i think the final plugin will be generic PDF slideshow media source embed, so it can be useful for more than just lego.
Researched scout activities for after summer holidays.
