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kiru_io

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About kiru_io

I make small projects. Mostly active on Twitter: @kiru_io

Some projects from me:

Contact me via https://twitter.com/kiru_io or on my page

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    I am working on https://beta.colorguesser.com/ - a small daily color guessing game. A few years ago it started as colorguesser.com - which is not much maintained, but since there a…

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    TrailerSpoiler.com [0] It annoys me how much a bad trailer can spoil the movie, so I made this platform to rate trailers how "spoily" they are and how good they are. To my surprise…

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    Comment #45322214

    I developed a few utilities to help me track the words and expressions I know in a language (and also see which words in other languages are missing). Tried to port it to an app [0…

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    Comment #44961520

    Why does it forward to https://tidewave.ai/ when I type http://localhost:4000/tidewave ?

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    Comment #44862882

    The attention to details, it's probably sorted by their contributions in percentage as well (not sure how to get that for such a project, but nvm).

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    Comment #44837712

    I’ve created a few "daily puzzle" games (e.g., [0] and [1]), and it still surprises me when I meet a random stranger who occasionally plays them. Even now, I can’t quite explain wh…

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    Comment #44722477

    Idk why people are always so harsh online. This is clearly stated as "experimental".

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    Comment #44708856

    I am trying to figure out how to do marketing for my journaling app for language learning. Basically, you journal in a foreign language and see grammar and other mistakes directly …

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    I managed to ship my journaling app [0] focused on language learners. Basically, you write your journals in a different language and see corrections. Gonna focus on marketing and i…

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    Comment #44411740

    Can you give more info on that? the website is not very clear what it is, so basically it's an app to learn languages?

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    Show HN: Daily game to guess color by their names

    Hi there, Kiru here, I made this app a while back, saw recently a post about color names API and posted a link. A few people were interested, so thought more people can discover th…

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    This feels like a indirect response to what Andrej Karpathy said in his last presentation, about how it took him barely any time to create the project, but spent a few days to figu…

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    Comment #44347484

    This is such a cool idea! You could potentially sell this or contact some watchmakers!

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    Comment #44346635

    Actually I experienced with different distance metrics and settled for one.

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    Comment #44346621

    > I get the same 5 colors every time? That's probably a bug. > Fun! If I may make one suggestion, could you please show the color I picked next to the real one once it is revealed?…

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    Comment #44335842

    Wow, pretty cool to see the color-names project here. I made a simple color guessing website a few years ago [0] using your library. I almost forgot it till someone reminds how the…

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    Comment #44296842

    Interesting perspective to see AI as the opposite of accessing connected knowledge (aka Zettelkasten)

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    Comment #44271330

    Can you elaborate or show a better way?

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    Comment #43702923

    Maybe just a toilet break (see the bio): > Fun fact: All my comments have been written on the toilet. I don't use social media anywhere else.

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    Comment #43691555

    Maybe someone should edit the title to mention this is from 2024: [Submitted on 30 Sep 2024 (v1), last revised 15 Oct 2024 (this version, v2)]

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    Comment #42816612

    Thank you for this video. Love the style, introduction to color space and the practial use.

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    Comment #42726639

    Nice, was looking for something similar.

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    Comment #42699807

    indeed! The people who complain are not your users, most likely anyway.

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    Color names are a strange thing, it is like given names to numbers. I made a game out of it [0]. [0] https://colorguesser.com/