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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by NiloCK »

https://eduquilt.com

I don't even know off-hand if the current deploy is even semi-usable, but I'm jumping on the thread because ... you asked!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tvHMvF8Mo

This is a platform-in-progress for mass-collaborative interactive-tutoring-system authoring. Wikipedia for khan academy, duolingo, or anki, with arbitrarily interactive content. The above video shows some rich flash cards in action (ear training & keyboard harmony).

Flash cards + SRS + dynamic difficulty sorting and pathfinding (ie, optimal content surfacing given demonstrated skills), and automated surfacing of achievement bottlenecks in courses so that the community knows where to author intermediating content or prescribe different approaches with existing content. Inside the classroom: peer-to-peer JIT instruction, and distributed competencies.

Most tentatively, but maybe most crucially, I think there is potential in this project for anti-fragile adversarial communities to build mutual understandings around contentious issues, where the propagation of your own views is proportional to your acknowledgement of contrary opinions.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by glaze »

Aether3D Game Engine (Linux/Windows/mac/iOS, Vulkan/D3D12/Metal)

https://github.com/bioglaze/aether3d

Some people like making games, I like making game engines. I don't have a specific goal/target in mind while making it. I've written several game engines since the nineties, and this is my most recent version.

I have abandoned many of my older engines at some point to develop a new one, but with this engine I'll try to keep developing it a lot further before making a new engine.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by izerik »

A remote control app (Android/iOS, written in Flutter) for Philips smart TV-s. I don't like the official one, it's buggy.

Right now it only has basic controls and a trackpad, but I plan on adding channel/favorites/app lists and other stuff.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/TAwsRf1

I cut a lot of features, as I want it out released, so I'm focusing on the basics, which is the auth with tv logic and basic controls.

I plan on doing a beta release to iron out issues with the authentication logic. If you're interested, drop a mail to phimoteapp@gmail.com .

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by linklonk »

A link aggregator where the votes of different users have different weights for you - based on how useful their previous votes have been.

It is in a very early stage and is invitation only for now: https://linklonk.com/register with invitation code 'hn'.

The idea was well described in this comment back in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3003639

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by meagher »

cj wrote: post #132
meagher wrote: post #91

Help folks pay their phone and Internet bills https://evenaccess.org Needs polishing and an application form for folks seeking help.

I like it! I would donate if the homepage communicated how exactly the funds are used. Is the idea that you’ll directly match donators and people in need? If so, there’s the obvious chicken and egg problem, one idea to overcome that could be starting out with all donations going to an existing charity that shares a similar mission (and being transparent about that on the landing page), and then eventually start redir…

Good point about adding more info!

Idea is folks apply for help and I call up the phone/Internet company to verify and pay their bills with the funds donated from others.

All donations and payments would be viewable anonymously, and eventually tax deductible (need to go through that process).

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