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Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

#191

https://crowdview.ai - search engine for forums and discussion sites Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great…

Been wanting this and considered building one. Will try it out. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

#193

Wire RSS Reader https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wire-rss-reader/id1438331258 An RSS reader that caches webpages locally, so you can read the article in a webview with native-like performance instead of just that text that comes through in the RSS feed.

Would be useful to have a feature comparison with other iOS RSS caching apps like Lire.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

#194

https://crowdview.ai - search engine for forums and discussion sites Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great…

Wow, this almost feels like the old internet and old google. Generic results from a few corporate entities has become ubiquitous, but here you can type whatever and it seems to give a broad range of results. Wow, this actually feels like a search engine. It’s been a while since I’ve felt this. How do you rank the results?

thank you! results ranking is very primitive today, but a lot of users have commented that they would prefer ordering by date (latest first) so I've been looking into that

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

#195

https://crowdview.ai - search engine for forums and discussion sites Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great…

This is awesome! I'll be using it for sure. Where'd you get your curated list of forums? Big search of running VBulletin instances? :)

that among others! a lot of manual work + some automated scraping (there's about ~3000 forums in the index today)

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy The same gameboy emulator rewritten in C++, Go, Nim, PHP, Cython, Python, Rust, and Zig (and WIP typescript); mostly to teach myself the languages and to compare and contrast their idioms. Also, when taken with a very large grain of salt, usable as a language benchmark (As with all benchmarks, there are lots of caveats - but as far as I’m aware this is unique in being “the same cod…

Is the github language summary indicative of relative LoC between implementations, or are there other factors? C++ 24.9% Python 19.5% Rust 12.5% PHP 9.5% Zig 9.4% Nim 8.0% Other 16.2% And very interesting! Would love to read (a post?) on how you saw the language differences.

You would probably need a much larger sample set to give a "true" indication of relative LoC between different languages. Right now it's probably a good indicator of relative LoC between languages when writing a Game Boy emulator.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

#198
I’ve tried sharing my robotics newsletter (https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/) on HN on numerous occasions and sometimes content that I found interesting but it never seemed to get too much attention. I figured I’m either unlucky or the community is not that interested in robotics.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

#200
https://github.com/dsrw/enu - Enu is a 3d live programming environment for experimenting, making games, and learning to code. Kind of a Logo meets Minecraft type thing. It's written in Nim (using the Godot game engine), and also uses interpreted Nim for the in-world scripting.

I use it to teach kids to code. The released version is pretty rough and probably not fit for general consumption, but the next release (coming next month... I hope) is quite a lot better.

https://youtu.be/9e9sLsmsu_o is a demo making a simple survival game, and https://youtu.be/upg77dMBGDE is a now very outdated demo building towers and other simple structures. Thanks!

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