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Re: Ask HN: What are you hacking these holidays?

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Post by eat_veggies »

pcmaffey wrote: post #4

Finally getting some time to dedicate to my 5 minute word game: https://www.pcmaffey.com/01100111011000010110110101100101

That's a really great game! I've definitely played a game a lot like this before (same hexagon concept too) but this is executed so well. The end-game poetry is brilliant!

Re: Ask HN: What are you hacking these holidays?

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Post by pascalxus »

tonyarkles wrote: post #12
pascalxus wrote: post #11

I got tired of building side projects that never get used by anyone, so I'm taking a market first approach. If anyone is interested in reading about Nutritional density to find out what foods have the highest nutrient count per calorie, check out: https://kale.world

I read it top to bottom and found it super interesting. I appreciate the normalization factor! I'm chuckling a bit though. "Nutrients per calorie" is a fantastic metric, but then I got to wondering... "How much spinach is necessary to reach 200 cal?" http://www.caloriegallery.com/foods/calories-in-spinach.htm suggests that it'd be 870g! Almost 2lb! That's a lot of spinach to eat. So is the ultimate goal to be able to…

Yup, that's exactly right. I'd like to build a tool that puts together meal plans that help people meet their nutrition goals. But, I thought I'd build up an audience first, to see if there's interest.

Yes 2 LBS of spinach is a lot. At costco they sell those 2.5 lb bags and their pretty big. But, keep in mind, if you boil it down in a big pot, 1 lb of spinach isn't so insurmountable, as the spinach becomes really small: best of all it only takes a minute of cooking.

Re: Ask HN: What are you hacking these holidays?

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Post by kiwijamo »

Not sure if it counts. I'm working on making public several hundreds (if not thousands) of photos of cell sites from around the world (but mostly in my home country of New Zealand). Using Caddy as a webserver. Pages will be in plain Markdown (which Caddy will render into HTML along with a reference to my homegrown CSS). Not sure yet where I'll host it but perhaps in a Hyper.io container or in a VPS I already have running for other sites. Photos will be hosted on Backblaze B2. Nice simple project that I've been putting off for years.

Re: Ask HN: What are you hacking these holidays?

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Post by hxta98596 »

Our website promoting local short-term small businesses like popup shops and food trucks and "summer businesses" launches January 1.

Our first feature story is an article and podcast interview about the Christmas tree store popup business.

We are working on several feature stories about "summer businesses" that people like school teachers start and run during summer holiday months before going back to their "real" job in September.

Re: Ask HN: What are you hacking these holidays?

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Post by cjbprime »

jlizzle30 wrote: post #27

I've been thinking about prototyping a Firebase clone that uses a relational database and SQL syntax. Instead of subscribing to "nodes" you would subscribe to queries. Anyone know if this exists already?

How would you (as the DB author) know when a query has updated results?

Re: Ask HN: What are you hacking these holidays?

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Post by jlizzle30 »

cjbprime wrote: post #28
jlizzle30 wrote: post #27

I've been thinking about prototyping a Firebase clone that uses a relational database and SQL syntax. Instead of subscribing to "nodes" you would subscribe to queries. Anyone know if this exists already?

How would you (as the DB author) know when a query has updated results?

Something like this:

  subscribe ('SELECT * FROM tableA', callback)
On the initial subscription, 'callback' would be called once for each row in 'tableA', then again when a row is inserted or updated. It would be the same as Firebase in this respect.

Re: Ask HN: What are you hacking these holidays?

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Post by zanedb »

tranvu wrote: post #3

Nothing new for me. Just trying to decouple some components from my side project from a year ago. For those interested, this is a JS/React project. The app is an open-source version of Alfred built on top of Electron/React -- https://github.com/vutran/dext While it's very difficult at the moment to work on the app itself, I decided to just extract the search component to be reused elsewhere so I've started building O…

Can't wait for Windows/Linux support!
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