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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by snarfy »

I like the capabilities of C++ and imgui but didn't want to deal with C++ anymore so I had AI do it.

imping - PingPlotter-like app. They didn't have a Linux version and I'm a paying customer, so I vibe coded this one: https://github.com/zenakuten/ImPing

utcolor - text colorizer for Unreal Tournament 2004 https://github.com/zenakuten/utcolor

utquery - Unreal Tournament 2004 Game Browser tool https://github.com/zenakuten/utquery

utstatsdb - This is an old project that did not work anymore with modern php+mysql. I had claude fix it. https://github.com/zenakuten/utstatsdb

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by BlueHotDog2 »

created https://github.com/frontman-ai/frontman, not exclusivly for myself but something i'm passionate about(might turn into a paid product).

basically trying to see what a vertically integrated agent looks like, where the agent has deep access inside a framework and it operates from within a framework, so like, instead of reading files, opening processes etc - it gets a bunch of framework specific runtime tools(logs are the easiest example)

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by agentifysh »

Most of it has been to maximize productivity with AI

1) Use chatgpt pro from codex cli, opencode, claude etc as you can't get it via API. This has been the biggest boost in productivity for me as I don't have to copy and paste.

https://github.com/agentify-sh/desktop

2) A small gate to make sure any agent cannot run destructive rm -rf or git reset --hard commands, it has saved me many many times

https://github.com/agentify-sh/safeexec

3) For mac users, summarizes and speaks out loud after codex finishes a turn

https://github.com/agentify-sh/speak

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

I'm close to releasing a memory safe programming language, with a declarative concurrency model, that runs on a Go-like runtime.

It has "levels" of compilation, with EASY mode being about as easy as Ruby, and the compiler can present you with options to get that as strict & performant as Rust/Tokio.

I'm going to need at least a month to finish all the documentation, though.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by mike-cardwell »

https://gitlab.com/grepular/calendiff - Point it at a .ics URL and it monitors for calendar changes and emails you about them.

https://gitlab.com/grepular/foxcage - Runs Firefox inside podman to isolate it from the host. Has some interesting features that I wanted and nothing else gave me.

https://gitlab.com/grepular/claude-sandbox - Yet another Claude sandbox. Runs it inside podman again. Has a pretty powerful proxy system for securing your credentials.

Currently working on a tool for sanitising email. Will be blogging it up at https://www.grepular.com/blog/ when it's ready for others to use. Does things like applying policies to html/svg/calendar/vcard parts to whitelist or blacklist tags/attributes/css/url schemas, clean URLs, fetch remote content at delivery time and attaching to the email to prevent tracking, pgp and smime auto encryption/decryption and a million other features.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by epiccoleman »

All kinds of random stuff really, but to filter it down to only the noteworthy ones:

Tuber[0] - this is my favorite, use it multiple times a week. It's just a little CLI wrapper around yt-dlp for my most common use cases - downloading the video, or the audio, or the subs. And then, if you've got the Claude CLI installed, it can also shoot the subs through Claude for a summary. I use it all the time, it's a great little thing!

Scrapio[1] - this is really specific but I was so pleased with how it turned out. You give it a list of "hacks" ("mods" for Super Mario World) and it goes out to SMWCentral, grabs each of the patch files, and patches a clean ROM. I think I only used it twice but it was just a nice way to chew through a list of hacks and get a few ROMs ready, made quick work of something that would have otherwise taken a bunch of annoying schlep work.

Lotus Eater[2] - calling this a tool is a bit undersell, but I'm still really pleased with it. It's a fan site for jamtronica greats Lotus that scrapes Nugs.net for setlist data and lets you do some mildly interesting analysis on things like song frequency and co-occurrence. Also has a per-user "shows I've attended" thing, Setlist Bingo. It's been fun to hack on.

Lastly, less a tool, more just a toy: last week Google released their Magenta model for doing live music generation. I thought it was really neat, and it's open source, so I opened it up with Claude, and after a few passes and some extremely annoying toolchain issues, I was able to add a spectrograph which does key / chord analysis to the "Collider" app, so you get a live readout of "what the band is playing" and you can pull out your guitar or whatever and join the jam with some info at your disposal. It's the kind of thing that would have taken way too much effort to be worthwhile in the past, but with AI, it's a really neat result of a fun night of weekend hacking. See the README I added in my fork for a screenshot:[3]

[0]: https://github.com/epiccoleman/tuber

[1]: https://github.com/epiccoleman/scrapio

[2]: lotuseater.epiccoleman.com

[3]: https://github.com/epiccoleman/magenta-realtime/tree/eric-mo...

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