I learned how to handle a civil dispute through a lawyer. I was not intending to spend the time and money to learn this.
Would have been nice to have a boring lockdown. Maybe during round 2.
Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
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#292https://www.hopupon.com
HopUpon is a Cheap Multi-City Flight Generator that allows you to explore new cities as you "hop" along to your destination. Our algorithm creates itineraries that are often cheaper than a direct flight.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#293Finally launched Newsy.
I had lots of un-used domains and wanted to make use of them without having to maintain them. So I decided to make a tool that turns un-used domains into a content-aggregator like Reddit, except, it runs itself. :)
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#294I made an automatic chess board that allows you to play with another person over the Internet (using lichess), but with a physical board. It has been described as "very lockdown chic". Each chess piece has a magnet in the bottom. The board senses your moves by looking at where magnets disappear and appear, and it plays your opponent's moves by dragging them with an electromagnet underneath the board moved by a pair o…
I highly recommend you upgrade to the Trinamic drivers! I modded my 3D printer that used the whiny A4988s with TMC2208s and the results are amazingly silent.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MPSelectMiniOwners/comments/gsiai0/...
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#295Nothing of any importance. Managed to screw myself up to the point of having constant generalized anxiety, so yeah, things are really working out here.
(Note: if you feel that this is just "regular" anxiety and it can pass, my wall of text is something you can skip. Only thing that should be considered are developing coping skills! I'm just trying to be helpful.) I'm thinking you'll reach the end of this dark tunnel here soon - but with a bit of work! The posters here have been thoughtful and there's a lot of good stuff to consider - I may be able to touch on this f…
You make very good points and I concur that getting professional help helps a lot - from past experiences. It seems that most likely I exhausted my coping mechanism pool, and if the state continues to deteriorate, I will most definitely reach out to some professional. Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#296I made a Link, Story and Photo sharing community. https://20-things.com/
nice! how will you promote it to find initial users? who is the target audience?
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#297I made a way to visualize options portfolio profitability as a function of various portfolio parameters. I was craving a visual intuition for how options leg parameters (strike price, expiration, put/call, short/long, quantity). As a fun side note, the computation of portfolio value happens on the GPU!
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#298I wrote an automated solution to spending requirements for high interest checking accounts. High interest checking accounts (up to 5% APR) often require a dozen or more transactions a month to qualify for high rates. Debbit automates this by purchasing 50 cent Amazon gift cards and/or paying your cable bill in small increments throughout the month.
Behind the scenes, Debbit is a hand rolled scheduler that runs Selenium automation to navigate Amazon + bill pay websites.
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#299I've learned to cook cakes, started running, and continued my light-fields video camera project.
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#300I started a podcast that talks about making music (and related creative stuff) from a more personal and realistic angle than what I’ve seen available, by interviewing people and asking about their thoughts and process.
A little bit of by-musicians-for-musicians crossed with more general podcast content.
By episode 4 I think we started to hit our stride, as we move towards a more creative-editing system than an unedited live stream format.
We have 3 more coming soon.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GxIDY9XvvaA
I’ve been learning a lot about working on dealing with speaking naturally and clearly, asking the right questions, etc. Its been eye opening.