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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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new-hacker-tab.com

Motivation: I wanted to have a new-tab page for my browser that show things that are actually useful for me like a few links, a weather forecast, best-HN and a notepad to dump some information.

So I built a website, which lets you edit its own code https://new-hacker-tab.com

How-To: In the bottom-right side is a button which opens an editor, to edit the page. The result is stored in the localStorage of the browser. I use that page every day and have different versions for work and spare time. If you messed up, just delete the localStorage of that domain.

Half-Baked: I would like to add sharing features, so when I have built a very nice widget/page, others can use it too, but so far the import/export functionality is all there is.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Reddit is awesome and houses some of the best content I've read, but there's a problem.

In some subreddits like Writing prompts, ELI5, etc... we care more about the upvotes/score of comments than the comment's parent post.

This is a problem because the best comments (explanations, stories, jokes, etc...) are not always in the highest-rated post. Sometimes comments are higher rated than the parent post. This extremely challenging when the Top filter in Reddit is sorting by post's upvotes and not the comment's upvotes.

Here top posts from Reddit are ranked by the comment's upvotes/score (5th column), using data before 2019 (Forgotten content and also avoiding up-vote gamification.)

https://topredditcomments.com/

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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It's an app for churches (or any live performance) to display and manage lyrics. http://alpha.lyricscreen.com:6754/ I'm missing accounts and some of the more frilly features, like different fonts and backgrounds. All the info is shared and HN could probably crash it. It's all synced live, so it's very loosely collaborative. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Interesting...

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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A spaced repetition flashcard app with the main focus on creating flashcards together. Sharing is still missing, but we are starting to work on it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.space.spac... or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/space-spaced-repetition/id1546....

I'm still a student and started programming the app with a friend because I wanted to learn physics with my classmates. But the other apps Anki, Brainscape and Quizlet have a pretty bad UX to create flashcards collaboratively, so I started working on it.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I am making an India based news aggregator like Google News.

Development is slow as I work on it only on Sundays.

Lots of bugs and broken links.

And the let's encrypt certificate also just expired. Need to get it on auto-renew.

It's Python and Go based.

https://www.huakya.com

Edit: Any suggestions/feedback most welcome. Thanks

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#377

I wouldn't even call it half baked yet, more like a tenth, but I'm working on a total conversion (with a few engine changes) to the DOS Rise of the Triad. You can see one example here: https://twitter.com/mysterydip/status/1345112757050486785?s=... I am changing all textures, adding some new ones, repurposing enemies and weapons, all new maps and features. I think the engine really had some clever potential that didn…

Interesting! Why for ROTT and not use an engine like Doom if you're replacing all assets anyway?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I've been building a small relational database (https://github.com/shoyo/jin) with the goal being fast, easy to read, and (eventually) Postgres protocol-compliant.

What I've built so far are the lowest level components of the disk manager and buffer manager, and I'm currently implementing the system catalog for table creation/updates. I start work in April, so I'll be focused on this for the next few months!

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