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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it an algorithmic reddit that only shows you 20 things? How are they generated?

The things are submitted by users. Things to show is being selected using an algorithm similar to the one of HN (where age of submission, number of votes etc) play a role. Nothing fancy about this project, but I seem to use it as a bookmarking service where I tend to share things I find interesting. I use it also as a blogging platform where I sometimes post random thoughts as well as articles on how I solved a probl…

Ahh so the 20 refers to the number of categories?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #218

I’m working on an open source 3D printed vacuum cleaner robot: https://github.com/CodileAB https://www.instagram.com/wolley.xyz/ I’ve been working with it on and off for two years now and hopefully it can soon actually vacuum my floors :-)

This is so cool!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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project: postcard.zone (https://postcard.zone), its a simple way to send a postcard to any address of your liking with fully customizable front and back of the postcard itself.

A long time on my todo list to make more out of it. It works as-is but I'm not happy with the current editor and some other things. Still, it gets some use on occasion which is nice :)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I'm trying to learn FPGA by making a really tiny CPU: https://github.com/jes/jescpu > An 8-bit CPU, and 8-bit address space. This means there are only 256 bytes of memory available. > There are no register operands, no immediate mode operands, and no indirect addressing. All operands are direct addresses. In particular this means that to use pointers you need self-modifying code (i.e. rewrite the address of the instr…

I really wish I had the time to do this. I'll make sure to remember this for later!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I got hooked on building tools to assist in collective decision making. A decade back I built pyvotecore and https://modernballots.com to help folks run elections with fancier systems (e.g. SchulzeSTV). Years later, I built https://boardgamemenu.com to help reduce choice paralysis with boardgame selection (consensus). A few after that was https://sortmatch.ca to assist in Glicko tournaments.

Most recently, I built https://deckofnames.com to help new parents decide on a name they'd both like. I built it for myself, but figured others might find it useful. So it's a bit rough around the edges, but does the job pretty well, I think.

Part of the fun of implementing it was hunting down name statistics from various regional governments to compile a list of "which names are popular in which regions in which years". I really wish that kind of thing were standardized around the world, but that's life.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Two to share: https://fastmap.io : A drop in replacement for map that makes your Python instantly scalable in the cloud https://ffer.io : A comprehensive stock valuation ratio powered by machine learning (and just happens to use fastmap)

That fastmap.io looks pretty neat

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #323

I probably shouldn't show this because it's still kind of hot garbage but here is the Hacker News client I'm working on in the C# version of Godot[0]. Maybe the embarrassment of exposure will spur me on to actually finish it... [0] https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/godothnreader/src/master/

Why Godot? (I've only ever used it for game prototypes.)

A few threads popped up on HN a while ago about using Godot for application development and I just wanted to see how feasible it was. I like the basic idea, game frameworks are basically application frameworks already in theory.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I am working on ht[0], a drop-in replacement for HTTPie[1] written in Rust.

Since I am not planning on writing an extensive documentation for ht, I wanted to port 99% of HTTPie's features so its docs applies to ht as well. So far I have been able to port around 60-70% of HTTPie's features.

[0] https://github.com/ducaale/ht

[1] https://httpie.org/

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