What a wonderful idea, would love to have this be a monthly thread.
Homebrew clubs style—bring the half-baked experiments you've been tinkering with, we'll all learn something from it
Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#42I'm working on an application where you share your business idea with an AI which evaluates and ranks ideas. It scores the idea, explains why it scored the way it did, and offers suggestions for improvement. That's double meta in this thread, I know. I don't have an MVP yet but I've been testing and tweaking prompts. An early strategy might be to release this as a free open source app and then offer extra business va…
There's already a `dimeadozen [dot] ai` for that purpose. What other features will your app have?
Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#43https://pastmaps.com Been working on this as a new way to find, explore, and view old historical maps and aerials of my area. Still heavily in development but have been surprised by some early traffic stats (1-2K organic uniques / mo and growing 200%+ m/m right now) Hoping to add in more advanced map tooling within the next week or 2, including new basemap options, 3d terrain view, and then a proper search box which…
That's really cool! Just wanted to share the following site as the city of Toronto created something similar a few months ago https://map.toronto.ca/torontomaps/
Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#44https://transcript.fish I have been working on this podcast transcription project for a couple months and it's been super rewarding. I listen to a podcast called No Such Thing As A Fish[0], where some researchers talk about their favorite facts they learned that week. Then they riff on it and are generally smart and funny. I listened to the series so many times that I decided I wanted to listen to the show on shuffle…
This is fantastic. I'm a huge fan of No Such Thing as a Fish podcast.
Are you part of club fish? I bet the folks in the discord channel would love this.
Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#45I've created "AlbertBro," an AI math tutor chatbot for kids aged 10 to 16. It helps with math homework by solving problems from photos. Available as a Progressive Web App at https://photo2math.com?hn=1
Mobile users can snap a math problem pic, desktop offers drag-drop, paste & file upload. Crop pics for accuracy, AI converts to LaTeX for analysis. The rest is math GPT with a system prompt
Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#46https://pastmaps.com Been working on this as a new way to find, explore, and view old historical maps and aerials of my area. Still heavily in development but have been surprised by some early traffic stats (1-2K organic uniques / mo and growing 200%+ m/m right now) Hoping to add in more advanced map tooling within the next week or 2, including new basemap options, 3d terrain view, and then a proper search box which…
Have you thought of running super resolution on the images?
I actually think that's a great idea! I considered doing it as part of my ingestion pipeline when starting out but honestly got a bit overwhelmed with all the options so put it on my backburner. Maybe I should take another look. I think it would be an awesome way to enable even more crisp zooming
Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#47https://pastmaps.com Been working on this as a new way to find, explore, and view old historical maps and aerials of my area. Still heavily in development but have been surprised by some early traffic stats (1-2K organic uniques / mo and growing 200%+ m/m right now) Hoping to add in more advanced map tooling within the next week or 2, including new basemap options, 3d terrain view, and then a proper search box which…
That's really cool! Just wanted to share the following site as the city of Toronto created something similar a few months ago https://map.toronto.ca/torontomaps/
Amazing, just bookmarked this!
Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#48Going to be piloting in hyper-local form first (one deanery in one diocese), but I'm working on a sort of Nextdoor-meets-Public-Square for Catholics.
First just a list of all local Catholic events with subscribe-able tags for target audiences, but then also a directory of local businesses run by parishioners.
Maaaaaybe eventually message-board-type features, but that's far enough in the future to ignore for now.
No idea yet if anyone will care about it as much as I do, but it's something I wish existed, and nobody else seems to be building it!
Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#49Bitgrid[1][2] is a continuation of an idea I've been carrying around since the 1980s, and tweaking from time to time. If I can maintain focus long enough, I intend to learn RTL, VHDL or Verilog well enough to get it entered in one of the Google open source chip shuttles. I think this approach to computing if applied to neural networks may offer a cheap way to get far more compute, perhaps exaflop performance out of a single chip.
It's an FPGA without routing hardware, which on the face of it, is the stupidest thing to do. However, because of the clocked nature of the bitgrid, you all data only has to travel to neighboring cells, so lines will be short, and clock rates should be able to be up in the gigahertz range. Instead of worrying about how quickly you can get a signal from one side of the chip to the other, the latency will be 1/2 of the number of cells across, if the signal takes a straight line.
However... everything along that path can be compute, and routing should be trivial. It avoids the trap with GPUs where they are Turing complete, thus hard to reason about. Like an excel spreadsheet, you can track dependencies, and know exactly where a given bit came from. The chip as a whole, on the other hand, is Turing complete.
If anyone knows how much energy in FemtoJoules an 4 bit latch and a 4 bit input LUT take up, and a static ram cell... that would help in estimating the real world power consumption/feasibility of this thing. I can't find a good answer anywhere.
Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#50I'm building a publicly-accessible Matrix app [0] for anyone looking to self-host a discord + discussions alternative.
More and more communities are moving to closed-off apps hidden behind auth, and not being indexed by search engines. This is quite unfortunate, and I'm hoping that Shpong can (soon) be a viable alternative that respects the open web.
Shpong instances federate with each other, and I'm working on adding ActivityPub compatibility as well.