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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by freediver »

I have been working on TinyGem as a passion project that is turning into something more.

It is a bookmarking service with 'smart' content discovery using pretty advanced machine learning/NLP capabilities.

Bookmarking service feature automatic discovery of HN/Reddit/Twitter discussions, article summaries, private/public feeds, tags, search and ability to follow other users.

Discovery feature is interesting. It automatically uses links you saved as a seed for your interests and surfaces related and relevant content related only from curated sources like HN, reddit, tildes, github trending ... using machine learning with few other twists (it doesnt show content on websites that have a lot of ads etc).

TinyGem - https://tinygem.org

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jsomau »

loosescrews wrote: post #444
jsomau wrote: post #264

A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

The email address listed in the privacy policy doesn't seem to be valid. I couldn't find stated clearly one way or the other whether or not you collect information about the sites that I visit.

It does not except in a single case. All the data is stored locally in the browser extension storage otherwise. As part of the onboarding flow you can choose to anonymously submit your money saved to the online tally at https://www.curbyourconsumerism.app/

You can also read the source code here: https://github.com/jsom/curb-your-consumerism/tree/main/src

I realize there have been browser extension authenticity issues recently with some sketchy things being published like The Great Suspender https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1.... I've got to spend more time investigating a way to remove this question for users, but my intent is to never collect any data beyond the anonymous online tally of the homepage which is opt-in only.

Sorry, I need to replace that email address it is unfortunately a placeholder. Side project has some loose threads. I'll do that tonight.

Edit: email fixed

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by archarios »

jsomau wrote: post #264

A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

Could it also estimate CO2 output from delivery? I always try to buy local even if it's online when possible. Luckily this is usually possible in the bay area/California :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by shiftingleft »

tjkrusinski wrote: post #143

A file receiving service. I edit videos and more often than not, people don't have space in their dropbox or google drive to send me large files. Madry let's me send people a web page that they can upload files to. I pay for the storage, they don't need an account. https://madry.app

Have you heard of magic wormhole?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Thorentis »

jedberg wrote: post #216
enjeyw wrote: post #51

An aggregator ala reddit/hackernews/twitter that uses a market mechanism to better incentivise content discovery. One of the biggest issues with existing aggregators is that: - how well content performs is dependant on the attention it gets immediately after posting. - However, readers aren’t incentivised to sift carefully through new content, which is generally of lower quality than "frontpage" content - This means…

On reddit, we created a bellwether award. It was basically for the person who was most accurate at upvoting things that got popular and downvoting the things that did not. The people who won the award the most were the ones that upvoted all the memes and blogspam. My point of this is not to discourage you, but to warn you that the way you've described your platform, the most "profitable" thing to do is not upvote goo…

Exactly. This in turn devolves into a race to the bottom where you are basically speculating on the speculations of others. Content then becomes popular for no other reason than people thought that other people would find it popular. So basically like the real stockmarket. We don't need more things to be like the stockmarket.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Prcmaker »

Just for fun, I'm working on some performance transmission parts for quicker gear shifts. I'm using basic 3d printing and laser cutting to prototype, hoping to move on to manually machined aluminium soon before go to CNC steel.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by patwolf »

I recently started the process of digitizing some old 8mm home movies from my late grandfather. I lament not knowing most of the stories and people shown in the films. It's gotten me thinking about the best way to preserve details of my life for future generations--like what I think my great great great grand kids might be interested in knowing about me if they were doing genealogy research. They probably won't care to dig through a hundred photos of each vacation I've ever been on but would like to know some of the highlights.

I haven't yet built anything, and it might not even be a solvable business problem. Hopefully though I'll at least figure out good ways to organize data I want to pass on to my children.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jzelinskie »

nemo1618 wrote: post #300

I'm working on a language optimized for solving programming challenges as quickly as possible. That is, I'm not optimizing for execution time , I'm optimizing for time between reading the problem statement and having a working solution . As far as I'm aware, there aren't any existing languages in this space. There are plenty of "code golf" languages, which optimize for shortest finished program , but that's slightly…

Have you given any thought to this being used in place of pseudocode in white papers? If the language is much easier to translate problem into code, it is probably good at conveying ideas for documentation or teaching. My naive assumption is that would be a more useful focus than IDE tooling.
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