I wrote a multiplayer browser-based 3D boating game. Backend is entirely Postgres/ Postgraphile. https://github.com/blairjordan/canals I have fun making it but not many people are interested in it
I think this is really cool, I'm gonna try it out.
Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
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#592Friend and I built https://druthers.app , and we use it all the time to solve our own interpersonal disputes, as well as with family and friends. It hasn't got any quality-of-life chrome or meta-features such as logins, or bookmarks. We were reluctant, even, to add the sharing button, since obviously a person is already well-equipped to share a browser tab! (I kid! Of course users cannot be presumed to know the power…
I'm confused. I can create a poll with a question and options, and then... ? If I share the link, it just lets more people edit the same poll. How does anyone vote?
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#593Earlier quoted context omitted.
Love it. This whole thread is just total and utter madness. Everyone here has the most esoteric projects I would never have imagined. p.s. the regular pen drawing sound on your app has the background noise in it as far as I can tell. Have you tried it with noise removal? It might make it better, it also might make it less charming, I don't know!
It does, but finding appropriately licensed foley samples that also sound ok in a loop is more challenging than I would have expected. Plus, my sound editing skills are minimal My biggest beef with the sounds, tbh, is that I need to master them all to about the same volume. I think the drawing sound is a bit quiet, or maybe my button clicks and stamp sounds are loud. Or maybe I should break down and get a microphone…
You're welcome to send them all to me, I've got an Adobe Audition subscription.. I can do noise removal and renormalize them all to the same volume. Send me an email: hello@qingcharles.com
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#594Can we include projects with no intention to finish or support long term or frankly even share to an audience other than myself until now for some reason? If so, I made this little app to help me quickly learn ukulele song chords nearly a decade ago: https://ukey.vercel.app/ Code: https://github.com/namuol/ukey The idea was to translate generic guitar tabs into visual chord diagrams for ukulele simply by copy-pasting…
Great work! I've made a few jank theory practice apps for guitar and pedal-steel guitar, and know exactly what you mean when there's that impulse to start to automate things that are really just too subjective. > Needless to say, I never really learned to play ukulele… Funny you say that, I actually do think making the tools made me better at the instruments. Being forced to sit and seriously consider things like the…
Yeah I was mostly being tongue in cheek; I probably learned more and played more songs than if I hadn’t made the app. I just don’t have the sort of patience or discipline required to really advance beyond a few basic tunes. I learned about ukulele and fretted instruments in general for sure though. I still have my ukuleles and can probably play a few tunes from memory, but my poor cat absolutely hates the sound so I don’t torture her. Nothing like an honest critic.
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#595Trying to build the world's largest encyclopedia of magazines, fanzines, journals and newsletters. Most of the world's magazines are dead and buried, languishing as copyright orphans with no known owner. Yet, they contain far more knowledge than probably all the books combined? We should probably think about training the next LLM on all the world's magazines as well as all the books. It is less than half-baked. I ask…
Really cool. When I was younger I regularly got one of those (Not sure of the name) bundles of pages that you tear out and arrange in binders. It was all about aircraft including cross sections and I've always wanted to scan and ocr them.
Yes, these things were huge in the 80s and early 90s. "Part works" is the official term for them. I'm trying to track down some of the ones I loved from my childhood too. I wonder how well some of them hold up?
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#596Trying to build the world's largest encyclopedia of magazines, fanzines, journals and newsletters. Most of the world's magazines are dead and buried, languishing as copyright orphans with no known owner. Yet, they contain far more knowledge than probably all the books combined? We should probably think about training the next LLM on all the world's magazines as well as all the books. It is less than half-baked. I ask…
Is this something where you could or should cooperate with the Internet Archive?
Absolutely. I see the IA as more of a bulk storage area, with little community, and my site will have more commentary and community built around it. But everything that gets scanned for my site will also be available for the IA too.
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#598I code Adult Entertainment Programs (NSFW) in Python for fun:
https://github.com/pronopython/rugivi
RuGiVi enables you to fly over your adult image collection and view thousands of images at once. Zoom in and out from one image to small thumbnails with your mousewheel in seconds. All images are grouped as you have them on your disk and arranged in a huge landscape. RuGiVi can work with hundred thousand of images at once. Tested with around 700.000 images, that's a RuGiVi Pixel size of 4.600.000 x 4.400.000 pixels or 20.240.000 Megapixels or 10.120.000 Full HD Screens to be scrolled through. RuGiVi works on Windows and Ubuntu Linux!
https://github.com/pronopython/fapel-system
With the fapel-system you can organize your adult images and video collection under Linux and Windows with standard folders. Everything works with hardlinks. Image and Media organizers running on databases were not applicable for me. The were not portable enough and their categorization always relied on their database so no chance the file manager or another program worked with it. Also I always had the problem with backups, renaming files outside the database-system etc etc. Regarding the sensitivity of the (adult) content, I also did not want to be dependable on big companies and their software.
https://github.com/pronopython/fplyr
Fplyr is a background audio sample and music player specialized in playing moaning sounds and relaxing music for adult entertainment purpose. With fplyr you can define audio samples like lustful moans and (if you like) rubber clothing squeeching which are extracted from your video files and played back in a defined random fashion on multiple audio tracks.
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#599Calzone is a Chrome extension for converting between timezones, just by highlighting text. It runs purely client-side. Helps me schedule international meetings when writing emails. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/calzone/ahnbgncjjn...
No firefox version? This is defintely one of the projects that I have on my list to do at some point..
On the TODO!
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#600kurynt.com
plan was to be a one stop shop for breaking changes, deprecations, and so on.
probably with the latest LLM revolution this could be quite a powerful tool!
havent worked on it in months