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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by phiarchitect »

https://github.com/geometor

The GEOMETOR initiative is on a mission to explore the architecture of all that is.

I am building a suite of Python libraries for modeling, rendering, and analyzing classical geometric constructions of points, lines and circles to discern patterns in logic and nature.

With SymPy under the hood, geometor.model allows for scripting sequential constructions that automatically discovers intersection points and prevents duplication of elements. https://github.com/geometor/model

With the power of MatPlotLib, geometor.render bring tools for plotting and animating the constructions. https://github.com/geometor/render

A key interest of mine, and primary motivation for the GEOMETOR initiative, is the study of the Golden Ratio. The geometor.divine project is developing tools for discovering and analyzing golden sections within constructions. https://github.com/geometor/divine

The rigorous environment of geometor.model provides a geometric assembly language. In geometor.elements, I am planning to build a model that has all of Euclid's propositions as a functional hierarchy.

It's a work in progress. I have done a major refactoring over the last few months and am pretty happy with the current architecture. Hoping to publish model and render soon on PyPI.

Last year, I put together a status video on the project and reviewed some of the investigations into the Golden Ratio: https://youtu.be/IOKgXb6Kce0

Github is the place to connect - start a message on any of the discussion boards.

~ phi

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by samsilent »

thebestmoshe wrote: post #549

I've used [Paperless ngx]( https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ ) for several years to manage my important personal documents. I wanted something like Paperless, but that is hosted. Selfhosted is nice, but I really needed these documents to always be available and accessible. At times, my self-hosted setup would be down. I'm in the middle of building https://fileshark.app It's still in early beta with some bugs, but I wou…

It would be good if there is a FAQ that explains where the documents are stores, and how the stored documents would be safe, encrypted, etc., and how they could be retrieved if the website is no longer available or wanted, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by captn3m0 »

samsilent wrote: post #640
captn3m0 wrote: post #628

I made a plain-text no frills news website for India: https://news.tatooine.club/ It shows news only from the last two days, there’s no infinite scrolling, no images, very little JavaScript, no ads, and no tracking. It has trigger warnings, let’s you hide specific categories (like sports), and grays out read articles (unless they get an update). It has slack-like highlight words to highlight news that you care about.…

This is excellent to use! Can you add news specific to states - like Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, etc.? And also specific cities, like New Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Trivandrum, etc.

I just set highlight words for cities and states I care about and that works well enough. (Bengaluru/Bangalore/Karnataka)

The source is a national news app so anything important enough for other metros does show up.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by tripleo1 »

kelthan wrote: post #240
SushiHippie wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well TIL https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/register/ It's $5, but still...

This is mostly to deter malicious behavior because it makes it unprofitable for bad actors to publish malware by spamming the store with dumb apps that are only life-support systems for their little packages of joy. It's a high enough bar to trip up a lot of bad actors, but low enough that it's a simple annoyance for most of us. But yeah, reason 4,590,234,761 why people who misbehave make things more expensive/diffic…

ah yes, developer mode??

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by prakhar897 »

ralphstodomingo wrote: post #631
prakhar897 wrote: post #391

Problem: There are lots of forums like r/AppIdeas, r/ideas, indiehackers, hackernews etc where people post their ideas/products/landing-pages for feedback. They sparsely get any feedback as the other people on these forums are also looking for feedback, but not willing to "give" feedback. Solution: Created a Discord Server where you need to give 3 feedbacks to request 1. This way it encourages people to participate i…

I am dubious about the actual value of feedback given just to trade. You want feedback coming from people looking to actually use and/or pay, not from people who also have something to sell of their own.

Agreed! However people can use a few eyes to spot glaring holes before reaching out to potential customers.

This also helps people in being involved in other's startups and getting second hand experience of what works and what doesn't.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by mikewarot »

I've been pursuing a path to cheap and easy PetaFLOP on a chip architecture that is decidedly edgy... it might work out great, or might be a miserable failure... the BitGrid[1]. It's dead nuts simple... a cartesian grid of 4 bit input, 4 bit output LUTs, latched and clocked in 2 phases (like the colors on a checkerboard) to prevent race conditions. It's a Turing complete architecture that doesn't have the routing issues of an FPGA because there's no routing hardware in the way. But it is also nuts because there's no routing fabric to get data rapidly across the chip.

If you can unlearn the aversion to latency that we've all had since the days of TTL and the IMSAI, you realize that you could clock an array at least 3 Ghz, giving 3 billion answers/second. It's all a question of programming. (Which is where I'm stuck right now, analysis paralysis)

I've got an emulator that works reasonably well on my PC. Now I've got to write the actual software that can generate binaries for it, and the eventual chip.

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by tripleo1 »

lloeki wrote: post #450

Unpublished: a shell written in pure Ruby, blurring the line between "shell-land" and "ruby-land" (think xonsh, only it does not "fallback" to the other side of the world at parse time. it's all first class Ruby), and that can also work with mRuby. Why mRuby? Well this is the first step of a larger dumb project where I'd have pure Ruby as Linux init/userland and boot straight to it (like these old Amstrad or whatever…

nice idea

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by tripleo1 »

zzo38computer wrote: post #446

I ha operating system design which I had not even made up a name yet. (It involves proxy capabilities, hypertext file system, multiple locking, programs that the user can program to work together, message passing, structured data, Extended TRON Code, and many other ideas.) But, I would hope to make the discussion about it, to improve and to design some of the details (such as ABI, system calls, file formats, etc; I w…

> I would propose some (I wrote some ideas so far), anyone (myself and others) could propose and criticize them, etc)

The best way to make this happen is to post somethind

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by tripleo1 »

samsilent wrote: post #642
thebestmoshe wrote: post #549

I've used [Paperless ngx]( https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ ) for several years to manage my important personal documents. I wanted something like Paperless, but that is hosted. Selfhosted is nice, but I really needed these documents to always be available and accessible. At times, my self-hosted setup would be down. I'm in the middle of building https://fileshark.app It's still in early beta with some bugs, but I wou…

It would be good if there is a FAQ that explains where the documents are stores, and how the stored documents would be safe, encrypted, etc., and how they could be retrieved if the website is no longer available or wanted, etc.

It would be good if there is a FAQ that explains why markdown doesn't work on ~~github~~, uh, hn.
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