I'm trying to combat disruptive chatter in K-12 classrooms.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#732https://pastmaps.com I'm building Pastmaps - striving to eventually be the world's largest online collection of old maps, aerials, and photos all packaged into a public historical research platform that's as easy to use as Google Maps. This has been a labor of love now for about a year, but I still have a huge mountain to climb to realize the full vision. Give it a try and give me your harsh criticisms - that's the g…
Wow this is super cool! I've hacked together some equivalent for small projects. Curious if these are hosted as tiles that can be referenced by third-party servers?
For context I'm working on an app called 3DStreet[1]. It's mostly used by planners for future projects, but I've been excited about the possibility of helping to visualize the past too.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#734I've always dreamed of flying by just flapping my arms, and have been building osm4vr to do just that. It's a 3d / VR experience that runs in the browser and allows you to fly around buildings with the data taken from OpenStreetMap. https://ctrlw.github.io/osm4vr/
+1 this is a super great implementation of OSM in VR!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#735Thread-to-Markdown, a browser extension for saving Twitter threads and articles to a markdown file.
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Chrome https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/eoapehkjjmekhkeinma...
Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/thread-to-mar...
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Example output https://sharetext.io/?slug=61fa044c
Original thread https://x.com/johnrushx/status/1850899186528473097
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#736I invented a programming language where you use Unicode box-drawing characters to draw a structure of boxes and lines: ╓───╖ ║ ! ║ ╙─┬─╜ ┌───╖ ╔═══╗ ┌─────┴─────┤ > ╟──╢ 2 ║ │ ╘═╤═╝ ╚═══╝ ╔════╗ ┌───╖ │ │ ║ −1 ╟──┤ + ╟─┴─┐ │ ╚════╝ ╘═╤═╝ │ │ ┌─┴─╖ │ ╔═══╗ │ │ ! ║ │ ║ 1 ║ │ ╘═╤═╝ │ ╚═╤═╝ │ │ ┌─┴─╖ ┌─┴─╖ │ │ │ × ╟──┤ ? ╟──┘ │ ╘═╤═╝ ╘═╤═╝ └─────┘ │ The language is called Funciton (pronounced: /ˈfʌŋkɪtɒn/) and the above…
This seems like something which would be annoying to create digital without supporting tools, but awesome in analog. I could see value in a specialized camera-app which transforms hand drawn box-structures to digital boxes, or a kind of play board where children could arrange cards to create a program and learning programming.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#737As a side project I'm working on a multitrack audio play along website. If you are learning bass you can mute the bass track. I used to play along to Jamey Aebersold CDs back in the day, and now on YouTube there are many Play Along videos... but I thought it would be fun to make one where you have more control. Here's the demo, feel free to upload a track if you have one handy! https://jamz.stereosteve.com/ The sourc…
Random tip... I noticed the volume sliders only take effect when you stop dragging the knob. You can use the 'oninput' event for the slider to set its value as the user moves it around. Something like: volume_slider.oninput = function() { audio.volume = volume_slider.value; }
Thanks! I made this change.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#738I am working on dealing with burnout for the first time. I’ve read about it here and thought I understood it, but experiencing it first hand has been difficult. It destroys everything good about life: relationships, hobbies, sleep, and health. I know I am not the only one here going through this and knowing that helps a little.
Hope you get it sorted. I have seen relatives struggle through it and it is a challenge
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#739I kind of got back to looking at my newsbetting app called Rashomon. I posted about it on here a few weeks ago to no attention.
Basically you get untitled articles and have to bet whether they are from far left, left, center, right or far right sources. The idea was to maek readers aware of their biases. I wrote my findings here: https://nassharaf.github.io/ideasthete/projects/Rashomon.htm...
You can demo the site here: https://www.rashomonnews.com
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#740I kind of got back to looking at my newsbetting app called Rashomon. I posted about it on here a few weeks ago to no attention. Basically you get untitled articles and have to bet whether they are from far left, left, center, right or far right sources. The idea was to maek readers aware of their biases. I wrote my findings here: https://nassharaf.github.io/ideasthete/projects/Rashomon.htm... You can demo the site he…
Sounds like an interesting concept.
Is there a demo account we can use to test it out? or maybe give 1 or 2 articles for free so people can get a feel of it and then have them setup an account after.