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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by mpeg »

pythonbase wrote: post #598
mpeg wrote: post #570

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Random but... please do not use this template on real emails "Hi [FirstName], I came across [Company] and was impressed by the work you're doing — especially [specific detail]." It's a terrible cold email, I get so many of these every week... There's better ways to get someone's attention

Thanks for taking out the time to look into the template and sharing your feedback. Appreciated. Having said this, that's just a demo template and users can tweak and configure the template as they deem fit.

I figured, I just had a visceral reaction to that specific template as I get so many of them

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by xerox13ster »

neonglow wrote: post #236

I built a browser extension that stops animated images such as GIFs by default. I've always found it annoying that browsers autoplay animated images, and there still isn't a built-in way to control that behavior. The extension shows the first frame and adds a play/stop button directly on the image. What started as a personal utility ended up being published on the Firefox and Chrome extension stores. It's still a sma…

> I've always found it annoying that browsers autoplay animated images, and there still isn't a built-in way to control that behavior.

When I first started daily driving Linux in 2011, this was the default behavior of konqueror, Firefox, librewolf, and opera.

I would have to set a flag in the software to get it to autoplay videos and gifs. They would just load with a warning message in the render space that said click to load auto play video.

Not surprised that it’s gone.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by solarity_studio »

I built a telegram bot that has access to my entire obsidian vault so I can ask it any questions about all my data. Here it is describing itself:

I'm literally the bot, so I can describe myself! Here's what I do and what you've got planned:

What I do now:

- Act as your second brain connected to your Obsidian vaults

— daily notes, goals, client info, business info, ideas, and facts

- Search your vaults for context when you ask questions

- Help with journal prompts and reflections in your daily notes (I ask context dependent questions randomly throughout the day that are based on your notes)

- Create new files when you need them

- Answer questions about your life, businesses, gear, plans, etc.

- Reminders (i.e. "/remindme in 2 days to [action]" and it will text me at that time)

Total game changer and I never would have built it without LLMs.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by aleqs »

I've made a general repo linting tool [0][1]. Originally it's purpose was to replace a bunch of repo hygiene/structure validation scripts I ended up adding as I noticed various sloppy AI changes. I ended up going through a bunch of open source repos to see what other kinds of validations they had via scripts and incorporated those into the tool as a set of general/extensible rule types. This tool allows you to define repo structure, hygiene and other rules in a declarative way, and it is very fast [2] (great for pre-commit and CI workflows).

[0] https://alint.org/

[1] https://github.com/asamarts/alint

[2] https://alint.org/benchmarks/

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by liglam »

DonaldFisk wrote: post #697

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was in 1956, before I was born. AI itself is even older than that (e.g. William Grey Walter's robots, Elmer and Elsie in 1948), but it was called cybernetics back then. I've been doing symbolic AI, on and off, since the 1980s. I assume, though, you mean LLMs. I haven't used them first hand, but I have fairly recently implemented a multi-layer artificial…

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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

jazzpush2 wrote: post #746
michaelbuckbee wrote: post #717

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is all very fair criticisms. This thread asked: "What are tools you have made for yourself?" and that's genuinely what this is. I wanted it so I made it and then AI makes it so easy to just throw up a marketing page. I've a a handful of dev friends that have started to use it as well and give their feedback and it's been slowly growing as I've added sharing/invites. I would absolutely not recommend putting big p…

You completely ignored every question related to costs/privacy.

I thought it was more implied, but let me be more explicit:

- This is something I made for myself without a lot of commercial thought, so I still haven't thought through pricing + usage + limits + operational limits. In it's current wildly unoptimized state it's still very cheap to run.

- For the specific concern about API Key leakage there's not a lot I can do about that (that I'm aware of) as the logic of what gets sent is handled by the client AI. It is possible to pull down and audit both the tools + instructions that are published by the MCP server if there are concerns on that side.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by jtap »

I've continued working on a tool for my daughter, our friends, and I to scan and index Pokemon cards. The tool is a phone app and website (https://MyBulkCards.com) The phone app uses the camera to scan a card and run the image through a couple of models, a record is written of the card along with the location. It's pretty basic, but I can store cards in boxes like “Box 1 AAA, Box 1 BBB, …” and find cards easy peasy. There’s also a friends feature so I can see what others have locally. We borrow cards from each other quite a bit.

It's been a super fun tool to build. The phone app just got approved in the Android app store. I have a bit of cleanup, but plan on releasing it soon.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by DonaldFisk »

kingkongjaffa wrote: post #722
DonaldFisk wrote: post #697

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was in 1956, before I was born. AI itself is even older than that (e.g. William Grey Walter's robots, Elmer and Elsie in 1948), but it was called cybernetics back then. I've been doing symbolic AI, on and off, since the 1980s. I assume, though, you mean LLMs. I haven't used them first hand, but I have fairly recently implemented a multi-layer artificial…

> I haven't used them first hand Why not? Given your background surely you would be curious.

I'm interested in how they work, but building anything like them, given the hardware I have, would be impractical. I've seen others use them, including to answer some questions I had, but the answers they gave were obvious, unhelpful, or wrong.

Even if they become more reliable, I like to understand and work things out for myself, rather than just be given the answer.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by dddw »

dddw wrote: post #759
Balgair wrote: post #198

It's dumb, but.... I made a scraper that searches through all the news and finds anything 'war' related. It then summarizes it and give me that new in the Star Wars crawl with music.

Love this

You should totally buy a domain for it and call it internet-art
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