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Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by adrianmonk »

patcon wrote: post #270

I co-organized a weekly hacknight meetup of 40-70 people. I wrote a script to make Anki spaced repetition flash card decks with avatars and names pulled from the meetup API. I would use GitHub Actions to run the script a few hours before the event, then drop the importable deck into a Google Drive folder. I'd review the deck before the meetup, and then at the event, I'd not stress about names. I'd pretend to introduc…

I could see this being useful for work stuff. Learn the names and faces of all the people in your department as well as other info like what projects they're working on, expertise they have (this person knows all about databases, that person knows Linux really well, etc.), who they report to, etc.

Then when it's time to collaborate on something, or when you need to keep the appropriate people in the loop, hopefully the right people just pop into mind. And if you get invited to a meeting with 5 people you don't normally work with, you can probably make an educated guess why they're attending.

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Post by psnehanshu »

When I started learning code and to build websites, I felt it very cumbersome to login into cpanel and upload PHP files. Hence I built my own file manager called HostBrowser[1]. It was a single PHP script. It had a lot of functionality that a lot of advanced file mangers have, like copy paste, compress files to Zip, extract Zip, copy-paste, directly download file from remote server, a code editor. The UI was inspired by that of phpLiteAdmin[2].

[1] https://github.com/anupamsaikia/HostBrowser

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PhpLiteAdmin_Main_Screen....

Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by toyg »

glapworth wrote: post #154

We recently remodelled our kitchen and dining area, and I wanted some art piece on the wall but couldn’t decide what. For months the wall was a little bare and we were having a lot of dinner guests. I realised our WiFi password was too complicated to keep reading out to family and friends so I built a QR code in Lego that automatically connects you to our guest WiFi. It looks good, and it’s Lego so it was a fun proje…

I solved that problem with an NFC sticker in the hallway. Anybody with a recent (2-3yo) phone can just tap the sticker and get online.

Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by melenaos »

I have created a vuejs components library that is based on a proprietary js framework.

Its super easy to create a new component since all the JS and design is handed from the proprietary framework, and i have full control on the complete library.

The downside is that i have to create every component i want to use and i cannot share the library with anyone.

Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by toyg »

billylo wrote: post #748

I live on the flight path of a busy airport (Toronto) and have always wondered what type of aircrafts they are as they fly above me. So, I made a "Plane Above Me" app that listens to airplane sound. Once detected, it polls data from flight APIs and read out the flight info and aircraft data. In other words, it's my little "Flight Announcer". https://evergreen-labs.com/PlaneAboveMe.html

Can it measure intensity?

I grew up under a flight path, and now live... under another flight path. Luckily this one is used almost exclusively to land (much quieter) but my parents are still under a takeoff one. All airlines are supposed to follow certain rules to minimize noise, but many just flaunt them. Local authorities own the airport, so their interest in monitoring infractions is... very low.

Having an app that could detect and categorize bad actors, would be pretty cool.

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Post by tikimcfee »

I’ve built this to prove to myself that viewing text in 3D fundamentally changes the interaction and information gleaned from the relationships of files and software. I’ve had fun, and some people like it. It’s a toy and I want more for it, but it gets harder and harder to make progress by myself. New topics, necessary optimizations, bad fundamentals, and honestly… lack of internal motivation.

It’s a Mac app, it works in iOS too, and it has an AR mode. You can point it a git repo to download and view all the files. Hopefully someone else may enjoy it.

P.s.: to the idea of highlighting word definitions, I’m working on personal dictionary building and visualizing as well.. imagine heptopod language but with words. Same tech, different code flow.

https://github.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat

Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by mgsouth »

akhayam wrote: post #29

About 8 years back, I was leading an engineering team which was the escalation path for customer support. We were sitting on a large corpus of support tickets but didn't have any insights. I was amazed when word2vec came out and blew my mind. So I built a language model that trained on support ticket data. I modeled system logs attached to support tickets as an NLP model to predict what was going to fail next and for…

There's a YC startup that's doing something along these lines. They recently posted something, don't remember if it was on front page or an "YC startup jobs" email.

Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by urbanporcupine »

drcode wrote: post #593

I just moved to the bay area. I made an app that scrapes all bay area events from meetup, eventbrite, and a couple of other sites- This way you end up with around 100 events a day, way too much to read through. So next I take each event, send it to chatgpt3.5 and ask it to rate this event on around 20 parameters. Next, I take the latitude/longitude of each event and measure driving distance from my house. Then I have…

Sorry for being a noob. But I am not sure that I understand how a chat gpt can decide this. As I thought that it just uses probability to find the next likely word for sentence completion. How does this even work? And can we trust what the ChatGPT outputs?
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