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

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Post by stormfather »

PaulHoule wrote: post #10

Smart RSS reader that, right now, ingests about 1000 articles a day and picks out 300 for me to skim. Since I helped write this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0312018 I was always asking "Why is RSS failing? Why do failing RSS readers keep using the same failing interface that keeps failing?" and thought that text classification was ready in 2004 for content-based recommendation, then I wrote https://ontology2.com/es…

How does the bit that determines if 2 articles are really about the same story work? How did you structure training data for that and get a training set?

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

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Post by tejaskumthekar »

Chrome extension that solved a couple of everyday problems from a single view:

a. Controlling YouTube. I used to have a hard time finding the YouTube tab midst a bunch of open tabs, and if someone would approach me at my desk (good old days when we had offices with people) I didn't want to open the tab to pause the song (or to play it again, or to go next/previous) so this extension would find the tab and show me a simple UI to control it. I later on extended it to be controllable via a hosted URL which I could put in an Android app. This was helpful because if I had to ever leave the desk and song accidentally played out loud, I can pause it from the phone. b. Controlling Jenkins. I had a bunch of builds running and it was painful to visit and see the status, again, amidst all the tabs.

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

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Post by andrewstuart »

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

Could you tune in to the radio transmissions?

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Post by MagicMoonlight »

pigcat wrote: post #760

My grandmother has dementia. About twice a day, she calls my parents every 5 minutes, forgetting that she just hung up. The calls are always the same: "You live there now. Yes you have money. We came to visit you yesterday." This can go on for an hour or so. My parents are incredibly patient, but after a couple of these calls, they'll just leave the phone to ring. The soundtrack of the phone constantly ringing in the…

Why not just have the voicemail be the default. Every 2 hours is absolutely ridiculous.

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

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Post by ohlookcake »

joshgachnang wrote: post #568

It's not specifically just for me but for my team at the World Largest Trivia Contest [0]. It's a 54 hour long contest, questions are broadcast over the radio, you have the length of 2 songs to call in the answers, and you can use any source to find the answer. Sounds easy, right? Just Google it? Nope. "In a big screen flick, XYZ is talking to ABC about something. In the background, a train passes. What does it say o…

The trivia contest sounds awesome! What are some example questions?

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Post by mammothpizza »

I created an app for my phone so I can track my kit rocket as it descends under parachute. As far as I know this is the first app for android that predicts landing locations. I couldn't find one previously.

https://github.com/parchedpacha/LandingPredictApp

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

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Post by exebook »

bussyfumes wrote: post #313

When I was a student there was this power-of-two game on my friend's iPhone that I was literally addicted to. I didn't have an iPhone and eventually the game even disappeared from the AppStore. I missed it very much and my friends jokingly mentioned building a copy just for me. They never got around to it but at some point I thought "maybe I should give it a try?". So I gave it a try with no game dev knowledge and th…

Do you want a bug report? The lowest row doesn't fit into width of my phone's Chrome. I can only see few millimeters of the rightmost and leftmost cubies. Pinch zoom seems disabled so I cannot adjust. Tried switching to PC mode, but everything became too tiny. Rotating the phone also doesn't help. So for me it's unplayable.

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Post by tofusmom »

pigcat wrote: post #760

My grandmother has dementia. About twice a day, she calls my parents every 5 minutes, forgetting that she just hung up. The calls are always the same: "You live there now. Yes you have money. We came to visit you yesterday." This can go on for an hour or so. My parents are incredibly patient, but after a couple of these calls, they'll just leave the phone to ring. The soundtrack of the phone constantly ringing in the…

Wow how generous you and your brother are. Your family is so incredibly lucky to have you both.
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