Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

onlyrecipeapp.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

111–120 of 161 posts

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

#111

Post by netsharc »

loufe wrote: post #95
spondyl wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My particular favourite of this genre is "Maple Shortbread Bars" from The New York Times which starts with the opening "Shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001" https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017089-maple-shortbread...

I haven't laughed that hard in a while, WOW. I genuinely wonder if people believe this or if it's necessary fluff to sell.

I thought it's because there's no copyright possible on recipes, but there is on the fluff writing...

I don't know if it's to prevent mass theft of content (oh no, the thieves would have to go through the text and cut off the stories. Although nowadays the biggest IP thieves have built systems to automate this..)

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

#112

Post by netsharc »

regularfry wrote: post #4

Very minor point, in the grand scheme of things: when converting measurements from imperial to metric, I would be astonished if many recipes need more than two significant figures. When the recipe says "391.32 gram strained greek yogurt" I would not expect disaster to befall me if I only supplied 391.31g. A more major point is that I don't seem to be able to select text to copy and paste. I had to type out "391.32 gr…

An Apple press release about how much gold they could recover from recycled iPhones pissed me off so much. And all the "journalists" just copied and pasted the number with too many significant digits...

It said "Apple recovered 2204lbs of gold" from recycled iPhones. Guess who just did a plain conversion from a tonne (1000kg) to lbs.

The whole environmental report from Apple had more numbers, and you could clearly see that they were all converted from metric to imperial and made to look really precise...

"We recovered two thousand and four pounds of gold!" sounds a lot more precisely calculated than "we recovered about 1000kg of gold" ("Not 2203lbs, not 2205lbs, but 2204lbs!"). And no journalist caught this...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-ton-of-gold-recycling_n... including a link to the full report. Appropriately from a website cosplaying as journalism

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

#113

Post by AwkwardPanda »

namrog84 wrote: post #75
AwkwardPanda wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey! I never really thought in that direction. That's a great insight. I'd definitely look into it. Thank you

In addition to random recipe. Have a recipe of the day. Rotated per 24 hours. So we can all enjoy and refine a recipe together

Great suggestion. Adding it to my TODO list. Thank you.

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

#114

Post by AwkwardPanda »

8note wrote: post #110

feature request: common substitutions i dont have ingredient x, but i do have y, which is close enough like, i just ran out of browb sugar, but i do have some melases or honey

Nice. I should find a list of alternatives for each ingredient. I'll see what I can do. Thank you for suggesting.

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

#115

Post by AwkwardPanda »

chrysoprace wrote: post #81

Fantastic. I was actually working on something like this myself. I was planning to use an LLM as a fallback for recipes that don't contain properly formatted recipe data. Curious as to how you get around some of the anti-scraping measures like Cloudflare. I put in a recipe blog ( https://www.maangchi.com ) that usually blocks me with Cloudflare but your site was able to scrape it just fine. Edit: also as a very minor…

Hello, I am using different datacenter IPs first. If all fail to crawl, I have a Raspberry Pi in my house that crawls using my residential IP. ;)

My home IP has not been blocked yet since I regularly do human-like operations from it. Hehe.

But on a serious note, you can try services like Bright Data or Apify that have a ton of residential IPs. So if you see a cloudflare block page, just rotate the proxy.

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

#118

Post by AwkwardPanda »

stanislavb wrote: post #101

It's beautiful and helpful. Thanks for sharing. Which are your top competitors in your opinion?

There are many that do this TBH.

But currently the only competition I consider is Paprika. They have been in this game for over a decade.

I am going to add recipe imports directly from Paprika soon too. For people who would migrate from Paprika to Only Recipe.

I know it's a long shot, but I am going for it. :)

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

#119

Post by AwkwardPanda »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #36
AwkwardPanda wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are right. I'll add a fallback to parse it using LLM.

This one didn't work either: https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-cook-moist-tender-chicken-b...

Noted. I will fix this soon.
Post reply on HN