Just a stupid thing I did that isn't anything special at all but was cool to build anyways.
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Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#192https://secretlink.org/ - A simple way to send encrypted one time data to people.
It's a no signup way to send encrypted messages to people (think usernames and passwords etc) that includes the time limited decryption key in the email we send to the target user and when the target user views the email, the message is deleted from our system.
This way if the target email gets hacked in the future, the link is useless.
Much better than emailing passwords around the place.
Could turn it into a service, but just haven't gotten around to it.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#193I wrote a meal scheduler - https://gitlab.com/dustin-space/meal-scheduler . It tracks ingredients we have at home, it has a database of recipes, it knows where we can buy ingredients online (for delivery). It schedules meals for my shared household. I can give it a request like: "next week I want to cook 4 vegetarian meals with 3 portions, and 1 vegan meal for 8 people for big shared dinner, and I want It thinks for…
This is cool I have a similar thought in mind as well as far as having specific meals/ingredients to buy and suggest at random with cost for next grocery run.
Looked at the repo, any screenshots of the UI/interface?
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#194Vertical indoor farm to reach the highest throughout possible per cubic meter are, using only non-GMO plants by discovering the right phenomics- https://hexafarms.com Vertical indoor farms are getting a lot of attention in the recent times, but the issue is the lack of plant expertise. Even if you were to go through all the literature, you would never find a holistic study that takes into account all the optimal fact…
Please tell me "seed-money" was a pun intended moment. Jokes aside, from a biology perspective why the aversion to GMO? From an ML perspective, what are you optimizing for - maximized growth rate?
It was!!! Personally, I have no aversion towards GMO. But in the end, it's the customers. It's already so hard to convince that food grown in clean and sterilized nutrient medium is far better than the romantic soil everyone is clinging to; GMO would take way more convincing. However, there are tastes that are indeed only found in the 'old' seeds, so there is do see the aversion non-GMO from customer side.
In terms of optimization, here are some:
1. What is the optimal time for getting a lettuce plant until harvest without juicing it up with nitrates?
2. What parameters could double the functional components of my mint (think about essential oils) and basil plants just by proper timing in stress and nutrition. These are already questions that botany departments have worked on- I want to bring them out in commercial setting (and may be a bit better).
3. Does back-radiation i.e. reflected light from plant leaves help in measuring plant well-being?
4. What's the right grow medium
5. In general, I BELIEVE, that there is a sub-optimal application (as in wastage) of light (which is roughly 20-30% of indoor farm expense), sub-optimal production in terms of the harvest we get. An improvement in harvest timing by a day would still be a very big volume once you scale it to bigger grow area; more importantly, I believe plant experts are good (even though very rare and expensive), but a DeepFarmer might be able to do better (and this is my main bet), both in terms of scaling and expertise.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#195My blogs. I mainly publish my 'permanent notes' from my collection of notes.
- https://maxrozen.com - Covers mainly React/web dev topics
- https://perfbeacon.com/blog/ - Covers web performance
- https://onlineornot.com - Covers webmaster style topics for business owners
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#196Vertical indoor farm to reach the highest throughout possible per cubic meter are, using only non-GMO plants by discovering the right phenomics- https://hexafarms.com Vertical indoor farms are getting a lot of attention in the recent times, but the issue is the lack of plant expertise. Even if you were to go through all the literature, you would never find a holistic study that takes into account all the optimal fact…
"By the year 2025, 63% of the world’s population will be living in cities" I wonder if Covid will revise those trends. Where I live (rural), there's plenty of unused land that needs a lot let contortions to farm (cheaper) but is indeed further away from the mouths to be fed in cities. How is the math behind urban farms vs simply shipping food into the city?
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#197I wasn't happy using Microsoft To Do for groceries so I made a shared grocery list app: https://bakalist.app
It's a pwa with offline functionality. It can suggest when you might need to buy something again and can also try to give an estimate on how much the current list will cost at the store.
I've been pretty happy using it for the last few weeks, so I don't really mind if the user base never grows.
I'm also writing a WIP blog entry about some of the technology that it uses: https://kylepoole.me/blog/20210201_Bakalist/
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#198Dead-simple GIF screen recorder for Windows - https://gist.github.com/apankrat/14b28656236d78407b28aef3102...
Real-time disk IO graphing thingy - https://bvckup2.com/wip/10042018
Both can be developed into proper products, but that'd be beyond what I actually need from these two for myself.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#199https://codeberg.org/trill/ABx
Since about three years I work on a classical Multiplayer Online Role Playing game.
Why I don't care about the outcome: (1) I think such a project is out of scope of a single person, (2) I simply don't have many skills required to make such a game, (3) I think people moved away from this kind of games, (4) I have a day job and only work on it when I have some idea.
But it's amazing to see how complex systems, built from tiny parts take shape over time.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#200Vertical indoor farm to reach the highest throughout possible per cubic meter are, using only non-GMO plants by discovering the right phenomics- https://hexafarms.com Vertical indoor farms are getting a lot of attention in the recent times, but the issue is the lack of plant expertise. Even if you were to go through all the literature, you would never find a holistic study that takes into account all the optimal fact…
I have been interested in this for a long time and also had a small setup in my apartment. I have been interested in getting back into this lately. What kind of mini farm setup do you have there? How big?
Right now (re-starting almost the fourth time), my goal is to get consistent 1. images 2. co2, ec, ph, temperature, humidity, light intensity/quality readings. Anyone putting in money (besides me) hesitated until now because they couldn't see what was in my head. So I'm remaking the setup with data-collection in mind first. It's almost shameful to confess that it is an 8 bed farm only :/ And this will be the setup for next 2 months. Once you've a 1200 plant bed (which is only 10 metre^2 with four layers), I think you will be able to demonstrate the efficiencies with the available data. ps: You can get a harvest every 19 days, roughly.
Computer vision is a big chunk here, and me being no expert, I'm trying to have the hardware setup right so I'd have to do little on the software side of data processing.
If you're doing on your own, and don't want to spend a lot, I'd just say that almost everything can be done with off the shelf boards and sensors.