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Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by gaws »

hnthrow10282910 wrote: post #42
knubie wrote: post #37

A few years ago I discovered Anki (a spaced repetition app) for helping me learn Japanese. I immediately recognized the power of spaced repetition, but really did not like using Anki (it's pretty clunky and requires a lot of configuration to work right). I started building my own alternative, Mochi [0], which I wanted to kind of be a cross between Anki and Notion. I'm pretty happy with where it's at now and I've been…

Any chance you publish the source code? This is exactly what I’ve been looking for and couldn’t find anything and was going to just build myself. I’ve been exporting from Notion to Anki and it’s been a pain. My worry is that the developer will shut down and I’ll lose all my cards. Edit: beautiful iPhone app, laying in bed playing with it

> Any chance you publish the source code?

Unlikely as they're trying to make money off it.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by mamcx »

I work for Enterprise-like app development and get tired of all the dance working with data.

So logically I start doing a relational language on the side: https://tablam.org

Also, is the thing that I use to learn Rust, that has make the endeavor to be more practical than it sound!

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by derwiki »

davchana wrote: post #102
derwiki wrote: post #43

My mother refuses to uses computers/smart phones but loves seeing pictures I take. I built PostcardMailer.us to quickly send her/other relatives/friends postcard photos. I got a bunch of weird Tor signups so I turned off new sign ups. But a handful of family and friends have accounts and we send each other postcards. It is the most embarrassingly bad Rails codebase I can claim, but it has Just Worked for 4 years. I d…

Is it a private website, postcardmailer.us ? I am always interested in looking at online to print systems for curiosity. The website is not opening.

Sorry, I forgot that the naked domain isn't set up -- try http://www.postcardmailer.us

Happy to create an account for you if you're interested in using it, email in profile. The printing/delivery portion is powered by Directmailers.com

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by karmakaze »

I think a music player might be a good one. I have my older music on computers at home or stored in cloud storage (not media services). I could imagine putting together a web app, mobile app, or both to be fun and interesting. Maybe fork an existing opensource project so that you get full control of expressing your preferences.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by leobg »

nonstopnonsense wrote: post #103
leobg wrote: post #3

1) Semantic search for legal documents. Found it annoying that, as a lawyer, I have to use search engines that require me to guess the keywords that might be used in the documents I'm looking for... as well as to skim through the entire documents the system found in order to judge whether or not they are relevant to my case. 2) Discovering audiobooks I'll enjoy. Someone here on HN mentioned "random sampling" as a gre…

About (1): May I request you to throw some light? Is your reference that the keywords are not synonymized to find equivalents within documents? Help?

It’s not just about synonyms. It’s about context. A passage can talk about exactly the topic I’m researching, even though none of the words match. On the other hand, a passage may have ask the right words in it, but in a completely different context.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by leobg »

gk1 wrote: post #14
leobg wrote: post #3

1) Semantic search for legal documents. Found it annoying that, as a lawyer, I have to use search engines that require me to guess the keywords that might be used in the documents I'm looking for... as well as to skim through the entire documents the system found in order to judge whether or not they are relevant to my case. 2) Discovering audiobooks I'll enjoy. Someone here on HN mentioned "random sampling" as a gre…

Have you seen https://www.parrothq.com ? (I’m not affiliated.) Or you can build something using a combination of LLM models (OpenAI, Cohere, Hugging Face) and Pinecone (offers keyword-aware semantic search which is what you probably want for domain-specific content like legal… I am affiliated).

I trained my own models, actually. Also tried many of the vector search engines out there. But ended up with a custom solution using hnswlib and SQLite to get subsecond speed with millions of documents.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by recursivedoubts »

pflanze wrote: post #116
animal_spirits wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Nitpicky" I think is the word you are looking for

I found it interesting behavior and it might be important in the larger picture, thus I'm not sure it's superficial, that's why I put the question mark there. Of course I don't mean that this should take away from the appreciation of the language. I'd have made a bug ticket instead if it weren't just much simpler to mention here, also this way I'm not implying that I'm a user and waiting for a resolution.

good find

the code should be updated to:

  
      Click And Hold Me
to capture both the pointerup and mouseleave events (seems like some browsers trigger the pointerup event even if the mouse/pointer has left the element)

unfortunately right now the `repeat until event` form doesn't take multiple events, so we have to kick out to another event handler to capture both. I'll try to fix that in the next release.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by distracted_boy »

rcarmo wrote: post #13

https://github.com/piku , for sure. I was getting tired of deploying stuff manually or juggling containers for the simplest of apps, so I sat down and wrote most of it in a couple of weekends. I now deploy the vast majority of my personal projects with it (including container-based ones, actually).

This is pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by jskulski »

I got about a decade of scattered print debugging tools that I’m packaging into a tool.

I prefer debuggers and imaged based REPL environments, but that doesn’t mean I get to work in them. Always fall back on print debugging and loggers at some point, so I’ve built a lot of helpers in various language that help this sort of thing: introspection of variables and source code, time stamps and traceable uuids and tools for easy viewing.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by Bhurn00985 »

JSDevOps wrote: post #97

I am at a loss of things to do at the moment, The most recent for me is Indexing PoC CVE's posted to Github. https://github.com/tg12/PoC_CVEs I want to build a TrueNAS box at home and migrate to that as test. I really want to write lots more Python code though! I love writing trading algorithms and Data science, data analyst projects.

> https://github.com/tg12/PoC_CVEs

This is brilliant and very helpful ! Keep going !

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