AutoPTT [1] lets you use voice activation instead of push-to-talk in games and apps where voice activation is not officially supported. I posted about it a few times [2] but I guess it's a bit too niche.
Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
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Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#132I wrote a book called “Eating Glass” about the grueling emotional and psychological experience of presiding over a prolonged startup failure, coping with the aftermath, and finding my way back to health and growth.
I wrote the book I wished I’d had available to me, as I believe these experiences are common among entrepreneurs and high achievers. My “Show HN” was immediately lost downstream but I have given out free digital copies on a few occasions in response to folks posting here about similar struggles.
I have links and a lot of free excerpts at https://markdjacobsen.com/eating-glass/
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#133I found what I believe to be an example of AI being used to generate product images: https://www.marginalia.nu/jacket/
Feels like it would have been an interesting forum thread if there was any worthwhile forums left.
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#134Two web apps:
https://triviarex.com/ - A combination of trivia and find the word in the maze that you can play in real time and compete with your friends
https://www.trueduedate.com/ - Use millions of historical births to better estimate when your baby will actually be born.
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#135My single-instruction (subleq) programming game: https://github.com/jaredkrinke/sic1 I really thought enough people liked esolangs and zachlikes, but it failed to get a single upvote, so never even made it to the “Show” page (well, not until like a week later, at which point it was buried anyway) :(
I don't know about everyone else, but to me programming with just the "subtract and branch if less than or equal to zero" instruction sounds way, way more frustrating than something like the TIS-100. I don't play programming games to be frustrated, I play them to feel smart, and the line between is dangerously thin.
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#136https://crowdview.ai - search engine for forums and discussion sites Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great…
What is blog spam in this context? Content farms?
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#137https://crowdview.ai - search engine for forums and discussion sites Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great…
This is really nice. I am always appending forums names and reddit to my searches.
For DIY stuff recently I found just putting 'forum' in the search works well
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#138It flopped on Show HN, but got some minor traction in a comment:
https://CubeTrek.com visualize your GPS Tracks in 3D. You upload your skiing, hiking, running GPS files and the web app creates 3D topographic models, calculates your monthly totals, automatically compares similar activities... Give it a try.
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#139I enjoy reading and writing about unusual data structures.
Recently, I wrote a blog post on KHyperLogLog (https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/khyperloglog.html), which is a data structure that estimates the privacy risks of very large databases.
If you're interested in this topic, I have also written about:
* Approximate Distance Oracles (https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/distance-oracles.html), and
* Spectral Bloom Filters (https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/spectral-bloom-filters.html)
I am currently working on more blog posts. Stanford's CS166 Suggested Project Topics (https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs166/handouts/090%20Suggeste...) are a huge inspiration.
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#140I wrote a blog post about using job post data to predict startup fundraises: https://www.coolstartupjobs.com/blog/predicting-startup-fund.... You can predict a decent chunk (~25%) of fundraises with this approach!
That was originally for a job board, but job boards are very saturated. I've pivoted to a data newsletter for startup investors to identify companies that are fundraising before you read about them on techcrunch: https://startup-spotter.beehiiv.com/