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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?
#332I made a retirement simulator: https://thetortoise.io
I was frustrated by the simplicity black-box style of other tools, so I built this as a hobby and then decided to publish it.
I think The Tortoise gives users the most control over the simulation, though it may have a bit of a steep learning curve. It also has the ability to quickly compare different scenarios, and is able to condense the results into some fairly easy to digest charts.
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#333The thing below - one of the links at the bottom goes to its "Show HN" page, where people can check that only received 4 points. Many people discuss REPL tricks here, so I didn't expect it to flop so miserably...
Show HN: Eev and TikZ, or: how to learn TikZ using a REPL (twu.net)
Hi all, I made a video that at first sight is about a way to use REPLs to explore TikZ - and TikZ is a huge (La)TeX package for drawing graphics...
At second sight that video is about a series of tricks for using REPLs in Emacs, and TikZ is just an excuse to present them. As far as I know those tricks are very unusual; they implement a kind of "meta-REPL" that controls other REPLs, and they do that in a way that is much simpler, and much easier to hack, than Org's code blocks and than the cells in Jupyter notebooks.
The page has lots of screenshots and links, and it has instructions for downloading the video and its subtitles, and for reading the subtitles in plain text. I tried to make everything as accessible as possible for the people who just want to watch the the first two parts of the video - "Introduction" and "Trying it" - in super-high speed.
I'm especially interested in pointers to related work. Cheers, have fun, etc! =)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33568184 (Show HN page)
http://angg.twu.net/SUBTITLES/2022-eev-tikz.lua.html (Subtitles of the video)
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#334I made a Sudoku game last month for fun:
https://kjabr.github.io/Sudoku/
Just wanted to see if I could figure out how to generate a working Sudoku board on the fly quickly. My target was under 1 second. After the board is built where all the numbers are random, then the code removes numbers also randomly in order to play the game. That randomness turned out to be a nice little challenge :-)
It seems to work okay for the most part. Myself and other family members play it often now.. which is really cool. There are no scores. If you guess wrong there is no penalty. Just low key, low stress game.
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#335I made an infinite canvas specialized editor for poets because I was frustrated with the painful workflow for submitting poetry to magazines: https://koodpad.com/venba.
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#336I made a drum machine that I think is pretty cool - https://main.d28ilu31tegyi1.amplifyapp.com/ I taught myself how to program 15+ years ago because I wanted to make music software. Fast forward 15 years, and I've spent my whole career as a designer for B2B Saas. I wanted to re-learn some development stuff and going back to my original inspiration seemed like a good idea. (Still a bit in progress and sorry doesn't wo…
This is great. Is it open source?
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#337https://log-store.com - Going for a low-cost alternative to Splunk. Everyone seems to love Splunk, except for the price. My goal is to replicate 75% or so of the most-used features, but at a dramatically reduced price (currently free). I tried asking on here what those features are, but it flopped: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34412176
Disclaimer: I am friends with the author of log-store and have been occasionally helping test the software.
I've been using log-store at work for some time. It has an awesome 'admin' UX. The sysadmin/ops overhead associated with getting something useful out of log aggregation and analysis is so much lower than tools like splunk and elasticsearch.
If you're interested in getting some kind of log analysis/aggregation spun up quickly and don't need all the complexity associated with things like ES and splunk, definitely give it a test drive.
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#338I 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.
i want to buy the jacket to see what i get
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#339https://SimplifyRecipe.com The people who use it, love it, but I’m still learning how to tell the story well. The iOS shortcut instantly turns any recipe page into a consistent, usable cooking experience. I’m open to any feedback/ideas about how to tell that story better!
I think the best way to promote it would be to write a 1000 word essay about how when you were a little kid, you just loved to hang out in the kitchen and read recipes with Grandma, and a long description of your family's Christmas traditions, a few reviews of your favorite albums, and some amateur poetry.
Put all this content at the top of the page. Intersperse several ads for kitchen products, electric shavers, and grey market Cialis.
After all this, throw a sentence at the bottom describing your product and add a link. You're sure to get thousands of hits!
Just kidding obviously. This is a fantastic idea.
Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
#340https://flopblock.com
I had an idea for a puzzle game and learned some game programming to try it out. Only made it to scratch my own curiosity and was postively surprised how fun the process was. I got some of my friends hooked but other than that of course absolutely no one saw it. World is full of casual puzzles.