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Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by qolop »

kbyatnal wrote: post #81

https://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…

I like the general idea behind it but you need to increase the pool of websites you're crawling by a lot.

I did not get any results for "Kardashians"

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by joisig »

shubik22 wrote: post #183

https://twofergoofer.com/ A daily whimsical rhyming word game that uses generative AI. We’ve got a pretty dedicated base of users by this point through other channels but it’s never really taken off on HN. A great case for generative AI augmenting rather than replacing human creativity IMO :)

It's a lot of fun!

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by BonoboIO »

lawlorino wrote: post #6

https://github.com/jameslawlor/reddit-playlists I made a bot last summer to generate and update weekly Spotify playlists from 100 or so music subreddits based on the top submissions of that week. Update operates entirely through a GitHub action so no resource spending. I don’t often finish my side projects so was pretty happy to have something finally usable and shareable, it’s been fun showing friends!

Awesome

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by potamic »

sinker wrote: post #202

https://mmabetsharp.com A website to help make informed bets on the UFC. It presents a lot of relevant data if you're serious about MMA sports betting. I made this during the pandemic and tried to promote it through Reddit and Twitter, but it mostly fell flat and ran out of steam. I only scratched the surface of what I intended here. The data on the site is a bit outdated since neither I nor anyone has used it in a w…

Where do you collect the data from? Accurate sports data is generally hard to come by unless you pay for it.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by maaaaattttt »

shonenknifefan1 wrote: post #349
maaaaattttt wrote: post #166

Posted a game here I made a few months back: https://reach-100.com It’s pretty hard. Some people have found solutions but even knowing how to solve it, it remains pretty hard to complete. Hope you’ll enjoy it a second time :)

Great game! Thanks for posting!

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by samuell »

greazy wrote: post #306
samuell wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for kind words! Yes, although conceptually it is even more similar to Nextflow. That is, it is push-based and dataflow-based, whereas Snakemake is pull-based, quite similar to Luigi (well, hey, we also developed the SciLuigi plugin to make Luigi a tad bit more data flow-like, although only on the surface). I'm maintaining and continuing to develop SciPipe, although pretty slowly at the moment, due to a day job…

Thanks for the reply. I'm going to look deeper at scipipe :). It's good to hear you're going to continue developing it. What advantages does scipipe have over nextflow?

Thanks for your interest!

I should start with saying that Nextflow is a fantastic tool, with an very thriving community and lots of support and buy-in especially in the biomedical community.

But as you are asking, below are the points that I'm aware of, that motivates keeping me using and updating SciPipe:

Before going into the list though, I want to mention that at the time of publication of our paper [1], SciPipe was unique in comparison with Nextflow in allowing to create re-usable modules, which was our primary motivation for creating our own tool. Later Nextflow introduced re-usable modules in its DSL2.

Still, there are a few more factors weighing in, keeping me using and developing SciPipe:

1. SciPipe has a small and maintainable code base, between ~2k LOC last I checked. Nextflow's codebase is much larger AFAIK.

2. SciPipe has zero external dependencies, outside Go and Bash. Nextflow depends on the Java runtime, a Groovy interpreter, and the GPars library for concurrency.

3. SciPipe can compile pipelines to statically compiled binaries, for extremely simple deployment. Nextflow will always require the JVM + Nextflow to be installed.

4. SciPipe has per file audit reports. Nextflow still has per workflow reports only, AFAIK.

5. SciPipe does not require learning a new language, or installing new tooling (editors, syntax highlighting etc), apart from Go, a Go editor and related tooling.

6. SciPipe can handle more concurrent tasks. There are reports that Nextflow can not handle more than 512 concurrent tasks [2]. I have tested SciPipe with 4999 concurrent tasks (It then hit a limit of maximum subprocesses in Go, which I think might even be removed recently. Will have to test if I can go even further still).

7. Debugging SciPipe code can be done using Go debugging tools (Delve or just CGDB). Last I checked, using JVM-based debugging tools for Nextflow code was rather confusing to say the least, as you would end up deep in a stack of Groovy-parsing, and you would be pretty much left to do print-statement based debugging. I don't know if the situation has changed since then.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giz044

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99288-8

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by t0bia_s »

kbyatnal wrote: post #81

https://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 absolutlly blow my mind. Search results are 100% organic and 1000% more relevant than any search engine gave me. Ever. Even more relevant than payed kagi.

I just cannot add CrowdView to search engines in Firefox. Any idea how to fix that?

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by mozz100 »

cobertos wrote: post #291
mozz100 wrote: post #173

https://app.dev-esc.com/new_game/ - an online escape room for developer teams. I aimed to make a team-building experience that was a bit different. unashamedly geeky: you’ll need puzzling and some coding to solve the challenges. Fully remote for teams of 1-8ish; free to explore. Requires a computer, although you can explore on mobile/tablet. Originally it was free to play - I got a fair few plays off my HN post, now…

Oh I played this! I bought it to play with a friend over Discord and we had a real fun time, it was sort of the perfect niche (for us) Personally I wish there were more of these. Having the one was nice but it's hard to play with another person when you already know the solution. And it's just fun to play more puzzles with the same friend. Thanks for making it :3!

Thank you for this, you made my day.

I have recently made a new room for /dev/esc - my idea was that in the run-up to Christmas, plenty of dev teams would be looking for activities to do together. Full disclosure: it didn't work - I didn't get a bump of new customers.

If you can look past the festive theming, IMHO there are some good, totally original new puzzles in "Santa's Tech Disaster". (choose from drop-down when setting up a new game)

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by patchorang »

chimineycricket wrote: post #336
patchorang wrote: post #50

I 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?

https://github.com/patchorang/drummachine

It is, but bear with me as I'm just re-learning to code so it's a bit of a mess.

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