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Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

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Post by ICodeSometimes »

quaxar wrote: post #17

I'm a knife collector, so this site seems cool. One thing that can be improved is how the knives are displayed. The white aliased border around the thumbnails looks really really bad, and really turns me off from staying on the site. One major reason why people like knives is that they look beautiful. The image thumbnail does the complete opposite. Please use 24bit PNG with proper alpha, on a lighter background, so b…

yeah essentially i was trying to remove backgrounds on the scraped jpegs by just swapping pixel colors which worked horribly, decided to just keep it as a plain white background till i setup some fancier solution to remove backgrounds

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

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Post by ICodeSometimes »

Zak wrote: post #74

A permalink option would be great. More generally, putting search parameters in the URL would be great, for basic browser features like open-in-new-tab, bookmark, etc.... Something else that might help is merging aliases for steel types. "Magnacut" and "CPM Magnacut" are the same thing because all Magnacut is made by Crucible with a powder metallurgy process. This is error-prone though; "D2" and "CPM D2" are not the…

> putting search parameters in the URL would be great, for basic browser features like open-in-new-tab, bookmark, etc....

Done!

> Magnacut" and "CPM Magnacut" are the same thing because all Magnacut is made by Crucible with a powder metallurgy process. This is error-prone though; "D2" and "CPM D2" are not the same thing, and the powder version has substantially increased toughness.

That's a great point, i'm currently ingesting more and more data and will dedupe fairly soon. Thanks!

> let people search by groups of steels that are essentially copies of each other. M390, 20CV, and 204P are made by different companies, but the chemistry and powder metallurgy processes are nearly identical, producing nearly identical results.

Ah that one may be a little tougher to do programmatically, likely needs manual curation which is fine

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

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Post by Zak »

ICodeSometimes wrote: post #82
Zak wrote: post #74

A permalink option would be great. More generally, putting search parameters in the URL would be great, for basic browser features like open-in-new-tab, bookmark, etc.... Something else that might help is merging aliases for steel types. "Magnacut" and "CPM Magnacut" are the same thing because all Magnacut is made by Crucible with a powder metallurgy process. This is error-prone though; "D2" and "CPM D2" are not the…

> putting search parameters in the URL would be great, for basic browser features like open-in-new-tab, bookmark, etc.... Done! > Magnacut" and "CPM Magnacut" are the same thing because all Magnacut is made by Crucible with a powder metallurgy process. This is error-prone though; "D2" and "CPM D2" are not the same thing, and the powder version has substantially increased toughness. That's a great point, i'm currently…

Here's a site that can tell you whether two steels have the same composition, though I'm not sure how the owner would feel about scraping.

http://zknives.com/knives/steels/steelgraph.php?nm=M390%2C%2...

It even includes manufacturing process information on individual steel pages:

http://zknives.com/knives/steels/Crucible/cpm_154.shtml

zknives.com/knives/steels/Crucible/154cm.shtml

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

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Post by ICodeSometimes »

duckworth wrote: post #59

As a longtime pocketknife enthusiast one search criteria I would love to see is a way to filter by rear flipper, thumbstud or thumb hole opener. I spent an hour last week trying to find a Kershaw that doesn't have a rear flipper tab as they tend to open in my pocket. It seems like almost all their models lately have rear flipper tabs but I would prefer a thumbstud.

Hi! It's been a week but just wanted to let you know this is in now! Also added 10K extra knives
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