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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by ctom96 »

sharess wrote: post #30

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-tab-a... I built this for personal use, but maybe someone else also finds it useful. It's a Firefox add-on that arranges YouTube video tabs based on the runtime of the video. I often hoard many YouTube tabs and at some point I want to either watch the shortest ones or play something lengthy so I can do household chores while listening to the video. This makes fin…

This is super cool, I'll install this!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by adrianmsmith »

sharemywin wrote: post #26
adrianmsmith wrote: post #14

https://whenwillirunoutofmoney.com/ I thought it’d be cool to have a small textual language where you could describe “this payment goes out every quarter” and “this one goes out monthly from date X to Y” and so on. As a freelancer it can be difficult to know how much cash you have available given taxes go out at weird times, and it’s useful to simulate “let’s delete this row where the customer pays” to stress test yo…

it takes a long time to load. I gave up

Thanks, yeah that’s not the first time I’ve heard that. On my computer, and I think on most people’s computers, it loads instantly. But on others it basically crashes the tab, like it goes into an infinite loop or something. A bit difficult to test without adding debugging tools, apparently Sentry is a good one?, which would definitely conflict with the privacy-first approach. I’ll have to ask more friends, maybe one of them can reproduce the problem. Anyway thanks for trying it and commenting!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by tynmann »

notpushkin wrote: post #7
tynmann wrote: post #6

I'm working on an LLM-based tool to assist with fiction writing. The goal is to help writers get unstuck in case of writer's block, not to do autonomous writing. One has to enter some abstract of what they want to write, and some text they have so far, and the tool generates possible continuations. It requires quite a bit of editing, maybe 3-4 attempts for each completion if one wants to generate decent text. Feedbac…

Nice project! Demo doesn't work for me in Firefox for some reason – I can't type anything into the “Start typing...” field.

Thank you! I pushed a fix for the Firefox issue.

And here is the link to the demo for convenience:

https://writingcharm.com/write

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by omgbear »

https://compnski.github.io/factorymustgrow/#/game

Game projects okay? More a toy at the moment, it's just the factorio tech tree but I'm working to have my own recipes and story and features.

Started as a testbed for learning typescript + React, grew into something to work on when I'm feeling creative.

Code is more likely to be updated at https://gitlab.com/omgbear/factorymustgrow, but GitHub pages is easy.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by malux85 »

https://atomictessellator.com

The half baked bits at the moment is full scale automated catalyst discovery, and a bunch of the "glue" code that pulls the different simulations together seamlessly (molecular dynamics, dimer methods, nudged elastic band, retrosynthesis, automated bulk analysis) -- they all exist in various states of development (mostly done) but getting them all to interact totally seamlessly is tricky.

Also this is quite computationally intensive hobby, I am often limited by the amount of computing power I have - even though I run a small cluster in my house (384 cpu cores, 4 GPUs, 24TB NAS)

I am super excited though, just in the last week I have started to make novel, truely unique catalyst discoveries (that are matching lab validations), so after a year of experimenting "it's working.gif"

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by kassner »

I have a few:

https://www.ytemail.com/ - e-mail notifications for YouTube uploads. I was in the 0.01% that used and liked e-mails, and built this after Google killed the e-mails. If you want to use, please get in touch, I'm happy to onboard free users if the amount of notifications you'll get isn't big.

https://github.com/kassner/whattocook - Recipe chooser, but it works the other way around you'd expect. In a household of depressed people, it's common that we can't get to agree on the meal, so this project decides it for us. You can exclude ingredients in case you don't have them at home, but that's the only way you'll get a different recipe.

https://www.kassner.com.br/projects/money/ - Personal finances project that only I use. Never had the courage to open it to the world, and there isn't anything innovative in it to be worth the hassle either. Only pluses are single-binary web project and DBs are password-encrypted by default.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by ilaksh »

adrianmsmith wrote: post #33
sharemywin wrote: post #26

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it takes a long time to load. I gave up

Thanks, yeah that’s not the first time I’ve heard that. On my computer, and I think on most people’s computers, it loads instantly. But on others it basically crashes the tab, like it goes into an infinite loop or something. A bit difficult to test without adding debugging tools, apparently Sentry is a good one?, which would definitely conflict with the privacy-first approach. I’ll have to ask more friends, maybe one…

I tried on my phone and gave up after like 15 seconds. Just loading screen.
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