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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by peteradio »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #314
peteradio wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like it! How does the queen get food? I let it run and the queen eventually just died despite having plenty of food around.

If you put one right in front of her face she'll pick it up and eat it, but that's about it right now. I want to add the ability for workers to feed her, but got distracted working on improving tunnels/chambers. I'll add something for that tonight or tomorrow. :) (EDIT: I've pushed a quick implementation of regurgitating food. https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants/blob/master/src/ant/hung... It'll take ~30 minutes to g…

Yea I think that would be a good feature to have. If you are open to more feedback... add some bit of texture to the dirt and sand and maybe a sprite for the food, I guess this would be not too difficult but I don't know. That would help orient me. I also noticed workers kind of rotating around single pixels like they were stuck for quite a few cycles. Few more ideas: seeds that slowly grow into plants and maybe worms (I love both IRL along with ants and was a huge simants fan growing up).

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by red_hare »

https://smol.party

A while back I really needed a way to invite some friends to a party and thought about how nice it was when we all used Facebook Events. So I made Facebook Events minus the Facebook (or any account).

You can make an event, send the link to your friends, and they can RSVP.

The whole thing is a two-table django app where the only js is for launching confetti. Edit permissions work via a session cookie. No accounts or logins required.

A week after I shipped it someone showed me Partiful which is pretty much better in every way. But its still kinda regularly used among my friend group which is cool.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by 7sidedmarble »

https://catnip.vip

Catnip is a result of my frustration with every other RSS reader forcing some horrible reader mode down your throat. I wanted something that was just a simple interface of aggregated links, like hacker news. So that's what you get if you'd like to try it.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by qingcharles »

Trying to build the world's largest encyclopedia of magazines, fanzines, journals and newsletters. Most of the world's magazines are dead and buried, languishing as copyright orphans with no known owner. Yet, they contain far more knowledge than probably all the books combined?

We should probably think about training the next LLM on all the world's magazines as well as all the books.

It is less than half-baked. I asked GPT and it said the project was "barely even kneaded", which is perfect.

I hack on it every day. I have hundreds of thousands of magazines to upload and there are many millions more hiding in obscure parts of the Internet, already scanned and waiting to be found. Plus all the amazing ones which haven't even been scanned. I intend to set up a non-profit to scan all the ones I can get my hands on.

https://en.magazedia.wiki/byte-volume-1-issue-1-september-19...

(registration is broken, so don't try that lol)

If there's a specific magazine from days of yore that you're looking for, I might have it nestled away somewhere, so just drop me a line here and I'll try to find it for you: hello@magazedia.wiki

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by dnadler »

Maybe a little more than half-baked, but I wrote https://thetortoise.io

It's a monte-carlo powered retirement simulator. I use it from time to time to do my own planning. I thought people would like it, but I think it's a little too complicated for most people.

I think it's pretty neat though - the best part is that it lets you do what-ifs and compare different scenarios, so you can see how financing that addition to your house compares to paying cash, for example.

I haven't worked on it in a while, but might circle back around to it in the next few months.

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astroalex wrote: post #173

https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/ A weird and cumbersome web based synthesizer. In the examples below, double click on a node to trigger a signal in the circuit and produce sound. Here is a "song" that a friend made with it: https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?2.9.C4.m.1.15,6.9.... And here is "Happy Birthday": https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?3.1.G3.m.1.24,4.1....

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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by SeanAnderson »

peteradio wrote: post #321
SeanAnderson wrote: post #314

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you put one right in front of her face she'll pick it up and eat it, but that's about it right now. I want to add the ability for workers to feed her, but got distracted working on improving tunnels/chambers. I'll add something for that tonight or tomorrow. :) (EDIT: I've pushed a quick implementation of regurgitating food. https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants/blob/master/src/ant/hung... It'll take ~30 minutes to g…

Yea I think that would be a good feature to have. If you are open to more feedback... add some bit of texture to the dirt and sand and maybe a sprite for the food, I guess this would be not too difficult but I don't know. That would help orient me. I also noticed workers kind of rotating around single pixels like they were stuck for quite a few cycles. Few more ideas: seeds that slowly grow into plants and maybe worm…

Of course I'm open to feedback, thank you for giving it.

Yeah, the visuals are super bad, right? lol. It's easy for me to forget when I've looked at them for a while. I'll see what I can do to make them look a little nicer. I'm just hesitant about making them look good and then going a different direction with the game / changing the perspective and needing to throw stuff out.

Yeah, so ants do have a chance to slip/fall when vertical/upside down and that allows gravity to pull them off of islands they get stuck on. I still need to introduce a mechanism for making those islands able to be accessed in larger nests, but I don't have any easy/simple ideas right now.

I do like the idea of seeds and watching them grow into the dirt. The worms are cool, too, my mom grows worms for fun :) I'll keep those ideas on the list, but I can think of a lot of stuff I want to take higher priority for now.

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