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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#361

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 ask…

PS: your certificate expired

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#364
https://github.com/barbinbrad/carbon

It’s an open source ERP system. I’ve been plugging away for about 10 months, but ERP systems are soooo big.

Really I just wanted to build graph-based, stochastic production routing, but there are so many pre-requisites to good scheduling/routing. Like the people, and the parts in stock, and when the required parts will arrive. So I’m building all that first.

It’s also been pretty enjoyable to learn Remix and Supabase in the process. I can’t say enough good about them!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#365
https://github.com/replete/effindice

Effindice is a browser-based passphrase generator implementing the EFF Dice method without physical dice. It is a simple javasript GUI application encapsulated within a single HTML file, designed to be used offline. It utilizes the javascript-fortuna implementation of the Fortuna pRNG algorithm and incorporates randomized delays to reduce predictability.

Hacked it together really quickly, emailed it to Bruce Schneier, not realizing he also wrote Fortuna pRNG, unexpected thumbs up

I wasn't happy with using random websites for generating passphrases like this.

I've been meaning to write a CLI version and add a feature to reorder the words into a more understandable sentence...

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#366

https://github.com/replete/effindice Effindice is a browser-based passphrase generator implementing the EFF Dice method without physical dice. It is a simple javasript GUI application encapsulated within a single HTML file, designed to be used offline. It utilizes the javascript-fortuna implementation of the Fortuna pRNG algorithm and incorporates randomized delays to reduce predictability. Hacked it together really…

Live demo: https://replete.github.io/effindice/

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#367
http://audiopile.cloud/

Cloud music sharing for music that’s still half baked. Built this for myself years ago and I use it often when working on musical projects with friends around the world.

Think Whats app private groups meets Dropbox meets iOS voice recorder, with cloud transcoding. Mobile and web compatible.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#369
Here’s a fun project I hacked together last weekend — https://github.com/spillai/agi-pack

TL;DR agi-pack is a Dockerfile generator for machine learning (ML) developers that is simple, hackable and extensible.

Fun fact: More than 75% of the original implementation was generated by conversations with GPT-4 + Github Co-pilot.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! It was actually Chrome releasing the ability to open a sidebar using a context menu action that sparked the idea. I absolutely plan to support firefox. I figured I should get things working well in one browser first before looking into porting, but consider it on the near term todo list.

There is a cross browser extension helper in this thread. Maybe it works for you.

Just FYI: manifest v3 extensions are already cross-browser. They are all based on the WebExtensions API. However, browsers have very specific constraints that require complex alternative solutions (e.g. Safari does not allow reading httpOnly cookies, so auth can't be handled easily).
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