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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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I've been making a lot of audio experiments for my own amusement. They all have some potential to drain your cpu, sorry!

https://www.noisetable.xyz/ - a collection of chance-based audio 'channels' in a VCR inspired interface

https://concrete95.net/ - a musique concrète web app that's made to look like windows 95. Pulls random audio from freesound.org and loops a small section, you can also layer synth pads or melodic synth loops. I'm often able to get some really pleasant background ambience.

https://windso.me - a sample-based step sequencer that doesn't let you choose the sample that's loaded, kinda fun, still needs a lot of work!

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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I built a scraper for an illegal comic book site, to search their database and package the comics as CBZ so I can read them faster and without ads.

Now I want to add some sort of recommendation engine on top, to let me discover stuff I might like (I'm not into superheroes anymore).

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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A voice memo app, quite like the actual voice memo app from Apple. The thing is: now I can put my voice memo's on iCloud put Claude Code on it and make my transcripts into structured notes that my app then also displays. So basically a way to just go on an hour long walk with myself, spit everything from the top of my dome stream of consciousness style, and then have Claude structure whatever I said. It's nice to hav…

I love it! But I have to ask: why not just advanced voice mode in ChatGPT or Claude?

I talk/walk for hours and want all audio files and transcripts in one place, full control.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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My favourite football team was really at risk of relegation, then I created for me and my friends an MCMC bayesian simulator to estimate the relegation match by match. It was an opportunity to get used in real life to some concepts (MCMC, Metropolis-Hastings, etc) that I always struggled to understand. And my team got saved from relegation with an amounts of points very close to the number of points that my model forecasted

I also wrote an honeypot that emulate an Ollama instance: beside the attackers, it's funny how many people are looking for free inference. Somebody from Brazil try to use my honeypot to write to chapters of a book about traditional magic rituals. My next step is to extract the data collected by this tool to extract IoC and malicious prompts and share them with the community.

In the same scope I wrote also an Ollama scanner: it fetch from Shodan the open Ollama instances, verify that they are reachable and check if they are real sending a dummy query.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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I've been making a lot of audio experiments for my own amusement. They all have some potential to drain your cpu, sorry! https://www.noisetable.xyz/ - a collection of chance-based audio 'channels' in a VCR inspired interface https://concrete95.net/ - a musique concrète web app that's made to look like windows 95. Pulls random audio from freesound.org and loops a small section, you can also layer synth pads or melodic…

These are lovely

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Tools I’ve built for myself: - sandvault https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/sandvault/ runs agents in a separate macOS user account, hardened with sandbox-exec. It also supports headless browsing and iOS Simulator from inside the sandbox for testing web and iOS apps. - clodpod https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/clodpod/ agents run inside a macOS VM. - git-multi-hook https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/git-multi-…

Wait. You worked on Guild Wars, Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo? This place is incredible.

Guild Wars was one of the most fun games ever. The crazy combinations of skills you could try in the random arena were so much fun.

Guild Wars 2 and most other games are pure slop.

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