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

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

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Post by ozim »

Jordan-117 wrote: post #402

Gemini has been indispensable for helping me move from Windows to Linux. I'm reasonably proficient, but moving to a brand-new OS brought so many random questions and weird edge cases that I never would have had the confidence, patience, or time to tackle it alone, even with pretty strong Google fu. It's been so nice to have instant access to answers for my specific problems, without judgment or having to wait on a re…

instant access to answers for my specific problems, without judgment

For me that’s killer feature, even if we don’t achieve AGI at least we got good enough „something that will google it for me”.

It is great both ways as an expert in my niche I don’t have to waste time on reading through entry level fluff. As non expert in other fields I don’t get to be scolded for asking entry level questions so RTFM and LMGTFY will sink in history fortunately.

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Post by stra1ghtarrow90 »

aaronax wrote: post #329

A more powerful search tool for the contents of Palo Alto firewall release notes: https://firewallissues.axvig.com/ A tool to periodically sync Device 42 data to Netbox (work).

this is cool! I've always found the palo alto docs a nightmare to navigate.

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

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Post by camillomiller »

netcoyote wrote: post #360

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-…

Cool but mate, this is just not true:

>>Some content-management software (CMS), like WordPress, requires using the same presentation layer that the CMS uses

Headless wordpress has been a thing for quite a while and it’s trivial for a use case like this

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

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Post by yungbeto »

burnto wrote: post #438
yungbeto wrote: post #432

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

Thank you :)

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Post by camillomiller »

melvinroest wrote: post #48

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…

Basically the entire business model of Plaud

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Post by walthamstow »

lormayna wrote: post #437

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 for…

Tottenham?

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Post by davedx »

I made a timesheet entry, invoicing, and basic bookkeeping system for my freelance business. It works pretty well, I used "spec driven development" with Codex and it one-shot the entire application except for the PDF invoice layout which needed iteration.

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

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Post by idorobots »

I made a Tree-Sitter based parser for Emacs Org-Mode files (that's mostly complete, mostly): https://github.com/Idorobots/tree-sitter-org

On top of that, I made a Python parser that's meant to improve upon the awesome `orgparse`: https://github.com/Idorobots/org-parser

And now I'm building a CLI for Emacs Org-Mode, mostly focused on ad-hoc querying, agenda planning, etc: https://github.com/Idorobots/org-cli

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